A History of Chinese Civilization

Jacques Gernet
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 1996-05-31
EAN 9780521497817, ISBN10: 0521497817

Paperback, 832 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 4.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in French, translated by J. R. Foster, Charles Hartman

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics and readers. This revised and updated edition makes it more useful for students and for the general reader concerned with the broad sweep of China's past.

'Gernet has accomplished with skill and vision one of scholarship's most daunting tasks, the writing of a one-volume history of China.' The Times Higher Education Supplement