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Informationen zum Autor Cho-yun Hsu is University Professor Emeritus of the University of Pittsburgh. His research and teaching specializations include ancient Chinese civilizations and comparative civilizations. Timothy Danforth Baker Jr. is assistant professor of history at the National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, ROC. He earned his M.A. from National Taiwan University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. Michael S. Duke is professor emeritus of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture that resonates with all disciplines. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization.

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An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture that resonates with all disciplines. Unlike most historians, Hsu resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization.

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ChronologyList of FiguresNotes on the TranslationAuthor's PrefacePrologue1. Prehistory: China's Earliest Cultures According to Regional Archaeology2. The Emergence of Chinese Civilization: The Sixteenth Through Third Centuries B.C.E.3. China Comes Into Its Own: The Third Century B.C.E. to the Second Century C.E.4. China in East Asia: The Second to Tenth Centuries C.E.5. China in an Asian Multistate System: The Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries C.E.6. China Enters the World System7. China Enters the World System8. A Century of Uncertainty: 1850 to 1950AfterwordIndex 04_hsu15920_00_toc.doc: v