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Mountain of fame : portraits in Chinese history /
Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | [Revised edition]. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, philosophers, poets, and rulers, to provide the focus for accounts of key historical trends and periods. What emerges is a provocative rendering of China's moral landscape, featuring characters who have resonated in the historical imagination as examples of villainy, heroism, wisdom, spiritual vision, political guile, and complex combinations of all of these. |
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| Notas: | Originally published: 1994. Second printing, and first paperback printing, with corrections, 1996. Paperback reissue, with a new afterword by the author, 2012 --Title page verso. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 410 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400845040 1400845041 9780691026749 0691026742 9781400821341 1400821347 0691155879 9780691155876 |