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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wills, John E. (John Elliot), 1936- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Edición:[Revised edition].
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A Summary Time Line; 1. Yu; 2. Confucius (Kongzi); 3. The First Emperor of Qin (Qin Shihuang); 4. Sima Qian; 5. Wang Mang; 6. Ban Zhao; 7. Zhuge Liang; 8. Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch; 9. Empress Wu; 10. Su Dongpo; 11. Yue Fei; 12. Qiu Chuji, the Daoist; 13. Wang Yangming; 14. Zheng Chenggong (Coxinga); 15. The Qianlong Emperor; 16. Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King; 17. Liang Qichao; 18. The Kuomintang Legacy; 19. Mao Zedong; 20. Names in the News; Afterword to the 2012 Edition.