Great State: China and the World - Hardcover

Brook, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781258287 ISBN 13: 9781781258286

Verlag: Profile Books, 2019

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Críticas

Praise for Vermeer's Hat :

Spell-binding ... as a guide to the world behind the pictures Vermeer's Hat is mind-expanding.

(Sunday Times)

A brilliant attempt to make us understand the reach and breadth of the first global age (Guardian)

Brook takes you into the paintings in a way that can be spookily intimate (Evening Standard)

An erudite, surprising book that finds traces of swashbuckling where you'd least expect (Daily Telegraph)

Truly mesmerising. In this accessible but authoritative study, he... shows better than anyone I've read so far, the truly subversive power of detail (Independent)

Praise for Mr Selden's Map of China:

The great charm of this book lies not only in its illustrative, erudite detail but in the serendipity that regularly seizes Brook and adds spice to a spellbinding story.

(the Times)

The quest is fascinating and picaresque, a sort of cartographical Tristram Shandy with a sure-handed narrator steering us from Ming dynasty China to pre-Civil War Oxford to the Spice Islands of South-East Asia. (Sunday Telegraph)

Reseña del editor

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism.

But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese.

Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.

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• Verlag: Profile Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1781258287
• ISBN 13: 9781781258286
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 464