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THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF CHINA
From kung-fu to tofu, silk to gunpowder, tea to trade routes, ancient sages to contemporary poetry, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, military strategy, aesthetics and philosophy across the world for thousands of years.
Chinese history is sprawling and gloriously messy. It is full of heroes who are also villains, prosperous ages and violent rebellions, cultural vibrancy and censorious impulses, rebels, loyalists, dissidents and wits. The story of women in China, from the earliest warriors to twentieth-century suffragettes, is rarely told. And historical spectres of corruption and disunity, which have brought down many a glorious ruling house, continue to haunt the People's Republic of China today.
Modern China is, depending on whom you ask, an economic powerhouse, a beacon of urbanisation, a propaganda state and an aggressive geopolitical player seeking world domination. China expert Linda Jaivin distils a vast history into a short, readable account that tells you what you need to know about the Middle Kingdom, from its philosophical origins to its political system, to the COVID-19 pandemic and where China's future is likely to take the world.
Linda Jaivin is an American-born Australian translator, essayist, novelist and sinologist. She has written several works of fiction, non-fiction and criticism, and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and Australian Foreign Affairs.
Chinese history is sprawling and gloriously messy. It is full of heroes who are also villains, prosperous ages and violent rebellions, cultural vibrancy and censorious impulses, rebels, loyalists, dissidents and wits. The story of women in China, from the earliest warriors to twentieth-century suffragettes, is rarely told. And historical spectres of corruption and disunity, which have brought down many a glorious ruling house, continue to haunt the People's Republic of China today.
Modern China is, depending on whom you ask, an economic powerhouse, a beacon of urbanisation, a propaganda state and an aggressive geopolitical player seeking world domination. China expert Linda Jaivin distils a vast history into a short, readable account that tells you what you need to know about the Middle Kingdom, from its philosophical origins to its political system, to the COVID-19 pandemic and where China's future is likely to take the world.
Linda Jaivin is an American-born Australian translator, essayist, novelist and sinologist. She has written several works of fiction, non-fiction and criticism, and writes regularly for The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and Australian Foreign Affairs.
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Published 2021-05-01 by Black Inc. |