Michael Wood The Story of China : A portrait of a civilisation & its people Multicolor

A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about Tom Holland Masterful and engrossing...wellpaced, eminently readable and welltimed. A mustread for those who want and need to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow Peter FrankopanChinas story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UKs preeminent historians, brings it all together in a major new onevolume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today. China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Woods sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the authors own travel journals, is an enthralling account of Chinas 4000yearold tradition, taking in life stationed on the Great Wall or inside the Forbidden City. The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries correspondence and court cases going back to the Qin and Han dynasties family letters from soldiers in the reallife Terracotta Army stories from Silk Road merchants and Buddhist travellers, along with memoirs and diaries of emperors, poets and peasants. In the modern era, the book is full of new insights, with the electrifying manifestos of the feminist revolutionaries Qiu Jin and He Zhen, extraordinary eyewitness accounts of... Michael Wood The Story of China : A portrait of a civilisation & its people