China: A Macro History (An East Gate Book)
Ray HuangThis revised edition updates the original with a new preface, additional illustrations in the facile hand of the author, and a more reader-friendly format. On the original edition... Ray Huang's China: A Macrohistory is a most clear, judicious and concise account of Chinese history from antiquity to the present...this study breathes new life into Chinese history, and the past and the present illuminate each other. This work is truly trail-blazing not merely as a text book but as an introduction to China for the general reader. Ying-shih Yu, Michael Henry Strater, University Professor, Princeton University; Member, Academia Sinica, Taipei He has beautifully succeeded, and his book--whose content is well balanced between the facts, their explanations, and their consequences, and which is very clearly written and accessible to the general reader as well as to the specialist--deserves to become a classic in the field of sinology. Jacques Guillermaz, formerly Professor and Director, Research and Documentation Center, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social, Paris What I admire perhaps most is that this book appeals alike to the scholar (to whom it gives much food for thought) and, because it reads so easily, to the interested layman. Herbert Franke, Professor Emeritus of Far Eastern Studies, University of Munchen An impressiv