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008			210729b2009 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780007221783
040			_aMAIN
041			_aENG
082			_a951 _bKEA/CHI
100			_aKeay, John
245			_aChina _cby John Keay.
260			_aLondon : _bHarper Press, _c2009.
300			_a578 p.
500			_aTable of Contents: Part 1. Rites to Writing, pre c.1050 BC Part 2. Sages and Heroes, c.1050-c. 250 BC Part 3. The First Empire, c. 250-210 BC Part 4. Han Ascendant, 210-141 BC Part 5. Within And Beyond, 141 BC-AD 1 Part 6. Wang Mang and the Han Reprise, AD 1-189 Part 7. Four Hundred Years of Vicissitude, 189-550 Part 8. Sui, Tang and the Second Empire, 550-650 Part 9. High Tang, 650-755 Part 10. Reconfiguring the Empire, 755-1005 Part 11. Caving In, 1005-1235 Part 12. By Land and Sea, 1235-1405 Part 13. The Rites of Ming, 1405-1620 Part 14. The Manchu Conquest, 1620-1760 Part 15. Death Throes of Empire, 1760-1880 Part 16. Republicans and Nationalists, 1880-1950. Epilogue References Acknowledgements Further Readings Index
650			_aChina--History.
942			_cBK
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