{"product_id":"the-story-of-china-9781471175985","title":"The Story of China: A portrait of a civilisation and its people","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland\u003cbr\u003e'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must-read for those who want – and need – to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' Peter Frankopan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChina’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChina is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Wood's sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the author’s own travel journals, is an enthralling account of China’s 4000-year-old tradition, taking in life stationed on the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGreat Wall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or inside the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eForbidden City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries; correspondence and court cases going back to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eQin and Han dynasties\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; family letters from soldiers in the real-life \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTerracotta Army\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; stories from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSilk Road merchants\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBuddhist travellers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, along with memoirs and diaries of  emperors, poets and peasants. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the modern era, the book is full of new insights, with the electrifying manifestos of the feminist revolutionaries \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eQiu Jin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHe Zhen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, extraordinary eye-witness accounts of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJapanese invasion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGreat Famine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCultural Revolution\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e under \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eChairman Mao\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and fascinating newly published sources for the great turning points in China’s modern history, including the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTiananmen Square\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e crisis of 1989, and the new order of  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePresident Xi Jinping\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA compelling portrait of a single civilisation over an immense period of time, the book is full of intimate detail and colourful voices, taking us from the desolate \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMongolian steppes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to the ultra-modern world of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBeijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It also asks what were the forces that have kept China together for so long? Why was China overtaken by the west after the 18th century? What lies behind China’s extraordinary rise today? \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Story of China\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etells a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity; a portrait of a country that will be of the greatest importance to the world in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Uk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42752152371406,"sku":"9781471175985","price":27.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781471175985_a.png?v=1724056165","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/the-story-of-china-9781471175985","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}