About this title: For almost 2000 years, an essential chapter in the history of China was missing. The second and first centuries B.C. were a critical period - they saw the birth and development of the new Chinese Empire and its earliest expansion and acquisition of frontier territories. In the last century, however, about 60,000 of Han-period documents have been discovered in Central Asia and Western China, preserved on strips of wood and bamboo. Through Chang's translation of these documents, and his subsequent analysis and examination, new light is shed on the public and private lives of those who lived in ...
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780472115341ISBN:0472115340
Description: The second and first centuries B.C. were a critical period in Chinese history--they saw the birth and development of the new Chinese empire and its earliest expansion and acquisition of frontier territories. But for almost two thousand years, because... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN-13:9780472115341ISBN:0472115340
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