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Language English Media type Paperback/Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-47030-8 Originally published 1999 Subject History of China | 4/5 Goodreads Publication date 1999 Pages 1180 OCLC 37361770 Page count 1,180 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Cambridge University Press Editors Edward L. Shaughnessy, Michael Loewe Similar Edward L Shaughnessy books, Antiquities books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC is a book edited by Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy, published by Cambridge University Press in 1999.
This book provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of China up to the unification of the country by Qin Shi Huang in 221 BC. It was published as an independent volume complementing the 15-volume work The Cambridge History of China.
Fourteen specialists on early Chinese history including Robert Bagley, Kwang-chih Chang, Cho-yun Hsu, David Keightley, Mark Edward Lewis, David S. Nivison, and Jessica Rawson contributed to the book.
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