Ancient Chinese History

Author: Zhang Fan
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: How to complete the process of China's 5,000-year history in a single semester course, this book, as a key textbook funded by the Ministry of Education, sets an excellent example. The outstanding features of this book are: focusing on comprehensive understanding while also considering period-specific knowledge, providing the latest research findings and personal historical insights, emphasizing the systematic nature of historical knowledge while also ensuring liveliness, following the chronological order of dynasties while highlighting the intrinsic stages of historical development, and paying attention to the different positions of the Central Plains dynasties and ethnic minority regimes in the historical process. As a lecture note, this book has been highly praised in public courses for liberal arts at Peking University.