Selected Product: | A Brief History of Chinese Civilization Paperback Edition: 1 Author: Conrad Schirokauer Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Release Date: 1990-07-18 ISBN-10: 0155055682 ISBN-13: 9780155055681 List Price: $58.95 Average Customer Rating: | | Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1 ISBN-10: 0231109393 ISBN-13: 9780231109390 List Price:$32.00 Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed ISBN-10: 002908752X ISBN-13: 9780029087527 List Price:$21.95 Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy ISBN-10: 0872207803 ISBN-13: 9780872207806 List Price:$24.95 Buddhism in Chinese History ISBN-10: 0804705488 ISBN-13: 9780804705486 List Price:$19.95 A Brief History of Japanese Civilization ISBN-10: 0618915222 ISBN-13: 9780618915224 List Price:$79.95 |
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for A Brief History of Chinese Civilization by Conrad Schirokauer (ISBN-10: 0155055682, ISBN-13: 9780155055681). At this time we have not yet written a review for A Brief History of Chinese Civilization by Conrad Schirokauer (ISBN-10: 0155055682, ISBN-13: 9780155055681). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews. Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com Conrad Schirokauer, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia and Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York, received his doctorate from Stanford. He has studied in Paris and conducted research in Japan and China. His published papers and articles deal mostly with Song intellectual history. He is co-editor, with Robert Hymes, of ORDERING THE WORLD: APPROACHES TO STATE AND SOCIETY IN SUNG DYNASTY CHINA (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). His current research is on Song perceptions of and attitudes toward history. Schirokauer was associated with a New York University summer graduate program for teachers in Japan and China and remains interested in how history is taught and written. As a textbook author, he has published A BRIEF HISTORY OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CIVILIZATIONS (Second Edition 1989), with separate volumes on China (1990) and Japan (1993), all now available from Wadsworth. Also worth mention, is his translation OF CHINA'S EXAMINATION HELL by Miyazaki Ichisada (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976,1981), which he recommends to any student who feels burdened by examinations.Press, 1976,1981), which he recommends to any student who feels burdened by examinations. This concise book emphasizes Chinese cultural history while also covering political and economic history. It is introductory in both style and content, and the organization is kept as simple as possible. Brief coverage of each major Chinese dynasty or other discrete period is treated in a separate chapter. Coverage includes recent developments in China, up to and including the massacre at Tiananmen Square. Timelines, charts, or key dates appear at the beginning of chapters. Chinese names are printed in Pinyin with Wade-Giles in parentheses.
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