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• Title:The open empire : a history of China to 1800 / Valerie Hansen.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hansen, Valerie, 1958- author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY reserve collection (Floor 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS735 .H25 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--To 221 B.C.
  China--History--221 B.C.-960 A.D.
  China--History--960-1644.
  China--History--1644-1795.
  
• Edition:Second edition.
  
• Description:xvii, 478 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-443) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393938777 (paperback)
  
• Contents:The use of Pinyin
  Part I. Inventing China (ca. 1500 B.C.E.-200 C.E.)
  The beginnings of the written record
  The age of the warrior and the thinker : Double Ears and Confucius (770 B.C.E.-221 B.C.E.)
  The creation of empire (221 B.C.E.-200 C.E.)
  Part II. Facing west (C.E. 200-1000)
  China's religious landscape (200-600)
  China's golden age (589-755)
  The An Lushan Rebellion and its aftermath (755-960)
  Part III. Facing north (1000-1800)
  Coming to terms with money : the Song Dynasty (960-1276)
  The northern dynasties : non-Chinese rule in North China (907-1215)
  The Mongols (ca. 1200-1368)
  Continuing the war against the Mongols : the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
  The Qing empire (1636-1800)
  Epilogue.