The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today.
Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China prod...
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Number of Pages: 624
ISBN: 1250202574
ISBN-13: 9781250202574
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Tyler Cowen @TylerCowen
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Oct 5, 2020
I do find that Michael Wood’s new The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilization and its People is a plausible contender for this designation. Consistently interesting, substantive, and conceptual, but without over-interpreting for the sake of imposing a narrative straitjacket.