The Chinese, Their History and Culture - Two Volumes in One: Fourth Edition

Macmillan Company. Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. 1962. Fourth Edition: Seventh Printing. Hard Cover. 714 pages: 6.5 x 9.5 in.: 3: KB#013908: Bookjacket/dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. LCCN# 64-17372. Dustjacket has a small well-repaired edge cut. Book is in Fine Condition; boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "In more than twenty-five thousand words of new material, the story of the radical transformations wrought under the present Communist regime has been added to this book. Thus the book - actually two volumes in one - serves both to acquaint the serious reader with the Chinese people and to provide the Sinologist with an invaluable and thoroughly up-to-date summary for ready reference. ... The history of the Chinese people, comprising more than half the book, sweeps forward from prehistoric and Shu Ching (Classic of History) times, through the long centuries of the classic Ch'in, Han, Sui, Sung, Mongol, Ming, and Manchu dynasties, to today's abrupt remaking of a civilization under the rule of Mao Tse-tung's communism. The concluding volume of the book discusses in separate chapters the leading features of the culture and institutions of this people - their racial composition, government, economic and social life, religion, art, language, and literature." .