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China’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK’s pre-eminent historians, brings it all together in a major new one-volume history of China that is essential listening for anyone who wants to understand its burgeoning role in our world today.

China is the oldest living civilisation on earth, but its history is still surprisingly little known in the wider world. Michael Wood’s sparkling narrative, which mingles the grand sweep with local and personal stories, woven together with the author’s own travel journals, is an enthralling account of China’s 4000-year-old tradition, taking in life stationed on the Great Wall or inside the Forbidden City. The story is enriched with the latest archaeological and documentary discoveries; correspondence and court cases going back to the Qin and Han dynasties; family letters from soldiers in the real-life Terracotta Army; stories from Silk Road merchants and Buddhist travellers, along with memoirs and diaries of emperors, poets and peasants.

In the modern era, the book is full of new insights, with the electrifying manifestos of the feminist revolutionaries Qiu Jin and He Zhen, extraordinary eye-witness accounts of the Japanese invasion, the Great Famine and the Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao and fascinating newly published sources for the great turning points in China’s modern history, including the Tiananmen Square crisis of 1989 and the new order of President Xi Jinping.

A compelling portrait of a single civilisation over an immense period of time, the book is full of intimate detail and colourful voices, taking us from the desolate Mongolian steppes to the ultra-modern world of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It also asks what were the forces that have kept China together for so long? Why was China overtaken by the west after the 18th century? What lies behind China’s extraordinary rise today? The Story of China tells a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity and deep humanity; a portrait of a country that will be of the greatest importance to the world in the 21st century.

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Creation Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 07:49:02 +0200
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The Story of China—A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People 00 - Prologue—Beijing, December 1899.mp3 28.5 MBs
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The Story of China—A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People 01 - Roots.mp3 68.67 MBs
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The Story of China—A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People 02 - The Great War of the Shang.mp3 32.37 MBs
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The Story of China—A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People 03 - The Mandate of Heaven.mp3 37.35 MBs
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The Story of China—A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People 06 - The Glory of the Tang.mp3 63.97 MBs
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