The Ancient History of China

China is one of the world's oldest uninterrupted civilizations, and the essential culture and identity of the Chinese people-the-Chinese Way-was formed more than 2,000years ago. This volume chronicles the development of Chinese civilization from Neolithic times, when agriculture revolutionized society, to the early first century A.D., when the Han dynasty's triumph over a usurper firmly established a social and governmental model that would survive into the 20th century.

Ancient History…