This is an essential instrument to understand China, its people and its culture through its long history. Wood paints a grand portrait, aimed at showing how the history, especially in China, is deeply intertwined with cultural, natural and societal issues. Especially for a westerner, where we get few, if any, reviews of Chinese history in school, this book is an eye opener. Wood's style makes it almost a novel, although sustained by an authoritative historical methodology. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding what China is, and how it came to be the nation that it is today.
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I love all literary genres, with a preference for quality fiction, sci-fi and history. I love technology, and I am old enough to remember how rosy the future looked when the Internet started becoming widespread, and the end of the cold war was at hand. I hope to be able to help new generations to go back to having a rosier look at the future, as I had the privilege of having when I was their age.
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The Story of China di Wood, Michael
Four millennia of Chinese history in 540 pages.
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Four millennia of Chinese history in 540 pages.
An essential tool to understand China
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This is an essential instrument to understand China, its people and its culture through its long history. Wood paints a grand portrait, aimed at showing how the history, especially in China, is deeply intertwined with cultural, natural and societal issues. Especially for a westerner, where we get few, if any, reviews of Chinese history in school, this book is an eye opener. Wood's style makes it almost a novel, although sustained by an authoritative historical methodology. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding what China is, and how it came to be the nation that it is today.
Luca ha iniziato a leggere The Dispossessed di Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed di Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
Luca ha iniziato a leggere Il suicidio di Israele di Anna Foa
Luca ha finito di leggere Lealta di Letizia Pezzali
Luca ha valutato The driver's seat: 4 stelle
The driver's seat di Muriel Spark
Lise is thin, neither good-looking nor bad-looking. One day she walks out of her office, acquires a gaudy new outfit, …
Luca ha valutato The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: 3 stelle
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie di Muriel Spark
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works. It first …
Luca ha valutato The Last Colony: 4 stelle
Luca ha valutato The Ghost Brigades: 4 stelle
The Ghost Brigades di John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the …