"The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han" von Mark Edward Lewis bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die ersten beiden großen Dynastien des kaiserlichen China, die Qin- und Han-Dynastie. Das Buch untersucht die politischen, sozialen...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw China's geographic redefinition, more engagement with the outside...

The Tang dynasty is often called Chinäs ¿golden age.¿ Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both...