China's Imperial Past
Subtitle: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture
Edition: Student edition
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr; Stanford University Press
Published: December 1977
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780804709798
Subjects: Customs & Traditions; Sociology
First sentence: STONE-AGE cultures that were ancestral to Chinese civilization were scattered across North China by the beginning of the second millennium B.C.