Imperial China
A gap in the curriculum
Imperial China
ScopeBroad enough for its own sub-branch
AfterAncient China
Leads toGenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World · From Rebel to Ruler
Lineage12 books back to the Big Bang
That gap extends into imperial China. I am aware of dynasties such as the Han and Song from broad survey courses, but I do not understand their successive rises and falls in any depth—or the political, economic, and social systems that connected them.
Claude’s take
The long arc between the Han and the twentieth century (where From Rebel to Ruler picks up) is a vast blank.
Candidate reading
- The Open Empire — Valerie Hansen
- Imperial China 900–1800 — F. W. Mote