This Is China (2nd ed.)

Kerry Brown, who edited the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, has used some of his precious 2020 lockdown time in Kent to write a new chapter for This Is China: The First 5,000 Years. The book, first published in 2010, provides in only 133 pages an introduction to the whole of Chinese history and its key cultural concepts. The book was widely acclaimed by scholars and teachers, and even got a plaudit from the eminent Chinese historian Jonathan Spence of Yale: "It is hard to imagine that