Reviews
‘… the English version will serve readers in an English-speaking world with a text-book of unchallenged value. The translation is smooth and stylish.’Modern Asian Studies, '… the English version will serve readers in an English-speaking world with a text-book of unchallenged value. The translation is smooth and stylish.' Modern Asian Studies, 'Gernet has accomplished with skill and vision one of scholarship¿s most daunting tasks, the writing of a one-volume history of China.¿ The Times Higher Education Supplement, "...an excellent book which should be of interest to both professional and general readers who study or enjoy the history of China." Asian Thought & Society, '... the English version will serve readers in an English-speaking world with a text-book of unchallenged value. The translation is smooth and stylish.' Modern Asian Studies, "This is the most detailed and comprehensive one-volume survey of China's social, economic, and intellectual history....This should be in the reference collection of every serious library." Library Journal, ‘Gernet has accomplished with skill and vision one of scholarship’s most daunting tasks, the writing of a one-volume history of China.’The Times Higher Education Supplement, 'Gernet has accomplished with skill and vision one of scholarship's most daunting tasks, the writing of a one-volume history of China.' The Times Higher Education Supplement