24 Hours in Ancient China
24 Hours in Ancient China
Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary
24 Hours in Ancient China invites you to meet a wide range of fascinating characters from all parts of society to experience what life was really like during this incredible time and empire.
The feel-good place to buy books
- Free US shipping over $15
- Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
- Millions of affordable books
- Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!
24 Hours in Ancient China by Yijie Zhuang
Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. The year is AD 17. The Han dynasty is in power and we are in and around Chang’an, the capital and one of the most developed regions of the empire, which is enjoying a prolonged economic and cultural pinnacle. There are extraordinary palaces, military bases and city walls. Households are benefitting from the invention of numerous agricultural technologies and an unprecedented level of craft production, which includes ceramics, bronzes, iron objects and many other elaborate goods. This is an age that is both vibrant and innovative but also riven with conflict and contradictions. For as successful as the empire is, the reality is that life for the ordinary inhabitants is still about the same problems: earning money, work struggles and family dramas. Discover what one day in ancient China is like by spending twenty-four hours with the people who lived there. Every hour we meet a different person – from dancers to doctors, priests to convicts, textile workers to tomb looters – and build a multi-layered picture of the social fabric of ancient China and this fascinating period in history.
Dr Yijie Zhuang obtained his PhD in archaeology from Cambridge University and is now as Associate Professor in Chinese archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is primarily interested in ancient water-management systems and agricultural histories of China and South East Asia and has published many peer-reviewed articles and he has recenetly been surveying at an Iron Age site in Myanmar. He edited 30 Second Ancient China (Ivy Press).
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781789296488 |
| ISBN 10 | 178929648X |
| Title | 24 Hours in Ancient China |
| Author | Yijie Zhuang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |