I’m talking about everything before the revolutionary period, mostly so it doesn’t bother me if the author is a lib. I just care about how factual said book is. Don’t worry, i will eventually read one about the revolution…
Imperial China by DK (Author)
The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 1: The Ch’in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220 by Denis Twitchett (Editor), Michael Loewe (Editor)
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 2, The Six Dynasties, 220-589 by Albert E. Dien (Editor), Keith N. Knapp (Editor)
The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 3: Sui and T’ang China, 589-906 AD, Part 1 by Denis C. Twitchett (Editor)
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China) by Mark Edward Lewis (Author), Timothy Brook (Editor)
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) by Mark Edward Lewis (Author), Timothy Brook (Editor)
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China) by Dieter Kuhn (Author), Timothy Brook (Editor)
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt (Author)
The Making of Song Dynasty History: Sources and Narratives, 960–1279 CE by Charles Hartman (Author)
The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400 (New Approaches to Asian History) by John W. Chaffee (Author)
The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China by Shao-yun Yang (Author)
Traditional Chinese Architecture: Twelve Essays (The Princeton-China Series, 8) by Xinian Fu (Author), Nancy Steinhardt (Editor), Alexandra Harrer (Translator)
Chinese Architecture: A History by Nancy Steinhardt (Author)
The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History (Oxford Studies in Early Empires) by Andrew Chittick (Author)
The Brilliant Reign of the Kangxi Emperor: China’s Qing Dynasty by Hing Ming Hung (Author)
China’s Early Mosques (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt (Author)
In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia by David M. Robinson (Author)
Ming China and its Allies: Imperial Rule in Eurasia by David M. Robinson (Author)
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals by Prof. Dr. Michal Biran (Editor), Dr. Jonathan Brack (Editor), Dr. Francesca Fiaschetti (Editor)
China in World History (New Oxford World History) by Paul S. Ropp (Author)
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan (Author)
China and Japan: Facing History by Ezra F. Vogel (Author)
From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History by Kenneth J. Hammond (Narrator, Author), The Great Courses (Author, Publisher)
A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People’s Republic by Jonathan Clements (Author)
The Open Empire: A History of China to 1800 (Second Edition) by Valerie Hansen (Author)
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) by Mark Edward Lewis (Author), Timothy Brook (Editor)
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China, including The Art of War by Ralph D. Sawyer (Author), Mei-Chun Sawyer (Author)
Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art (Perspectives on the Global Past) by Roxann Prazniak (Author), Anand A. Yang (Series Editor), Kieko Matteson (Series Editor)
^ In case anyone wants to take at the (somewhat haphazard) list I made, here it is:
@AgreeableLandscape@lemmygrad.ml
Also, here’s a few extras:
The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes: The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China by Raoul McLaughlin (Author)
Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture by Andrew R. Wilson (Author), The Great Courses (Narrator, Author, Publisher)
China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China) by William T. Rowe (Author), Timothy Brook (Editor)
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China) by Timothy Brook (Author, Editor)
Early China: A Social And Cultural History (New Approaches to Asian History) by Li Feng (Author)
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt (Author)
The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (The Cambridge China Library) by Haijian Mao (Author), Joseph Lawson (Translator), Craig Smith (Translator), Peter Lavelle (Translator), Julia Lovell (Introduction)
^ Last one was recently translated from China, I think.
Hey, thanks. That is a lot of resources, I’m saving your comment for later.
Sure thing! Thanks!
This is an insane amount of resources! Thanks a ton, I’ll be adding these to the reading list.
Of course!
Nice! Saved.
thanks, fantastic list!
I had no hand in that lol
@camaron28@lemmygrad.ml ^ This list that I made is for you. Let me know what you think of it.
Well, it’s big.
Haha, i’ll check it out, Thanks!
I’ll do you one better and recommend a long form documentary https://youtu.be/I5cl0GjPjy4
So you mean before WW1?
^ Sorry, hope this isn’t a dumb question. Just wondering what you’re looking for exactly. I take it that you mean anything before the Qing dynasty was dissolved.
I guess the entire history, but that may be too much for a single book.
Qin Shi Huang or before-just up to the revolution.
Alright, I think I have a few things to recommend. Hold on.
Oh, gotcha. I’m guessing you mean either up to 1927 when China technically had its first revolution with the aid of the Communist Party of China or 1949 when the PRC was officially made.
