Wolfram Eberhard

     
     

 

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INTRODUCTION.

 

THE EARLIEST TIMES

 

ANTIQUITY

 

THE MIDDLE AGES

 

MODERN TIMES
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            [Transcriber's Note: The following text contains numerous non-English words containing diacritical marks not contained in the ASCII character set. Characters accented by those marks, and the corresponding text representations are as follows (where x represents the character being accented). All such symbols in this text above the character being accented:

 

        breve (u-shaped symbol): [)x]

 

  caron (v-shaped symbol): [vx]

 

  macron (straight line): [=x]

 

  acute (egu) accent: ['x]

 

      Additionally, the author has spelled certain words inconsistently. Those have been adjusted to be consistent where possible. Examples of such adjustments are as follows:

 

        From To

 

Northwestern North-western

 

Southwards Southward

 

Programme Program

 

re-introduced reintroduced

 

practise practice

 

Lotos Lotus

 

Ju-Chen Juchen

 

cooperate co-operate

 

life-time lifetime

 

man-power manpower

 

favor favour

 

etc.

 

      In general such changes are made to be consistent with the predominate usage in the text, or if there was not a predominate spelling, to the more modern.]

 

           

 

      A HISTORY OF CHINA

 

      by

 

      WOLFRAM EBERHARD