Ancient China

Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region (the geographical area that eventually became known as China), from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly coalesced to form the first recognizably Chinese empires.The field of Early China studies is currently being revolutionized by many archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw on this new evidence and a wealth of contemporary scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China.