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Manuale di storia della Cina edizione 2013. Libro nuovo, mai utilizzato. Endymion Wilkinsons bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. The new manual comprises fourteen book-length parts subdivided into a total of seventy-six chapters: Books 19 cover Language; People; Geography and the Environment; Governing and Educating; Ideas and Beliefs, Literature, and the Fine Arts; Agriculture, Food, and Drink; Technology and Science; Trade; and Historiography. Books 1013 present primary and secondary sources chronologically by period. Book 14 is on historical bibliography.