Mountain of Fame : : Portraits in Chinese History / / John E. Wills.
Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 12 line illus. 4 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON ROMANIZATION
- A SUMMARY TIME LINE
- 1. Yu
- 2. Confucius (Kongzi)
- 3. The First Emperor of Qin (Qin Shihuang)
- 4. Sima Qian
- 5. Wang Mang
- 6. Ban Zhao
- 7. Zhuge Liang
- 8. Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch
- 9. Empress Wu
- 10. Su Dongpo
- 11. Yue Fei
- 12. Qiu Chuji, the Daoist
- 13. Wang Yangming
- 14. Zheng Chenggong (Coxinga)
- 15. The Qianlong Emperor
- 16. Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King
- 17. Liang Qichao
- 18. The Kuomintang Legacy
- 19. Mao Zedong
- 20. Names in the News
- Afterword to the 2012 Edition
- Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index