China by Otto Zierer

China

Concise History of Great Nations

Edited by Otto Zierer

Leon Amiel Publisher, 1978, [First Edition], ISBN 0818407011, colour and black and white photographs throughout, photographic double title page, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and slight discolouration toward top edge(see photographs)

“Man has lived history here for more than four thousand years, through chaos and harmony, decline and reconstruction, revolution and new order.  Time and again following periods of crisis, ruin, civil war, conquest and catastrophe, the “Middle Kingdom” has emerged in a new shape on an old base to provide cultural and political living space for many millions of people.  The long history of China is part of the development and cultural history of Man himself; its current politics are of ever-increasing significance for the whole world.”