Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model of Long-term Historical Anthropology (Critical Cultural Heritage Series, University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications)

by Mingming Wang (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $43.62

  Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.