The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known in the West.

Journey across epic China—through millennia of early innovation to modern dominance. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one r

New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive short history of China's relationships wi

A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling class