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Praise for his Is China

It is hard to imagine that such a short book can cover such a vast span of time and space.

This Is China: The First 5,000 Years will help teachers, students, and general readers alike,

as they seek for a preliminary guide to the contexts and complexities of Chinese culture.

Jonathan Spence, professor of history, Yale University;

author of The Search for Modern China

In this slim volume, tiny by comparison with its regiments of oversize competitors in the

crowded ield of general histories of China, a team of experts has performed the miracle of

distilling their collective knowledge into a seamless and lucid essay on Chinese geography,

prehistory, history, and culture. One must marvel at the skill with which the editors have

reconciled and synthesized the wide range of contributors’ ideas and opinions and combined

them into such a coherent, convincing, elegant, and engaging whole. The study draws its

material from the ive volumes of the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China , launched last

year to critical acclaim and now on its way toward becoming a major reference book on

Chinese history, society, and thought. Students will enjoy the sparse but richly supported

narrative. Teachers everywhere will welcome it as a classroom aid and a virtuoso contribu-

tion to the genre of short books on China.

Gregor Benton, professor of Chinese history,

Cardiff University

I only wish I had had This Is China: The First 5,000 Years available during my ifteen

years of teaching Chinese at the college level. It provides a superb historically based founda-

tion for the beginning language student to understand the importance of those “irst 5,000

years” in shaping the modern language. The inclusion of the Chinese characters and pinyin

for each of the section headings is an added bonus. Together with web-based supplementary

material made available by the publisher, This Is China is a tremendous resource for both

Chinese language students and teachers, and I recommend it highly.

Scott McGinnis, academic advisor and professor,

Defense Language Institute, Washington DC

This is a gem. It is a reference that everyone who teaches, writes, or thinks about China

should have close at hand. Each section is concise, literate, and well written. The information

presented is very up-to-date, including descriptions of China’s scientiic accomplishments,

the contributions of women to the development of Chinese culture, the ways in which China

has always been linked by trade and by intellectual interaction to the global development

of human civilization, and how new archaeological discoveries are changing the ways we

deine China’s past. This stimulating and rewarding approach is carried through to discus-

sions of the economic, intellectual, and values debates our colleagues in China are currently

engaged in. At a time when Chinese is rapidly becoming the most important second-language

for millions worldwide, the inclusion of Chinese characters at many points in the text

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is both welcome and necessary. What’s more, the characters are accompanied by pinyin

transliteration with tone marks, meaning that even beginning students will rapidly increase

their ability to read and speak Chinese. Don’t be caught without this book.

Ronald Suleski, professor and director, Rosenberg

Institute for East Asian Studies, Suffolk University

China today is an economic superpower, competing in every arena of human endeavor.

From trade, business and inance to diplomacy, defense and security; from science, technol-

ogy and innovation to culture, media and sports—China’s growing strengths have global

implications. Foreigners need to understand the deep history of China, because in China

the past profoundly affects the present. It is hard to imagine a more accessible, accurate book

than This Is China: The First 5,000 Years .

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, international investment

banker, corporate strategist; author of How China’s

Leaders Think

Ambitious, sweeping, and of necessity eficiently economical and compressed, This Is

China: The First 5,000 Years packs about as much of the panorama of the Chinese experi-

ence into a single volume as is physically possible. For those of us who still enjoy the pleasures

of physical reference books, this one is a must, as it is for the expanding universe of those

who know that understanding China will be increasingly important in their lives.

Dan Burstein, managing partner, Millennium

Technology Ventures; author of Big Dragon

This little book should quickly become the irst port of call for teachers seeking information

on the vast range of topics and issues that arise while teaching a language and culture more

than 5,000 years in existence. It is authoritative, easily accessed and directs the seeker to

deeper information if required. It is a reference book which ills the gap constantly experi-

enced by teachers of Chinese between too much information on some topics and nothing at

all on many others of interest to their students.

Jane Orton, director, Australian Chinese Teacher

Training Centre, University of Melbourne

It is a remarkable achievement to tell China’s millennia of recorded history and analyze

the country’s rich culture and current events in a beautifully illustrated book of 130 pages.

The narrative is lucid, engaging, and insightful. This Is China: The First 5,000 Years is a

much-needed handbook for anyone who is interested in acquainting themselves with China

and the Chinese in a few hours of reading.

Hanchao Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology

This Is China

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