Looking for a brief intro to Chinese history, any suggestions?

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>>8726285
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/from-yao-to-mao-5000-years-of-chinese-history.html

Fucking great and easily pirateable

I found pic related serviceable, if dry.

>>8726296
Will check out.
>easily pirateable
What isn't these days?

I read the first 50 pages of The Search for Modern China and liked it.

>>8726326
Is it more focused on modern China?

>>8726285
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/China_1.htm

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>>8726285
spent some time catching up on chinese philosophy this summer. here's a few things i read

this tiny little fragment has a lot going on in it

http://faculty.smcm.edu/jwschroeder/Asian_Religions_2015/textdownloads_files/Confucius%20chp1%262.pdf

this was also pretty good.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674335912

i don't know if you're into martial arts but the same guy wrote another good book on it also

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/striking-beauty/9780231172721

sawyer's book on the seven military classics was fun but more niche

anything by roger ames is good

and when in doubt you can't beat reading the analects or the good old ttc

then cap that off with a play through of sid meter's alpha centauri as yang
>tfw recycling tanks
>tfw essays on mind and matter
>tfw neo-confucian ubermensch

>>8726404
>tfw i can't spell based sid meier's name

>>8726332
Nope, goes as far back as the sixteenth centaury.

>>8726285
Look for professor Jonathan Spence's books for the Qing Dynasty.

>>8726285
Chinese Civilisation by Gernet

>>8726285
fairbank is really good for modern chinese history