On October 2, 2009, the People's Republic of China celebrated its
60th anniversary with a stunning display of weapons, rumbling tanks, and
smartly dressed soldiers under a blue sky in the capital city of Beijing. It
was an impressive show of military might that displayed China's rising power in
the modern world. From a nation devastated by civil war and the ravages of World War II, China has become the world's third-largest economy and a major
player on the world stage. But the ability to renew itself is far from new for
China. Despite upheavals that have shattered the China is unique among nations:
its many cultural and economic accomplishments stretch across a continuous
period, from its earliest recorded history, more
than 4,000 years ago, to today. This book
will reveal much about this exceptional nation and its long, varied history,
which reaches back to one of the earliest periods in world civilzation.
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