The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People Sachiko Umoto and his supreme ordeal—a relentless

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The Story of China: A Portrait of a Civilisation and Its People Sachiko Umoto and his supreme ordeal—a relentlessA single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today. Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China producing a magisterial new book that combines a sweeping narrative of Chinas story with the stories of its people, the history of its landscape and commentary from his extensive travel journals. He begins with a look at Chinas prehistorythe early dynasties, the origins of the