This book introduces readers to the history of design thinking in pre-modern China. The content is structured according to successive dynasties, covering the se

This book introduces readers to the history of design thinking in pre-modern China. The content is structured according to successive dynasties, covering the se

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West still largely ov

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture.

When published in 1982, this translation of Professor Jacques Gernet's masterly survey of the history and culture of China was immediately welcomed by critics a