Chinese History: A New Manual, Fifth Edition Paperback – October 15, 2017

The huge brain that put this "manual" together just simply awes me. I am doing self-study on China for purely personal reasons and I can't imagine having any success without having this tome. Enter not lightly into this territory. But with dedicated study it does a superb job. Simply mind-blowing and complete to the Chinese fleas on the backs of Chinese fleas of small detail, while being a blue whale of a book. If I ever was fortunate enough to meet the author, Endymion Wilkinson I would prostrate myself before him like was done for the Emperors of China.

Self-published 5th edition is still great, despite the author opting out for orange(!) Comic Sans(!) for section headers. It doesn't hurt my eyes, just my nerd aesthetic sense. Extremely voluminous, over 1000 pages of bible paper.The book is more of a complete reference of the Western view on Chinese history than a manual in all regards.

The best bibliography on Chinese topics. Not just bibliographies, but wonderful essays on different aspects of Chinese history, culture, and the arts. Indispensable for any student of Chinese culture.

A book that every people interested in Chinese history should have on his bookshelf. It is the most comprehensive bibliography about Chinese history. If more references in French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch (and so on) could be added this book would be better.

I have only started to flip through and have not had the chance to compare it with the fourth edition. In fact, I never write reviews on Amazon. However, I cannot believe that they chose to use Comic Sans as the font for the headers. The fourth edition headers are in some type of Times New Roman-esque font, so why change the new edition to an elementary school handout font? I know these books always have some issues, which is understandable due to the amount of information they offer, but really? Comic Sans?

Wonderful and unique book.

Thank you!

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in the subject, from the casual learner to the serious scholar..Great organization of material, very thorough write-ups/summaries of everything you could think of.The material is very dense, so if you are thinking of using it to read like a novel, it would be nigh impossible.I personally use it like an encyclopedia, to get depth on a particular topic and to randomly browse on various subjects that strike my fancy.

a must-buy tool for Eastasia studies which covers almost all areas of Chinese history and culture. really worth its price. very good quality. pretty fast shipping.