There are 6 books in the History of imperial China series. The newest book is China's Last Empire which came out in 2009.

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The Early Chinese Empires

By Mark Edward Lewis , Timothy Brook (editor) ,

Book cover of The Early Chinese Empires

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of…

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2
China Between Empires

By Mark Edward Lewis , Timothy Brook (editor) ,

Book cover of China Between Empires
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to…

3
China's Cosmopolitan Empire

Book cover of China's Cosmopolitan Empire

The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule,…

4
The Age of Confucian Rule

By Dieter Kuhn, Timothy Brook (editor) ,

Book cover of The Age of Confucian Rule

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which…

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China's Last Empire

By William T. Rowe , Timothy Brook (editor) ,

Book cover of China's Last Empire
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance…