The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC is a book edited by Michael Loewe

Michael Loewe

Michael Loewe , also known as M. A. N. Loewe, is a British academic and renowned sinologist who has authored dozens of books, articles, and other publications in the fields of Classical Chinese and ancient Chinese history....

 and Edward L. Shaughnessy

Edward L. Shaughnessy

Edward L. Shaughnessy is an expert on early Chinese history and Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Professor at the University of Chicago.Shaughnessy received his B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame and hits M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University...

, published by Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...

 in 1999.

This book provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of China up to the unification of the country by Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang , personal name Ying Zheng , was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during the Warring States Period. He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BC...

 in 221 BC. It was published as an independent volume complementing the 15-volume work The Cambridge History of China

The Cambridge History of China

The Cambridge History of China is an ongoing series of books published by Cambridge University Press covering the early and modern history of China. It has been described as "the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language"....

.

Fourteen specialists on early Chinese history including Kwang-chih Chang

Kwang-chih Chang

Kwang-chih Chang , aka K.C. Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. He was a professor of archaeology at Harvard University, a Vice-President of the Academia Sinica and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of...

, Jessica Rawson

Jessica Rawson

Jessica Rawson, DBE, FBA is an English art historian, curator and academic administrator, specializing in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010...

, Mark Edward Lewis

Mark Edward Lewis

Mark Edward Lewis is an American historian of ancient China. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program . Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University...

, and David S. Nivison

David S. Nivison

David Shepherd Nivison is a sinologist in the United States. His Chinese name is Ni Dewei .-Biography:Nivison received his Ph.D. in Chinese from Harvard University. Although less known, his first Chinese teachers were Lien-sheng Yang and Hong Ye . Nivison learnt most of the subjects from them...

 contributed to this book.

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