# Great Empires: The Chinese Empire

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- Book: [Great Empires: The Chinese Empire](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-roxburgh/great-empires-the-chinese-empire) ([Great Empires: The Chinese Empire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-roxburgh/great-empires-the-chinese-empire.md))
- Authors: [Ellis Roxburgh](https://www.bookquiver.com/ellis-roxburgh)
- Publisher: wayland
- ISBN: 978-15-2630-068-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-04-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Shang disappeared from history for millennia before chance discoveries in the early 20th century revealed a glimpse of China's first great dynasty. More than 3,500 years ago, the Shang created a state on the Yellow River from where they came to dominate an extensive empire. As this book reveals, over the last 100 years, historians have built a detailed picture of a highly sophisticated civilisation, which laid the foundations for much of modern Chinese life. Each book in the Great Empires series covers a particular empire or regional series of empires, charting its history from its rise to its eventual fall. Concise text and supporting boxes explore the reasons for the empire's success-and its failure-and explain the mechanics of governing the empire and the experience of living under it.