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Similar expressions such as "5000 years of Chinese history" have also emerged and become popular in China, including the People's Republic of China period. For example, the popular history books on Chinese history compiled by mainland Chinese writers Lin Handa and Cao Yuzhang were published under the title of "Five Thousand Years Up and Down". [5]
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The Penguin History of Modern China was published in 2008 by the Penguin Books imprint Allen Lane. [5] It is Fenby's sixth China-related book. [2] It drew on Fenby's own experiences and the substantial research in English-language sources on China's history in the past century and a half.
Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China. (2004). 564 pp. Elvin, Mark and Liu, Ts'ui-jung, eds. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. (1998). 820 pp. von Glahn, Richard. The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge UP, 2016). 461 pp. online review; Ji, Zhaojin.
This sub-section is about paper making; for the writing material first used in ancient Egypt, see papyrus.. Paper: Although it is recorded that the Han dynasty (202 BC – AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (50 AD – AD 121) invented the pulp papermaking process and established the use of new materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating from the 2nd century BC ...
Chapter 4. "Toward a China-Centered History of China" calls for "China-centered history of China" and praises scholarship of the 1970s which shows how to do it. [5] Cohen returned to the problems of historical writing in his History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997.