Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series - Volume 36 1946: History of the Chinese Society Liao (907-1125)

  • Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society / Lancaster Press, Inc, 1970
By WITTFOGEL, Karl A. and Feng Chia-Sheng; John de Francis, Esther S. Goldfrank, Lea Kisselgoff, & Karl H. Menges
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society / Lancaster Press, Inc, 1970. Reprint, softcover. Quarto (30cm); green paper wrappers; [xviii],752pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout with concluding fold-out map illustration. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear, and creases to lower front wrapper and lower margins of the start of text; Very Good.

First published in 1949 and reprinted in 1961, this text includes sections on geography and population, agriculture, currency, temples, and rebellions, with concluding bibliographies (Western and Chinese & Japanese) and indexes (reference and analytical). [87957].

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