El mundo chino

This general history of China and its civilization is the only book on the market that, in just 700 pages, offers us a global synthesis of China's evolution in all fields and at all times. Professor Jacques Gernet draws in this book, step by step, the successive transformations of the Chinese world and the interrelation between society, political forms, economy, techniques, religions and intellectual life that have been braiding the Chinese peculiarity. This work is a unique book of its kind because it places China in a global context, in permanent relationship with the other great centers of civilization, to help us better understand the trajectory of our own Western world.