The Cambridge History of China
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The Cambridge History of China
| Full title | The Cambridge History of China (15-volume set) |
|---|---|
| Author | Denis Twitchett and John K. Fairbank (general editors) |
| Published | 1978 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The standard scholarly history of China in English — fifteen volumes from Cambridge University Press, begun in 1978 and still the reference work the field is built on. A multi-volume set, not a single book. |
Where I heard about it
- @khalidsyossef — shared it on X, September 2025, alongside Needham’s Science and Civilisation in China, both as free Internet Archive scans: Vol. 1, The Ch’in and Han Empires; the full set is browsable at archive.org.
Connections
- China — the subject.
- Open Source Knowledge — a set most readers can only reach because it is scanned and free at archive.org.
- Science and Civilisation in China — the companion set shared in the same post.
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