Half the world: The history and culture of China and Japan

by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Book Overview

As the world shrinks and all nations become involved with one another, Western ignorance of the great and ancient civilizations of China and Japan seems as benighted as the medieval astronomers' ignorance of the solar system. Aware of the relative unfamiliarity of the subject, the thirteen scholars who contributed to this book assumed nothing but the reader's desire to know, while resisting the temptation to oversimplify.By way of prologue there is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030107164
• ISBN13: 9780030107160
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 4.23 lbs.