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NOTES AND SUGGESTED READING
Pronouncing Chinese names can be very In writing Division to Unification in Im-
difficult. as pos-
sible To keep things as simple in pin- perial China I relied on a number of Chi-
yin, for
transcribing I’ve kept all Chinese names nese-language sources. These include
the standard phonetic method History of China by Tongling Wang, The
Chinese words. General History of China by Simian Lü,
China: A Macro History by Ray Huang
The only exceptions are names previ- Renyu, and A History of Chinese Philoso-
ously romanized according to different phy by Youlan Feng. Many of these books
standards that are now very common. are classic histories and have more in-
An excellent example is the name of the formation than I could ever t into a
philosopher Confucius. If I were to write series, much less a single volume. If you
it in pinyin it would be spelled Kong-fuzi . read Chinese these books are worth
Instead, I use Confucius, the name Je- investigating.
suit missionaries gave him in the 16th
century. While there aren’t a huge number of
English-language resources that address
If you want to check your pinyin pro- the period of Chinese history covered in
nunciation there are a number of useful this book in an accessible manner, China
online resources available to you. An between Empires: The Northern and South-
excellent web dictionary with audio ca- ern Dynasties by Mark Edward Lewis and
pabilities can be found at www.mdbg. Timothy Brook is an excellent resource.
net. The Pleco app for iOS and Android I also suggest Chinese Civilization: A
phones allows you to check proper Sourcebook, 2nd Edition , by Patricia Buck-
pronunciation. ley Ebrey, which collects original source
material from Chinese history, including
oracle bones, tax codes, and folk tales.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To Sara, Elizabeth, Malcolm and Connor, Katelyn and Yifu, and many, many more chil-
with a connection to China.
dren who have been born
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BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
Volume 1 Volume 3
Foundations of Chinese Civilization: Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese
The Yellow Emperor to the Han Dynasty Identity: The Five Dynasties and
(2697 BCE – 220 CE) Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty
(907 – 1368)
Volume 2 TO BE PUBLISHED APRIL 2017
Division
China: to Unification in Imperial
Dynasty to the
The Three Kingdoms Tang Volume 4
(220 – 907) The Making of Modern China: The
Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty
(1368 – 1912)
TO BE PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2017
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