HIST 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: 1, Four Books And Five Classics, Taoism

• School: McGill University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 208
• Professor: Griet Vankeerberghen

Document Summary

China contained the world"s largest cities, and a disproportionate share of all the world"s lesser cities and large towns. It supported greater commerce, domestic and international, than all the rest of the world. It produced thousands of titles in printed books before the rest of the world (except korea) had printed books. : mote, china 900-1800, 324, xixia (1038-1227) tangut (tibeto-burman language