Heritage of Chinese Civilization, The [Paperback]

• There is new coverage of early Buddhism
• New materials have been added on sea routes to China
• There is new coverage of the Ming and Manchu dynasties
• Coverage of contemporary China has been updated
• In Chapter 4, in response to suggestions from reviewers, the following changes were made:
• The Ming and Qing dynasties are presented chronologically (in contrast with the thematic approach found in the second edition)
• The Manchu elements in Qing rule are more clearly delineated
• Chapter 6 has been brought up to date and in some ways revamped.

Albert M. Craig is the Harvard-Yenching Research Professor of History Emeritus at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1959. A graduate of Northwestern University, he received his Ph.D. at Harvard University. He has studied at Strasbourg University and at Kyoto, Keio, and Tokyo universities in Japan. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration (1961), The Heritage of Japanese Civilization (2011), and, with others, of East Asia , Tradition and Transformation (1989). He is the editor of Japan , A Comparative View (1973) and co-editor of Personality in Japanese History (1970), Civilization and

Enlightnment: the Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi (2009). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto and Tokyo universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government.