Обобщающий труд по древней истории Китая

Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология. 2021. Т. 20. № 10. С. 145–147.

Efimenko M.

The author reviews the first six chapters of the monograph "Ancient China: A History" by John S. Major and Constance Cook, published in 2017 in the United States. The authors of the book made an attempt to briefly review the history of ancient China on the basis of a compilation of factual data from the works of the most prominent researchers of these periods in Europe and the United States. It is shown that the authors of the compilation mainly follow the Chinese historical tradition, repeating the basic information from the classical Confucian treatises of the early Imperial time. It is particularly significant that the authors make mistakes that indicate the formation of their own tradition of writing the history of China in the United States.

Keywords: Китай, США, историография, традиция, Западное Чжоу, неолит, Шан