Ancient China Simplified

In 842 B.C., China’s emperor fled his capital—not from an invading army, but from the anger of his own people. Edward Harper Parker marks this as the beginning of reliably dated Chinese history.

At the time, the civilized heart of China was little more than what is now Ho Nan, amid a patchwork of vassal states and peoples beyond its borders. In this early-twentieth-century account, Parker looks past the vast China of modern maps to trace a world shaped by princes, custom, and the routes of its rivers. With the emperor gone, a regency takes charge, while powerful vassals rule their own domains. How did this small, river-bound world begin to spread?

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