24 Hours in Ancient China, Yijie Zhuang
24 Hours in Ancient China, Yijie Zhuang
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24 Hours in Ancient China
A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

Author: Yijie Zhuang

Narrator: Kathleen Li

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/12/2022


Synopsis

Spend twenty-four hours with the ancient Chinese.

Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilizations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning enough money, coping with workplace dramas, and keeping your home in order—although the equivalent in this era was more about bribing inspectors, avoiding bullying from abusive watchmen, and trying to keep your house from being looted by Huns.

In each chapter we meet one of twenty-four citizens of this ancient culture, from the midwife to the soldier, the priest to the performer, and the blacksmith to the tomb looter, and see what an average day in ancient China was really like.

About Yijie Zhuang

Yijie Zhuang obtained his PhD from the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. He is now a senior lecturer in Chinese archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He edited 30 Second Ancient China.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sara✨

Pre dve ili možda 3 godine (Sara i pojam o vremenu ne treba da stoje u istoj rečenici) pročitala sam "24 ata u antičkom Rimu" i jako mi se dopala, ova mi se jednako dopala. Divna stvar u vezi koncepta ove knjige je što može da vam se svidi i ako niste pasionirani ljubitelj istorije ppoput mene. Jer......more

This was a book I was really keen to start due to my not knowing a great deal about ancient China and absolutely loving to learn about new aspects of ancient history. It was enjoyable, but felt like somewhat of a chore throughout. Compared to the previous book in the series (24 Hours in Ancient Athen......more

Goodreads review by Ellie

This was a fun read! Not overly academic but still informative. I can understand the complaints of other readers that this book is maybe not what they'd expected it to be, but to that I can only say: you can't expect to understand the lives of people who lived 2000 years ago without learning about t......more

Goodreads review by Marlene

Really loved the concept of this although it was a bit more pop sciency than I had hoped......more