Inst. Far East RAS, 2002, 448 pp., ISBN: 5-8381-0036-2

The latest book by the famous sinologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Vladimir Nikolaevich Nikiforov (1920-1990). It contains the result of the author’s works and many years of reflection on the political history of China, its main trends and stages, conclusions from the events of Chinese history. The presentation covers the time from the birth of ancient Chinese civilization in the 2nd millennium BC. e. until 1919. The author talks about the founders of Chinese ideological systems of antiquity, about the mixing of the Han and “barbarian” worlds in China, about Buddhism - right up to the Xinhai Revolution and social thought in China at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. For specialists and for a wide range of readers.