Ancient China

I think I will give this book a full five stars. I would never claim it is perfect, but it meets my criteria, at least, of “it was amazing”. Perhaps “I loved it” would be a better measure of five stars here on Goodreads. If your aim is to provide a reader with a rich, rewarding, readable and fabulously illustrated introduction to early China, from the early Shang kings to the Tang Dynasty of the 7th to 9th centuries A.D., I cannot conceive any better way of achieving it.

I've probably expressed it elsewhere, but it bears repeating. We are a poorer world for the loss of Time-Life books.