Nothing benefits learning more than being associated with the right people.
– Hsun Tzu (wade-Giles), Xunzi (pinyin) p v.
This is one of the best, if not the best one-volume history of China from prehistoric to 1850.
Published in 1975 each period is divided into general history, government, thought, literature and art.
Huckle writes well. I learned a lot from his book despite having read many books on China.