{"id":47886,"count":14,"description":"Chinese history is very long, with silkworms already being bred in the 4th millennium BCE and the first evidence of writing\u2014the oracle bone script\u2014dating from the Shang dynasty in the 2nd millennium BCE. A lot has happened in the millennia since and getting a good overview of China's history can be daunting. For a wonderful short but granular introduction there's no better place to start than <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/the-shortest-history-of-china-linda-jaivin\/\">Linda Jaivin's <em>The Shortest History of China<\/em><\/a>, which ranges over the dynasties, the culture, the writing and the philosophy:\r\n\r\n[book id=70322]\r\n\r\nYou can also find many history books in the section of our site focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/best-books-china\/\">books on China<\/a>. Our interviews dedicated to some specific topics in Chinese history follow below:","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/chinese-history\/","name":"Chinese History","slug":"chinese-history","taxonomy":"category","parent":83,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/47886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/83"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=47886"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=47886"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=47886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}