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A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to take a class on Chinese history, in which we used Spence's The Search for Modern China as a major textbook. I greatly enjoyed reading through that, but regret that the class never looked into pre-modern Chinese history. Are there any books with similar scale/depth/feel covering ancient and medieval Chinese history? I know that Spence's Yale colleague, Valerie Hansen, appears to have put out The Open Empire: A History of China to 1600 to presumably serve as a spiritual companion, but I don't have a good sense about the book's quality (from the reviews on Amazon or elsewhere). In a similar vein, I have not come across a good listing of well-regarded and readable books on Indian history. I've come across a few that could be good, like Keay's India: A History and Wolpert's India and A New History of India, but I haven't really been able to decipher any qualitative differences between them that might make one better than the other, based on the reviews (outside of a complaint or two that Keay is a bit dry). Does anyone have any better suggestions?
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