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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The origins of oriental civilization</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>JR. Fairservis, A. Walter</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>The New American Library</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1959</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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    <extent>191 p.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. Unity and Utopia ...................................... 9  
2. The Earliest Foundations .............................. 14  
3. The Pleistocene and East Asia ......................... 26  
4. Earliest Asians: Java ................................. 33  
5. Earliest Asians: China ................................ 45  
6. Cultures of the Pleistocene ........................... 57  
7. Origins of the Chinese ................................ 71  
8. Legendary Origins ..................................... 76  
9. Dawn Over the Yellow River ............................ 82  
10. Kansu—Link to the West? .............................. 102  
11. The Shang ............................................ 114  
12. China—In Retrospect .................................. 132  
13. Japan: A Paradox ..................................... 141  
14. At the Fringe ........................................ 162  
    Bibliography and Notes ............................... 181  
    Index ................................................ 189</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/ Walter A. Fairservis, JR.</note>
  <note>English</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Origins--Oriental--Civilization</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">930.15 J869</classification>
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