Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
In the pre-dawn darkness of January 1046 BC, fifty thousand soldiers stood on the Muye plain in northern China, waiting for the command that would end a dynasty and remake the world. What followed - the chariot charge, the collapse of the Shang defensive line, the burning of the Deer Terrace, the death of the last king - took only hours. What the victors built from that morning took a generation, and its consequences have lasted three thousand years.The Morning That Made China is the story of the Battle of Muye and everything it produced: the rise of the Zhou dynasty, the invention of the Mandate of Heaven, and the creation of the political and philosophical framework that would govern East Asian civilization from the Bronze Age to the Republican revolution of 1912. Drawing on the latest archaeology, the oracle bone archive, the bronze inscription corpus, and the classical literary tradition, historian Drago Harrison reconstructs the world of the late Shang dynasty, the strategic genius of the Zhou coalition, and the brilliant political theology that converted a military victory into a civilizational claim.This is narrative history at its most ambitious - the story of the morning that made China, told for the first time with the full weight of the evidence it deserves.
