As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...

Part one: Ancient origins c. 1650 BC onwards -- The cosmology of the Chinese capital -- Part two: The early empire 221 BC-AD 589 -- The first imperial capitals: Qin Xianyang and former Han Chang'am -- ...

Problems and perspectives -- China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE -- States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE -- ...