Cheryl Bardoe is a former senior project manager of exhibitions at the Field Museum in Chicago. She is the author of Gregor Mendel and Mammoths and Mastodons and lives in Chicago.

“Cheryl Bardoe somehow distills a great and sprawling civilization into 150 well-illustrated pages… Bardoe’s discussions of dynastic drama, China’s central Schools of Thought (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism), and Chinese interactions with the larger world, are clear, concise and illuminating.”

Cheryl Bardoe is a former senior project manager of exhibitions at the Field Museum in Chicago. She is the author of Gregor Mendel and Mammoths and Mastodons and lives in Chicago.

“Cheryl Bardoe somehow distills a great and sprawling civilization into 150 well-illustrated pages… Bardoe’s discussions of dynastic drama, China’s central Schools of Thought (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism), and Chinese interactions with the larger world, are clear, concise and illuminating.”

Cheryl Bardoe is a former senior project manager of exhibitions at the Field Museum in Chicago. She is the author of Gregor Mendel and Mammoths and Mastodons and lives in Chicago.

“Cheryl Bardoe somehow distills a great and sprawling civilization into 150 well-illustrated pages… Bardoe’s discussions of dynastic drama, China’s central Schools of Thought (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism), and Chinese interactions with the larger world, are clear, concise and illuminating.”