Status Updates From A Brief History of China: D...

This is exactly what I was looking for in terms of an introduction to Chinese history that could point me to topics/eras to read about in more depth.

The writing is decently clear but there are tons of punctuation errors throughout! There are both extraneous and missing commas seemingly on every other page…

Countries that first encountered tea shipped over land tended to derive their word for it from the Mandarin pronunciation: chá - leading to the Persian chai. But for those countries whose first encounter with the dried leaves came by sea, shipped at first by Dutch merchants from Fujian, the pronunciation sounded more like the word in the Hokkien dialect: teh - leading to the Dutch thee, the German tee, and tea.