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Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9 written by Michael Loewe and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136573291
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Crisis and Conflict in Han China written by Michael Loewe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974. This volume illustrates the growth of two attitudes towards government in China during the first century B.C., the one progressive, realist and forward looking, the other conservative, idealist and harking back to the past. It demonstrates the close relationship that existed between political decisions, intellectual policy and the choice of religious observances of state, whilst showing how personal ambitions and the intrigues of the palace were intimately involved with the interplay of these two basis attitudes.
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher :
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Crisis and conflict in Han China, 104 B.C. to A.D. 9 written by Michael Loewe and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608118147
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Crisis and Conflict in Han China written by Michael Loewe and published by . This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1933782617
Total Pages : 1744 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography written by Kerry Brown and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 1744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the first publication of its kind since 1898, is the work of more than one hundred internationally recognized experts from nearly a dozen countries. It has been designed to satisfy the growing thirst of students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for knowledge about China. It makes the entire span of Chinese history manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years. In 135 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 words and written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography takes the reader from the important (even if possibly mythological) figures of ancient China to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The in-depth essays provide rich historical context, and create a compelling narrative that weaves abstract concepts and disparate events into a coherent story. Cross-references between the articles show the connections between times, places, movements, events, and individuals.
Author : Ronald K. Faulseit
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809333996
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Beyond Collapse written by Ronald K. Faulseit and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. It focuses on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful regimes, and posits that they experienced social resilience and transformation instead of collapse.
Author : Fabrizio Pregadio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135796343
Total Pages : 1602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Taoism written by Fabrizio Pregadio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Taoism provides comprehensive coverage of Taoist religion, thought and history, reflecting the current state of Taoist scholarship. Taoist studies have progressed beyond any expectation in recent years. Researchers in a number of languages have investigated topics virtually unknown only a few years previously, while others have surveyed for the first time textual, doctrinal and ritual corpora. The Encyclopedia presents the full gamut of this new research. The work contains approximately 1,750 entries, which fall into the following broad categories: surveys of general topics; schools and traditions; persons; texts; terms; deities; immortals; temples and other sacred sites. Terms are given in their original characters, transliterated and translated. Entries are thoroughly cross-referenced and, in addition, 'see also' listings are given at the foot of many entries. Attached to each entry are references taking the reader to a master bibliography at the end of the work. There is chronology of Taoism and the whole is thoroughly indexed. There is no reference work comparable to the Encyclopedia of Taoism in scope and focus. Authored by an international body of experts, the Encyclopedia will be an essential addition to libraries serving students and scholars in the fields of religious studies, philosophy and religion, and Asian history and culture.
Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520289749
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Birth of an Empire written by Yuri Pines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047413369
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Men Who Governed Han China written by Michael Loewe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were prominent figures in the formative stages of China’s imperial government affected by changes in the theory and practice of government and its institutions? Calling on documentary evidence, some found only recently, Dr. Loewe examines local administration, the careers of officials, military organisation, the nobilities and kingdoms, the concepts of imperial sovereignty and the part played by the emperors. Special attention is paid to the anomalies in the historical records; tabulated lists of officials and other items summarise the evidence on which the chapters are based. Historical change and intellectual controversies are seen in the growth and decay of organs of administration, in the careers of individual men and women and the personal part that they played in shaping events.
Author : Paul R. Goldin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824822
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Sex in Ancient China written by Paul R. Goldin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-10-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400. A survey of major pre-imperial sources, including some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition, reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations, such as those between a worshiper and his or her deity or a ruler and his subjects. In his examination of early Confucian views of women, Goldin notes that, while contradictions and ambiguities existed in the articulation of these views, women were nevertheless regarded as full participants in the Confucian project of self-transformation. He goes on to show how assumptions concerning the relationship of sexual behavior to political activity (assumptions reinforced by the habitual use of various literary tropes discussed earlier in the book) led to increasing attempts to regulate sexual behavior throughout the Han dynasty. Following the fall of the Han, this ideology was rejected by the aristocracy, who continually resisted claims of sovereignty made by impotent emperors in a succession of short-lived dynasties. Erudite and immensely entertaining, this study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.
Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107652340
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Early China written by Li Feng and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization. Li Feng's new critical interpretation draws on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries from the past thirty years. This fluent and engaging overview of early Chinese civilization explores key topics including the origins of the written language, the rise of the state, the Shang and Zhou religions, bureaucracy, law and governance, the evolving nature of war, the creation of empire, the changing image of art, and the philosophical search for social order. Beautifully illustrated with a wide range of new images, this book is essential reading for all those wanting to know more about the foundations of Chinese history and civilization.
Author : Donald B. Wagner
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 9788787062770
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The State and the Iron Industry in Han China written by Donald B. Wagner and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings both literary and archaeological evidence to bear in an investigation of the history of the Han state's iron monopoly, and considers the reasons for its establishment and the intense opposition it provoked.
Author : Wengcheong Lam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000627209
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry written by Wengcheong Lam and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rise of the iron industry during the Warring States and Western Han periods (ca. 400 BCE–9 CE) in ancient China, which is characterized not only by various technological innovations but also as a remarkable phenomenon, leading to the widespread distribution of iron implements and the emergence of massive ironworks that were rarely seen in later periods. With Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry, Lam Wengcheong combines archaeological and historical analyses to piece together fragmentary evidence and to refocus our gaze onto the economic and political mechanism that gave birth to an iron industry unique in the ancient world. Guiding readers through the macroscopic social settings of the iron industry and distribution patterns of iron implements to the microscopic organization of workplace and workers’ foodways, Lam explores how iron production and transportation processes intersected with the transformation of the Han capital region in the Guanzhong basin. Using various lines of evidence of iron production in Guanzhong and its connection with other production centers, this book shows how the production and transportation of iron at various scales played a significant role in generating the "connectivity" between various parts of the Western Han empire, and casts new light on the workings of the economic system in imperial China. Connectivity, Imperialism, and the Han Iron Industry will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese archaeology, the history of the Han empire, and the history of science and engineering in ancient China, as well as to scholars working on the comparative study of ancient imperialism, market exchange, and economic history.
Author : Griet Vankeerberghen
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791451489
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral Authority written by Griet Vankeerberghen and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Michael Seiwert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004131460
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History written by Hubert Michael Seiwert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In rough chronological order from antiquity to the 19th century, Seiwert (comparative religion, Leipzig U.) identifies and describes religious communities and movements outside the official religion. For the period before the Ming dynasty, he looks at prophecies and messianism in Han Confucianism, popular sects and the early Daoist tradition, heterodox movements in medieval Buddhism, and popular sectarianism during the Song and Yuan dynasties. He devotes the second half of the book to the Ming and Qing dynasties. Ma Xisha (world religions, Chinese Academy for the Social Sciences) collaborated on the work. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Warren I. Cohen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023155737X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book East Asia at the Center written by Warren I. Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the arrival of Western emissaries and powers, East Asian peoples and states were deeply involved in world affairs. In this sweeping account, Warren I. Cohen explores four millennia of international relations from the vantage points of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Writing incisively and authoritatively for readers at all levels, Cohen paints a broad but revealing portrait of East Asia’s place in the world. He defines the region’s boundaries widely, looking beyond China, Japan, and Korea to include Southeast Asia, and extends the scope of international relations to consider the vital role of cultural and economic exchanges. Cohen examines the system of Chinese domination in the ancient world, the exchanges between East Asia and the Islamic world, Chinese sea voyages to Arabia and East Africa, and the emergence of a European-defined international system. He chronicles the new imperialism of the 1890s, the ascendancy of Japan, the trials of World War II, the drama of the Cold War, and the transformations of East Asian states toward the close of the twentieth century. By showing that East Asia has often been preeminent on the world stage, this book not only recasts the past but also adds crucial historical perspective on international politics today. This second edition of East Asia at the Center features new material on the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Author : Wilt Lukas Idema
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004092693
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Thought and Law in Qin and Han China written by Wilt Lukas Idema and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of important studies by leading scholars on ritual and law, philosophy and religion, literature and entertainments in Qin and Han China. A few contributions deal with the Han legacy to later Chinese culture.
