Author: Roy Andrew Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Accounts of Western Nations in the History of the Northern Chou Dynasty
Author: Roy Andrew Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought
Author: John S. Major
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791415863
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, The Treatise on the Patterns of Heaven, The Treatise on Topography, and The Treatise on the Seasonal Rules, which collectively comprise the most comprehensive extant statement of cosmological thinking in the early Han period. Major presents, for the first time, full English translations of these treatises. He supplements the translations with detailed commentaries that clarify the sometimes arcane language of the text and presents a fascinating picture of the ancient Chinese view of how the world was formed and sustained, and of the role of humans in the cosmos.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791415863
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, The Treatise on the Patterns of Heaven, The Treatise on Topography, and The Treatise on the Seasonal Rules, which collectively comprise the most comprehensive extant statement of cosmological thinking in the early Han period. Major presents, for the first time, full English translations of these treatises. He supplements the translations with detailed commentaries that clarify the sometimes arcane language of the text and presents a fascinating picture of the ancient Chinese view of how the world was formed and sustained, and of the role of humans in the cosmos.
The Archaeology and Material Culture of the Babylonian Talmud
Author: Markham J. Geller
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004304894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004304894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The Babylonian Talmud remains the richest source of information regarding the material culture and lifestyle of the Babylonian Jewish community, with additional data now supplied by Babylonian incantation bowls. Although archaeology has yet to excavate any Jewish sites from Babylonia, information from Parthian and Sassanian Babylonia provides relevant background information, which differs substantially from archaeological finds from the Land of Israel. One of the key questions addresses the amount of traffic and general communications between Jewish Babylonia and Israel, considering the great distances and hardships of travel involved.
The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe
Author: Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107009065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire.
China between Empires
Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy. By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 ce, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674265408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy. By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 ce, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.
The History of Ancient Iran
Author: Richard Nelson Frye
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406093975
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher: C.H.Beck
ISBN: 9783406093975
Category : Iran
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
External Research
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
External Research List
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
External Research. ER List
Author: United States. Department of State. External Research Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Rise of Merchant Empires
Author: James D. Tracy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521457354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521457354
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.