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ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Early China
Author: Li FengPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521895529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Writing and Literacy in Early China
Author: Feng LiPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing systems. In the past three decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese writing. The long-term continuity and stability of the Chinese written language allow for this detailed study of the role literacy played in early civilization. The contributors to Writing and Literacy in Early China inquire into modes of manuscript production, the purposes for which texts were produced, and the ways in which they were actually used. By carefully evaluating current evidence and offering groundbreaking new interpretations, the book illuminates the nature of literacy for scribes and readers.
Honor and Shame in Early China
Author: Mark Edward LewisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108911609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures. Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the fundamental role of honor/shame in shaping states and societies.
Early China News
Author: Ancient Egypt and Early China
Author: Anthony J Barbieri-LowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780295748894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548-1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE-220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers--the Nile and the Yellow River--and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers--the "heretic king" Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms. This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.
The Politics of the Past in Early China
Author: Vincent S. LeungPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
History mattered to the political elite in ancient China. Leung explores why it was so important and to what end.
The Discoveries of Ancient China
Author: Janey LevyPublisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 1538265680
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
China is frequently in the news today. It may be presented as an exotic place to travel or as an economic juggernaut on the world stage. Few really understand how China's history, discoveries, and inventions have shaped our world. If you drank tea, used a fork, or read a newspaper this morning, you can thank the Chinese. This absorbing volume will astonish readers as they uncover the many inventions and discoveries of the ancient Chinese. Assiduously researched text highlights important social studies concepts. Images, captions, fact boxes, sidebars, and graphic organizers enrich the narrative.
Women in Early Imperial China
Author: Bret HinschPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742518728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Written for his dissertation at Harvard in 1993, Hinsch's (history, National Chung Cheng U., Taiwan) fascinating study of women during the Qin and Han periods in China provides a useful addition to the history of ancient women as well as life in early imperial China. The lives of women and their roles are examined in several contexts, including cosmology, kinship, law, government, learning, and ritual. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
History and Government
Author: John TideyPublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761431558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Learn about China's long history and look at how that country is governed today.
Sanctioned Violence in Early China
Author: Mark Edward LewisPublisher: Marcombo
ISBN: 9780791400777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Reinterprets the transformation of China (in the fifth to third centuries B.C.) from a league of city states to a unified, autocratic state by examining the changing forms of permitted violence in warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishment, and vengeance. Also describes the new pattern of violence and its place in the myths and theories that rationalized political authority, social organization, and the values of the ruling elite. Paper edition (unseen), $21.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
