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  • From Tang to Song: Transmissions and Inventions in China’s Middle Period, Volume 1

    Edited by Robert Hymes, Anna M. Shields ...
    Series series Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
    This volume addresses social, cultural, and artistic change during China’s middle period across the Tang dynasty (618–907), the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960), and the succeeding Song dynasty (960–1279).Focusing on historiography, political thought, literati culture, and visual arts, the chapters demonstrate how disparate the initiating moments and timelines of change were in different ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • From Tang to Song: Transmissions and Inventions in China’s Middle Period, Volume 2

    Edited by Robert Hymes, Anna M. Shields ...
    Series series Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
    This volume investigates social, medical, and religious transformations during China’s middle period across the Tang dynasty (618–907), the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907–960), and the succeeding Song dynasty (960–1279).Focusing on social history, medicine and medical history, and ritual and religion, the chapters demonstrate how disparate the initiating moments and timelines of change were ... Read more

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  • The Early Chinese Empires

    Qin and Han

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 1 - History of Imperial China
    In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia.The Qin and Han constitute the ... Read more

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  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    by John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... Read more

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  • Imperial China, 900–1800

    by F. W. Mote ...
    This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • A History of Chinese Political Thought

    by Youngmin Kim ...
    China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West still largely overlooks or oversimplifies the complex ideas and ideals that have shaped the country’s national and international transformation from antiquity to the present day.In this beautifully written introductory text, Youngmin Kim offers a uniquely ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Emperor Huizong

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Rise of Tea Culture in China

    The Invention of the Individual

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth. He argues that although Chinese ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought

    by Hui Wang ...
    "Brilliantly reveals a China that has always been lively and pluralist in its political thought...His analysis has immense relevance for China today."–Rana Mitter, Foreign AffairsThe definitive history of China’s philosophical confrontation with modernity, available for the first time in English.What does it mean for China to be modern, or for modernity to be Chinese? How is the notion of ... Read more

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  • Women in Early Imperial China

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History

    Edited by Paul R. Goldin ...
    The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by ... Read more

    $68.99 USD