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Author : Michael Loewe,Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521470307
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : 0521214475
International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052166991X
A look at the over eight thousand year history and civilization of China.
Author : Mu-chou Poo,Muzhou Pu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107021174
This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author : Denis Crispin Twitchett,John King Fairbank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN : 0521243335
International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
Author : Albert E. Dien,Keith N. Knapp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107020778
The Six Dynasties Period (220-589 CE) is one of the most complex in Chinese history. Written by leading scholars from across the globe, the essays in this volume cover nearly every aspect of the period, including politics, foreign relations, warfare, agriculture, gender, art, philosophy, material culture, local society, and music. While acknowledging the era's political chaos, these essays indicate that this was a transformative period when Chinese culture was significantly changed and enriched by foreign peoples and ideas. It was also a time when history and literature became recognized as independent subjects and religion was transformed by the domestication of Buddhism and the formation of organized Daoism. Many of the trends that shaped the rest of imperial China's history have their origins in this era, such as the commercial vibrancy of southern China, the separation of history and literature from classical studies, and the growing importance of women in politics and religion.
Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895521
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Author : Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521822459
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Author : John S. Major,Constance A. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317503651
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and those studuing Chinese Culture and Society more generally.
Author : Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 113943165X
Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this 2002 book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien.
Author : John K. Fairbank,Kwang-Ching Liu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : China
ISBN : 0521220297
For readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the text, and there are bibliographical essay decribing the source materials on which each author?s account is based.
Author : Craig Benjamin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107114968
Introduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.
Author : Natalie M. Rosinsky
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756545680
The people of ancient China called their country the Middle Kingdom. They proudly believed their land to be the center of the civilized world. Chinese inventions, including gunpowder, paper, and movable type, have shaped the modern world.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 0760780552
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Author : Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674265424
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 “classical period” of Chinese history—a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China’s long history of imperialism—events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.