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  • Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China

    by Jesse J. Chapman ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signs-including comets, strange clouds, halos, rainbows, and planets in retrograde motion-fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times. Advancing a cultural studies ... Read more

    $41.79 CAD

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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

    $28.59 CAD

  • China’s Cosmopolitan Empire

    The Tang Dynasty

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 3 - History of Imperial China
    The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • To Rule All under Heaven

    A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor

    by Andrew Seth Meyer ...
    The first ever comprehensive history in English of China's Warring States period, an era that saw epic battles, the birth of profound philosophies, groundbreaking innovations, and shaped much of East Asian culture as we know it today In 481 BCE, ancient China was on the cusp of one of the most profound revolutions any society has ever undergone, one that would set the course of world history for ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

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  • China between Empires

    The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 2 - History of Imperial China
    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 ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

    by N. Harry Rothschild ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that China's rich pantheon of female divinities and ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • 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

    $67.09 CAD

  • 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

    $84.79 CAD

  • 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

    $94.81 CAD

  • 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

    $55.79 CAD

  • A Brief History of Ancient China

    by Edward L Shaughnessy ...
    A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE).Organised into five major sections, it examines the political shifts of the major dynasties, the histories of local ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • 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

    $82.49 CAD