Mark Csikszentmihalyi is Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies and Professor of Chinese at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. Michael Nylan is Sather Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to her works devoted to Han history, she is the translator of several classics of early China, including The Art of War, ascribed to Sunzi, and Yang Xiong's Exemplary Figures and Canon of Supreme Mystery.

"Technical Arts in the Han Histories is a must-read for both specialists and any interested reader. As one of the pioneering efforts dedicated to the technical arts in early China and the genres of treatises and tables in historiographic tradition, it is groundbreaking in its exploration of the various technical facets of the Han histories." — HKU Journal of Chinese Studies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael Nylan戴梅可and Mark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏1. Land Tenure and the Decline of Imperial Government in Eastern HanMichael Loewe魯惟一2. Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and HanshuLuke Habberstad何祿凱3. The Hanshu Geographic Treatise on the Eastern CapitalLee Chi-hsiang李紀祥4. Celestial Signs in Three Historical TreatisesJesse J. Chapman柴傑思5. On Hanshu "Wuxing zhi"五行志and Ban Gu's ProjectMichael Nylan戴梅可6. Western Han Sacrifices to TaiyiTian Tian田天7. Writing Abstractly in Mathematical Texts from Early Imperial ChinaKarine Chemla林力娜8. Commentarial Episodes in Early Chinese Medicine: An Experiment in Decentering the Standard HistoriesMiranda Brown董慕達9. Narratives of Decline and Fragmentation, and the Hanshu Bibliographic Taxonomies of Technical ArtsMark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏and Zheng Yifan鄭伊凡ContributorsIndex

Mark Csikszentmihalyi is Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies and Professor of Chinese at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. Michael Nylan is Sather Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to her works devoted to Han history, she is the translator of several classics of early China, including The Art of War, ascribed to Sunzi, and Yang Xiong's Exemplary Figures and Canon of Supreme Mystery.

"Technical Arts in the Han Histories is a must-read for both specialists and any interested reader. As one of the pioneering efforts dedicated to the technical arts in early China and the genres of treatises and tables in historiographic tradition, it is groundbreaking in its exploration of the various technical facets of the Han histories." — HKU Journal of Chinese Studies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael Nylan戴梅可and Mark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏1. Land Tenure and the Decline of Imperial Government in Eastern HanMichael Loewe魯惟一2. Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and HanshuLuke Habberstad何祿凱3. The Hanshu Geographic Treatise on the Eastern CapitalLee Chi-hsiang李紀祥4. Celestial Signs in Three Historical TreatisesJesse J. Chapman柴傑思5. On Hanshu "Wuxing zhi"五行志and Ban Gu's ProjectMichael Nylan戴梅可6. Western Han Sacrifices to TaiyiTian Tian田天7. Writing Abstractly in Mathematical Texts from Early Imperial ChinaKarine Chemla林力娜8. Commentarial Episodes in Early Chinese Medicine: An Experiment in Decentering the Standard HistoriesMiranda Brown董慕達9. Narratives of Decline and Fragmentation, and the Hanshu Bibliographic Taxonomies of Technical ArtsMark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏and Zheng Yifan鄭伊凡ContributorsIndex

Mark Csikszentmihalyi is Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies and Professor of Chinese at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China. Michael Nylan is Sather Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to her works devoted to Han history, she is the translator of several classics of early China, including The Art of War, ascribed to Sunzi, and Yang Xiong's Exemplary Figures and Canon of Supreme Mystery.

"Technical Arts in the Han Histories is a must-read for both specialists and any interested reader. As one of the pioneering efforts dedicated to the technical arts in early China and the genres of treatises and tables in historiographic tradition, it is groundbreaking in its exploration of the various technical facets of the Han histories." — HKU Journal of Chinese Studies

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMichael Nylan戴梅可and Mark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏1. Land Tenure and the Decline of Imperial Government in Eastern HanMichael Loewe魯惟一2. Water Control and Policy-Making in the Shiji and HanshuLuke Habberstad何祿凱3. The Hanshu Geographic Treatise on the Eastern CapitalLee Chi-hsiang李紀祥4. Celestial Signs in Three Historical TreatisesJesse J. Chapman柴傑思5. On Hanshu "Wuxing zhi"五行志and Ban Gu's ProjectMichael Nylan戴梅可6. Western Han Sacrifices to TaiyiTian Tian田天7. Writing Abstractly in Mathematical Texts from Early Imperial ChinaKarine Chemla林力娜8. Commentarial Episodes in Early Chinese Medicine: An Experiment in Decentering the Standard HistoriesMiranda Brown董慕達9. Narratives of Decline and Fragmentation, and the Hanshu Bibliographic Taxonomies of Technical ArtsMark Csikszentmihalyi齊思敏and Zheng Yifan鄭伊凡ContributorsIndex