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Early Chinese Empires
Qin and Han
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2010
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258 kr
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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 …
China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang Dynasty
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2012
235 kr
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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 …
China between Empires
The Northern and Southern Dynasties
Av Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook
Häftad, 2011
286 kr
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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 …
Sanctioned Violence in Early China
Häftad, 1989
487 kr
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This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence-warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and vengeance. It analyzes the interlinked evolution of these violent practices to reveal changes in the nature of political …
Writing and Authority in Early China
Inbunden, 1999
1286 kr
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Traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and authority in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the basis of imperial authority.This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that …
Writing and Authority in Early China
Häftad, 1999
528 kr
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Traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and authority in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the basis of imperial authority.This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that …
Construction of Space in Early China
Inbunden, 2005
1286 kr
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Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: …
Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, …
Honor and Shame in Early China
Inbunden, 2020
526 kr
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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 and Shame in Early China
E-bok, 2020
638 kr
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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 and Shame in Early China
E-bok, 2020
624 kr
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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 …
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also …
Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, …
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
E-bok, 2022
296 kr
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Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also …
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
E-bok, 2022
303 kr
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Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also …
Construction of Space in Early China
Häftad, 2006
448 kr
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Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: …
Flood Myths of Early China
Inbunden, 2006
1111 kr
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Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society's major social and political institutions.Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a …
Flood Myths of Early China
Häftad, 2006
401 kr
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Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society's major social and political institutions.Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a …
