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29 produkter
Analects
A Norton Critical Edition
Häftad, 2014
217 kr
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The Norton Critical Edition aims to situate the historical figure of Kongzi, the legendary figure of Confucius, and the Analects (or Lunyu), the single most influential book ascribed to the Master's circle of disciples, within their evolving ethical, cultural, and political contexts. Simon Leys’s …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
Av Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
553 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
Av Liu Zhiji, Michael Nylan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2628 kr
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The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously explore …
Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan尚書大傳
Av Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks
Inbunden, 2025
2436 kr
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An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The Great Commentary serves as a lens on this …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's Legacy
Av Hans van Ess, Michael Nylan m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
625 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑
Av Liu Xiang, Andrew Plaks m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
3278 kr
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Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationAn anthology of literary gems compiled in early China, newly translated and annotatedIn 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a collection of …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
Av Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
880 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Recarving China’s Past
Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines"
Av Cary Y. Liu, Michael Nylan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
534 kr
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The “Wu Family Shrines,” one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythological subjects, these famous carved and engraved …
Rethinking Recarving
Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China
Av Cary Y. Liu, Michael Loewe m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
475 kr
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The "Wu Family Shrines" pictorial carvings from Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) are among the earliest works of Chinese art examined in an international arena. Since the eleventh century, the carvings have been identified by scholars as one of the most valuable and authentic materials for the …
Five "Confucian" Classics
Häftad, 2014
638 kr
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The Five Classics associated with Confucius formed the core curriculum in the education of Chinese literati throughout most of the imperial period. In this book Michael Nylan offers a sweeping assessment of these ancient texts and shows how their influence spread across East Asia.Nylan begins by …
Lives of Confucius
Civilization''s Greatest Sage Through the Ages
Av Thomas Wilson, Michael Nylan
E-bok, 2010
95 kr
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Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and …
Art of War
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Sun Tzu, Michael Nylan
Häftad, 2022
217 kr
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes.A richly informative introduction by Michael Nylan.Fourteen illustrations.Seven interpretative essays on The Art of War’s central themes by …
China's Early Empires
A Re-appraisal
Av Michael Nylan, Michael Loewe
Inbunden, 2010
2381 kr
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Recent archaeological discoveries, including manuscripts, have shed new light on China's history, in particular Qin and Han (221 BCE-220 CE), this volume's main focus. They make possible a deeper account of the growth of cities and of the spread of Chinese influence over distant areas. This book …
Elemental Changes
The Ancient Chinese Companion to the I Ching. The T'ai Hsüan Ching of Master Yang Hsiung Text and Commentaries translated by Michael Nylan
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Composed in 2 B.C., as "The I Ching revised and enlarged," The Elemental Changes is a divination manual providing a clear method for distinguishing alternative courses of action. Structured in 81 tetragrams ( as opposed to the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching), the book offers much to the modern reader. …
Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
Inbunden, 2011
705 kr
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Yang Xiong (53 BC-AD 18), the Han philosophical master remarks at one point in his Exemplary Figures, “Books are as sexy as women.” Modern readers may frown at a comparison they regard as less than apt. Yang was supremely aware, however, of longstanding traditions, ascribed both to the sages and to …
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China
A Comparative Analysis
Av Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1104 kr
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Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome …
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China
A Comparative Analysis
Av Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
369 kr
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Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth's population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome …
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China
A Comparative Analysis
Av Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
390 kr
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Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth''s population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome …
Imperial Institutions in Ancient Rome and Early China
A Comparative Analysis
Av Michael Loewe, Michael Nylan m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
401 kr
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Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earth''s population in the first centuries BCE: ancient Rome …
Environmental Equity in China and Beyond
Past, Present, and Future
Av Michael Nylan, Thomas Hahn m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
260 kr
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Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan’s analysis …
Environmental Equity in China and Beyond
Past, Present, and Future
Av Michael Nylan, Thomas Hahn m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
788 kr
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Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan’s analysis …
Environmental Equity in China and Beyond
Past, Present, and Future
E-bok, 2026
281 kr
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Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan's analysis …
Environmental Equity in China and Beyond
Past, Present, and Future
E-bok, 2026
281 kr
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Michael Nylan and Thomas Hahn open up new vistas for thinking ecologically in this introduction to ancient and modern thought in China. Together they explore the environment in the Chinese philosophical tradition and contemporary China through the lens of intergenerational justice. Nylan's analysis …
Technical Arts in the Han Histories
Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu
Av Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Michael Nylan
Häftad, 2022
519 kr
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The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life …
Technical Arts in the Han Histories
Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu
Av Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Michael Nylan
Inbunden, 2021
1324 kr
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The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life …
Blossom on the Run: A Han dynasty Adventure
Av Michael Nylan, Robert J. Litz
Häftad, 2016
269 kr
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Chinese Pleasure Book
Inbunden, 2018
347 kr
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This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not with pain but with insecurity, assuming that it is …
Chang'an 26 BCE
An Augustan Age in China
Av Michael Nylan, Griet Vankeerberghen
Inbunden, 2014
1237 kr
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During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before …
Canon of Supreme Mystery by Yang Hsiung
A Translation with Commentary of the T'ai hsüan ching by Michael Nylan
Häftad, 2014
479 kr
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Translation of the first grand synthesis of classic Chinese thought.This is a translation, with a commentary and a long contextualizing introduction, of the only major work of Han (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.) philosophy that is still available in complete form. It is the first translation of the work …
