Imagine that you found 'dragon bones' once used to predict the future, or wrote a poem in the Book of Songs, o
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Chinese and Greek ethics remain influential in modern philosophy, yet it is unclear how they can be compared to one anot
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This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted viol
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In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory a
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Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky
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This monograph examines interpreters in early imperial China and their roles in the making of archival records about for
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This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunio
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For modern people, ghost stories are no more than thrilling entertainment. For those living in antiquity, ghosts were fa
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An inkstone, a piece of polished stone no bigger than an outstretched hand, is an instrument for grinding ink, an object
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"Glimpses of Contemporary China Series tells stories of ordinary Chinese people’s daily lives, and displays differe
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Originally published in 1914, this text describes L.T. Headland and his wife’s experience in China in the early twentiet
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