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Guide till spionernas och underrättelsetjänsternas Sverige
De som guidar till spionernas Sverige, bokens författare, är alla experter i ämnet. Flera har haft ledande befattningar inom svensk underrättelsetjänst, andra har befunnit sig …
The Analects
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 …
The Art of War
This Norton Critical Edition includes: The new and internationally acclaimed translation by Michael Nylan, accompanied by her detailed explanatory footnotes.A richly informative …
The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
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 …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's Legacy
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is Chinas earliest and best-known historian, and his Letter to Ren An is the most famous letter in …
Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China
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 …
The Elemental Changes
Chang'an 26 BCE
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 …
Li Zehou and Confucian Philosophy
For more than a century scholars both inside and outside of China have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li …
Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan??
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 …
Confucianisms for a Changing World Cultural Order
In a single generation, the rise of Asia has precipitated a dramatic sea change in the world’s economic and political orders. This reconfiguration is taking place amidst a host of …
Technical Arts in the Han Histories
While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life was generally predicated on acquiring several forms of technical …