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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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan??
Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo …
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 …
Exemplary Figures / Fayan??
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationExemplary Figures (sometimes …
A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong
The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality …
The Art of War
Sun Tzu’s book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was written 2,500 years ago. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and …