Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 15 hakutulosta
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation – from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring …
A History of World Societies, Volume 1
Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940
One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held together. It is now well known that China has been marked by great diversity. In the …
Chinese Civilization
This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records, and laws.Setting the standard for …
Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society
Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here …
Chinese Autobiographical Writing
Step into Chinese history through the accounts of those who lived itPersonal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese …
State Power in China, 900-1325
This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power …
Chinese Funerary Biographies
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and …
The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China
Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. It is commonly accepted that the change from an …
A History of World Societies
Family and Property in Sung China
Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns …