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Accumulating Culture
Winner of the Shimada Prize for Outstanding Work of East Asian Art HistoryBy the end of the sixth century CE, both the royal courts and the educated elite in China were collecting …
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 …
Emperor Huizong
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song …
Windows on the Chinese World
Each chapter of this collection addresses a problem in Chinese history that is both interesting and important, as well as offering new ideas and interpretations, plus a …
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 …
Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China
Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages.
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 …
Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China
The T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties were times of great change in China. The economy flourished, the population doubled, printing led to a great increase in the …
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 …
Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China
To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals …
Chu Hsi's Family Rituals
Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, …