Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China

Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China
Author: Gu Ban
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1974
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231083546

Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D.Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial princes, generals, officials, and some lesser figures.

Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China

Courtier and Commoner in Ancient China
Author: Gu Ban
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1974
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780231037655

Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D.Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial princes, generals, officials, and some lesser figures.

Ancient China and its Enemies

Ancient China and its Enemies
Author: Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2002-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781139431651

Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this 2002 book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien.

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I)

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I)
Author: David R. Knechtges
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2010-09-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9004191275

The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.

Artisans in Early Imperial China

Artisans in Early Imperial China
Author: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0295749881

Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by individuals who contributed greatly to the foundations of early Chinese culture. With Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China onto the men and women who made them. Taking readers inside the private workshops, crowded marketplaces, and great palaces, temples, and tombs of early China, Barbieri-Low explores the lives and working conditions of artisans, meticulously documenting their role in early Chinese society and the economy. First published in 2007, winner of top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and now back in print, Artisans in Early Imperial China will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, as well as to scholars of comparative social history, labor history, and Asian art history.

Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty

Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty
Author: John Minford
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 1252
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231096775

Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4)

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 3 & 4)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004271856

At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Three contains Xia - Y. Part Four contains the Z and an extensive index to the four volumes.