Author: Ch'Ien Ssu-MaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258103392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
American Oriental Series, Volume 17. Edited By W. Norman Brown, John K. Shryock, And E. A. Speiser.
Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China
Author: Ch'Ien Ssu-MaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258103392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
American Oriental Series, Volume 17. Edited By W. Norman Brown, John K. Shryock, And E. A. Speiser.
Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China, Three Shih Chi Biographies of the Ch'in Dynasty (255-206 B.C.)
Author: Qian SimaStatesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China
Author: Qian SimaStatesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China
Author: Qian SimaThe Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220
Author: Denis TwitchettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from Asia, Europe, and America have contributed chapters that convey a realistic impression of significant political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social developments, and of the contacts that the Chinese made with other peoples at this time. As the book is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, technical details are given in both Chinese terms and English equivalents. References lead to primary sources and their translations and to secondary writings in European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese.
Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China
Author: Qian SimaStatesman, Patriot and General in Ancient China
Author: Derk BoddeDivination, Mythology and Monarchy in Han China
Author: Michael LoewePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521454667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Chinese empires were established by force of arms, but sustained by religious rites and intellectual theory. The four centuries from 206 BC to AD 220 witnessed major changes in the state cults and the concepts of monarchy, while various techniques of divination were used to forecast the future or to solve immediate problems. Michael Loewe examines these changes and the links between religion and statecraft. While both mythology and the traditions nurtured by the learned affected the concept and practice of monarchy throughout the period, the political and social weaknesses of the last century of Han rule bring into question the success that was achieved by the imperial ideal. Nevertheless, that ideal and its institutions were of prime importance for the understanding of Han times and for the influence they exercised on China's later dynasties.
Hsin-lun (New Treatise) and Other Writings by Huan T'an (43 B.C.–28 A.D.)
Author: Timoteus PokoraPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472901397
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Better known in his own times than later, Huan T’an (43 BCE–25 CE) was a scholar-official, independent in his thought and unafraid to criticize orthodox currents of his time. A practitioner of the Old Text exegesis of the Classics, he maintained a position on the court during a turbulent time of political crises, uprisings, and civil war, spanning the reigns of four emperors. His principal work, Hsin-lun, differs from other books on political criticism in that it does not deal primarily with history but takes many examples from contemporary social and political life. While belonging to the Old Text group of court officials and scholars, Huan T’an differed radically from them in his stress on direct knowledge, in his range of practical experience, and in his outspoken criticism of popular opinions. He was not a systematic philosopher, but his ideas were influential in the return to a more worldly conception of Confucianism. To translate Huan T’an’s writings, one must reconstruct the texts. Timoteus Pokora uses two nineteenth-century fragments as a basis around which to orient quotations from Hsin-lun from sixty-four other sources, primarily encyclopedias and commentaries. Pokora provides notes to give context to these short references and to account for discrepancies between quotations and originals, and he includes a large index to add coherence and points of entry.
Statesman, Patriot, and General in Ancient China
Author: Publisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN: 9780527026912
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description