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Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social structures that would characterise imperial China.
Author : Michael Loewe
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780872207585
Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and social structures that would characterise imperial China.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
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Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,91 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0500775745
A compelling history of the world’s greatest ancient powers. In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylonia, Achaemenid Persia, Athens, Alexander the Great and his successors, Parthian and early Sasanian Persia, Rome, India, and Qin and Han China. Each chapter conveys the main narrative of events, their impact on ancient societies, and the dominant rulers who shaped that history, from Ramesses II in Egypt to Chandragupta in India, from Rome’s Augustus to China’s Shi-huangdi. Exploring the nature of empire itself, The Great Empires of the Ancient World shows how profoundly imperialism in the distant past influenced our contemporary ideas of power.
Author : Michael Nylan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0295806419
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 numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang�an boasted imperial libraries with thousands of documents on bamboo and silk in a city nearly three times the size of Rome and nearly four times larger than Alexandria. Many reforms instituted in this capital in ate Western Han substantially shaped not only the institutions of the Eastern Han (25�220 CE) but also the rest of imperial China until 1911. Although thousands of studies document imperial Rome�s glory, until now no book-length work in a Western language has been devoted to Han Chang�an, the reign of Emperor Chengdi (whose accomplishments rival those of Augustus and Hadrian), or the city's impressive library project (26-6 BCE), which ultimately produced the first state-sponsored versions of many of the classics and masterworks that we hold in our hands today. Chang�an 26 BCE addresses this deficiency, using as a focal point the reign of Emperor Chengdi (r. 33�7 bce), specifically the year in which the imperial library project began. This in-depth survey by some of the world�s best scholars, Chinese and Western, explores the built environment, sociopolitical transformations, and leading figures of Chang�an, making a strong case for the revision of historical assumptions about the two Han dynasties. A multidisciplinary volume representing a wealth of scholarly perspectives, the book draws on the established historical record and recent archaeological discoveries of thousands of tombs, building foundations, and remnants of walls and gates from Chang�an and its surrounding area.
Author : Charles Holcombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 110810777X
Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart of this ambitious book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century. The second edition has been imaginatively revised and expanded to place emphasis on cross-cultural interactions and connections, both within East Asia and beyond, with new material on Vietnam and modern pop culture. The second edition also features a Chinese character list, additional maps and new illustrations.
Author : John King Fairbank
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0674036654
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Author : Michael Nylan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521852978
Shows how recent archaeological discoveries have enriched our perception of the cultural history of China in the Classical era.
Author : Muzhou Pu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1107021170
This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author : Harold M. Tanner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1603845631
Available in one or two volumes, this accessible, yet rigorous, introduction to the political, social, and cultural history of China provides a balanced and thoughtful account of the development of Chinese civilization from its beginnings to the present day. Each volume includes ample illustrations, a full complement of maps, a chronological table, extensive notes, recommendations for further reading and an index. Volume 1: From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire (10,000 BCE—1799). Volume 2: From the Great Qing Empire through the People's Republic of China (1644—2009).
Author : Harold Miles Tanner
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2009-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0872209156
A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.