University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 288 p. Ethnic Identity in Tang China is the first work in any language to explore comprehensively the construction of ethnicity during the dynasty that reigned over China for roughly three centuries, from 618 to 907. Often viewed as one of the most cosmopolitan regimes in China's past, the Tang had roots in Inner Asia, and its rulers...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — 253 p. China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. This book presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. It shows how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather than...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 352 p. Chinese food is one of the most recognizable and widely consumed cuisines in the world. Almost no town on earth is without a Chinese restaurant of some kind, and Chinese canned, frozen, and preserved foods are available in shops from Nairobi to Quito. But the particulars of Chinese cuisine vary widely from place to place as its...
Hong Kong University Press, 2016. — 321 p. — ISBN 978-988-8208-95-1 Unruly People shows that in mid-Qing Guangdong banditry occurred mainly in the densely populated core Canton delta where state power was strongest, challenging the conventional wisdom that banditry was most prevalent in peripheral areas. Through extensive archival research, Antony reveals that this is because...
Greenwood, 2011. — 289 p. This thorough exploration of the aspects of everyday life in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) provides fascinating insight into a culture and time that is often misunderstood, especially by those from western cultures. Here students will find the details of what life was really like for these people. How was their society structured? How did...
Stanford University Press, 2000. — 304 p. While the customary path to achievement in traditional China was through service to the state, from the earliest times certain individuals had been acclaimed for repudiating an official career. This book traces the formulation and portrayal of the practice of reclusion in China from the earliest times through the sixth century, by which...
Leiden: Brill, 2005. — x, 726 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 18). — ISBN 1433707004, 9781433707001. Covering the period from the establishment of Sui to the fall of Southern Sung, this reference work for the first time gives a full and conveniently arrranged overview of China’s diplomatic and trade relations with its major and minor Asian neighbours. Basing...
Brill, 2005. — x, 726 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 18). Covering the period from the establishment of Sui to the fall of Southern Sung, this reference work for the first time gives a full and conveniently arranged overview of China’s diplomatic and trade relations with its major and minor Asian neighbours. Basing himself on his yearlong research of...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 368 p. This book argues that the Mongol invasion of China in the thirteenth century precipitated a lasting transformation of marriage and property laws that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how indigenous social change combined with foreign invasion and cultural confrontation...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. — 480 p. This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups—and of male discourses about them—transformed ideas about family relations and the...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1998. — 387 p. The realignment of the Chinese social order that took place over the course of the Sung dynasty set the pattern for Chinese society throughout most of the later imperial era. This study examines that realignment from the perspective of specific Sung families, using data on two groups of Sung elites--the grand councilors who led the...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 256 p. In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 256 p. In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 265 p. Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618-907) and the consolidation of the Northern Song (960-1127). This era, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, has typically been characterized as a time of debilitating...
Harvard: Harvard University Press, 2006. — xx; 625 p., tables, maps, figures & index. Harvard East Asian Monographs 266. ISBN: 0-74-02127-4 How do Huizong and his reign fit into the history of the Song period? In recent decades scholars have added tremendously to our knowledge of Chinese society, state, and culture during Song times. China durig the reign of Huizong 's father,...
Stanford University Press, 1995. — 322 p. Drawing on medieval Chinese poetry, fiction, and religious scriptures, this book illuminates the greatest goddess of Taoism and her place in Chinese society.
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 720 p. This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history,...
University of Washington, 2018. — 300 p. This dissertation uses the Northern Song state’s response to mutinies as a prism through which to view different aspects of the government’s response to crisis. To this end, I focus on the suppression of five mutinies in the first half of the eleventh century, a time when the Song government was stable and the army posed little threat to...
Harvard University Asia Center, 1999. — 441 p. By the end of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), known descendants of the three Chao brothers who had founded the dynasty numbered over 20,000. Unlike the rulers of many other Chinese dynasties, however, the Sung emperors were not plagued by challenges to their rule from their relatives. So successful was Sung policy on the imperial clan...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 405 p. In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China, John W. Chaffee uncovers 700 years of history, from the eighth century, when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China, through the fourteenth century, when trade all but ceased. These were extraordinary and tumultuous times....
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 289 p. Professor Chaffee offers a stimulating investigation into the social impact of examinations on the Sung. Analysis of the development of the examination system and of the associated government schools reveals attempts by the early emperors to develop meritocratic recruitment, the growth of unprecedented examination competition as the...
University of Alberta, 2012. — 127 p. Previous work on ethnicity in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) has cast the An Shi Rebellion (An Lushan Rebellion) as a kind of “breaking point” between the cosmopolitan, foreigner-friendly first half of the Tang Dynasty and the conservative, xenophobic second half. This paper analyzes the Rebellion from the opposite angle, as an event whose...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. First published in 1999. A common theme linking these papers is that of the interaction of élite and popular traditions, as found in the writings and folktales of Yuan and Ming China. The first studies focus on historical writings, not just as topics of intellectual and cultural history, but as foundations for understanding the sources of that time and...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. First published in 1999. A common theme linking these papers is that of the interaction of élite and popular traditions, as found in the writings and folktales of Yuan and Ming China. The first studies focus on historical writings, not just as topics of intellectual and cultural history, but as foundations for understanding the sources of that time and...
Routledge, 2019. — 352 p. First published in 1999. A common theme linking these papers is that of the interaction of élite and popular traditions, as found in the writings and folktales of Yuan and Ming China. The first studies focus on historical writings, not just as topics of intellectual and cultural history, but as foundations for understanding the sources of that time and...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 272 p. Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through...
Harvard University Asia Press, 2011. — 468 p. Emperor Taizong (ruled in 626-649) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong's construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings--with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the relationship between...
Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 293 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8122-4370-3. The author of the present volume, Sanping Chen, has the great virtue of being able to examine the past with a fresh eye. He does not take any received text or tradition at face value. Instead, he closely reexamines all the available evidence and subjects secondary interpretations to...
Springer, 2021. — 443 p. This book uses the monographic study of litigation subjects, prosecution, trial, and enforcement to reveal the formation, operation, and development of criminal proceeding conventions in the Tang Dynasty. It also outlines the combination, coordination, and interaction of rules, conventions, and ideas in the traditional Chinese legal system, and presents...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 245 p. A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)--medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes--depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands...
State University of New York Press, 2010. — 201 p. A vivid portrait of the culture of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period and its interactions with the southern imperial court. This first book-length treatment of a provincial military society in China's early medieval period offers a vivid portrait of this milieu and invites readers to reevaluate...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 248 p. In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society....
Hong Kong University Press, 2020. — 278 p. The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China uses the history of the Imperial University of the Northern Song to show the limits of the Song emperors’ powers. At the time, the university played an increasingly dominant role in selecting government officials. This role somehow curtailed the authority...
Routledge, 2020. — 286 p. Feudalism is one of the most studied topics in the field of history, but without a consensus on its central characteristics, it remains a slippery concept. The History of Chinese Feudal Society provides a comprehensive analysis on the rise and fall of feudalism in China. Drawing on a vast library of archival materials, it is the first study to...
Routledge, 2020. — 286 p. Feudalism is one of the most studied topics in the field of history, but without a consensus on its central characteristics, it remains a slippery concept. The History of Chinese Feudal Society provides a comprehensive analysis on the rise and fall of feudalism in China. Drawing on a vast library of archival materials, it is the first study to...
Brill, 2015. — 181 p. Priscilla Ching Chung’s pioneering study of women in ancient China was followed by decades of rapid growth in this area of research, but Palace Women in the Northern Sung continues to be widely cited and included on reading list for students of the subject. The original monograph published by E. J. Brill has long been out of date, with only used copies...
Routledge, 2021. — 141 p. — (Asian States and Empires 21). This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more "organic" approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang court and northern control over the holistic empire in the...
Routledge, 2021. — 140 p. — (Asian States and Empires 21). This book challenges the long-established structure of Chinese history around dynasties, adopting a more "organic" approach which emphasises cultural and economic trends that transcend arbitrary dynastic boundaries. It argues that with the collapse of the Tang court and northern control over the holistic empire in the...
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 278 p. The study traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth centuries, looking at the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and their connections to the expanding role of domestic and foreign trade. It provides a previously...
University of Hawaii Press, 2015. — 288 p. This work engages two of the most neglected themes in China's long history: the integration of lands south of the Yangtze River into China and its impact on Chinese culture. The roots of Chinese civilization are commonly traced to the North. For millennia after the foundations of the northern culture had been laid, the South was not...
University of Hawaii Press, 2001. — 368 p. Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty...
Duke University Press, 1986. — 352 p. In Court and family in Sung China, 960-1279 : bureaucratic success and kinship fortunes for the Shih of Ming-chou, Richard L. Davis examines the history of the most politically prominent family of the Sung dynasty (960-1279), the Shih of Ming-chou (modern Ning-po). The Shih family lineage produced three consecutive generations of chief...
Hong Kong University Press, 2017. — 256 p. The Later Tang was the first of several ephemeral states created by the Shatuo Turks in tenth-century China and Li Cunxu, a martial genius, was its founder. In fifteen years, he turned a small satrapy on China's periphery into a powerhouse capable of unifying the north and much of the southwest. He governed on the principle of racial...
Hong Kong University Press, 2015. — 224 p. Mingzong (ruled in 926–933) was the most illustrious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of China's middle period, the Tang to Song. A warrior of Shatuo-Turk ancestry, he ascended the throne of the Later Tang on the heels of a mutiny against his adopted brother, thus sparing his dynasty an early death. Mingzong's...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — xiv, 414 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts). In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and...
Brill, 1986. — xi, 226 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 18). Чжу Циюй (21 сентября 1428 — 14 марта 1457) — седьмой император Китая с 1449 по 1457 из династии Мин.
Harvard University Asia Center, 2016. — 536 p. The occupation of the northern half of the Chinese territories in the 1120s brought about a transformation in political communication in the south that had lasting implications for imperial Chinese history. By the late eleventh century, the Song court no longer dominated the production of information about itself and its...
Presses Université Laval, 2011. — 290 p. Le sutra de la Mahamayuri (la Grande Paonne) est un écrit atypique bouddhiste qui consiste en listes de divinités indiennes et qui invoque leur aide protectrice. En cela, ce rituel ne possède pas de discours philosophique proprement bouddhiste. Par contre, ce texte très prisé a été traduit pas moins de six fois en chinois. Sa divinité...
Yale University Press, 2007. — 611 p. The Six Dynasties, also known as the "Dark Age” of Chinese history, was a period of political disunity and conflict but also one of important developments in the arts, religion, and culture. This comprehensive and extensively illustrated book covers the material culture of the Six Dynasties, A.D. 220 to 589. Albert E. Dien, a foremost...
Hackett Publishing Company, 2017. — 174 p. Compiled during the Song dynasty (960–1279) at the behest of Emperor Taizong, the Taiping Guangji anthologized thousands of pages of unofficial histories, accounts, and minor stories from the Tang dynasty (618–907). The twenty-two tales translated in this volume, many appearing for the first time in English, reveal the dynamism and...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. — 270 p. The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries--including Wu Zhao, the Taiping and Anle princesses, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan'er--though quite prominent in the Chinese cultural tradition, remain elusive and often misunderstood or essentialized throughout history. Transgressive...
Brill, 2005. — 382 p. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library 13). The extant writings of the late Tang chief minister Li Deyu form the basis for Michael Drompp s reconstruction of the Tang dynasty s response to a threatening event, viz. the collapse of the Uighur steppe empire in 840 C.E., and the subsequent fleeing of large numbers of Uighur refugees to China s northern frontier....
Columbia University, 2015. — 197 p. In this dissertation, I explore Wei shu historiography on the early Northern Wei imperial state, which was founded by the Tuoba Xianbei in the late fourth century C.E. In examining the Wei shu narrative of the Northern Wei founding, I illuminate not only the representation of cultural and imperial authority in the reigns of the early Northern...
Brill, 1965. — 197 p. L'ouvrage dont Wolfram Eberhard vient de donner une seconde édition revue et augmentée г avait suscité lors de sa parution en 1952 bien des controverses. Tout en restant pour l'essentiel fidèle à ses thèses d'alors sur les groupes, factions de l'aristocratie ou tribus nomades de la steppe, dont les conflits constituent l'histoire politique de la Chine...
California University Press, 1993. — 356 p. The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the...
University of Hawaii Press, 1993. — 400 p. 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 availability of books, Buddhism became a fully sinicized religion penetrating deeply into ordinary life. This volume represents a collaborative effort of nine...
University of Washington Press, 2016. — 374 p. 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 in China, 900-1325 examines large questions concerning dynastic legitimacy, factional strife, the relationship between the literati and the state, and...
Brill, 2017. — 350 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 137). Eight studies examine key features of Chinese visual and material cultures, ranging from tomb design, metalware, ceramic pillows, and bronze mirrors, to printed illustrations, calligraphic rubbings, colophons, and paintings on Buddhist, landscape, and narrative themes. Questions addressed include how artists and artisans made...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 707 p. China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Artistically gifted, he guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness but is known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. In this comprehensive biography, Patricia Ebrey corrects...
Routledge, 2003. — 302 p. — ISBN 0-415-28823-1 This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history and therefore subject to change...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2006. — 432 p. During the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126), new ground was broken in aesthetic thought, particularly in the fields of art collecting, poetry criticism, connoisseurship of flowers, and the song lyric. Collectively these activities constitute much of what was distinctive about Northern Song culture. Yet the subjects treated here...
Brill Academic, 2008. — 279 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 83). The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of political and social action...
University of New York Press, 2015. — 398 p. This book provides a wealth of information about Medieval Daoist meditation practices, historical figures, and scriptures. It will be very useful in both undergraduate and graduate courses concerning Daoism, meditation, and comparative studies, especially between Daoism and Buddhism. Stephen Eskildsen offers an overview of Daoist...
Australian Catholic University, 2022. — 183 p. The early Tang (618-755) was an empire of military expansion and cosmopolitanism. At its largest extent, its territory extended from the Korean peninsula to present-day Afghanistan. It governed a large multi-ethnic population and it attracted into its borders many foreign merchants, Buddhist monks, and immigrants. Under such...
Macquarie University, 2017. — 229 p. Persian was used in tributary activities at the Ming court, in letters from tributary rulers, and in the Emperor's edicts to tributary rulers. Surviving documents and historical records show Persian was used for communications with Hami, Turfan, Samarkand, Herat and other Central Asian countries, with Tibet, and with countries along the sea...
University of Washington, 2012. — 321 p. This dissertation examines the formation and rise of the Jurchen Coalition under the leadership of the Anchuhu Wanyan clan during the late 11th and early 12th centuries. The Anchuhu Wanyan utilized their political and geographical position along the periphery of the Liao Dynasty in order to consolidate power among the many Jurchen groups...
Columbia University Press, 1995. — 440 p. This seminal study of the religious and economic history of Buddhism by the premier French sinologue has for decades been considered an unsurpassed classic. Here, for the first time, it is available to English-language readers in an updated edition. The fifth through tenth centuries were the period of the greatest expansion of the...
Stanford University Press, 1962. — 252 p. A fascinating picture of a lively and brilliant society. Every major aspect of life during this period is treated with meticulous exactitude an unrivalled glimpse of medieval Chinese society as it was seven hundred years ago. A pioneering high popularization of Sung social, economic and political history.
Editions Philippe Picquier, 2012. — 419 p. Quand, à la fin du XIIIe siècle, Marco Polo découvre Hangzhou, elle apparaît à ses yeux émerveillés comme « la plus grande ville qui soit au monde et la plus noble ». Pendant un siècle et demi, Hangzhou a été le siège de la cour des Song. Sa situation géographique et son rôle de capitale en font alors l'agglomération la plus peuplée et...
Routledge, 2001. — 299 p. Drawing on classical Chinese sources and the best modern scholarship from China and Japan, David A. Graff connects military affairs with political and social developments to show how China's history was shaped by war. The first survey of medieval Chinese military history to be published in English, this seminal text will be of appeal to readers of both...
University of Arizona Press, 1975. — 264 p. Abbreviations Used in the Text. Introduction: Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China. Urbanization and the Development of Markets in the Lower Yangtze Valley. Sung K'ai-feng: Pragmatic Metropolis and Formalistic Capital. Fiscal Privileges and the Social Order in Sung China. Regional Control in the Southern Sung Salt Administration....
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 263 p. In her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain....
Yale University Press, 1995. — 304 p. This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China's medieval transformation. Valerie Hansen translates and...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 466 p. Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China – the 'technocratic–Confucian continuum' – which challenges the prevailing perception...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 403 p. In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history, Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960-1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from these sources as products of Song political discourse, Hartman offers a thorough...
Routledge, 2006. — 225 p. Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the subject argues that Marco Polo never went to China at all, and other scholars have pointed out apparent mistakes and important omissions in Marco’s writings, including his failure to mention the Great Wall,...
Routledge, 2020. — 241 p. Tracing descent from common ancestors was extremely important in imperial China. Members of such lineage communities sacrificed to ancestors in periodic ceremonies, maintained written genealogies to demonstrate their descent, and held some properties in common. This book, based on extensive original research, provides evidence that the practice...
University of Washington Press, 2009. — 312 p. — ISBN 978-0-295-98906-8 The little-examined genre of legal case narratives is represented in this fascinating volume, the first collection translated into English of criminal cases - most involving homicide - from late imperial China. These true stories of crimes of passion, family conflict, neighborhood feuds, gang violence, and...
Ohio University Press, 2009. — 304 p. China has been an important player in the international economy for two thousand years and has historically exerted enormous influence over the development and nature of political and economic affairs in the regions beyond its borders, especially its neighbors. Sino–Malay Trade and Diplomacy from the Tenth through the Fourteenth Century...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 253 p. — ISBN 978-0-7425-6822-8 After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 227 p. This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era - political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions - and considers why the status of women declined...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 226 p. This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era - political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions - and considers why the status of women declined...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 257 p. This important book provides the first comprehensive survey of women in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties from the sixth through tenth centuries CE. Bret Hinsch provides rich insight into female life in the medieval era, ranging from political power, wealth, and work to family, religious roles, and virtues. He explores...
San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2006. — 186 с.
During the Tang (618–906) and Song (960–1279) dynasties, the Chinese empire enjoyed a blossoming of foreign exchange as trade expanded along the Silk Road and sea routes. In this era China also witnessed the flourishing of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism; and saw the development of porcelain making and reproduction printing....
Harvard University Press, 1978. — 315 p. Much has been written in Western languages about the great Mongol army of Cinggis Qan, although with differing emphases and unequal quality. Little, however, has been done on the mongol military institutions of the Yuan dynasty. Part one of this book is description of the military system, the Imperial Guard, and the garrison system of...
McGill University, 2018. — 271 p. This dissertation is the first full-length study of cross-border migrants in early medieval China. Its focus is on the nearly four hundred southern migrants, who moved, as war captives or as asylum seekers, to the Northern Wei (386-534 CE) from the three successive southern states of Liu-Song (420-479 CE), Southern Qi (479-502 CE), and Liang...
Harrassowitz, 2020. — 350 p. — (Asiatische Forschungen 160). Sogdians, a group of Central Asians based between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, played a significant historical role at the crossroads of the Silk Roads. Travelling the world as caravan leaders, organised in trading networks, they were found from Byzantium to the Chinese heartland. The Sogdian language was a...
Algora Publishing, 2013. — 224 p. Li Shi Min, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty (CE 618-907), is regarded as the greatest emperor in Chinese history. He conquered the powerful Eastern Turkic Khanate and other khanates in the north and northwest, making China the greatest empire in Asia. Under his reign China entered into a period of peace and prosperity.
University of California Press, 1993. — 447 p. These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors...
Cambridge University Press, 1987. — 398 p. Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth- and thirteenth-centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes...
Oxford University Press, 1981. — 314 p. An important book, but probably only for those who have studied or are seriously studying Chinese history (or early Buddhism) in China. This is the translated memoir of a Chinese aristocrat of the mid-sixth century when Luoyang was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty. It is slow reading, in part because of the profusion of names (and...
University of Hawaii Press, 2011. — 254 p. China's historical women warriors hailed from the northeast (Manchuria) during the Liao (907-1125) and Jin (1115-1234) dynasties. Celebrated in the Liao History, their independence and martial spirit were "unprecedented." They rode horseback astride, were good at hunting and shooting, and took part in military battles. Several...
Brill, 2005. — 862 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 68). It was through the propaganda of Shen-hui (684-758) that Hui-neng (d. 710) became the also today still towering figure of sixth patriarch of Ch an/Zen Buddhism, and accepted as the ancestor or founder of all subsequent Ch an lineages. The first part of the book analyses the creation of the image of Hui-neng and the worship of a...
Elleman Bruce A. (ed.). — Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2023. — xlv, 298 p. In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming. While Zheng He and his seven expeditions have received some scholarly attention, few...
University of New York Press, 1995. — 261 p. One of the few full-length regional studies of popular religion in late imperial China, this book presents the history of the cult of Marshal Wen, a plague-fighting deity whose cult flourished through Chekiang and its neighboring provinces. The author provides a lively account of the rise of Wen's cult during the tumultuous years of...
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 259 p. Describes and examines the structures of the capital cities and major urban centers from the Sui to the Northern Song period. It also provides an in-depth account of the process of transformation from the curfew controlled city of the Tang period to the open city of the Song.
Ashgate, 2002. — 296 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). The studies brought together here focus upon the literary and cultural activity of the Chinese court during the Han and early medieval period. The first section concerns court literature in the Former Han and deals with the role of literature, especially poetry, at both the imperial and princely courts, including one study...
Brill, 2018. — 557 p. The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these...
Brill, 2018. — 489 p. The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these...
Brill, 2018. — 547 p. The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these...
Brill, 2018. — 420 p. The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 368 p. Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song...
Routledge, 2011. — xvi, 138 p. — (Asian States and Empires 2). The Southern Tang was one of China’s minor dynasties and one of the great states in China in the tenth century. Although often regarded as one of several states preceding the much better known Song dynasty (960-1279), the Southern Tang dynasty was in fact the key state in this period, preserving cultural values and...
Routledge, 2011. — 160 p. The Southern Tang was one of China’s minor dynasties and one of the great states in China in the tenth century. Although often regarded as one of several states preceding the much better known Song dynasty (960-1279), the Southern Tang dynasty was in fact the key state in this period, preserving cultural values and artefacts from the former great Tang...
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013. — 328 p. This thesis aims to explore the pattern and characteristics of siege warfare during the Five Dynasties China (907-959). Through both quantitative and qualitative studies, my thesis demonstrates the shift in the mode of military conflicts from field battles to siege warfare and its impacts on militarization,...
University of Chicago Press,1970. — 412 p. This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe. The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the ancient...
Brill, 2015. — 1714 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 29). A follow-up to Early Chinese Religion, Modern Chinese Religion focuses on the third period of paradigm shift in Chinese cultural and religious history, from the Song to the Yuan (960-1368). As in the earlier periods, political division gave urgency to the invention of new models that would then remain...
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. — 328 p. The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960–1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors to this volume treat them as...
Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. — 328 p. The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960–1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors to this volume treat them as...
Routledge, 2015. — 716 p. This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. — 347 p. The internal dynamics driving the relationship between the state and local society during the Southern Song and Yuan dynasties has both captivated and baffled scholars. In this book, Sukhee Lee posits an alternative understanding of the relationship between the state and social elites in the middle period of Chinese imperial...
The Chinese University Press, 2004. — 515 p. This is the first comprehensive English work on the study of Sung Chinese historical consciousness. The eleven articles in this collection are all written by leading Sung scholars in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Taiwan. It tries to define how Sung scholars perceived their past.
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 252 p. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman and Jonathan Spence, former veteran National Geographic staff writer Louise Levathes delivers a vivid, you-are-there account of the great age of Chinese maritime exploration. Levathes takes a fascinating look at China's rise as a naval power--and its plunge into isolation when a new emperor ascended the...
Cambridge, London: Harvard University Press, 2009. — 368 р. — ISBN: 978-0-674-03306-1 The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 368 р. The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 264 p. In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 414 p. Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world. Combining the socio-cultural background of ancient China and academic...
Arizona State University, 2023. — 199 p. This dissertation challenges the conventional understanding that Song dynasty China (960–1279) was a period when Confucianism was placed at the center of governance. Bringing heretofore inadequately studied Buddhist and Daoist texts into discussion, it offers three case studies on interrelationships between Song emperors and the Three...
Brill, 2024. — 264 p. — (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 9). This book explores one of the central questions among many disciplines: how communities are formed. It investigates this question through the perspectives of scholar-artist communities in Northern Song China. You will learn how some of the then popular ephemeral artistic practices, such as whisking tea, burning...
BDK America, 2006. — 416 p. This is an account of the travels in Central Asia and India of the seventh-century Chinese scholar-monk Xuanzang. An epoch-making figure in the history of Chinese Buddhism, the Master had a strong impulse to solve theoretical uncertainties by searching for the missing, untranslated original Sanskrit texts, particularly the Yogacara-bhumi-sastra....
Routledge, 2019. — 210 p. This book contains original essays on various aspect of the Han’s political economy and its legacy, written by leading Chinese and Western scholars whose collective expertise spans Economic History, History of Economic Thought and Sinology.
Harvard University, 2018. — 297 p. This dissertation explores the transformations in the boundaries of Chinese literary landscape during the Song dynasty (960–1279) by examining the emergence of a group of new genres such as letterets 簡, tiba colophons 題跋, remarks on poetry 詩話, and biji 筆記. These marginalia texts, casual in style, diverse in content, and rarely circulated...
Harvard University Press, 1959. — 180 p. Wang An-Shih, was a Chinese politician, poet and prose writer during the Song dynasty. He served as chancellor who attempted major and controversial socioeconomic reforms known as the New Policies. These reforms constituted the core concepts of the Song-Dynasty Reformists, in contrast to their rivals, the Conservatives, led by the...
Harvard University Press, 1989. — 228 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 132). During the traumatic opening decades of the Southern Sung, Emperor Kao-tsung's unspoken determination to win imperial safety at any cost shaped not only court policy but Confucian intellectual developments. The intellectual climate of the Northern Sung had been confident, buoyant, outreaching, and...
SUNY Press, 2015. — 394 p. Documents the rise and fall of a market medieval economy in China from 1000 to 1500. Since the economic liberalization of the 1980s, the Chinese economy has boomed and is poised to become the worlds largest market economy, a position traditional China held a millennium ago. William Guanglin Lius bold and fascinating book is the first to rely on...
Hong Kong University Press, 2012. — 378 p. Lo Jung-pang (1912-1981) was a renowned professor of Chinese history at the University of California at Davis. In 1957 he completed a 600-page typed manuscript entitled China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368, but he died without arranging for the book to be published. Bruce Elleman found the manuscript in the UC Davis archives in 2004, and with...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 307 p. The Song dynasty (960-1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work demonstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare and ruthless political infighting. The spectacular culture of the eleventh century, one...
University of British Columbia, 2017. — 97 p. The Tang dynasty (618-907) captured scholars' attention as one of the most cosmopolitan empires in Chinese history because of its openness toward transcontinental and trans-regional cultural, economic, diplomatic and religious exchanges. The empire attracted a diverse group of foreign subjects within its political boundaries. To...
Ghent University, 2016. — 317 p. The Shandong Peninsula 山東半島 had several valuable natural ports, particularly Dengzhou 登州, Laizhou 莱州 and Mizhou 密州, flourishing from ancient times to the Qing dynasty. These significant ports laid down a solid foundation for Shandong sea transportation, domestic maritime trade, naval activities, and its international exchanges with neighbouring...
Columbia University, 2014. — 267 p. This dissertation challenges the existing narrative in the history of Daoism that asserts that it was precisely during the Yuan period when all the different lineages "converged" to form the "two great Daoist schools" of Quanzhen and Zhengyi and furthermore suggests that there was a progression to this convergence, that the Quanzhen school in...
State University of New York Press, 1999. — 575 p. The Enlightened Judgments introduces everyday life in thirteenth-century China. The Sung Dynasty author of the collection brought together a host of documents selected from local judicial decisions and official papers to provide insights into contemporary life and its problems. It introduces a wonderful cast of Chinese...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2013. — 310 p. Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics....
University of California Press, 1985. — 141 p. The period from the fall of the Latter Han dynasty through imperial reunification under the Sui and T'ang, a period of nearly four centuries, has until recently attracted little in the way of historical research in the West. While the literature and religion of this long interregnum have received scholarly attention, historical...
University of California Press, 2023. — 182 p. The period from the fall of the Latter Han dynasty through imperial reunification under the Sui and T'ang, a period of nearly four centuries, has until recently attracted little in the way of historical research in the West. While the literature and religion of this long interregnum have received scholarly attention, historical...
University of Washington Press, 2015. — 400 p. The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE–220 CE), Tang (618–907), and Northern Song (960–1126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allow the reader to trace the dramatic changes that occurred as the city experienced enormous...
Algora Publishing, 2014. — 220 p. Drawn from Chinese classics of history, Hung Hing Ming's biographies introduce China's most emblematic historical figures and the cultural attributes fostered by China's ancient chronicles. This book is about one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history, Zhao Kuang Yin, founder of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). He is honored for having unified...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 407 р. — (Sinica Leidensia 65). This study is a reading of one man’s hindsight on the social life of civil service recruitment during the Tang dynasty (618–907). It translates and uses documents that Wang Dingbao (870–940), a late Tang scholar, preserved after the dynasty’s collapse. This book analyzes records of annual ritual performances in...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 336 p. How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual...
University of Chicago Press, 2023. — 336 p. How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia. This book opens in eleventh-century China, where scholars were the first in world history to systematically illustrate and document ancient artifacts. As Jeffrey Moser argues, the visual, technical, and conceptual...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2011. — 370 p. States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. On more than a thousand occasions, the Song court founded, abolished, promoted, demoted, and reordered...
Brill, 2022. — 555 p. — ISBN 978-90-04-50425-7. At the intersection of art and religious history, this work suggests a fresh method for studying Chinese gods and sacred places. Susan Naquin tells the full story of the transformations of the Lady of Mount Tai, North China’s most important female deity, and her mountain home. This generously illustrated visual history presents a...
National University of Singapore (NUS) Press, 2016. — 518 p. Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, and its interactions across maritime East Asia and the broader Asian Seas, these linked essays by a senior scholar in the field challenge the usual readings of Chinese history...
University of Oxford, 2022. — 314 p. This thesis studies the widespread use of a kind of riding dress by the ruling class in the first half of Tang dynasty China (618-755). In contrast to the traditional type of dress of the Han people, generally a full-length attire with wide sleeves, the riding dress, an ensemble of tight-sleeved robe, trousers, belt and boots, had its...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 208 p. Under the Song Dynasty, China experienced rapid commercial growth and monetization of the economy. In the same period, the austere ethical turn that led to neo-Confucianism was becoming increasingly prevalent in the imperial bureaucracy and literati culture. Tracing the influences of these trends in Chinese intellectual history, All...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. — 359 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 200). The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. Its lone...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Northern Wei is a study of an Inner Asian people called the *Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 BCE–220 CE) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book’s main purpose is, within...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Northern Wei is a study of an Inner Asian people called the Taghbach (Ch. Tuoba), who half a century after collapse of the Han state (206 BCE–220 CE) began the process of building a new kind of empire in East Asia. Though addressing larger historiographical issues, the book’s main purpose is, within...
Brill, 2021. — 648 p. — (Sinica Leidensia, 153). After piloting an emperor the age of a college student through China’s most drastic government reforms before the modern era, Wang Anshi retreated to his Halfway Hill villa at Nanjing, where in late middle age he became one of the Northern Song dynasty’s three or four most innovative poets. He redirected the craft of composing...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021. — xxx, 648 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 153). After piloting an emperor the age of a college student through China’s most drastic government reforms before the modern era, Wang Anshi retreated to his Halfway Hill villa at Nanjing, where in late middle age he became one of the Northern Song dynasty’s three or four most innovative poets. He redirected the...
Routledge, 2001. — 300 p. — (Variorum Collected Studies). This first volume of studies by Professor Pulleyblank opens with an abridged version of his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, on Chinese history and world history. The next pieces look at the historiography of Tang China, and more broadly at Chinese attitudes to the writing of history and the critical methods that were...
University of Pennsylvania, 2013. — 264 p. In the mid-eleventh century Chinese intellectuals argued about history, and left their competing narratives to us in print. They contested how history should be written, and what relevant lessons ought to be adapted to the changing society of Song 宋 (960-1279) dynasty China. They were particularly concerned with the history of the...
University of Washington Press, 2013. — 235 p. This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE) with a sizeable body of surviving correspondence. Along with the translation and analysis of many representative letters, Antje Richter explores the material...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2008. — 475 p. This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 386 p. During the thirteenth century, the Mongols created the greatest empire in human history. Genghis Khan and his successors brought death and destruction to Eurasia. They obliterated infrastructure, devastated cities, and exterminated peoples. They also created courts in China, Persia, and southern Russia, famed throughout the world as...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 240 p. Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies. By the fourth century AD, horse nomads had seized...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 240 p. Julian Romane examines the military events behind the emergence of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the period 581-626 AD. Narrating the campaigns and battles, he analyses in detail the strategy and tactics employed, a central theme being the collision of the steppe cavalry with Chinese infantry armies. By the fourth century AD, horse nomads had...
University of California Press, 1983. — 246 p. Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the nineteenth century. China ruled out equality with any nation: foreign rulers and their envoys were treated as subordinates or inferiors, required to send...
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, 2013. — 255 p. An interesting, if eclectic, collection of essays based upon a conference held in Binghamton University in 2009. Includes articles by the renewed architectural historian Nancy Steinhardt on the "Eurasian Impacts on the Yuan Observatory in Haocheng" and frontier expert Morris Rossabi's essay on "Mongol Influences on the Ming...
University of Hawaii Press, 2017. — 284 p. Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China presents a rogues' gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. It plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally demonized by Confucian annalists...
Columbia University Press, 2015. — 381 p. Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history...
Pearson, 2007. — 236 p. This new entry in the Longman Library of World Biography series offers the compelling story of Wu Zhao - one woman's unlikely and remarkable ascent to the apex of political power in the patriarchal society of traditional China. Wu Zhao, Woman Emperor of China is the account of the first and only female emperor in China's history. Set in vibrant,...
Brill Academic, 2001. — 486 p. — (Sinica Leidensia; 49) — ISBN: 9004117733,9789004117730. Based on recent archaeological and textual sources, this book presents new insights on Quanzhou, an overseas trading port in Southeast Asia. The impact of the Song imperial clan and their local elites on the development of maritime trade and Quanzhou's position in the region are...
Brill, 2023. — 672 p. — (Prognostication in History 11). Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form...
University of Pennsylvania, 2016. — 470 p. This dissertation considers the role that court dress played in the formation of Mongol cultural and political identity in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. By defining and analyzing the fashion system of the Mongol court principally in Yuan China, but also in Ilkhanid Iran, it demonstrates how the Mongols were able to...
Routledge, 2015. — 217 p. Under the rule of the descendants of Chinggis Khan (1167-1227), China saw the development of a new culture in which medical practice came to be considered a highly respected occupation for elite men. During this period, further major steps were also taken towards the codification of medical knowledge and promotion of physicians' social status. This...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 334 p. Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire brings the studies of institutions, labour, and material cultures to bear on the history of science and technology by tracing the workings of the Imperial Household Department (Neiwufu) in the Qing court and empire. An enormous apparatus that...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 421 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 421 p. — (Oxford Studies in Early Empires). Sui-Tang China and Its Turko-Mongol Neighbors challenges readers to reconsider China's relations with the rest of Eurasia. Investigating interstate competition and cooperation between the successive Sui and Tang dynasties and Turkic states of Mongolia from 580 to 800, Jonathan Skaff upends the notion...
Princeton University Press, 1990. — 275 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 1072). The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and as a source of essential ideas about the nature of heaven, earth, and humankind. During the eleventh...
Harvard University Press, 2001. — 510 p. — (Harvard East Asian Monographs 195). Prosperity signifies success in economic performance. Economic performance always takes place in a spatial context. And institutions matter in economic performance. These three interwoven themes underlie this inquiry into the regional economy of southern Fukien province during the Sung and Yuan...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. — 226 p. — (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien 85). How have political conflicts impacted philosophical concepts and the rise of particular intellectual lineages in China? This question is part of a contested issue the relative strength of state power and intellectuals' cultural authority. A nuanced fathoming of Confucian intellectual currents in Zhu...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. — 450 p. Since the second century BC the Confucian Classics, endorsed by the successive ruling houses of imperial China, had stood in tension with the statist ideals of “big government.” In Northern Song China (960–1127), a group of reform-minded statesmen and thinkers sought to remove the tension between the two by revisiting the highly...
University of Hawaii Press, 2007. — 297 p. Unbounded Loyalty investigates how frontiers worked before the modern nation-state was invented. The perspective is that of the people in the borderlands who shifted their allegiance from the post-Tang regimes in North China to the new Liao empire (907-1125). Naomi Standen offers new ways of thinking about borders, loyalty, and identity...
Kansas State University, 2018. — 129 p. As the Tang dynasty rose to power and expanded into the present-day provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan, an endemic problem of troublesome frontier officials appeared along the border prefectures. Modern scholars have largely embraced Chinese historical scholarship believing that the lawlessness and remoteness of these southwestern border...
University of Leeds, 2023. — 244 p. This study examines the evolution, function, and social meaning of letters during the Southern Ming period (1644-1683). Existing scholarship focuses on letters in the social context of the late Ming and early Qing period, either analysing letter collections or using letters as historical sources to explore the life experiences of literati. I...
Harvard University, 2023. — 216 p. This dissertation traces the birth of a narrative mode about the Tibetan-Mongol relationship during the Yuan period. It does so by interpreting Tibetan narratives about the Tibetan monk U rgyan pa Rin chen dpal (1230–1309) and the Yuan government during the reign of Qubilai (1215–1294. r. 1260–1294). By situating these narratives in their...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 744 p. This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history,...
Brill, 2018. — 280 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 140). Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs, thereby illuminating ways in which the memory of persons, events, dynasties, and literary styles was constructed and revised. Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 744 p. This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history,...
Cambridge; New York; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — xx, 328 p. — ISBN: 9781316647486. In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2014. — 281 p. Historians have long been perplexed by the complete disappearance of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by the tenth century--the "great clans" that had dominated China for centuries. In this book, Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance, using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources. Tackett...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 354 p. In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions for the course of Chinese history,...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 354 p. In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together had sweeping repercussions for the course of Chinese history,...
Duke University Press, 2011. — 554 p. Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented...
Scribner, 2017. — 176 p. In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China’s greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598-649 CE), which is still being studied more than 1300 years later as an invaluable guide to leading and managing. Tang Taizong is arguably the greatest Emperor in Chinese history. In Asia, many...
Progress Publishers, 1981. — 221 p. Ancient Chinese Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Tribute System. Chinese Relations with the Xiongnu in the First to Third Centuries A. D. China and Vietnam from the Third Century B.C. to the Third Century A.D. Notes on Sino-Vietnamese Relations in the Third to Tenth Centuries A. D. (From Chinese Sources). Sino-Indian Relations from...
University of Oxford, 2015. — 299 p. Even though there has been no lack of scholarly attention to Chinese epistolary texts as a source of information, discussions of the functions and practices of letter writing in imperial China are very limited. This thesis deals with how elites in Song dynasty (960-1279) China exchanged personal and political information by writing and...
Hong Kong University Press, 2011. — 673 p. — ISBN: 978-988-8028-91-7 Paul Van Dyke works in many languages and archives to uncover the history of Pearl River trade. This two-volume work is likely to be the most definitive reference work on the major trading families of Guangzhou. Organized as a series of family studies, this first volume includes exhaustive profiles of nine of...
Columbia University Press, 2010. — 256 p. Buddhist monasteries in medieval China employed a variety of practices to ensure their ascendancy and survival. Most successful was the exchange of material goods for salvation, as in the donation of land, which allowed monks to spread their teachings throughout China. By investigating a variety of socioeconomic spaces produced and...
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 309 p. Academies were part of the educational institutions of the Sung (960-1279), an era in China marked by profound changes in economy, technology, thought, and social and political order. This study explains the phenomenon in the light of the changes in society and in intellectual circles.
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 484 p. In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great...
Cambria Press, 2018. — 371 p. This book explores a new and innovative topic--the relationship between geographical advancements in the Mid-Tang period (790s to 820s) and spatial imaginaries in contemporaneous literature. Historically and politically, the Mid-Tang period is generally considered to be a period of imperial reconstruction following the chaos of the An Lushan...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. — 370 p. The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women adapted to these trying circumstances and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. — 250 p. This book is the most detailed study to date on the entertainment system in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) of China. It discusses entertainment institutions not only of the local and central governments, but also of city commoners. There are many kinds of performers mentioned in the stories and historical materials of the Tang, which...
Frontline Books, 2014. — 236 p. The Defence of Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song and Ming dynasties' wars fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese civilisation against a brutal and unrelenting foe, pitted personal heroics against the inexorable Mongol war machine and...
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1949. — Lancaster Press, Inc., Reprinted, 1961. — 774 p. — (Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, Vol. 36). This book is a social history of the Liao empire which for two hundred years controlled the regions of modern Manchuria, Mongolia, and the northeastern part of China Proper. As social history, it deals with the...
Brill, 2005. — 290 p. — (History of Warfare 33). — ISBN 9781429453462. This study of relations between Sung China (960-1279) and Kitan Liao (916-1125), a state on Sung's northern border, is both a military and diplomatic history and a history of diplomacy. Its first chapters historically contextualise the equality of Sung-Liao diplomacy and narrate how, during the late tenth...
University of California, 2019. — 227 p. This dissertation examines the interactions of two late imperial Chinese regimes of understanding, experiencing, and moving through space through a local study of Dali, a district in the south-western borderlands of Mongol Yuan and Chinese Ming states. The city of Dali had been the capital of independent Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms until...
State University of New York Press, 2008. — 302 p. This is the first book-length study of panegyric poetry—yingzhao shi or poetry presented to imperial rulers—in the Chinese tradition. Examining poems written during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao, or early medieval period (220–619), Fusheng Wu provides a thorough exploration of the sociopolitical background against which these poems...
Translator: Kek Koon Wee. — Brill, 2021. — 688 p. — (Brill's Humanities in China Library 14). This book offers an account of the development and transformations of the discourse of ancestors’ instructions in the Song period. It explains how rulers selected words and deeds of ancestors in tandem with changes in current affairs, and how they gave them different meanings to create...
State University of New York Press, 2016. — 374 p. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song medieval dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes...
University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, 2017. — 127 p. This thesis studies a broad historical context of the yinyang academy system established during the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). The Mongol rulers created the system in order to regulate and educate yinyang practitioners, a group of people who mainly practiced astrology, astronomy, fortune-telling, and geomancy. Examining the...
University of Birmingham, 2020. — 347 p. This thesis questions the effectiveness of "ethnicity" as a prevailing analytical framework in research on medieval Eastern Eurasian history, by the means of a study of the dynastic identities of the Liao 遼 state (907-1125). "Dynastic identities" is primarily used to refer to three aspects: the imperial designations of Liao monarchs, the...
University of California – Berkeley, 2014. — 481 p. This dissertation proposes a new framework for understanding changing Chinese ideas about barbarians (Yi-Di) and barbarism during the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1276) periods. Much previous scholarship has drawn a sharp contrast between what is characterized as a "cosmopolitan" early Tang period (618-755) and the growing...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 248 p. Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis,...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 248 p. Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis,...
University of California, 2019. — 214 p. By exploiting a vast trove of underutilized original sources, including thousands of epitaphs, archaeological reports, ritual manuals, and anecdotes, and by using digital humanities tools to analyze this large pool of data from a multiregional perspective, this dissertation reconstructs funerary practices in Tang-era China, and thereby...
University of Oregon, 2008. — 122 p. Concentrating on the man-made scenery of a theme park in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of China-Nanzhao Folk Island, this thesis explores the way in which the Bai people acquire an identity by sharing a common history that is actively re-created. The state designated minority status of the Bai has been made concrete first by the nationality...
Hong Kong University Press, 2021. — 232 p. To learn about a society, we often consult its codes and treaties, but could we also learn from studying its debates? In Song China, Confucian scholar-officials intensely debated imperial ancestral rituals, considered the highest standard of ritual performance, and, in doing so, asserted their autonomy against monarchial influence,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2010. — 312 p. During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. They crisscrossed the country to assume government posts, report back to the capital, and return home between assignments and to attend to family matters. Based on a wide array of...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Late imperial Chinese Buddhism was long dismissed as having declined from the glories of Buddhism during the Sui and Tang dynasties (581–907). In recent scholarship, a more nuanced picture of late Ming-era Buddhist renewal has emerged. Yet this alternate conception of the history of Buddhism in China has tended to focus on either...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 318 p. — (Studies in Environment and History). On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic...
State University of New York Press, 2022. — 241 p. Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220-589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through poetry, as well as how and why certain...
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 462 p. Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyse Tang China's (618-907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Kogury, Silla, and Paekche; the state of Parhae in Manchuria; and the Nanzhao and Tibetan kingdoms. Without any one entity able to dominate Asia's geopolitical landscape,...
Columbia University, 2022. — 338 p. In 1126, the Song Dynasty (960-1279) was faced with an exigent political crisis: after testing the borders for years, the neighboring Jin state marched its armies south, destroyed the capital city Bianjing, and reduced its territories by half. The dynasty’s collapse and reconstitution in southern China has prompted ongoing scholarly debate...
М.: Наука, 1976. Работа основана на оригинальных китайских источниках. Она посвящена рассмотрению наиболее типичных для позднесредневекового Китая направлений и методов внутриполитической деятельности императорского правительства. На примере конкретной деятельности центральной власти в самых разнообразных областях раскрывается, как традиционные китайские политические доктрины...
М.: Наука, 1976. Работа основана на оригинальных китайских источниках. Она посвящена рассмотрению наиболее типичных для позднесредневекового Китая направлений и методов внутриполитической деятельности императорского правительства. На примере конкретной деятельности центральной власти в самых разнообразных областях раскрывается, как традиционные китайские политические доктрины...
М.: Наука, 1976. Работа основана на оригинальных китайских источниках. Она посвящена рассмотрению наиболее типичных для позднесредневекового Китая направлений и методов внутриполитической деятельности императорского правительства. На примере конкретной деятельности центральной власти в самых разнообразных областях раскрывается, как традиционные китайские политические доктрины...
Москва: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1971. — 198 с. Книга рассказывает о крупнейших крестьянских восстаниях второй половины XIV в. в Китае, которые привели к изгнанию чужеземных завоевателей и утверждению на престоле китайской династии Мин. Автор характеризует политическую обстановку в Китае в 50—60-х годах XIV в., выясняет причины восстаний,...
Москва: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства "Наука", 1971. - 198 с. Книга рассказывает о крупнейших крестьянских восстаниях второй половины XIV в. в Китае, которые привели к изгнанию чужеземных завоевателей и утверждению на престоле китайской династии Мин. Автор характеризует политическую обстановку в Китае в 50—60-х годах XIV в., выясняет причины восстаний,...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 205 с. В настоящую книгу вошли работы безвременно ушедшего из жизни ленинградского востоковеда Виктора Андреевича Вельгуса (1922-1980); это - исследования и материалы, посвященные изучению разных сторон культуры Китая X-XV вв., и прежде всего периода Сун (960-1279). Текст сборника систематизирован по разделам: I. Источниковедение; II. Китайское мореходство X-XV...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 205 с. В настоящую книгу вошли работы безвременно ушедшего из жизни ленинградского востоковеда Виктора Андреевича Вельгуса (1922-1980); это - исследования и материалы, посвященные изучению разных сторон культуры Китая X-XV вв., и прежде всего периода Сун (960-1279). Текст сборника систематизирован по разделам: I. Источниковедение; II. Китайское мореходство X-XV...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1983. — 367 с. В книге исследуются происхождение и облик самобытной культуры чжурчжэней, народа тунгусо-маньчжурской семьи, на их родине — в Приамурье, Приморье (СССР), Маньчжурии (КНР) — в X–XI вв.; развитие этой культуры в рамках империи Цзинь (1115–1234), включившей в свои пределы ещё и Внутреннюю Монголию, Северный и...
М.: Наука, 1983. — 367 с. В книге исследуются происхождение и облик самобытной культуры чжурчжэней, народа тунгусо-маньчжурской семьи, на их родине — в Приамурье, Приморье (СССР), Маньчжурии (КНР) — в X–XI вв.; развитие этой культуры в рамках империи Цзинь (1115–1234), включившей в свои пределы ещё и Внутреннюю Монголию, Северный и Центральный Китай, и создание культурного синтеза...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1980. — 259 с. Книга представляет собой перевод историко-экономических разделов трех династийных историй: «Цзинь шу», «Вэй шу» и «Суй шу». В них описываются система землепользования, налогообложения, пути сообщения, денежное хозяйство, торговля, ремесла и другие аспекты экономической и политической жизни Китая второй...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1980. — 259 с. Книга представляет собой перевод историко-экономических разделов трех династийных историй: «Цзинь шу», «Вэй шу» и «Суй шу». В них описываются система землепользования, налогообложения, пути сообщения, денежное хозяйство, торговля, ремесла и другие аспекты экономической и политической жизни Китая второй...
М.: Наука; ГРВЛ, 1986. — 296 с. В книге на материале оригинальных китайских источников рассматривается один из ключевых периодов истории Китая - отношения между двумя государствами, Сун (960-1279) и Цзинь (1115-1234), занимающие особое место в истории контактов китайской империи с соседями.
М.: Наука; ГРВЛ, 1986. — 296 с. В книге на материале оригинальных китайских источников рассматривается один из ключевых периодов истории Китая - отношения между двумя государствами, Сун (960-1279) и Цзинь (1115-1234), занимающие особое место в истории контактов китайской империи с соседями.
Факсимиле рукописи. Издание текста, пер. с тангутского, вступ. ст., комм. и словарь Е.И.Кычанова. — М.: Восточная литература РАН, 2000. — 153 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока CXVII). — ISBN 5-02-018066-1. Публикуемый с переводом на русский язык и кратким исследованием текст «Запись у алтаря о примирении Конфуция» — китайский апокриф, сохранившийся до наших дней только в...
Санкт-Петербург: Типография императорской Академии наук, 1902. Глава русской православной миссии в Пекине архимандрит Палладий (1817-1878) в своем сочинении пытался пояснить, используя китайские источники, неясные пассажи из «Книги о разнообразии мира» знаменитого путешественника Марко Поло (1254-1324), посетившего Китай.
Выпуск 1. Факсимиле. Издание текстов, перевод с кит., исследования и приложения Л. И. Чугуевского. — М.: Наука, 1983. — 603 с. —(Письменные памятники Востока LVII, 1). В ЛО ИВАН СССР хранится более 400 документов из Дуньхуана хозяйственного содержания. Предполагается опубликовать их в четырех выпусках. Выпуск 1 содержит факсимиле, дешифровку текстов и перевод 73 документов,...
Издание текстов и предисловие Л. Н. Меньшикова. — М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963. — 75 с. — (Памятники литературы народов Востока. Тексты. Большая серия XV). В настоящей публикации объединен ряд рукописей из Дуньхуанского фонда Института нарэдов Азии. Дуньхуанский фонд составляет коллекция китайских рукописей, привезенная акад. С. Ф. Ольденбургом из Русской...
Издание текстов и предисловие Л. Н. Меньшикова. — М.: Издательство восточной литературы, 1963. — 75 с. — (Памятники литературы народов Востока. Тексты. Большая серия XV). В настоящей публикации объединен ряд рукописей из Дуньхуанского фонда Института нарэдов Азии. Дуньхуанский фонд составляет коллекция китайских рукописей, привезенная акад. С. Ф. Ольденбургом из Русской...
М.: Наука - Восточная литература, 2014. — 370 с. Данная работа представляет собой первое обобщающее монографическое издание на русском языке, посвященное киданьской империи Ляо (907–1125). Книга суммирует наиболее полные результаты исследований киданьского общества на основе изучения письменных источников, а также современных достижений киданьской археологии. Последовательно...
Москва: Институт Дальнего Востока РАН, 1996. — 569 с. В данной монографии рассматривается роль исламского фактора в политической истории Китая на протяжении периода с VIII в. по 1949 г.
Новосибирск: Наука. Сибирское отделение, 1991. — 160 с. — (Страны и народы). В книге рассказывается о попытке третьего тангутского государя Великого Ся Юаньхао стать императором Поднебесной. В увлекательной форме описываются обычаи, события, происходившие на рубеже X—XI веков в Ордосе: рождение на границах Китая нового государства, усилия дипломатов, стремившихся поставить...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1968. — 359 с. Книга подводит итог более чем сорокалетнего труда доктора исторических наук, профессора Евгения Ивановича Кычанова по восстановлению истории и культуры государства тангутов Великое Ся (982–1227), павшего под ударами армии Чингисхана. В книгу вошли работы, написанные в разные годы, содержание которых отражает...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 384 с. Книга состоит из авторского исследования, перевода трактата Ли Гоу "План обогащения государства, план усиления армии, план успокоения народа" (XI в. ) и комментария к нему. Изучение проблемы политической мысли средневекового Китая актуально и для анализа политической мысли современного Китая. Впервые переводимый на европейский язык трактат Ли Гоу - это...
Монография. — Тошкент: Наврўз, 2019. — 92 б. Ушбу монографияда Осиё минтақасида кўплаб халқлар, жумладан, ўзбек халқининг шаклланиш жараёнида улкан ҳисса қўшган Хитан қабилалари, уларнинг келиб чиқиш тарихи ва этногенез масалалари, турли тарихий жараёнлардаги фаолияти ҳамда мустақил давлат тузиш йўлидаги курашлари ёритилган. Шунингдек, асарда хитанларнинг дастлабки қабилавий...
М.: Рипол Классик, 2017. — 267 с. — (PRO власть). — ISBN: 978-5-386-09906-0. В VII в. на китайский трон взошел молодой и амбициозный правитель Ли Шиминь, которому было суждено заложить основы одной из самых славных китайских династий - Тан. Большую часть жизни он провел в сражениях, отличался нравом решительным и необузданным, плохо подходящим для систематического управления...
Перевод с китайского, исследование и комментарий Л. К. Павловской. — М.: Наука, Восточная литература, 1984. — 448 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока LXV). Издание представляет собой первый русский перевод народного исторического романа XIII в., впервые опубликованного в Китае в 1911 г. Это произведение сунской эпохи, автор которого остался неизвестным, излагает историю...
Перевод с китайского, исследование и комментарий Л.К. Павловской. — М.: Наука, Восточная литература, 1984. — 448 с. — (Памятники письменности Востока LXV). Издание представляет собой первый русский перевод народного исторического романа XIII в., впервые опубликованного в Китае в 1911 г. Это произведение сунской эпохи, автор которого остался неизвестным, излагает историю...
СПб.: НП-Принт, 2014. — 336 с., илл. — ISBN: 978-5-91542-271-0. В китаеведении долгое время существовало трафаретное представление о полном бесправии женщин в традиционном Китае. Угнетенное положение женщины в китайском домострое поверхностно связывали с господством конфуцианской идеологии в обществе. Исследования второй половины XX в. позволили принципиально скорректировать...
М.: Ломоносов, 2015. — 436 с.: илл. — (История. География. Этнография.)
Иллюстрации: Ирина Тибилова.
Два ведущих российских китаиста, ученые мирового уровня Алексей Бокщанин и Олег Непомнин взялись написать нескучную историю средневекового Китая. Так, чтобы, с одной стороны, все в книге описывалось академически точно - события, герои, детали быта, - а с другой чтобы было...
М.: Ломоносов, 2015. — 436 с.: илл. — (История. География. Этнография.). Иллюстрации: Ирина Тибилова. Два ведущих российских китаиста, ученые мирового уровня Алексей Бокщанин и Олег Непомнин взялись написать нескучную историю средневекового Китая. Так, чтобы, с одной стороны, все в книге описывалось академически точно - события, герои, детали быта, - а с другой чтобы было...
Бухоро: Дурдона, 2015. - 76 б. Ушбу рисолада Хитойда маҳаллий бошқарув тизимида фаолият юритган, ўз мавқе ва ўрнини сақлаб қолиш учун тарафдорлари билан марказий ҳокимиятга қарши қўзғолон кўтариб, тарихий шахс сифатида танилган сўғд халқи вакили Ань Лу – шань ҳаёти ҳамда фаолияти ёритилган. Рисола кенг китобхонлар оммасига мўлжалланган. Кириш Ань Лу - шань – тарихий шахс ва...
М.: Восточная литература, 1999. — 279 с. — ISBN 5-02-018027-0. Книга посвящена изучению принципов политической жизни и особенностей официальной идеологии Китая первой половины VII в. — периода формирования и расцвета государства Тан (618—907). На основе китайских источников (исторических документов, императорских указов, докладов трону и др.) рассматриваются вопросы, связанные...
Монография. — Москва: Восточная литература, 1999. — 279 с. Книга посвящена изучению принципов политической жизни и особенностей официальной идеологии Китая первой половины VII в. — периода формирования и расцвета государства Тан (618—907). На основе китайских источников (исторических документов, императорских указов, докладов трону и др.) рассматриваются вопросы, связанные с...
СПб.: Лимбус Пресс, Издательство К. Тублина, 2008. — 248 с. Эта книга — уникальный памятник китайской средневековой культуры, появившийся на свет благодаря исследовательским усилиям известного синолога, философа и антрополога Александра Секацкого. В сжатой, зачастую афористичной форме ответов на экзаменационные задачи для соискателей государственных должностей передаются...
М.: Изд-во Моск. ун-та, 1960. — 209 с. Предлагаемая книга ставит задачу осветить небольшой период из истории феодализма в Китае. Вместе с тем эта книга призвана служить началом издания исследований, которые будут посвящены как более ранним этапам жизни китайского народа, так и периодам новой и новейшей истории. Хрестоматия по истории Китая XV–XVII вв. подготовлена в таком виде,...
Изд-во СПбГУ, 1999. — 322 с.
В монографии раскрывается существо дефиниции «крестьянская война» (применительно к истории не только Китая, но и других стран), характеризуются с акцентом на своеобразие переходной эпохи, которую переживал с середины VIII столетия средневековый Китай, общие и конкретные причины и предпосылки повстанческого движения 874-901 гг. Рассматриваются...
Изд-во СПбГУ, 2000. — 424 с.
В монографии раскрывается существо дефиниции «крестьянская война» (применительно к истории не только Китая, но и других стран), характеризуются с акцентом на своеобразие переходной эпохи, которую переживал с середины VIII столетия средневековый Китай, общие и конкретные причины и предпосылки повстанческого движения 874-901 гг. Рассматриваются...
Изд-во СПбГУ, 1999. — 322 с.
В монографии раскрывается существо дефиниции «крестьянская война» (применительно к истории не только Китая, но и других стран), характеризуются с акцентом на своеобразие переходной эпохи, которую переживал с середины VIII столетия средневековый Китай, общие и конкретные причины и предпосылки повстанческого движения 874-901 гг. Рассматриваются...
Изд-во СПбГУ, 2000. — 424 с.
В монографии раскрывается существо дефиниции «крестьянская война» (применительно к истории не только Китая, но и других стран), характеризуются с акцентом на своеобразие переходной эпохи, которую переживал с середины VIII столетия средневековый Китай, общие и конкретные причины и предпосылки повстанческого движения 874-901 гг. Рассматриваются...
СПб.: Наука, 2017. — 286 с. — ISBN 978-5-02-039674-6. Настоящая книга, написанная в соавторстве двумя отечественными историками, П.Ю. Уваровым (ИВИ РАН) и А.Л. Рябининым (ИВ РАН), посвящена истории Китая в V-XV вв., от эпохи Лючао до конца правления династии Мин. Наряду с изложением событийной военно-политической истории Поднебесной, в книге кратко представлены и другие аспекты...
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СПб.: Наука, 2017. — 286 с. — ISBN: 978-5-02-039674-6. Настоящая книга, написанная в соавторстве двумя отечественными историками, П. Ю. Уваровым (ИВИ РАН) и А. Л. Рябининым (ИВ РАН), посвящена истории Китая в V—XV вв., от эпохи Лючао до конца правления династии Мин. Наряду с изложением событийной военно-политической истории Поднебесной, в книге кратко представлены и другие...
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М.-Л.: Издательство Академии наук СССР, 1959 г., 400 стр.
Автор, ставя перед собой задачу освещения вопроса о сунской книге вообще, разрешает целый ряд вопросов, связанных с этой большой проблемой. В первых главах (I—III) К. К. Флуг показывает происхождение ксилографии и печатания подвижным шрифтом. Следующие главы (IV—VII) посвящены вопросу о том, кто занимался книгопечатанием...
Сост. А.И. Куркчи . – М. : Ин-т ДИ-ДИК : Танаис, 1994. "Арабески истории" [альманах : учеб. пособие для доп. образования] ISBN 5-87583-016-6 Аннотация. Книга Рихарда Хеннига (1874-1951) - выдающегося немецкого географа и исследователя повествует о путешествии даосского монаха Чан Чуня (1148-1227) в лагерь Чингис-хана. Чан Чунь в сопровождении охраны отправился сначала в Пекин,...
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