The Restoration of the Han Dynasty: With a prolegomena on the historiography of the Hou Han Shu
Author: Hans Bielenstein
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 244
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The Cambridge History of China
Author: John King Fairbank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780521214476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInternational scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period.
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Author: Kang-i Sun Chang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780521855587
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Empires of Ancient Eurasia
Author: Craig Benjamin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107114969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces a crucial period of world history when the vast exchange network of the Silk Roads connected most of Eurasia.
China's Last Empire
Author: William T. Rowe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0674054555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. This original, thought-provoking history of China's last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
Ancient China
Author: John S. Major
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-22
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 1317503651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and those studuing Chinese Culture and Society more generally.
Fire over Luoyang
Author: Rafe de Crespigny
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-10-18
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9004325204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chinese history to be found in a Western language. Commencing with a detailed account of the imperial capital, the history describes the nature of government, the expansion of the Chinese people to the south, the conflicts of scholars and officials with eunuchs at court, and the final collapse which followed the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans and the rise of regional warlords.
Imperial Warlord
Author: Rafe de Crespigny
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-08-18
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 9004188304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe warlord Cao Cao, founder of the Three Kingdoms state of Wei, is most commonly known through the romantic tradition of the novel Sanguo yanyi and other dramatic fictions, which portray him as cruel and vicious. In fact, however, Cao Cao was a fine strategist and politician who restored a measure of order after the political turmoil and civil war that brought the end of Han. The present work offers a detailed account of Cao Cao's life and times, using historical materials and the man's own words from official proclamations and personal poetry. Exceptionally for such a distant time, there is sufficient information in the texts to provide a rounded interpretation of one of the great characters of early China. This title has been awarded the Stanislas Julien prize for 2011.
China Through The Ages
Author: Franz Michael
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-13
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0429725752
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPast studies of China have concentrated on specific events or have related a chronological history of the dynastic periods. These works have included aspects of cultural history but have underemphasized the country's great social, political, and intellectual movements and their ultimate expression in the art and literature of the time. By focusing on such themes, Professor Michael provides a new framework for understanding the Chinese cultural tradition. The author describes the evolving history of ideas in China, from ancient faith in powerful magic to more modern concepts of a logical moral order of the universe and mankind's place in it. He also explores the intellectual ferment following the dawn of the age of reason, the integration of Buddhism into the Confucian social order, and the social transformations accompanying the rise and fall of the centralized state. Throughout, he illustrates how the changing society's beliefs, values, and aesthetic sense were embodied in its art and literature. This portrayal of the Chinese cultural tradition not only puts Chinese history in a new perspective, it also illuminates the process through which China constructed a modern society from a non-Western foundation and serves as an essential tool for understanding modern-day China and its prospects for the future.
Warfare in Chinese History
Author: Hans van de Ven
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-07-26
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9004482946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur understanding of Chinese warfare has suffered from misconstrued contrasts between Chinese and Western ways in warfare. This is one of the arguments convincingly set forth in this important volume on an important subject. It also discusses the essentialising interpretations of Chinese culture focussing on the avoidance of warfare and the civil ethic of its officials. Based on original sources, and dealing with the subject from the earliest dynasty up to modernity, it uniquely combines chapters on strategy and tactics. Both scope and approach make it a must for historians of China. And, with a view to its conclusions on the place of China in the context of global military history, it also provides essential reading for historians of (comparative) warfare in general. The book’s primary goal – to provide a fuller interpretation of the role of the military in Chinese history – has been achieved with ease.
