The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220"The Cambridge History of China is the largest and most comprehensive history of China in the English language. Planned in the 1960s by the late, distinguished China scholar Professor John K. Fairbank of Harvard, and Denis Twitchett, Professor Emeritus of Princeton, the series covers the grand scale of Chinese history from the 3rd century BC, to the death of Mao Tse-tung. Consisting of fifteen volumes (two of which, Volumes 5 and 9 are to be published in two books), the history embodies both existing scholarship and extensive original research into hitherto neglected subjects and periods. The contributors, all specialists from the international community of Sinologists, cover the main developments in political, social, economic and intellectual life of China in their respective periods. Collectively they present the major events in a long history that encompasses both a very old civilisation and a great modern power. Written not only for students and scholars, but with the general reader in mind, the volumes are designed to be read continuously, or as works of reference. No knowledge of Chinese is necessary; for readers with Chinese, proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary, and full references to Chinese, Japanese, and other works are given in the bibliographies. Numerous maps illustrate the texts. The published volumes have constituted essential reading in Chinese history. See also, The Cambridge History of Ancient China, Michael Loewe and Edward Shaughnessy, eds., a companion to this series covering the period 1500 to 221 BC. General Editors: John K. Fairbank, Denis Twitchett." -- |
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Contents
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13 | |
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The pattern of political history | 103 |
The founding of the dynasty 210195 B C | 110 |
The consolidation of the empire 195141 B C | 128 |
The full force of modernist policies 14187 B C | 152 |
IO The economic and social history of Former Han | 545 |
Rural society and the development of agricultural | 551 |
II | 593 |
by PATRICIA EBREY University of Illinois | 608 |
12 | 630 |
by MICHAEL LOEWE | 649 |
Mythology | 657 |
Mantic beliefs and practices | 673 |
The years of transition 8749 B C | 179 |
Reform and decline 49 B C A D | 198 |
3 | 217 |
Later | 223 |
The reigns of Mingti and Changti A D 5788 | 292 |
The reign of Shunti A D 126144 | 305 |
The reign of Huanti A D 146168 | 311 |
The fall of | 317 |
The collapse of dynastic power | 341 |
The fall of Han in perspective | 357 |
323 | 447 |
Han foreign relations | 458 |
The structure and practice of government | 463 |
Provincial and local government | 470 |
The armed forces | 479 |
The institutions of Later Han | 491 |
2 | 507 |
The Western Regions | 512 |
ΙΟ | 515 |
Chin and Han law | 520 |
20 | 526 |
The judicial authorities | 528 |
45 | 532 |
Administrative rules | 536 |
81 | 538 |
The universe and its order | 683 |
Ethical principles and the organization of | 703 |
Immortality and services to the dead | 715 |
The concept of sovereignty | 726 |
Pan Piaos essay | 735 |
The role and functions of the emperor | 743 |
Idealistic and rationalist attitudes | 749 |
Confucian Legalist and Taoist thought in Later Han | 766 |
Later Han | 779 |
The breakdown of central authority | 795 |
The value of Later Han thought | 806 |
Popular Taoism at the end of the Han dynasty | 815 |
The philosophical revival of the third century | 826 |
Buddhist and Taoist gnosis | 838 |
Buddhism under the southern and northern dynasties | 846 |
Taoism under the southern and northern dynasties | 860 |
Buddhism and Taoism under the Sui dynasty | 868 |
Bibliography | 879 |
Glossaryindex | 921 |
749 | 930 |
750 | 936 |
751 | 949 |
752 | 960 |
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