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  • Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo

    Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

    Edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, Susan Blader ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Explores how the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts have changed our understanding of China's past.Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history, paleography, intellectual ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Metaphor and Meaning

    Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan

    Edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, Susan Blader ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Myth and the Making of History

    Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan

    Edited by Constance A. Cook, Christopher J. Foster, Susan Blader ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought.Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia

    A View from Excavated Texts

    by Constance A. Cook ...
    Series series Elements in Ancient East Asia
    This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early imperial Qin and Han eras, and then a brief discussion covering the period through the 11th-c. CE. The ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Birth in Ancient China

    A Study of Metaphor and Cultural Identity in Pre-Imperial China

    by Constance A. Cook, Xinhui Luo ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Using newly discovered and excavated texts, Constance A. Cook and Xinhui Luo systematically explore material culture, inscriptions, transmitted texts, and genealogies from BCE China to reconstruct the role of women in social reproduction in the ancient Chinese world. Applying paleographical, linguistic, and historical analyses, Cook and Luo discuss fertility rituals, birthing experiences, divine ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Ancient China

    A History

    by John S. Major, Constance A. Cook ...
    Ancient 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 ... Read more

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    $67.49 USD

  • The Scripture on Great Peace

    The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism

    by Barbara Hendrischke ...
    Series Book 3 - Daoist Classics
    This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or "Scripture on Great Peace," documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism’s origins. Barbara Hendrischke, a leading expert on the Taiping jing in the West, has spent twenty-five years on this magisterial translation ... Read more

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  • Shizi

    China's First Syncretist

    By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their work, Syncretists created an integrated intellectual approach that contrasts with other, more specific ... Read more

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  • China between Empires

    The Northern and Southern Dynasties

    by Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook ...
    Series Book 2 - History of Imperial China
    After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new ... Read more

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  • Early Medieval China

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, Jessey Choo ...
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  • What Is China?

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