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While official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administratio
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This book offers an account of how ‘ancestors’ instructions’ were used and abused in the Song period. It digs deeply into abundant resources to tease apar