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Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-05-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 558
Pages: 558
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-01-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual can
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-06-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
Explores the rewriting of early Chinese texts in the wake of new archaeological evidence.
Language: en
Pages: 369
Pages: 369
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-30 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-09-19 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.