The Stele Inscriptions of Chʻin Shih-huang
Title | The Stele Inscriptions of Chʻin Shih-huang PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Kern |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Birth of an Empire
Title | Birth of an Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Yuri Pines |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520289749 |
In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse.
The First Emperor
Title | The First Emperor PDF eBook |
Author | Sima Qian |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2009-08-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199574391 |
Reprint. Originally published: 2007. Reissued 2009.
Writing and Authority in Early China
Title | Writing and Authority in Early China PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 558 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780791441138 |
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 canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose master generated power and whose graphs became potent objects.
The First Emperor
Title | The First Emperor PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Portal |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780674026971 |
The rise of Qin and the military conquest of the warring states -- The First Emperor and the Qin empire -- Imperial tours and mountain inscriptions -- The First Emperor's tomb: the afterlife universe -- A two-thousand-year-old underground empire.
Remnants of Chʻin Law
Title | Remnants of Chʻin Law PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony François Paulus Hulsewé |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1985-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789004071032 |
Imagining Boundaries
Title | Imagining Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Kai-wing Chow |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791441978 |
Explores the shifting terrain of Confucianism in Chinese history.