Honor And Shame In Early China
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Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781108826440 |
In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures. Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the fundamental role of honor/shame in shaping states and societies.
Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108843697 |
Lewis sheds new light on the early Chinese empires through an ambitious examination of evolving ideas about honor and shame.
Author | : Richard von Glahn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316538850 |
China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire throughout the preindustrial era. Before the eighteenth century, China's economy shared some of the features, such as highly productive agriculture and sophisticated markets, found in the most advanced regions of Europe. But in many respects, from the central importance of irrigated rice farming to family structure, property rights, the status of merchants, the monetary system, and the imperial state's fiscal and economic policies, China's preindustrial economy diverged from the Western path of development. In this comprehensive but accessible study, Richard von Glahn examines the institutional foundations, continuities and discontinuities in China's economic development over three millennia, from the Bronze Age to the early twentieth century.
Author | : Muzhou Pu |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2018-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107021170 |
This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.
Author | : Li Feng |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2006-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1139456881 |
The ascendancy of the Western Zhou in Bronze Age China, 1045–771 BC, was a critical period in the development of Chinese civilisation and culture. This book addresses the complex relationship between geography and political power in the context of the crisis and fall of the Western Zhou state. Drawing on the latest archaeological discoveries, the book shows how inscribed bronze vessels can be used to reveal changes in the political space of the period and explores literary and geographical evidence to produce a coherent understanding of the Bronze Age past. By taking an interdisciplinary approach which embraces archaeology, history and geography, the book thoroughly reinterprets late Western Zhou history and probes the causes of its gradual decline and eventual fall. Supported throughout by maps created from the GIS datasets and by numerous on-site photographs, Landscape and Power in Early China gives significant insights into this important Bronze Age society.
Author | : Orville Schell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0679643478 |
Two leading experts on China evaluate its rise throughout the past one hundred fifty years, sharing portraits of key intellectual and political leaders to explain how China transformed from a country under foreign assault to a world giant.
Author | : Antony Spawforth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2007-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume offers a substantial discussion of ancient monarchies from the viewpoint of the ruler's court.
Author | : Zhang Rongliang |
Publisher | : Whitaker House |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1629113387 |
"My name is Zhang Rongliang, and I am an unashamed follower of Jesus Christ.…It is considered quite dangerous to reveal the contents of this book, but these are stories that need to be told for God’s glory and for the encouragement of the church.” So begins this extraordinary first-person account by the prominent leader of one of the largest underground churches in China. A former Communist Party member, Zhang took a stand for Christ and was targeted for prison, work camps, and torture, all the while helping to build a network of millions of faithful believers. Spanning the time of Mao’s regime to today, Zhang testifies of God’s supernatural movements, of the sacrifice of countless Christians who loved and served Christ—regardless of the cost—and of the exciting new vision among believers in China to reach not only the Chinese but the entire world with the gospel.
Author | : Paul W. Kroll |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438203 |
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.
Author | : Danuta Wasserman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 857 |
Release | : 2021-01-08 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0198834446 |
Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention remains a key text in the field of suicidology, fully updated with new chapters devoted to major psychiatric disorders and their relation to suicide.