Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is the author of Taxing Heaven“s Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224 (Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1991); coeditor of The Cambridge History of China, vol. 5.1: The Sung Dynasty and Its Precursors, 907-1279 (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and The Song-Yuan Transition in Chinese History (Harvard University Asia Center, 2003).
13 Ebooks von Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Patricia Buckley Ebrey & Paul Jakov Smith: State Power in China, 900-1325
This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapping Liao, Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties. Through a set of case studies, State Power in China, 900-1325 …
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey: The Inner Quarters
The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to …
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€34.99
Family and Property in Sung China
Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts’ai’s twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a famil …
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Chu Hsi: Chu Hsi’s Family Rituals
Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chinese family rituals: initiations, weddings, funerals …
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey: Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China
To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circ …
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey: Emperor Huizong
China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Artistically gifted, he guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness but is known to posterity as a …
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€37.54
Patricia Buckley Ebrey & Ping Yao: Chinese Funerary Biographies
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and …
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Roger B Beck & Clare Haru Crowston: History of World Societies, Volume 1
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained …
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€48.92
Roger B Beck & Clare Haru Crowston: History of World Societies, Volume 2
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained …
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€48.89
Roger B Beck & Clare Haru Crowston: History of World Societies, Combined Volume
A regional and global approach to world history that highlights society and culture Long praised by instructors and students for its accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained …
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€58.17
Patricia Buckley Ebrey: Cambridge Illustrated History of China
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation – from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, …
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€43.70
Patricia Buckley Ebrey & Cong Ellen Zhang: Chinese Autobiographical Writing
Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that il …
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