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Between Civil and Military: A Study of the Military Selection Officials of the Northern Song
Peking University Press · 2010
Between Civil and Military: A Study of the Military Selection Officials of the Northern Song is a representative monograph by Zhao Dongmei, professor …
Philopoemen
This is Plutarch's Life of Philopoemen, general of the Achaean League, paired in the Parallel Lives with the Roman commander Flamininus. The subject w…
A Brief History of the Tax and Corvée System
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2011
A Brief History of the Tax and Corvée System is an accessible work on institutional history by Professor Xu Dongsheng of the Department of History at …
Liu He, Marquis of Haihun
SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2016
The Western Han tomb of the Marquis of Haihun in Nanchang, Jiangxi—one of China's top ten archaeological discoveries of 2015—brought its occupant, Liu…
The Son of Heaven of the Great Tang
Qidian · 2014
The Son of Heaven of the Great Tang is a historical time-travel novel set in the Jin, Sui, and Tang dynasties by the web novelist Yin Yang. It runs ab…
Elegance and Sorrow
Elegance and Sorrow is a late-Ming historical time-travel novel by the late web novelist Zeidao Sanchi, roughly 1.6 million characters long. It began …
Guoyu: Discourses of the States—Chinese Classics Collection (Upgraded Edition)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2016
Guoyu (Discourses of the States) is the first extant Chinese historical work organized by state. Traditionally attributed to Zuo Qiuming of the late S…
The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong
SinoMaps Press (China Cartographic Publishing House) · 2019
The Thirteenth Year of Qianlong is the first volume of historian Gao Wangling's "Qianlong Trilogy," focusing on the first thirteen years of the Qianlo…
Rivers and Mountains of the Great Song: Ride a Donkey
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023
Rivers and Mountains of the Great Song: Ride a Donkey is a collection of essays on Song dynasty historical and cultural figures by the writer Wang Zhe…
Spring and Autumn: The Rise and Fall of the Five Hegemons
Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2019
This book is the Spring and Autumn volume of Zhu Liang’s (pen name Wuji Gongzi) series Our Huaxia. Its narrative begins with King Ping of Zhou’s eastw…
The Chu-Han Contention: Lessons from History
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2013
The Chu-Han Contention: Lessons from History is a popular history by the writer Xiaoshui (real name Zhang Shouchun), tracing the turbulent years from …
History of Imperial China, Volume 1: The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han
CITIC Press · 2016
This is the first volume of the six-volume History of Imperial China. The author, Mark Edward Lewis, is a specialist in ancient Chinese history at Sta…
Heroes of the Late Tang and Five Dynasties III: The Realm Returns to Song
Taibai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020
This is the third volume in the "Heroes of the Late Tang and Five Dynasties" series, subtitled "The Realm Returns to Song." Picking up where the first…
History of the Warring States
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016
The History of the Warring States is the magnum opus of historian Yang Kuan and a classic in Chinese dynastic history. The book opens at the turn of t…
Zeng Guofan's Family Instructions (Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2020
This is one volume of Zhonghua Book Company's Complete Text, Full Annotation, Full Translation of Chinese Classics series (commonly called the "Three …
Law and Morality: A Study of Wang Anshi's Scholarship and His Reform Movement
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2021
Because he presided over the Xining Reforms, Wang Anshi drew countless conflicting evaluations in life and after death. Taking Northern Song scholarsh…
The Great Ritual Controversy: Emperor Jiajing's Ritual Reform and the Reshaping of Imperial Power
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
In the sixteenth year of the Zhengde reign (1521), Emperor Wuzong of Ming, Zhu Houzhao, died without an heir, leaving the throne vacant. Grand Secreta…
Hegemony: The Making of a New International Order in the Spring and Autumn Period (2 Volumes)
Zhonghua Book Company · 2019
Moving beyond the traditional view of "the collapse of rites and music," this book reads early Spring and Autumn history along two threads—internation…
Officials and Merchants Alike: Salt Merchants and Society in Ming-Qing Tianjin
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
This book is the magnum opus of Guan Wenbin, a Chinese historian based in the United States, and is No. 001 in the Daxuewen Chinese Urban History Seri…
A Study of Song Dynasty Cities
Zhonghua Book Company · 2014
A Study of Song Dynasty Cities is Bao Weimin's systematic examination of Song dynasty cities, built on a summary and critique of modern methodologies …