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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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
The Dissolute Son of Heaven and Imperial Autocracy: A Study of the Political History of Emperor Huizong's Reign in the Northern Song
Jiuzhou Press · 2025
This book is a monograph by the Japanese Song historian Fujimoto Takeshi. Centering on Emperor Huizong's reign in the Northern Song, it surveys the po…
Popular Uprisings in the Late Ming
China Film Press · 2014
Popular Uprisings in the Late Ming is a monograph on Ming history completed in the 1940s by the economic historian Li Wenzhi and first published aroun…
Song Dynasty Civil Officials: An Observation of Song Scholar-Officials Through the Lens of Reform
Modern Press · 2021
This book takes Wang Anshi's reforms as its central observation point, interpreting the spiritual character of the Song civil-official class and the p…
Stories from the Records of the Grand Historian
People's Literature Publishing House · 2018
Records of the Grand Historian is a comprehensive chronicle in the biographical style written by Sima Qian of the Western Han dynasty. It covers rough…
The Uncrowned King: Duke Huan of Qi and the Rise of the State of Qi
Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2025
The Spring and Autumn period was the first true age of great-power rivalry in Chinese history, and Duke Huan of Qi was the first to ascend to the posi…
Buddha's Protection: Popular Faith in the Northern Dynasties as Seen in Donor Inscriptions
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2018
This book is the magnum opus of Hou Xudong, professor of history at Tsinghua University, on the Buddhist faith of common people in the Northern Dynast…