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Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms (2 Volumes)
People's Literature Publishing House · 1979
The Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms is a lengthy historical romance in one hundred and eight chapters, compiled by the Ming dynasty popular wr…
In Search of Wealth and Power: Yen Fu and the West
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2010
This book is the magnum opus of the American sinologist Benjamin Schwartz and a classic repeatedly cited in overseas Chinese studies. Taking Yan Fu, "…
Southern Song Court and Society on Wang Anshi and the New Policies
Orient Publishing Center · 2025
This book is another monograph by Liang Gengyao, professor emeritus of the Department of History at National Taiwan University, following The Reforms …
Chen Shunchen on Emperors: Qin Shi Huang + Cao Cao
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2020
Chen Shunchen on Emperors: Qin Shi Huang + Cao Cao is a collection of two historical figure books, Qin Shi Huang and Cao Cao, by the Chinese-Japanese …
Melons Growing from One Stem: The Emperor and His Subjects in the Ming Dynasty
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
In the summer of the fifth year of the Hongwu reign (1372), Zhang Guan, a melon grower from Jurong County in Yingtian Prefecture, carried a pair of me…
Bureaucratic Politics in Ancient China
Zhonghua Book Company · 2015
This book is co-authored by Professors Li Zhi'an and Du Jiaji of Nankai University; the 2015 Zhonghua Book Company edition is the more widely circulat…
Three Kingdoms History Talks
Beijing Publishing House · 2016
Three Kingdoms History Talks is a popular work of history written by the great historian Lü Simian, intended, in his words, "either to correct past er…
Governing a Great State: The Dilemmas of Justice in Ancient China
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014
Xiong Yi’s Governing a Great State: The Dilemmas of Justice in Ancient China is an essayistic work that revisits the political ethics of ancient China…
The Great Transformation of the Spring and Autumn Period: Three Centuries That Laid the Foundation of Huaxia and Brought Its Peoples Together
Sino-Culture Press · 2025
The three centuries of the Spring and Autumn period saw the collapse of the Zhou royal house's authority and the rise of the feudal states. They were …
Telling the Truth about History
Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2011
Originally published in English as Telling the Truth about History, this book is coauthored by three American historians: Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, an…
Empress Wu Gone Wild: The Complete Scandalous High Tang
Jilin Literature and History Publishing House · 2014
This book is a collected edition of Zong Chenghao's Empress Wu-themed works in the "Scandalous High Tang" series. It begins with a talented lady in Em…
The Empire of Emperor Wu
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2014
The Empire of Emperor Wu is the eighth volume of Yi Zhongtian's History of China, focusing on the fifty-four-year reign of Emperor Wu of Han (Liu Che)…
A New Book on Curbing Fraud
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2008
The Complete Book of Du Pian, formally titled The Newly Engraved Jianghu Compendium for the Prevention of Fraud (also known as The Classic of Fraud an…
Chongzheng bian
Zhonghua Book Company · 1993
Chongzheng bian (A Just Defense of Orthodoxy) is a three-juan work by the Southern Song Neo-Confucian Hu Yin (courtesy name Mingzhong, style name Zhit…
An Annotated Translation of Qunshu Zhiyao
Tuanjie Publishing House (Unity Press) · 2011
Qunshu Zhiyao (The Governance Principles from the Classics) is a compendium of governing wisdom compiled in the early Zhenguan era of the Tang dynasty…
A History of the Aisin Gioro Clan
China Social Sciences Press · 2015
A History of the Aisin Gioro Clan is a general history of the clan by Liu Xiaomeng, a researcher at the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Aca…
Deng Guangming's Collected Essays on the Study of History
Peking University Press · 2022
This book is a collection of academic essays by the Song, Liao and Jin historian Deng Guangming (1907–1998). The contents were selected by the author …
A History of Chinese Institutions (Volumes I & II)
Shanghai Educational Publishing House · 2002
A History of Chinese Institutions is a specialized historical work to which Lü Simian (1884–1957) devoted exceptional effort. Originally titled A Soci…
Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Song Dynasty
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2022
Inner Quarters is the magnum opus of the American sinologist Patricia Buckley Ebrey. Originally published in English in 1993 as The Inner Quarters: Ma…
From Liu Bang to Wang Mang: Reform and Regression Across the Ages
Guangdong People's Publishing House · 2025
Following The Two-Thousand-Year Legacy of Qin Institutions, historian Chen Xubin turns to the Western Han in this new study, retelling the repeated sh…