Song Society

25 books

A History of Ancient Chinese Environmental Aesthetics: Song Dynasty Volume cover
Rating 4.1
A History of Ancient Chinese Environmental Aesthetics: Song Dynasty Volume 陈望衡 / 范明华 / 丁利荣 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023 The Song dynasty was a period of maturation in the development of ancient Chinese environmental aesthetic thought. In theory, Neo-Confucianism reconst…
The Spiritual Life of Song Dynasty Literati (960–1279) cover
Rating 4.0
The Spiritual Life of Song Dynasty Literati (960–1279) 何复平 / 叶树勋 / 单虹泽 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2022 The numerous monastery stele inscriptions found in Song dynasty collected works and local gazetteers were mostly written by literati, and a considerab…
Knowledge, Ritual Customs and Politics: An Exploration of the Social History of Geomancy in the Song Dynasty cover
Rating 4.3
Knowledge, Ritual Customs and Politics: An Exploration of the Social History of Geomancy in the Song Dynasty 潘晟 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2026 From the perspective of the social history of knowledge, and on the basis of a systematic survey of Song dynasty sources, this book examines the types…
Prequel to the Gentry Class: Vagrants and Local Tyrants, the Imperial Examinations and Neo-Confucianism in the Northern and Southern Song cover
Rating 4.0
Prequel to the Gentry Class: Vagrants and Local Tyrants, the Imperial Examinations and Neo-Confucianism in the Northern and Southern Song 吴铮强 Shanghai Zhongxi Book Company Limited · 2025 Prehistory of the Gentry Class: Vagrants and Local Magnates, the Civil Examinations and Neo-Confucianism in the Two Song Dynasties is a revised editio…
Cold Spring Night with Fading Lamp Flowers cover
Rating 2.9
Cold Spring Night with Fading Lamp Flowers 吴云嫦 · 2025 Deng Hua Shou Jin Chun Xiao Leng is a full-length classical novel of manners, divided into five volumes: Green Plum Season, Moon over Nanpu, Journey t…
The Prosperity of the Great Song: The Surface and Inside of an Age at Its Zenith cover
Rating 4.0
The Prosperity of the Great Song: The Surface and Inside of an Age at Its Zenith 谌旭彬 Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2024 Where did the great population boom of the Song dynasty come from? Where did the court's vast wealth flow? Tracing the logic of prosperity in a golden…
A Record of Bequeathed Plans for Sheltering Descendants cover
Rating 3.8
A Record of Bequeathed Plans for Sheltering Descendants 王栐 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
The Talk Garden of Yang Wengong cover
Rating 3.6
The Talk Garden of Yang Wengong 杨亿 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, distinguished by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early…
The Ting History cover
Rating 4.5
The Ting History 岳珂 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive, and literary. Early forms of thought are highly distin…
Fifth Series of Notes from Rongzhai cover
Rating 4.4
Fifth Series of Notes from Rongzhai Hong Mai · 2024 In the era of the Dazhong Xiangfu reign, sycophantic officials fabricated stories of the descent of the Siming Tianzun and the Heavenly Text, and thus…
Chicken Ribs Compendium cover
Rating 4.0
Chicken Ribs Compendium 庄绰 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Early intellectual forms are distinctive: religious th…
Record of Taking Refuge from Disorder in the Jiyou Year cover
Rating 3.0
Record of Taking Refuge from Disorder in the Jiyou Year 胡舜申 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms …
Records of Leaving Court in the Spring Capital cover
Rating 3.8
Records of Leaving Court in the Spring Capital 宋敏求 · 2024 Chinese traditional culture has a long intellectual lineage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Early forms o…
Treatise on Architectural Methods (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
Treatise on Architectural Methods (3 Volumes) 王贵祥 Zhonghua Book Company · 2023 Yingzao Fashi was compiled by Li Jie, director of the Directorate of Construction in the Northern Song dynasty, by imperial order, and promulgated thr…
Women of the Literati Class in the Song Dynasty cover
Rating 4.1
Women of the Literati Class in the Song Dynasty 铁爱花 New Star Press · 2022 In the Song dynasty, the class of scholar-officials expanded as never before, and the number of women within this class grew accordingly. This book cl…
Brush Talks from Dream Brook cover
Rating 4.6
Brush Talks from Dream Brook Shen Kuo / 金良年 Zhonghua Book Company · 2021 Dream Pool Essays consists of twenty-six juan, with three juan of Supplementary Essays and 11 additional entries in Further Essays, totaling 609 entri…
A Study of the Vocabulary of Song Dynasty Chinese-Language Social Documents Unearthed at Khara-Khoto (Hardcover) cover
Rating 3.8
A Study of the Vocabulary of Song Dynasty Chinese-Language Social Documents Unearthed at Khara-Khoto (Hardcover) 邵天松 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 This book studies the vocabulary of Song dynasty Chinese social documents unearthed at Khara-Khoto, statistically analyzing words of different natures…
The Three Sui Quell the Demons cover
Rating 4.0
The Three Sui Quell the Demons Luo Guanzhong Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2020 The Three Sui Quash the Demons' Revolt deals mostly with strange and uncanny happenings in the human world and says little of immortals, spirits, or m…
The Great Song Has Warmth cover
Rating 3.8
The Great Song Has Warmth 楼惠子 Haitian Publishing House · 2020 This is an essay-style popular history for general readers, well suited to a broad audience. Centered on the people and events of the Song dynasty, it…
Information Dissemination and Control in the Song Dynasty: An Examination Centered on Rumors (Hardcover) cover
Rating 3.8
Information Dissemination and Control in the Song Dynasty: An Examination Centered on Rumors (Hardcover) 方燕 Zhonghua Book Company · 2020 In Song dynasty studies, the control of information supply through institutional channels has drawn increasing scholarly attention, while research on …