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Chinese Men's Costumes Through the Dynasties
Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2025
Taking the evolution of garment structure as its thread, this book systematically traces men’s clothing from the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing d…
The Xia Dynasty: Heaven Worship and the Transformation of Huaxia
Guangxi Normal University Press · 2025
Did the Xia dynasty really exist? Was Yu's taming of the floods myth or history? Why did Tai Kang lose the kingdom? Taking "heaven worship" as its thr…
A General History of Egypt 1: From Prehistoric Egypt to the Sixteenth Dynasty
Chongqing Publishing House · 2025
Drawing on archaeological discoveries in Egypt, citing ancient historians such as Manetho and Josephus, and referencing the research of modern Egyptol…
Blending and Coexistence: Xixia Ceramics and Social Life
Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025
From the perspective of design studies, this book attempts a multidimensional description of the characteristics of Xixia ceramics, uncovering the inf…
Studies on the Ancient Yan-Liao Roads and Tribal Fang States
Liaohai Publishing House · 2025
This book is an archaeological and historical-geographical monograph on ancient transportation routes and tribal polities in the Yan-Liao (western Lia…
Han Looms Weaving Han Brocade: A Restoration Study of the Laoguanshan Jacquard Loom and the Niya 'Five-Star Brocade'
Shanghai Scientific & Technical Publishers · 2025
At the end of 2012, four loom models and related artifacts were unearthed from a Western Han tomb at Laoguanshan in Chengdu. They are the only drawloo…
Historical Memory and Archaeological Discoveries
The Commercial Press · 2023
This book is the proceedings of the Jusheng Forum seminar "Historical Memory and Archaeological Discovery: The Discovery and Study of Qin and Han Sacr…
Alexander of Macedon
民主与建设出版社 · 2022
This book is a landmark among the many biographies of Alexander. Drawing on more than a century of Alexandrian scholarship, Peter Green makes full use…
Sites and Military Layout of the Western Xia Military Commands
Zhonghua Book Company · 2022
The Jianjunsi (Military Supervision Commands) were important regional administrative divisions of the Western Xia, characterized by a combination of m…
Tracing China to Its Sources
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022
This book is by the renowned archaeologist Xu Hong. Grounded in China's formative period, it considers from a macro perspective the formation of Chine…
An Archaeological History of Seals
Zhonghua Book Company · 2020
The making and use of seals is a ubiquitous cultural phenomenon in Chinese society; a few characters carry traces of many kinds of history. From the S…
Talking About Fusang Across Time and Space, Two Thousand Years at a Glance: Also Discussing Xu Fu and the Eastward Spread of Civilization in His Era
民主与建设出版社 · 2020
This is a popular history of Sino-Japanese relations. It ranges from the savage age of more than two thousand years ago, through Japan's adoption of c…
Xia, Shang and Zhou: From Myth to Historical Fact
Shanghai Classics Publishing House · 2020
This book covers a wide range of topics, but its main focus is on several questions: the history prior to the Shang Empire, the formation of the Shang…
Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines
Project Gutenberg · 2019
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
A Study of Han Mirror Culture (Volumes 1 and 2)
Peking University Press · 2025
Bronze mirrors are a remarkably distinctive class of artifacts. Among mirrors from successive dynasties, those of Han manufacture are especially rich …
Four Thousand Years of Egypt
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019
This book is Joann Fletcher's magnum opus and the original companion volume to the BBC television series on ancient Egypt, which gives it the objectiv…
History of Chinese Civilization (Volume 1)
Peking University Press · 2025
This book is a multidisciplinary academic work organized and written by the Institute of Chinese Studies at Peking University. It advances the view th…