Excursions in Sinology
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Harvard University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge |
Publication Dates: | 1969. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Harvard-Yenching Institute studies ; 24 |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 248 p.: illus., (2 fold., part col.) ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: | 019626569X |
Index Number: | K207 |
CLC: | K207 |
Call Number: | K207/Y22/ |
Contents: |
Bibliographical footnotes. The concept of pao as a basis for social relations in China.--Female rulers in imperial China.--The concept of "free" and "bound" in spoken Chinese.--The examples of early tortoise-shell inscriptions.--Notes on Maspero's Les documents chinois de la troisième expédition de Sir Aurel Stein en Asie centrale.--A theory about the titles of the Twenty-four dynastic histories.--The organization of Chinese official historiography: principles and methods of the standard histories from the T'ang through the Ming dynasty.--A "posthumous letter" from the Chin emperor to the Khitan emperor in 942.--Marginalia to the Yüan tien-chang.--A note on the so-called TLV mirrors and the game liu-po.--An additional note on the ancient game liu-po.--An inscribed Han mirror discovered in Siberia.--Chinese calligraphy.--Economic aspects of public works in imperial China. |