Excursions in Sinology

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang Lien-sheng, 1914-
Published: Harvard University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge
Publication Dates: 1969.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: 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.