Technical arts in the Han histories : tables and treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu /
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SUNY Press,
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Publisher Address: | Albany, NY : |
Publication Dates: | [2021] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
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Carrier Form: | xi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9781438485430 1438485433 |
Index Number: | T27 |
CLC: | N092 |
Call Number: | N092/T255 |
Contents: |
Introduction / Land tenure and the decline of imperial government in Eastern Han / Water control and policy-making in the Shiji and Hanshu / The Hanshu geographic treatise on the Eastern Capital / Celestial signs in three historical treatises / On Hanshu "Wuxing zhi" and Ban Gu's project / Western Han sacrifices to Taiyi / Writing abstractly in mathematical texts from early imperial China / Commentarial episodes in early Chinese medicine: an experiment in decentering the standard histories / Narratives of decline and fragmentation, and the Hanshu bibliographic taxonomies of technical arts / |