Chinese history : a manual
This edition has been enlarged to include the Republican period, nonverbal salutations, weights and measures, money and furniture. Chapters on language, etymology, people, geogrpahy, chronology, warfare, leisbu, food and chinese world order have been revised.
Print Book, English, 2000
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Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2000
Student Collection
xxiv, 1181 pages ; 24 cm.
9780674002470, 9780674002494, 0674002474, 0674002490
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Introduction: Recent Historiographical Trends
Center and Periphery
Periodization
The Dynasties
Basics
Language
Dictionaries
People
Geography
Chronology
Telling the Time
Statistics
Guides and Encyclopaedias
Locating Books
Locating Secondary Sources
Libraries
Pre-Qin Sources
Archaeology
Pre-Qin Archaeology
Prehistoric Signs and Symbols
Oracle-Bone Inscriptions
The Characters: Evolution and Structure
Epigraphy
From Bamboo Strips to Printed Books
Excavated and Transmitted Texts. Historical Genres
Primary and Secondary Sources
Annals
Standard Histories
Topically Arranged Histories
Miscellaneous Histories
Government Institutions
Official Communications
Law
War
Other Primary Sources
Myth and Religion
Literary Anthologies and Collected Works
Leishu
Biji
Philosophical Works
Popular Literature
Agriculture, Food, and the Environment
Medicine
Technology and Science
Calligraphy, Painting, and Music
Women's Studies
Non-Han Peoples (Inside China)
Non-Han Peoples (Outside China)
Foreign Accounts of China V Primary Sources by Period
Introduction: Guides
Qin and Han
Wei, Jin, Nan-Bei Chao
Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties
Song
Liao, Xi Xia, Jin, and Yuan
Ming
Qing
The Republic
Some terminology and Chinese book titles also in Chinese characters