Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China’s early empires. Religious rites due to an e

In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme a

The political and cultural power of Confucianism is nowhere more apparent than in ritual. Confucian-educated officials proficient in Ritual Learning shape the r