This is the first book in any language to inquire into the emergence of childhood as a topic of significant cultural attention in Han times, as expressed in the

This is an interdisciplinary collection of articles analyzing seven classic premodern Chinese texts that are provided in translation.

Shows how recent archaeological discoveries have enriched our perception of the cultural history of China in the Classical era.

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for i

The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan is the biography of the most important statesmen and political thinkers of the Eastern Zhou dynasty China: Yan Ying (