Chang''an 26 Bce - An Augustan Age in China

Michael Nylan is professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Griet Vankeerberghen is associate professor of history at McGill University. Other contributors are Miranda Brown, Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Luke Habberstad, Huang Yijun, David Knechtges, Jurij Kroll, Arlen Lian, Liu Tseng-kuei, Michael Loewe, Carlos Nore¿a, Tang Xiaofeng, Tian Tian, Hans van Ess, Shao-yun Yang, and Zhang Jihai.

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Edited by Michael Nylan and Griet Vankeerberghen

Summary

During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. This book deals with this topic.

Product details

• Authors: Michael (EDT)/ Vankeerberghen Nylan, Michael Vankeerberghen Nylan
• Assisted by: Michael Nylan (Editor), Griet Vankeerberghen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9780295994055
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99405-5
• No. of pages: 656
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Samuel and Althea Stroum Books; Chang'an 26 BCE
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous