The Human Tradition in Premodern China

The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Chronology
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The Royal Consort Fu Hao of the Shang, c. 1200 B.C.E.
Chapter 4 Li Si: Chancellor of the Universe
Chapter 5 Lives and Times of the Political Public at the End of the Han
Chapter 6 Biography of Guan Lu
Chapter 7 Quan Deyu and the Spread of Elite Culture in Tang China
Chapter 8 Yue Fei, 1103-1141
Chapter 9 Liu Chenweng: Ways of Being a Local Gentleman in Southern Song and Yuan China
Chapter 10 Fang Xiaoru: Moralistic Politics in the Early Ming
Chapter 11 The Eunuch Wang Zhen and the Ming Dynasty
Chapter 12 The Merchant Wang Zhen, 1424-1495
Chapter 13 Websites
Chapter 14 Index

About the author

Kenneth J. Hammond is associate professor of history at New Mexico State University.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kenneth J. Hammond (Editor), Hammond Kenneth J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2002
• EAN: 9780842029599
• ISBN: 978-0-8420-2959-9
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 232 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 322 g
• Series: The Human Tradition Around the World Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Biography: historical, political and military