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Author:   Paul R. Goldin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.086kg
ISBN:  

9781138775916

ISBN 10:   1138775916
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   14 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: What Is Early Chinese History?, Paul R. Goldin Part I: Chronology 1. Main Issues in the Study of the Chinese Neolithic, Gideon Shelach-Lavi 2. Of Millets and Wheat: Diet and Health on the Central Plain of China during the Neolithic and Bronze Age, Kate Pechenkina 3. The Bronze Age before the Zhou Dynasty, Robert Bagley 4. The Western Zhou State, Li Feng 5. The Age of Territorial Lords, Chen Shen 6. The Qin Dynasty, Charles Sanft 7. The Former Han Empire, Vincent S. Leung 8. The Latter Han Empire and the End of Antiquity, Wicky W.K. Tse Part II: Topical Studies 9. The Old Chinese Language, Axel Schuessler 10. Writing, Luo Xinhui; tr. Zachary Hershey and Paul R. Goldin 11. The Spirit World, Jue Guo 12. Religious Thought, Ori Tavor 13. Political Thought, Yuri Pines 14. Food and Agriculture, Roel Sterckx 15. Warfare, Wicky W.K. Tse 16. Currency, François Thierry 17. Women in Early China: Views from the Archaeological Record, Anne Behnke Kinney 18. An Overview of the Qin-Han Legal System from the Perspective of Recently Unearthed Documents, Kyung-ho Kim and Ming-chiu Lai 19. Literature, Stephen Durrant 20. Art, Wang Haicheng 21. ""Medicine"" in Early China, Miranda Brown 22. Mathematics, Karine Chemla 23. Astronomy, David Pankenier"

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Paul R. Goldin is Professor of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His recent publications include the Dao Companion to the Philosophy of Han Fei (2012) and A Concise Companion to Confucius (2017).

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