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Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history and conventions of writing about oneself in the Chinese tradition. From poetry, letters, and diaries to statements in legal proceedings, these engaging and readable works draw us into the past and provide vivid details of life ...

This book provides an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation for general audiences and university courses alike. Written by a leading scholar and lavishly illustrated, it traces the ideas, events and individuals that have shaped Chinese culture and society.

This book provides an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation for general audiences and university courses alike. Written by a leading scholar and lavishly illustrated, it traces the ideas, events and individuals that have shaped Chinese culture and society.

Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased's biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors' longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children-people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic hi...

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Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History. The other contributors are Elad Alyagon, Song Chen, Charles Hartman, Li Huarui, Tracy Miller, Jaeyoon Song, and Cong Ellen Zhang

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A comprehensive English-language biography of Emperor Huizong that corrects the prevailing view of this ruler as a decadent political failure who lost the throne to invaders. It recasts the artistically gifted emperor as passionate and paradoxical, yet genuinely ambitious - if too much so - in pursuing glory for his flourishing realm.

Nine papers from a conference in Hacienda Heights, California, October 1989, explore the religious analogs of the momentous social and cultural changes during the T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) dynasties in China. They consider changes in Buddhism, Taoism, local gods, office-holding gods, and n

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington and author of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey is professor of history at the University of Washington. She is the author of Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. Paul Jakov Smith is professor of history at Haverford College. He is coeditor of The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History. The other contributors are Elad Alyagon, Song Chen, Charles Hartman, Li Huarui, Tracy Miller, Jaeyoon Song, and Cong Ellen Zhang

Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical educated man on the concerns of managing a family, from rearing children and arranging their marriages, to avoiding social conflict, training servants, and managing property and preserving it for the next generation.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-...

To explore the historical connections between Confucianism and Chinese society, this book examines the social and cultural processes through which Confucian texts on family rituals were written, circulated, interpreted, and used as guides to action. Weddings, funerals, and ancestral rites were central features of Chinese culture, they gave drama to transitions in people's lives and conveyed conceptions of the hierarchy of society and the inter...

Traces history and civilization of the Chinese from the classical period to the People's Republic with reference to their religion, social and economic conditions, government, and foreign relations.

Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages.

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In this sumptuously illustrated history, now in its second edition, Patricia Buckley Ebrey traces the origins of Chinese culture from prehistoric times to the present.