Excursions in Sinology.

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Main Author: Yang, Lien-shêng, 1914-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1969.
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute studies ; 24
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Table of Contents:
  • The concept of pao as a basis for social relations in China
  • Female rulers in imperial China
  • The concept of "free" and "bound" in spoken Chinese
  • The examples of early tortoise-shell inscriptions
  • Notes on Maspero's Les documents chinois de la troisième expédition de Sir Aurel Stein en Asie centrale
  • A theory about the titles of the Twenty-four dynastic histories
  • The organization of Chinese official historiography: principles and methods of the standard histories from the T'ang through the Ming dynasty
  • A "posthumous letter" from the Chin emperor to the Khitan emperor in 942
  • Marginalia to the Yüan tien-chang
  • A note on the so-called TLV mirrors and the game liu-po
  • An additional note on the ancient game liu-po
  • An inscribed Han mirror discovered in Siberia
  • Chinese calligraphy
  • Economic aspects of public works in imperial China.