Author: Esson McDowell GalePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004500804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Discourses on Salt and Iron
Author: Kuan HuanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government monopolies
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China
Author: Esson McDowell GalePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004500804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Discourses on Salt and Iron
Author: Kuan HuanDiscourses on Salt and Iron
Author: K'uan HuanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government monopolies
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Discourses on Salt and Iron
Author: Kuan HuanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government monopolies
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Market in State
Author: Yongnian ZhengPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847344X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Uses the framework of 'market in state', to argue that the Chinese economy is state-centered, dominated by political principles over economic principles.
Harmony and War
Author: Yuan-kang WangPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231522401
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. It practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study traversing six centuries of Chinese history, Yuan-kang Wang resoundingly discredits this notion, recasting China as a practitioner of realpolitik and a ruthless purveyor of expansive grand strategies. Leaders of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) and Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) prized military force and shrewdly assessed the capabilities of China's adversaries. They adopted defensive strategies when their country was weak and pursued expansive goals, such as territorial acquisition, enemy destruction, and total military victory, when their country was strong. Despite the dominance of an antimilitarist Confucian culture, warfare was not uncommon in the bulk of Chinese history. Grounding his research in primary Chinese sources, Wang outlines a politics of power that are crucial to understanding China's strategies today, especially its policy of "peaceful development," which, he argues, the nation has adopted mainly because of its military, economic, and technological weakness in relation to the United States.
The Cambridge History of China: Volume 1, The Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 BC-AD 220
Author: Denis TwitchettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a centralized administration and imperial government. Leading historians from Asia, Europe, and America have contributed chapters that convey a realistic impression of significant political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social developments, and of the contacts that the Chinese made with other peoples at this time. As the book is intended for the general reader as well as the specialist, technical details are given in both Chinese terms and English equivalents. References lead to primary sources and their translations and to secondary writings in European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese.
Emotions across Cultures
Author: David KonstanPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110784319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
It is now recognized that emotions have a history. In this book, eleven scholars examine a variety of emotions in ancient China and classical Greece, in their historical and social context. A general introduction presents the major issues in the analysis of emotions across cultures and over time in a given tradition. Subsequent chapters consider how specific emotions evolve and change. For example, whereas for early Chinese thinkers, worry was a moral defect, it was later celebrated as a sign that one took responsibility for things. In ancient Greece, hope did not always focus on a positive outcome, and in this respect differed from what we call “hope.” Daring not to do, or “undaring,” was itself an emotional value in early China. While Aristotle regarded the inability to feel anger as servile, the Roman Stoic Seneca rejected anger entirely. Hatred and revenge were encouraged at one moment in China and repressed at another. Ancient Greek responses to tragedy do not map directly onto modern emotional registers, and yet are similar to classical Chinese and Indian descriptions. There are differences in the very way emotions are conceived. This book will speak to anyone interested in the many ways that human beings feel.
Iron and Steel in Ancient China
Author: Donald B. WagnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004096325
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and written sources in Chinese cultural history. Includes chapters on the technology of iron production based on studies of artifact microstructures.