Windows on the Chinese World

Reflections by Five Historians
Herausgeber: Ho, Clara Wing-Chung

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The value of this collection lies in its linking together of a group of internationally renowned scholars who are at the forefront of their fields to present some of their recent findings on different historical issues. By covering different topics and periods, this volume is representative of contemporary Western scholarship in Chinese history.

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Produktdetails

• AsiaWorld
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780739127698
• ISBN-10: 0739127691
• Artikelnr.: 24886212

Autorenporträt

Edited by Clara Wing-chung Ho - Contributions by Patricia Buckley Ebrey; Benjamin A. Elman; Mark Elvin; Josephine Fox; Susan Mann and Edward L. Shaughnessy

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Chronologies of Ancient China: A
Critique of the "Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology" Project Chapter 3 2. The
Politics of Imperial Collecting in the Northern Song Period Chapter 4 3.
Who is Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit Scientific and Technical
Transmission from Europe to China in the Eighteenth Century? Chapter 5 4.
Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the Lower Yangzi Valley during the Later
Eighteenth Century Chapter 6 5. Why Women Were Not a Problem in
Nineteenth-Century Chinese Thought