作者: Don J. Wyatt

Premodern Chinese described a great variety of the peoples they encountered as ‘black.’ The earliest and most frequent of these encounters were with their Southeast Asian neighbors, specifically the …

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and …

Boundaries – demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups – constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation. It is especially with reg …

Boundaries – demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups – constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation. It is especially with reg …

Boundaries – demanding physical space, enclosing political entities, and distinguishing social or ethnic groups – constitute an essential aspect of historical investigation. It is especially with reg …

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warrantin …

In premodern China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, just as in the far less culturally cohesive countries composing the West of the Middle Ages, enslavement was an assumed condition of servitude warrantin …

This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relations …