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Category: Qin-Han

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Exemplary Women

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A new translation of the Lienu zhuan is out, under the title Exemplary Women of Early China The book was compiled by Liu Xiang, mostly from older sources, so it...

Archaeology/China/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

What if it's a fake? What if it isn't?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Jeremiah Jenne pointed me to this most wonderful bit of French nonsense: Jean Levi’s claim that the terracotta army is a modern forgery. These famous clay...

Archaeology/Books/China/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

Monumental Histories

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...

Books/China/Classics/English/Qin-Han

Huainanzi

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Columbia University Press is publishing a complete translation of the Huainanzi, a Han-dynasty compendium of philosophy and statecraft which has been of great i...

China/English/Qin-Han

Weird Orientalism

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The kids and I have been playing a game called Great Wall of China, which is a German board game1 (actually a card game) designed by Reiner Knizia, who judging ...

China/English/Qin-Han/Teaching

Student Protests in Han China

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

June is the month to blog about student protests in China. There have been a lot of them, and like other types of protesters Chinese students often consciously ...

China/English/Historiography/Qin-Han/Religion/Teaching

Male and female lightly engaged in erotic excess

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The behavior of the people, the cosmic order, and the stability of the state were all linked in traditional Chinese political theory. Disorder in one would lead...

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