Powers examines the art and politics of the Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) and shows that both were influenced by the rise of an educated, non-aristocratic public who questioned the authority of the ruling class at all levels.

王爱和，1986年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院民族研究所，获硕士学位。之后赴美，在哈佛大学人类学系跟随著名考古学家张光直先生（K.C.Chang）读书，1995年获得社会人类学及东亚语言文明的博士学位。毕业后曾任教于美国普渡大学（Purdue University），之后赴港，目前任教于香港大学中文系。

王爱和，1986年毕业于中国社会科学院研究生院民族研究所，获硕士学位。之后赴美，在哈佛大学人类学系跟随著名考古学家张光直先生（K.C.Chang）读书，1995年获得社会人类学及东亚语言文明的博士学位。毕业后曾任教于美国普渡大学（Purdue University），之后赴港，目前任教于香港大学中文系。

Leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the wide range of recently excavated artefacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, their combined efforts reveal the rich and multilayered interplay of text...(展开全部)

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the ful...(展开全部)

A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of key external resources - especially metal and salt - drove the dynamics of state fo...(展开全部)

This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of maps in China, centering on those found in three tombs that date from the fourth to the second century BCE and constitute the entire known corpus of early Chinese maps (ditu). More than a millennium separates them from the next available map in the early twelfth century CE. Unlike extant studies that draw heav...(展开全部)