Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960-1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and stone" (jinshixue), that generated collections of it...(展开全部)

Review "Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China is very impressive, extremely rich in new information about art and women in the Song. The analysis is sophisticated, theoretically informed, and smart; the prose is smooth, even elegant." Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis "This is an important book that breaks new ground in several scholarly areas and does...(展开全部)

Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Here he develops a new model for thinking about the deeper structures of governance in Song and pre-imperial China – the 'technocratic–Confucian continuum' – which challenges the prevailing perception of Confucian political dominance and offers...(展开全部)

查尔斯·哈特曼以宋代（960-1279年）为中心，对帝制中国的治理运作进行了雄心勃勃的分析。在此，他开发了一个新模型来思考宋代和前帝国中国更深层次的治理结构——“技术官僚-儒家连续体”——这挑战了普遍存在的儒家政治主导地位的看法，并提供了一种扩大宋代政治文化定义和范围以涵盖所有参与者的载体。以他广受好评的著作《宋代历史的形成：资料和叙述，公元 960-1279 年》（2021 年）为基础，对宋代宫廷进行了丰富详尽的探索，其意义超越了当前研究的时期，既可以重新思考中国君主制的性质，也可以考察政治异议的建设性可能性。 Charles Hartman presents an ambitious analysis of the workings of governance in Imperial China centered on the Song Dyna...(展开全部)

Society and the Supernatural in Song China is at once a meticulous examination of spirit-possession and exorcism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a social history of the full panoply of China's religious practices and practitioners at the moment when she was poised to dominate the world economy. Although the Song dynasty (960-1276) is often identified with the establ...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/history/east-asian-history/reunification-china-peace-through-war-under-song-dynasty The Song dynasty (960–1279) has been characterized by its pre-eminent civil culture and military weakness. This groundbreaking work dem onstrates that the civil dominance of the eleventh century was the product of a half-century of continuous warfare...(展开全部)

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from socia...(展开全部)

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from socia...(展开全部)

Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multim...(展开全部)

Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, the titles of paintings, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Alfreda Mur...(展开全部)