Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chine...(展开全部)

张磊夫（Rafe de Crespigny），澳大利亚著名汉学家、历史学家。生于1936年，先后就读于英国剑桥大学、澳大利亚国立大学，现为澳大利亚国立大学亚太学院终身讲座教授、澳大利亚国立大学学园行馆荣誉成员，是当代澳大利亚史学界研究中国东汉及魏晋史的先驱，国际汉学研究领域儒莲奖获得者。主要代表作：《国之枭雄：曹操传》（中译本）等。

In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)

In the Later Han period the region covered by the modern provinces of Gansu, southern Ningxia, eastern Qinghai, northern Sichuan, and western Shaanxi, was a porous frontier zone between the Chinese regimes and their inner Asian neighbours, not fully incorporated into the Chinese realm until the first century BCE. Not surprisingly the region had a large concentration of men of m...(展开全部)

《剑桥中国秦汉史》（1986年出版，1992年出版中译本）第三章《王莽，汉之中兴，后汉》由毕汉思执笔，主要应用了他自己《汉代的中兴》四卷本（Hans Bielenstein《The Restoration of the Han Dynasty, with Prolegomena on the Historiography of the Hou Han Shu》）的成果，四卷本分别出版于1954，1959，1967，1979，其中第一卷由博士论文改编而成，主要分两大部分，第一部分是对东汉史料的梳理；第二部分切入正题，从王莽改革说起，共分七章，分别是王莽改制、早期叛乱、南阳起事、新市平林下江军、赤眉、王莽败亡，汉代中兴。第四卷实际分成两本书，一是先于1976年出版的《东汉的洛阳》，二是被收入《剑桥文史丛刊》，出版于1980年的《汉代官僚制度》（《The ...(展开全部)

The Second Edition of A History of the Later Roman Empire features extensive revisions and updates to the highly-acclaimed, sweeping historical survey of the Roman Empire from the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 to the death of Heraclius in 641. Features a revised narrative of the political history that shaped the late Roman Empire Includes extensive changes to the chapters o...(展开全部)

This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a cent...(展开全部)

This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the establishment of the Ch'in empire in 221 BC and ends with the abdication of the last Han emperor in AD 220. Spanning four centuries, this period witnessed major evolutionary changes in almost every aspect of China's development, being particularly notable for the emergence and growth of a cent...(展开全部)

Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient China from the emergence of writing ca. 1250 BC to the collapse of the first major imperial dynasty in 220 AD. It is a multi-faceted tale of changing gods and rituals that includes the emergence of a form of “secular humanis...(展开全部)