In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together t...(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)

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

许田波，现为美国圣母大学政治学系助理教授。她2000年毕业于美国哥伦比亚大学政治学系，获博士学位，并曾先后获得哈佛大学约翰·奥林战略研究所、斯坦福大学国际安全与合作中心、圣母大学海伦·凯洛格国际研究所、哈里·弗兰克·古根海姆基金会和世界政治研究所的研究资助。

By the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)--deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first Daoist religion was built. Both xian and those who aspired to this exalted status ...(展开全部)

In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their...(展开全部)

This is an ambitious comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.Julia C. Strauss argues that accounting for these two variants of the Chinese state solely in terms of their diverg...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/regional-history-after-1500/early-china-social-and-cultural-history?format=PB#bookPeople 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chinese society and culture are all to be found in this formative period of Chinese civilization...(展开全部)

Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the Nile and the Yellow River—and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast emp...(展开全部)