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)

In this ambitious work of political and intellectual history, Charles Hartman surveys the major sources that survive as vestiges of the official dynastic historiography of the Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279). Analyzing the narratives that emerge from these sources as products of Song political discourse, Hartman offers a thorough introduction to the texts and the political circ...(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)

The history of Chinese medicine hinges on three major turning points: the formation of canonical theory in the Han dynasty; the transformation of medicine via the integration of earlier medical theories and practices in the Song dynasty; and the impact of Western medicine from the nineteenth century onwards. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the crucial second stage ...(展开全部)

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)

The intense piety of late T'ang essays on Buddhism by literati has helped earn the T'ang its title of the "golden age of Chinese Buddhism." In contrast, the Sung is often seen as an age in which the literati distanced themselves from Buddhism. This study of Sung devotional texts shows, however, that many literati participated in intra-Buddhist debates. Others were drawn to Budd...(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)