Technical arts in the Han histories : tables and treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu
Title:
Technical arts in the Han histories : tables and treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Shi ji.
Han shu.
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Author:
Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, editor
ISBN:
9781438485430
Publication Information:
Albany : SUNY Press, c2021.
Physical Description:
xi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Contents:
Introduction / Land tenure and the decline of imperial government in Eastern Han / Water control and policy-making in the Shiji and Hanshu / The Hanshu geographic treatise on the Eastern Capital / Celestial signs in three historical treatises / On Hanshu "Wuxing zhi" and Ban Gu's project / Western Han sacrifices to Taiyi / Writing abstractly in mathematical texts from early imperial China / Commentarial episodes in early Chinese medicine: an experiment in decentering the standard histories / Narratives of decline and fragmentation, and the Hanshu bibliographic taxonomies of technical arts
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 11200209 T27.C5 T43 os2 yh