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Writing and Authority in Early China

Mark Edward Lewis - Literary Collections - 1999 - 560 pages
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the ...
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The Construction of Space in Early China

Mark Edward Lewis - Religion - 2012 - 514 pages
Shows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world.
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Sanctioned Violence in Early China

Mark Edward Lewis - History - 1990 - 392 pages
This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence--warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punishments, and ...
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han

Mark Edward LEWIS - History - 2009 - 333 pages
In 221 B.C. the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume ...
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China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties

Mark Edward Lewis - History - 2009 - 360 pages
After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw China's ...
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Writing and Authority in Early China

Mark Edward Lewis - History - 1999 - 556 pages
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the ...
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