Chinese History: A ManualEndymion Porter Wilkinson, Scholar and Diplomat (Eu Ambassador to China 1994-2001) Endymion Wilkinson Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2000 - 1181 pages Since publication of the first edition in 1998, Chinese History: A Manual has become an indispensable guide to researching the civilization and history of China. Updated through January 2000, the second edition discusses some 4,300 primary, secondary, and reference works, an increase of 1,500 titles over the first edition. The temporal coverage has been expanded to include the Republican period; sections on nonverbal salutations, weights and measures, money, and furniture have been added; the chapters on language, etymology, people, geography, chronology, warfare, leishu, food, and the Chinese world order have been thoroughly revised; and the subject index has been enlarged to include 2,500 technical terms. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - xuebi - LibraryThingThis book is essential for any sinologist or academic working on China. Wilkinson outlines key historical themes and matters such as understanding Chinese names, weights and measures, currency, time ... Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
Introduction | 1 |
The Dynasties | 10 |
Conversion of Historic Values 243 19 The Muo Conversion of Historic Values | 19 |
Early Bilingual Dictionaries 9293 | 41 |
The Number of Characters | 45 |
Language | 50 |
Component Parts of Characters | 53 |
Dictionaries | 60 |
Annals | 495 |
Standard Histories | 501 |
Monographs in the Standard Histories | 512 |
Topically Arranged Histories | 516 |
Miscellaneous Histories | 518 |
Government Institutions | 522 |
Huiyao | 523 |
Shitong tin | 524 |
Definitions of Dao | 70 |
The Ages of | 99 |
SelfDeprecatory Expressions and Honorific Salutations | 104 |
The Origins of the Names of the Provinces | 137 |
The Contents of Local Gazetteers | 155 |
The Tiangan F and the Dizhi tiež | 176 |
The Ganzhi F Cycle | 177 |
The Twelve Animal Signs | 184 |
The Jieqi e System | 186 |
Telling the Time | 198 |
Chinese Hours in Imperial Times 12 chen E 21112 | 211 |
The Compass Names for the 24 Hours | 213 |
Big Numbers | 221 |
Very Small Numbers | 224 |
PreQin | 236 |
QinQing | 237 |
Conversion of Historic Values | 238 |
Locating Books | 261 |
The History Branch in the Siku Classification | 270 |
Dynastic Bibliographies | 272 |
Locating Secondary Sources | 293 |
Archaeology 341 12 Archaeology | 345 |
PreQin Archaeology | 356 |
Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cultures | 359 |
Prehistoric Signs and Symbols | 373 |
OracleBone Inscriptions | 389 |
Evolution and Structure | 407 |
Main Script Forms | 408 |
Modern Movable Typefaces | 410 |
Epigraphy | 427 |
From Bamboo Strips to Printed Books | 444 |
Excavated and Transmitted Texts | 454 |
Main Textual Sources for PreQin History 46571 | 465 |
The Shisanjing te ka Thirteen Classics | 476 |
The Classics Branch in the Siku Classification | 478 |
Historical Genres | 481 |
Primary and Secondary Sources | 483 |
Archives and Other Collections of Original Documents | 487 |
The Standard Histories 50305 | 493 |
The Qing Examination System | 529 |
Official Communications | 532 |
Law | 539 |
War | 554 |
Other Primary Sources | 565 |
Myth and Religion | 567 |
Literary Anthologies and Collected Works | 593 |
Leishu | 601 |
The Imperial Encyclopaedia 43 60607 | 605 |
Biji | 610 |
Philosophical Works | 613 |
Popular Literature | 617 |
Agriculture Food and the Environment | 625 |
Medicine | 658 |
Technology and Science | 667 |
Calligraphy Painting and Music | 686 |
Womens Studies | 697 |
NonHan Peoples Inside China | 707 |
NonHan Peoples Outside China | 721 |
NonHan Peoples and Countries in the Histories 73637 | 736 |
Foreign Accounts of China | 750 |
Primary Sources by Period | 773 |
Guides | 775 |
Qin and Han | 780 |
Wei Jin NanBei Chao | 808 |
Sui Tang and Five Dynasties | 818 |
Song | 844 |
Liao Xi Xia Jin and Yuan | 862 |
Libraries | 874 |
Ming | 879 |
Qing | 898 |
The Republic | 981 |
Publishers | 1053 |
| 1065 | |
| 1081 | |
| 1103 | |
Subject Index | 1159 |
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Chinese History: A Manual Volume 52 de Harvard Yenching Institute Cambridge, Mass: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series Numéro 52 de Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series, ISSN 0073-084X |
| Auteurs | Endymion Porter Wilkinson, Scholar and Diplomat (Eu Ambassador to China 1994-2001) Endymion Wilkinson |
| Collaborateur | Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.). Harvard University Asia Center |
| Édition | illustrée, révisée |
| Éditeur | Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0674002490, 9780674002494 |
| Longueur | 1181 pages |
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