Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China 9780824843205

Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China 0824843207, 9780824843205

Why do we spend so much on health services, and levels of treatment do not improve? Why do we spend so much on education

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Writing Women in Late Imperial China 9780804765916

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship ha

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Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial Rome 0299118045, 9780299118044

Wit has many uses in political discourse—to entertain, to underscore or unmask, to hinder or enhance insight. Wit and th

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Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan 1501336045, 9781501336041

Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan analyzes the complicated relationship between h

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Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past 9780674063266

Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But w

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Writing history in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past 9780674061521, 9780674063266

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China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) [2] 0674060350

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces

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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.

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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.

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Alternative Representations of the Past: The Politics of History in Modern China 9783110676136, 9783110662153

The relationship between the Chinese nation and its recent past has been fraught with contradictions and tensions. This

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