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第1卷：The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han 早期中華帝國：秦與漢

第2卷：China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties 分裂的帝國：南北朝

第3卷：Chinas Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty 世界性的帝國：唐朝

第4卷：The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China 儒家統治的時代：宋的轉型

第5卷：The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties 掙扎的帝國：元與明

第6卷：Chinas Last Empire: The Great Qing 末代中華帝國：大清

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Early Chinese Empires(History of Imperial China #1)

Author: Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press (1 Oct. 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674057341

ISBN-13: 978-0674057340

Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm

Book De*ion

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the 'classical period' of Chinese history - a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of people. 

He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: 

* the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; 

* the establishment of a common * for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; 

* the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; 

* the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. 

The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, "The Early Chinese Empires" illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism - events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.

China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China #2)

Author:Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook

Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press (1 April 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674060350

ISBN-13: 978-0674060357

Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm

Book De*ion

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. 

The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy. By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 ce, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.

China's Cosmopolitan Empire (History of Imperial China #3) 

Author: Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (3 April 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674064011

ISBN-13: 978-0674064010

Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 2.4 x 23.3 cm

Book De*ion

The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age", a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora.

The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China(History of Imperial China #4) 

Author: Dieter Kuhn, Timothy Brook

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (4 Oct. 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674062027

ISBN-13: 978-0674062023

Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 2.3 x 23.2 cm

Book De*ion

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed. With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. 

A new class of scholar-officials - products of a meritocratic examination system - took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precepts of Confucianism to a rapidly changing world. Through fiscal reforms, these elites liberalized the economy, eased the tax burden, and put paper money into circulation. Their redesigned capitals buzzed with traders, while the education system offered advancement to talented men of modest means. 

Their rationalist approach led to inventions in printing, shipbuilding, weaving, ceramics manufacture, mining, and agriculture. With a realist's eye, they studied the natural world and applied their observations in art and science. And with the souls of diplomats, they chose peace over war with the aggressors on their borders. Yet persistent military threats from these nomadic tribes - which the Chinese scorned as their cultural inferiors - redefined China's understanding of its place in the world and solidified a sense of what it meant to be Chinese. "The Age of Confucian Rule" is an essential introduction to this transformative era. "A scholar should congratulate himself that he has been born in such a time" (Zhao Ruyu, 1194).

The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties(History of Imperial China #5) 

Author: Timothy Brook

Paperback: 336 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (5 Mar. 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674072537

ISBN-13: 978-0674072534

Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm

Book De*ion

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. "The Troubled Empire" explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.

If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders.

Against this background--the first coherent ecological history of China in this period--Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.

China's Last Empire(History of Imperial China #6) 

Author:William T.Rowe, Timothy Brook

Paperback: 368 pages

Publisher: Harvard University Press; Reprint edition (4 Sept. 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0674066243

ISBN-13: 978-0674066243

Product Dimensions: 23.