We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
£63.15
SUNY PRESS Technical Arts in the Han Histories: Tables and Treatises in the Shiji and Hanshu (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
Price data last checked 50 day(s) ago - refreshing...
Price History & Forecast
Last 41 days • 41 data points (No recent data available)
Price Distribution
Price distribution over 41 days • 2 price levels
Current Price
Price Analysis
Most common price: £64 (33 days, 80.5%)
Price range: £63 - £64
Price levels: 2 different prices over 41 days
Description
The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China. While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life was generally predicated on acquiring several forms of technical knowledge. Recent archaeological finds have brought renewed attention to the use of technical manuals and mantic techniques within a huge range of discrete contexts, pushing historians to move beyond the generalities offered by past scholarship. To explore these uses, Technical Arts in the Han Histories delves deeply into the rarely studied "Treatises" and "Tables" compiled for the first two standard histories, the Shiji (Historical Records) and Hanshu (History of Han), important supplements to the better-known biographical chapters, and models for the inclusion of technical subjects in the twenty-three later "Standard Histories" of imperial China. Indeed, for a great many aspects of life in early imperial society, they constitute our best primary sources for understanding complex realities and perceptions. The essays in this volume seek to explain how different social groups thought of, disseminated, and withheld technical knowledge relating to the body, body politic, and cosmos, in the process of detailing the preoccupations of successive courts from Qin through Eastern Han in administering the localities, the frontier zones, and their numerous subjects (at the time, roughly one-quarter of the world's population).
Product Specifications
- Brand
- SUNY PRESS
- Format
- Hardcover
- ASIN
- 1438485433
- Domain
- Amazon UK
- Release Date
- 01 November 2021
- Listed Since
- 02 February 2021
Barcode
No barcode data available
Similar Products You Might Like
92% match
An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (China Academic Library)
Springer
£85.08
07 Mar 2026
91% match
Narrative Devices in the Shiji: Retelling the Past (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
State University of New York Press
£61.00
12 Feb 2026
91% match
An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture (China Academic Library)
Springer
£82.17
20 Feb 2026
91% match
The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Center and Periphery in Early China: Frontier, Immigration, and Empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D. 157 v. 2
University of Michigan Press
£66.56
19 Apr 2026
91% match
Monographs in Tang Official Historiography: Perspectives from the Technical Treatises of the History of Sui (Sui shu): 3 (Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 3)
Springer
£89.99
10 Jan 2026
91% match
Classics and Interpretations: The Hermeneutic Traditions in Chinese Culture
Routledge
£43.99
19 Feb 2026
91% match
Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
State University of New York Press
£87.50
27 Feb 2026
91% match
The Organization of Imperial Workshops during the Han Dynasty
Independently Published
£43.91
09 Feb 2026
91% match
Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200 - 600 (Spatial Habitus: Making & Meaning in Asia's Architecture)
University of Hawaii Press
£46.89
15 Feb 2026
91% match
Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest: 33 (China Studies, 33)
Brill
£101.40
08 Mar 2026
91% match
Sun Pin: Military Methods (History & Warfare (Paperback))
Routledge
£46.99
07 Mar 2026
91% match
The Huainanzi: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, by Liu An, King of Huainan (Translations from the Asian Classics)
Columbia University Press
£59.85
28 Jan 2026
91% match
The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World
Oxford University Press
£57.31
11 Jan 2026
90% match
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China: 1
Indiana University Press
£35.34
06 Jan 2026
90% match
Springer - Historic Monuments of Mount Songshan Architecture
Springer
£108.62
28 Feb 2026
90% match
The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China (Oxford Studies in the Archaeology of Ancient States): From the Bronze Age to the Han Empire
Oxford University Press
£33.35
07 Mar 2026
90% match
A History of Chinese Science and Technology: Volume 1
Springer
£100.72
23 Feb 2026
90% match
A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong (Classics of Chinese Thought)
£92.36
09 Dec 2025
90% match
Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field
Springer
£107.43
07 Mar 2026
90% match
History of Science, History of Text: 238 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 238)
Springer
£162.32
10 Mar 2026
90% match
Chan-Kuo Ts'e: Volume 77 (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies)
University of Michigan Press
£68.95
23 Feb 2026
90% match
The Classic of Changes in Cultural Context: A Textual Archaeology of the Yi Jing (Cambria Sinophone World)
Cambria Press
£83.99
10 Mar 2026
90% match
Shih-Shuo Hsin-Yu: A New Account of Tales of the World (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies): 95
University of Michigan Press
£38.82
15 Feb 2026
90% match
Routledge - Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology
Routledge
£124.16
19 Apr 2026