Brill Problems of Han Administration: Ancestral Rites, Weights and Measures, and the Means of Protest: 33 (China Studies, 33)

Product Description China's early emperors must pay their respects to their predecessors in the correct form; the conduct of government and commercial practice depended on a generally accepted system of weights and measures; critics needed a secure means of expressing their views. Review "Loewe's three-part study informs us about three aspects of the forms and workings of power during the Han period, in the Xin interregnum, and beyond. Anyone with an interest in the time or in the specific topics Loewe treats will gain from reading this book." -Charles Sanft, University of Tennesee, Knoxville, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 139.4 (2019) About the Author Michael Loewe, PhD, served as University Lecturer in Chinese Studies at Cambridge from 1963 to 1990. His publications range from Records of Han Administration (1967) to Dong Zhongshu, a 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu (2011).