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Chinese history : a manual
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"A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, with discussions of over 2,500 primary sources and reference wor...
"A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, with discussions of over 2,500 primary sources and reference works and a selection of 500 of the most outstanding contributions of modern scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Endymion Wilkinson
- Format
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- Languages
- English, Chinese
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 1068 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674123779, 0674123778, 9780674123786, 0674123786
- OCLC
- ocm38438876
- Some terminology and Chinese book titles also in Chinese characters.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- In English.
- I. Basics. 1. Language. 2. Dictionaries. 3. People. 4. Geography. 5. Chronology. 6. Telling the Time. 7. Statistics. 8. Guides and Encyclopaedias. 9. Locating Primary Sources. 10. Locating Secondary Sources. 11. Libraries -- II. Pre-Qin Sources. 12. Introduction. 13. Archaeology. 14. Pre-Oracle Bone Signs and Symbols. 15. Oracle-Bone Inscriptions. 16. The Characters: Evolution and Structure. 17. Epigraphy. 18. The Earliest Manuscripts. 19. Textual Sources -- III. Historical Genres. 20. Primary and Secondary Sources. 21. Annals. 22. Standard Histories. 23. Topically Arranged Histories. 24. Miscellaneous Histories. 25. Official Communications. 26. Government Institutions. 27. Penal and Administrative Law. 28. Army Administration, Warfare and Uprisings -- IV. Literary and Other Primary Sources. 29. Leishu. 30. Anthologies and Collected Works. 31. Biji. 32. Philosophical Works. 33. Myth and Religion. 34. Popular Literature. 35. Agriculture, Food and the Environment. 36. Medicine. 37. Technology and Science. 38. Painting, Calligraphy and Music. 39. Women's Studies. 40. Non-Han Peoples (Inside China). 41. Non-Han Peoples (Outside China). 42. Foreign Accounts of China -- V. Primary Sources by Period. 43. Introduction: Guides. 44. Qin, Han. 45. Wei, Jin, Nan-Bei Chao. 46. Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties. 47. Song. 48. Liao, Xi-Xia, Jin and Yuan. 49. Ming. 50. Qing