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China:
A History
By Harold M. Tanner
3/2009 624pp. $24.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-915-2
exam price: $4.00
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deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible
introduction to the political, social, and cultural
development of imperial and modern Chinese
civilization, this volume develops a number of important
themes — such as the ethnic diversity of the early
empires, interaction with other civilizations, and the
challenge of transforming a multi-ethnic empire into a
modern nation-state — that competing editions omit
entirely or discuss only minimally.
Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
A Note on Transliterations
List of Maps
Chronology
Introduction: The Lay of the Land and the
Origins of the Chinese People
Part I: The Early Empire: Building
Institutions and Identity,
2070(?) BCE - 220 CE
Chapter 1: From Myth to History: The Beginnings
of the Chinese State and Culture in the Xia,
Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties
Chapter 2: The Age of Fighting and Philosophy:
The Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 3: From Feudal States to Bureaucratic
Empire: The Qin and Western Han Dynasties
Chapter 4: The Decline and Fall of Eastern
Civilization: The Xin and Eastern Han Dynasties
Part II: Cultural interaction
and transformation, 220 - 1368
Chapter 5: The Age of Warriors and Buddhists
The Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the
Period of North-South Division
Chapter 6: A Multi-Ethnic Empire: The Sui
and Tang Dynasties
Chapter 7: Competing Suns in Heaven:
The Song and Its Neighbors
Chapter 8: China in the Mongol Empire:
The Yuan Dynasty
Part III: A New confucian
empire, 1368 - 1911
Chapter 9: A Model Government for the
Ages: The Early to Mid-Ming Dynasty
Chapter 10: Wealth and Instability:
The Mid- and Late Ming
Chapter 11: A Manchu Empire:
The Qing Dynasty to 1799
Chapter 12: The Qing Dynasty’s
19th-Century Crises
Part IV: The Road to wealth
and power, 1911 - present
Chapter 13: Struggling to Build a Nation:
The 1911 Revolution and the Early
Republic, 1912-26
Chapter 14: Years of Turmoil: China Under
Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang Government
Chapter 15: The People’s Republic of China:
The Mao Era
Chapter 16: The March toward Wealth
and Power
Further Readings
Illustrations
Index
A Tale of Two Melons
Forthcoming
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
Emperor and Subject in Ming China
By George Lane
By Sarah Schneewind
3/2009 338 pp. $14.95 pa.
prof. price: $12.00
ISBN 978-0-87220-968-8
exam price: $3.00
“Daily Life in the Mongol Empire could readily serve as a basic history course
text owing to its introductory and explanatory character . . . .The excellent
biographies, including one listing many of the translated primary source
materials, ensure that this book will be an essential component in any library
of the Mongol Empire.”
— Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
2006
176 pp.
$8.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-824-7
exam price: $2.00
“Building on an apparently tiny incident in 1372, Sarah Schneewind has
conjured up an absorbing evocation of Chinese imperial power, the
ambiguity of omens, and the unpredictability of fate. This concise and
finely crafted book also provides a grand introduction to the ways
historians (both then and now) think, work, and present their findings.”
— Jonathan Spence, Yale University
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China
Forthcoming
By Michael Loewe
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule
2005
By George Lane
3/2009 272 pp. $14.95 pa.
prof. price: $12.00
ISBN 978-0-87220-969-5
exam price: $3.00
Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a
nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through
controlled and limited extortion. This accessible book provides an introduction
to the history and culture of the Steppe people from which Genghis Khan
emerged, and chronicles the events that led to his being named the Great Khan.
Also included are sixteen biographical sketches, a wealth of annotated primary
documents, five maps, an annotated timeline, a glossary, an annotated
bibliography and several illustrations.
Forthcoming
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck
Translated by Peter Jackson
Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, by Peter Jackson and David Morgan
9/2009
328 pp.
$14.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-981-7
prof. price: $10.00
“This is the first annotated translation to be made from the definitive Latin text published by A. van Wyngaert
in 1929, and Peter Jackson and David Morgan are to be congratulated on producing an exemplary edition.
The historical introduction is comprehensive and succinct, the translation excellent and idiomatic, while the
notes clarify the text and explain why important variant readings have been chosen.”
— Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
The Four Books
The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
By Daniel K. Gardner
2007
192 pp.
$9.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-826-1
exam price: $2.00
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four
Books — Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance —
have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century.
Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner’s comments, which
incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned
Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130 -1200).
Butterfly Mother
Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China
Translated by Mark Bender
Based on a Version Compiled by Jin Dan and Ma Xueliang
2006
256 pp.
$12.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-849-0
prof. price: $9.50
“Talk about ‘persistent cultures’ — this translation of the great epic, mythic tellings of the Miao/Hmong
peoples is a window into a huge ancient soul of sustainable spirit and practice. Mark Bender’s commentary
provides context and details and places and singers that makes it even richer. This book provides new
insights into how deeply oral recitation and performance can be embedded in a whole society, and some
fresh, stunning stories.” — Gary Snyder, author of Mountains and Rivers Without End
208 pp.
$8.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-758-5
exam price: $2.00
In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid
picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of
institutions and civil servants that sustained the vast imperial government. In a new Preface and an updated
Bibliography, Loewe calls our attention to the significance of scholarly research and discoveries since the
original publication of his classic work.
The Government of the Qin and Han Empires
By Michael Loewe
2006
248 pp.
$10.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-818-6
prof. price: $8.00
In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires
of China. Topics discussed are the seat of supreme authority; the structure of central government; provincial
and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire control of
the people and the land; controversies; and problems and weaknesses of the imperial system. Enhanced by
details from recently discovered manuscripts, relevant citations from official documents, maps, a chronology
of relevant event, and suggestions for further reading keyed to each topic, this work is an ideal introduction
to the ways in which China’s first emperors governed.
confucius
Analects
mengzi
Mengzi
With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Translated by Edward Slingerland
2003 312 pp.
ISBN 978-0-87220-635-9
$14.95 pa. exam price: $3.00
With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Translated, with Introduction,
by Bryan W. Van Norden
2008 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-913-8
$12.95 pa. exam price: $3.00
The Essential Analects
“Hackett strikes again with an enormously useful book for
undergraduate instruction in Chinese philosophy. This is
the first reliable translation of the entire Mencius in many
years. Van Norden is an insightful student of philosophy
and provides many valuable comments on the text and
its controversies; in addition, he furnishes the reader with
judiciously chosen examples of traditional commentary.
This translation will be used and appreciated for decades.”
— Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
Translated, with Introduction,
by Edward Slingerland
2006 192 pp.
ISBN 978-0-87220-772-1
$8.95 pa. exam price: $1.00
Laozi
The Daodejing of Laozi
Translated, with Commentary,
by Philip J. Ivanhoe
2003 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-701-1
$12.95 pa. exam price: $3.00
lao-tzu
Tao Te Ching
Translated, with Translators’ Preface, Glossary,
and Pronunciation Guide, by Stephen Addiss
and Stanley Lombardo
Introduction by Burton Watson
Ink Drawings by Stephen Addiss
1993 128 pp.
ISBN 978-0-87220-232-0
$8.95 pa. exam price: $1.50
Forthcoming
The Essential Mengzi
Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
Translated by Bryan W. Van Norden
9/2009 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-985-1
$8.95 pa. exam price: $1.00
Forthcoming
ZHUANGZI
Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings
With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Translated, with Introduction, by Brook Ziporyn
3/2009 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-911-4
$14.95 pa. exam price: $3.00