China's early empires

Introduction Michael Nylan and Michael Loewe: Part I. Archaeology: 1. Han Dynasty tomb structures and contents Susan N. Erickson 2. Two Eastern Han sites: Mixian and Houshiguo Michele Pirazzoli t'Serstevens 3. Excavated manuscripts: context and methodology Enno Giele 4. The archaeology of the outlying lands Susan Erickson and Michael Nylan 5. Urbanism Michele Pirazzoli t'Serstevens 6. The Eternal City and the City of Eternal Peace T. Corey Brennan and Hsing I-tien Appendix: major sources for Chang'an 7. Imperial tombs Michael Loewe Appendix: tombs of the Han emperors 8. Archaeology in China: a view from outside Anthony Snodgrass Part II. Administration: 9. The laws of 186 BCE Michael Loewe Appendix: legal documents 10. Administration of the family (Qihuai bisi) Michael Nylan Appendix: on the sources 11. Social distinctions, groups and privileges Michael Loewe 12. The operation of the government Michael Loewe Part III. Technical Arts: 13. Numbers, numeracy and the cosmos Christopher Cullen Appendix: nine canons 14. Divination and astrology received texts and excavated manuscripts Marc Kalinowski Appendix 1. Writings related to divination Appendix 2. Mantic practitioners 15. Manuscripts, received texts and the healing arts Li Jian and Vivienne Lo Appendix: early evidence of the healing arts 16. Yin-yang, five phases and qi Michael Nylan Appendix: correlative cosmology 17. Religious practices in Han Roel Sterckx 18. Religious change under Eastern Han and its successors some current perspectives and problems T. H. Barrett Appendix 1. Four problematic texts in the history of Daoism Appendix 2. Post-Han extra-canonical sources Part IV. Modes of Persuasion: 19. The techniques of persuasion and the rhetoric of disorder (Luan) Geoffrey Lloyd 20. Texts and authors in the Shiji Griet Vankeerberghen 21. Tropes of music and poetry: from Wudi (r. 141-87 BCE) to ca. 100 CE Martin Kern 22. The art of persuasion from 100 BCE to 100 CE Michael Nylan 23. Prose and authority 100-300 CE David Schaberg 24. Literary criticism and personal character in poetry ca. 100-300 CE Paul W. Kroll

Archaeology · Art · China · Context (archaeology) · Divination · The arts · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Classics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · 202 b.c.-220 a.d · Antiquities · han dynasty · Han dynasty, 202 B.C.-220 A.D · Qin dynasty, 221-207 B.C