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Chinese history
China:
A History
By Harold M. Tanner
3/2009 624pp. $24.95 pa.
ISBN 978-0-87220-915-2
exam price: $4.00

A 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
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Phone: (317) 635-9250 • Fax: (317) 635-9292 Introduction: The Lay of the Land and the Chapter 9: A Model Government for the
Toll-free fax in the U.S. and Canada: 1 (800) 783-9213 Origins of the Chinese People Ages: The Early to Mid-Ming Dynasty
Chapter 10: Wealth and Instability:
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The Qing Dynasty to 1799
Chapter 1: From Myth to History: The Beginnings
Chapter 12: The Qing Dynasty’s
hackett publishing, co. of the Chinese State and Culture in the Xia,
Shang, and Western Zhou Dynasties
19th-Century Crises

Chapter 2: The Age of Fighting and Philosophy: Part IV: The Road to wealth
The Eastern Zhou Dynasty and power, 1911 - present
Chapter 3: From Feudal States to Bureaucratic
Chapter 13: Struggling to Build a Nation:
Empire: The Qin and Western Han Dynasties
The 1911 Revolution and the Early
Chapter 4: The Decline and Fall of Eastern
Republic, 1912-26
Civilization: The Xin and Eastern Han Dynasties
Chapter 14: Years of Turmoil: China Under
Part II: Cultural interaction Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang Government
and transformation, 220 - 1368 Chapter 15: The People’s Republic of China:
The Mao Era
Chapter 5: The Age of Warriors and Buddhists
Chapter 16: The March toward Wealth
The Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, and the
and Power
Period of North-South Division
Chapter 6: A Multi-Ethnic Empire: The Sui Further Readings
and Tang Dynasties Illustrations
Index
Chapter 7: Competing Suns in Heaven:
The Song and Its Neighbors
Chapter 8: China in the Mongol Empire:
The Yuan Dynasty
 Forthcoming A Tale of Two Melons
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. ISBN 978-0-87220-968-8 exam price: $3.00 2006 176 pp. $8.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-824-7 exam price: $2.00
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“Building on an apparently tiny incident in 1372, Sarah Schneewind has
“Daily Life in the Mongol Empire could readily serve as a basic history course conjured up an absorbing evocation of Chinese imperial power, the
text owing to its introductory and explanatory character . . . .The excellent ambiguity of omens, and the unpredictability of fate. This concise and
biographies, including one listing many of the translated primary source finely crafted book also provides a grand introduction to the ways
materials, ensure that this book will be an essential component in any library historians (both then and now) think, work, and present their findings.”
of the Mongol Empire.” — Jonathan Spence, Yale University
— Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China
Forthcoming By Michael Loewe
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule 2005 208 pp. $8.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-758-5 exam price: $2.00
By George Lane In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid
3/2009 272 pp. $14.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-969-5 exam price: $3.00 picture of the lives of peasants working the land, the lives of town inhabitants, and the elaborate hierarchy of
prof. price: $12.00 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
Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a
original publication of his classic work.
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 The Government of the Qin and Han Empires
emerged, and chronicles the events that led to his being named the Great Khan.
By Michael Loewe
Also included are sixteen biographical sketches, a wealth of annotated primary
2006 248 pp. $10.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-818-6 prof. price: $8.00
documents, five maps, an annotated timeline, a glossary, an annotated
bibliography and several illustrations. 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
Forthcoming
and local government; the armed forces; officials; government communications; laws of the empire control of
The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck the people and the land; controversies; and problems and weaknesses of the imperial system. Enhanced by
Translated by Peter Jackson details from recently discovered manuscripts, relevant citations from official documents, maps, a chronology
Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, by Peter Jackson and David Morgan of relevant event, and suggestions for further reading keyed to each topic, this work is an ideal introduction
9/2009 328 pp. $14.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-981-7 prof. price: $10.00 to the ways in which China’s first emperors governed.

“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. confucius mengzi
The historical introduction is comprehensive and succinct, the translation excellent and idiomatic, while the Analects Mengzi
notes clarify the text and explain why important variant readings have been chosen.” With Selections from Traditional Commentaries With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
— Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Translated by Edward Slingerland Translated, with Introduction,
2003 312 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-635-9 by Bryan W. Van Norden
2008 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-913-8
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The Four Books $12.95 pa. exam price: $3.00
The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
The Essential Analects “Hackett strikes again with an enormously useful book for
By Daniel K. Gardner Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary undergraduate instruction in Chinese philosophy. This is
2007 192 pp. $9.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-826-1 exam price: $2.00 Translated, with Introduction, the first reliable translation of the entire Mencius in many
by Edward Slingerland years. Van Norden is an insightful student of philosophy
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four and provides many valuable comments on the text and
2006 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-772-1
Books — Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance — its controversies; in addition, he furnishes the reader with
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have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. judiciously chosen examples of traditional commentary.
Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner’s comments, which This translation will be used and appreciated for decades.”
incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Laozi — Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130 -1200). The Daodejing of Laozi
Translated, with Commentary, Forthcoming
by Philip J. Ivanhoe The Essential Mengzi
Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
Butterfly Mother 2003 160 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-701-1
Translated by Bryan W. Van Norden
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Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China 9/2009 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-985-1
Translated by Mark Bender $8.95 pa. exam price: $1.00
lao-tzu
Based on a Version Compiled by Jin Dan and Ma Xueliang Tao Te Ching
2006 256 pp. $12.95 pa. ISBN 978-0-87220-849-0 prof. price: $9.50 Forthcoming
Translated, with Translators’ Preface, Glossary,
and Pronunciation Guide, by Stephen Addiss ZHUANGZI
“Talk about ‘persistent cultures’ — this translation of the great epic, mythic tellings of the Miao/Hmong Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings
and Stanley Lombardo
peoples is a window into a huge ancient soul of sustainable spirit and practice. Mark Bender’s commentary Introduction by Burton Watson With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
provides context and details and places and singers that makes it even richer. This book provides new Ink Drawings by Stephen Addiss Translated, with Introduction, by Brook Ziporyn
insights into how deeply oral recitation and performance can be embedded in a whole society, and some 1993 128 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-232-0 3/2009 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-87220-911-4
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