Windows on the Chinese world
Subtitle: reflections by five historians
By: Clara Wing-chung Ho ... [et al.]
Contributors: Ho, Clara Wing-chung, 1963-
Series: AsiaWorld
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780739127698; 9780739129937
Subjects: China -- Research; China -- Civilization
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Clara  Wing-chung Ho; title: Chronologies of ancient China: a critique of the Xia Shang Zhou chronology / Edward l. Shaughnessy; title: The politics of imperial collecting in the northern Song period  / Patricia Buckley Ebrey; title: Who is responsible for the limits of Jesuit scientific and technical transmission from Europe to China in the eighteenth  century / Benjamin A. Elman; title: Marriages, births, and deaths in the lower Yangzi Valley during the later eighteenth century / Mark Elvin and Josephine Fox; title: Why women were not a problem in nineteenth-century Chinese  thought / Susan Mann.