Excursions in Sinology.
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute studies,; 24
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: China -- Civilization
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: The concept of pao as a basis for social relations in China.; title: Female rulers in imperial China.; title: The concept of "free" and "bound" in spoken Chinese.; title: The examples of early tortoise-shell inscriptions.; title: Notes on Maspero's Les documents chinois de la troisième expédition de Sir Aurel Stein en Asie centrale.; title: A theory about the titles of the Twenty-four dynastic histories.; title: The organization of Chinese official historiography: principles and methods of the standard histories from the T'ang through the Ming dynasty.; title: A "posthumous letter" from the Chin emperor to the Khitan emperor in 942.; title: Marginalia to the Yüan tien-chang.; title: A note on the so-called TLV mirrors and the game liu-po.; title: An additional note on the ancient game liu-po.; title: An inscribed Han mirror discovered in  Siberia.; title: Chinese calligraphy.; title: Economic aspects of public works in imperial China.