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Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China
by Hymes, Robert P.; Schirokauer, Conrad
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- Hardcover
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- VG/G, ex-library. DJ and covers have fading at top. Stamped on text block, flyleaf and pocket in back. Pages clean
- ISBN 10
- 0520076915
- ISBN 13
- 9780520076914
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. VG/G, ex-library. DJ and covers have fading at top. Stamped on text block, flyleaf and pocket in back. Pages clean. Illustrated dj; purple cloth covers; gilt lettering spine. xiv, 437 pages. Series: Studies on China #16
Contents: Su Hsun's pragmatic statecraft / George Hatch -- State power and economic activism during the new policies, 1068-1085 : the tea and horse trade and the "green sprouts" loan policy / Paul J. Smith -- Government, society, and state : on the political visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih / Peter K. Bol -- Chu Hsi's sense of history / Conrad Schirokauer -- Community and welfare : Chu Hsi's community granary in theory and practice / Richard von Glahn -- Charitable estates as an aspect of statecraft in Southern Sung China / Linda Walton -- Moral duty and self-regulating process in Southern Sung views of famine relief / Robert P. Hymes -- The historian as critic : Li Hsin-ch'uan and the dilemmas of statecraft in Southern Sung China / John W. Chaffee -- Wei Liao-weng's thwarted statecraft / James T.C. Liu -- Chen Te-hsiu and statecraft / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-413) and index.
Contents: Su Hsun's pragmatic statecraft / George Hatch -- State power and economic activism during the new policies, 1068-1085 : the tea and horse trade and the "green sprouts" loan policy / Paul J. Smith -- Government, society, and state : on the political visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih / Peter K. Bol -- Chu Hsi's sense of history / Conrad Schirokauer -- Community and welfare : Chu Hsi's community granary in theory and practice / Richard von Glahn -- Charitable estates as an aspect of statecraft in Southern Sung China / Linda Walton -- Moral duty and self-regulating process in Southern Sung views of famine relief / Robert P. Hymes -- The historian as critic : Li Hsin-ch'uan and the dilemmas of statecraft in Southern Sung China / John W. Chaffee -- Wei Liao-weng's thwarted statecraft / James T.C. Liu -- Chen Te-hsiu and statecraft / Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-413) and index.
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- Title
- Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China
- Author
- Hymes, Robert P.; Schirokauer, Conrad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/G, ex-library. DJ and covers have fading at top. Stamped on text block, flyleaf and pocket in back. Pages clean
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520076915
- ISBN 13
- 9780520076914
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Congresses. ; China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Congresses. ; ;
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