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Chinese Funerary Biographies

Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on ...

Emperor Huizong

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. Art...

Chinese Autobiographical Writing

State Power in China, 900-1325

This collection provides new ways to understand how state power was exercised during the overlapp...

The Inner Quarters

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbin...

Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China

Cambridge Illustrated History of China

The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chines...

Chinese Civilization

Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With n...

Emperor Huizong

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In ...

Chu Hsi’s Family Rituals

Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manu...

Family and Property in Sung China

Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China, 1000-1940

One of the most important questions facing scholars of China is how Chinese society is held toget...