Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China - Softcover

 
9780824829056: Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0824829050 ISBN 13: 9780824829056
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004

Synopsis

This text presents a broad and in-depth analysis of the Chinese state of Chu, focusing on the years 700 to 200 BC. It traces the evolution of the Chu from a vassal state of Zhou, to its rise and fall as a great hegemonic kingdom, and its eventual resurgence in the early Han dynasty.

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Review

"Timely and valuable... a substantial and indeed fascinating contribution to the study of early China." - American Historical Review; "An important contribution to our understanding of the complex process of interaction, indigenous invention, assimilation and rejection by which the civilization of early imperial China was formed." - Journal of Asian Studies"

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Publisher
University of Hawai'i Press
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0824829050
ISBN 13 
9780824829056
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264
Editor
Cook Constance A., Major John S.

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