Defining Chu

副标题: Image and Reality in Ancient China

ISBN: 9780824829056

出版社: University of Hawaii Press

出版年: 2005-1-1

页数: 264

定价: USD 27.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 BC, is of great importance in the subsequent development Chinese culture. This book attempts a broad and in-depth analysis of this state, tracing the evolution of the Chu from a vassal state of Zhou to its rise and fall as a great hegemonic kingdom in the Warring States period and its eventual resurgence in the early Han dynasty. A translation of the "Chu Silk Manuscript", a document that has intrigued scholars since its discovery in Chansha, is appended.