The politics of the past in early China / Vincent S. Leung. [electronic resource]
The politics of the past in early China / Vincent S. Leung. [electronic resource]
The politics of the past in early China / Vincent S. Leung. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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English
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1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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Introduction. Beyond didacticism : methods and perspectives -- Time out of joint : uses of the past from the Western Zhou to the early Warring States -- A parenthetical past : deep history and anti-history in the late Warring States -- Specter of the past : bureaucratic amnesia under the rise of the...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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England
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2019.
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Why did the past matter so greatly in ancient China? How did it matter and to whom? This is an innovative study of how the past was implicated in the long transition of power in early China, as embodied by the decline of the late Bronze Age aristocracy and the rise of empires over the first millenium BCE. Engaging with a wide array of historical ma...
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The politics of the past in early China / Vincent S. Leung. [electronic resource]
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74VKaz0L4Aod
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0L4Aod
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1-108-66745-7
1-108-61919-3
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931
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991024402514502626
