Mark Edward Lewis Books
The Flood Myths Of Early China (Series In Chinese Philosophy And Culture) (SUNY Series In Chinese Philosophy And Culture)
By Mark Edward Lewis, Mark Alun Lewis, Mark Alun Lewis, Mark Edward Lewis
Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions.
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin And Han
In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamenta...
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China Between Empires: The Northern And Southern Dynasties
By Mark Edward Lewis, Mark A. Lewis
After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that...
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China Between Empires: The Northern And Southern Dynasties
By Mark Edward Lewis, Mark Alun Lewis, Timothy Brook
after The Collapse Of The Han Dynasty In The Third Century Ce, China Divided Along A North-south Line. Mark Lewis Traces The Changes That Both Underlay And Resulted From This Split In A Period That...
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China’S Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty
The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creat...
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The Flood Myths Of Early China
By Mark Edward Lewis, Mark Alun Lewis, Mark Alun Lewis, Mark Edward Lewis
Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. Thi...
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