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Tribute Of Yu
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Author : Hong Yuan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-18
Tribute Of Yu written by Hong Yuan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-18 with categories.
Yu Gong (Lord Yu''s Tributes; Tribute of Yu), which talked about Lord Yu''s flood control and zoning of the nine prefectures, was the cornerstone on which the Sinitic nation, with the three successive dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou from the same big family, was founded, and the blueprint according to which the imperial administrative layout was mapped throughout the past millennia. Yu Gong was purportedly a chapter among Xia Shu (book of the Xia dynasty) in the post-Confucius Confucian Classic Shang-shu (remotely ancient history; book of documents), that was seen in Sima Qian''s Shi-ji (historian''s records; historic records). It was taken to be a pseudepigrapha, i.e., written by Lord Yu (r. ? 2207-2198 BC per Lu Jinggui; ? 1989-1982 per the forgery bamboo annals) and his assistant Bo-yi during the era of flood-control, i.e., about 2200-2300 B.C.E. The book, however, could not have been written earlier than the Warring States time period (475-221 B.C.), and might not be part of Confucius'' abridged Shang-shu commandments, oaths, mottos and promulgations from the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou. Yu Gong neither belonged to the forgery set of the ancient version Shang-shu that was submitted to the Eastern Jinn dynasty court by Mei Yi, a series of books written by Huangfu Mi but pretentiously attributed to the long-lost Kong An''guo-collected version from the double-walls of Confucius'' mansion. Lord Yu''s flood quelling activity, which was touted in Shi-jing (Book of Poems), is corroborated by the Sui4-gong Xu bronzeware on which Yu''s flood quelling activity was inscribed with words similar to Yu Gong (Lord Yu''s Tributes). Zuo Zhuan, in Lu Lord Zhaogong''s 12th year or 530 B.C., claimed that absent Lord Yu everybody would become fish in the water. Numerous ancient classics, such as Li Zheng of Shang-shu, repeatedly talked about ''Yu ji'', i.e., Lord Yu''s footprints. Some Shang bronzeware called Xiang3ru2 (offer to Ru2/Yu) was recently discovered in Hejin of Shanxi, talking about the Shang king''s making sacrifice to Lord Yu. Namely, the oldest artifact proving Lord Yu and Xia dynasty''s existence. Additionally, there are numerous pieces of bronzeware that specifically talked about Lord Yu''s footsteps, such as Qin-gong Gui (Qin Lord Xianggong''s ''gui'' vessel), and the high lord''s overlooking the Xia land (i.e., ''nao''), such as Shi-qiang Pan bronzeware that was dated to Zhou King Gongwang''s reign. The caveat is that the original Xia people''s land could be very much restricted to the You-Xia-zhi-ju land near today''s Luoyang of Henan and on the southern bank of the Yellow River and that the famed nine prefectures could be actually the mountain area to the south of Luoyang and to the west of the Nanyang basin. This is an area eulogized by poem Song Gao as at least three fiefs of the four ordained ministers for the four tall mountains of China, , i.e., Shen-guo, Fuguo (i.e., Lv-guo), Qi and Xu3-guo states. The book could be used to debunk myths in mythogeography. While Kunlun, or Ji-shi (piled-up rocks), was not seen in The Spring & Autumn Annals, Sinitic China long ago talked about Lord Yu''s footsteps across the land and the accomplishments of flood control that averted the fate of people becoming fish on a grand scale, and on a micro scale talked about the nine ancient prefectures that were the mountain area south of the West-to-East flowing Yellow River -which implied that the Xia people had origin there before embarking on a nation-wide flood control work. The central place of Mount Kunlun, i.e., what Richard E. Strassberg claimed as axis mundi or pillar of the sky, had a much older denotation in Yu Gong as a tribe, not a mountain, and was not taken to be the center of world or the paramount sky-propping pillar of the earth till the Han-Jinn dynasties.
Tribute System And Rulership In Late Imperial China
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Author : Ralph Kauz
language : en
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2022-04-11
Tribute System And Rulership In Late Imperial China written by Ralph Kauz and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-11 with History categories.
Demanding and offering tribute is a most common feature in human societies and nothing special to China. In the course of the development of Neolithic and later societies social classes have developed where persons who achieved superior positions first could demand 'presents' or tribute from neighboring societies they defeated and then, with the assistance of sturdy 'servants' from their own people. China was certainly no exception to that principle and one of the first terms for tax was thus 'gong', tribute. In China's early, 'feudatory' social system, tribute was demanded from lower political entities, and the mutual 'political' relations were already highly developed during the Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BCE). This system of 'inner Chinese' relations became a sort of matrix when China expanded and achieved contact with countries which were more or less independent, and thus the 'tribute system' evolved. The individual case studies in this volume focus on the latest manifestations of the tribute system in late Imperial China.
Social Memory And State Formation In Early China
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Author : Min Li
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-24
Social Memory And State Formation In Early China written by Min Li and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-24 with History categories.
A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.
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Author : Stephen Little
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
written by Stephen Little and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Art categories.
A collection of photographs of strangely shaped stones thought to be infused with spiritual power, accompanied by a discussion of their influence on Chinese religion, art, and culture.
The Chinese Classics
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Author : James Legge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The Chinese Classics written by James Legge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
The Chinese Classics With A Translation Critical And Exegetical Notes Prolegomena And Copious Indexes
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Author : James Legge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The Chinese Classics With A Translation Critical And Exegetical Notes Prolegomena And Copious Indexes written by James Legge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
The Shu King
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Author : Confucius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
The Shu King written by Confucius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with China categories.
Manchuria Trade And Tribute In The Ming Dynasty A Study Of Chinese Theories And Methods Of Control Over Border Peoples
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Author : T. C. Lin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
Manchuria Trade And Tribute In The Ming Dynasty A Study Of Chinese Theories And Methods Of Control Over Border Peoples written by T. C. Lin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with China categories.
Know Your Remedies
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Author : He Bian
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-08
Know Your Remedies written by He Bian and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-08 with History categories.
"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--
The Chinese Classics With A Translation Critical And Exegetical Notes Prolegomena And Copious Indexes In Seven Volumes
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Author : James Legge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The Chinese Classics With A Translation Critical And Exegetical Notes Prolegomena And Copious Indexes In Seven Volumes written by James Legge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with China categories.