Book of Donmon Teith

This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household

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 in

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual can

A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.

Together, and for the first time in any language, the 24 essays gathered in these volumes provide a composite picture of the history of religion in ancient Chin