A biographical dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD).9789004156050 A biographical dictionary Biographical dictionaries — a type of encyclopedic dictionary limited to biographical information — have been written in many languages. Many attempt to cover the major personalities of a country (with limitations, such as living persons only, in Who's Who of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD). De Crespigny, Rafe. BRILL 2007 1306 pages $299.00 Hardcover Handbook of Oriental studies Noun 1. Oriental Studies - the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people Orientalism arts, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational =Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section 4: China; v.19 DS748 As a companion to Michael Loewe's 2000 dictionary of the Former Han dynasty Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 220) Second great Chinese imperial dynasty. In contrast to the preceding Qin dynasty, the Han was a period of cultural flowering. One of the greatest of the early histories, the Shiji by Sima Qian, was composed, and the fu, a poetic form that , De Crespigny (Asian studies Asian studies is a field in cultural studies that is concerned with the Asian peoples, their cultures and languages. Within the Asian sphere, Asian studies combines aspects of sociology, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in Asian traditional and industrial , Australian National U.) aspires to cite every person recorded as having lived under Later Han or, in the case of non-Chinese people, in relationship to its government. Identifies over 8,000 people in the period from the proclamation of Lui Xuan as the Gengshi Emperor to the abdication abdication, in a political sense, renunciation of high public office, usually by a monarch. Some abdications have been purely voluntary and resulted in no loss of prestige. of Liu Xie as Emperor Xian. Even the shortest entry includes a reference to the source of the information. Supporting material includes genealogical tables, an outline of the administrative renderings, bibliographies of early and modern works, and maps. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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