Chinese History And Culture Av Ying-shih Yu

Chris Fraser presents a rich and broad-ranging study of the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century BC. He offers novel and informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early...

A study on the economic relations between the Chinese and frontier barbarians, during the Han Dynasty.

The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yu offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China's early modern economy. He investigates how evolving forms of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism created and promulgated...

<P>By examining the reasons behind the preventive criminalization of Chinese criminal law, this book argues that the shift of criminal law generates popular expectations of legislative participation, and meets punitive demands of the public, but...