Summary: "The second phase of Roman-steppe relations began during the latter part of the fourth century, when Hunnic groups entered the western steppes, and lasted through the early sixth century. This 'Age of Attila' saw major shifts throughout Western Eurasia. Several decades after the battle of Adrianople, Huns moved into Europe and became unified early in the fifth century with a center of power in the Hungarian plain"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael Maas -- part 1. Historical thresholds -- How the steppes became Byzantine : Rome and the Eurasian nomads in historical perspective / Michael Maas -- The relations between China and the steppe from the Xiongnu to the Turk Empire / Nicola Di Cosmo -- Sasanian Iran and the projection of power in late antique Eurasia : competing cosmologies and topographies of power / Matthew P. Canepa -- Trade and exchanges along the Silk and steppe routes in late antique Eurasia / Richard Lim -- Sogdian merchants and Sogdian culture on the Silk Road / Rong Xinjiang -- "Charismatic" goods : commerce, diplomacy, and cultural contacts along the Silk Road in late antiquity / Peter Brown -- The synthesis of the Tang Dynasty : the culmination of China's contacts and communication with Eurasia, 310-755 CE / Valerie Hansen -- Central Asia in the late Roman mental map, second to sixth centuries / Giusto Traina -- part 2. Movements, contacts, and exchanges -- Genetic history and migrations in western Eurasia, 500-1000 / Patrick J. Geary -- Northern invaders : migration and conquest as scholarly topos in Eurasian history / Michael KulikowsKi -- Chinese and inner Asian perspectives on the history of the Northern Dynasties (386-589 CE) in Chinese historiography / Luo Xin -- Xiongnu and Huns : archaeological perspectives on a centuries-old debate about identity and migration / Ursula Brosseder -- Ethnicity and empire in the western Eurasian steppes / Walter Pohl -- The languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the transmission of Mediterranean culture into Central Asia / Scott Fitzgerald Johnson -- The spread of Buddhist culture to China between the third and seventh century / Max Deeg -- The circulation of astrological lore and its political use between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, and the Turks / Frantz Grenet -- Luminous markers : pearls and royal authority in late antique Iran and Eurasia / Joel Walker -- part 3. Empires, diplomacy, and frontiers -- Byzantium's Eurasian policy in the age of the Turk Empire / Mark Whittow -- Sasanian Iran and Its northeastern frontier : offense, defense, and diplomatic entente / Daniel T. Potts -- Infrastructures of legitimacy in inner Asia : the early Turk empires / Michael R. Drompp -- The stateless nomads of central Eurasia / Peter B. Golden -- Aspects of elite representation among the sixth- to seventh-century Turks / Soren Stark -- Patterns of Roman diplomacy with Iran and the steppe peoples / Ekaterina Nechaeva -- Collapse of a Eurasian hybrid : the case of the Northern Wei / Andrew Eisenberg -- Ideological interweaving in eastern Eurasia : simultaneous kingship and dynastic competition, 580-755 / Jonathan Karam Skaff -- Followers and leaders in northeastern Eurasia, ca. seventh to tenth centuries / Naomi Standen -- Epilogue / Averil Cameron.

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Heavenly numbers : astronomy and authority in early imperial China / Christopher Cullen (Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge, CRCAO, Paris, Sometime scholar of University College, Oxford, and Research Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-413) and index.

Introduction -- The astronomical empire -- Li in everyday life: dates and calendars -- The emperor's grand inception, and the defeat of the grand clerk -- The triple concordance system and Liu Xin's 'Grand unified theory' -- The measures and forms of heavens -- Restoration and re-creation in the Eastern Han -- The age of debates -- Li Hong and the conquest of the moon -- Epilogue.

"A history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'. It narrates the changes in ways of understanding the movements of the heavens and the heavenly bodies that took place during those four and a half centuries, and tells the stories of the institutions and individuals involved in those changes. It gives clear explanations of technical practice in observation, instrumentation, and calculation, and the steady accumulation of data over many years - but it centers on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyze and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies"-- Provided by publisher

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Honor and shame in early China /  Mark Edward Lewis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-242) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Honor and shame of the king and the warrior -- 2. Acquired honor in the warring states -- 3. State-based honor in the warring states -- 4. Honor of the imperial officials -- 5. Honor in local society in the early empires -- 6. Honor and shame of writers and partisans -- Conclusion.

In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese society between the Warring States and the end of the Han dynasty. Through careful examination of a wide variety of texts, he demonstrates how honor-shame discourse justified the actions of diverse and potentially rival groups. Over centuries, the formally recognized political order came to be intertwined with groups articulating alternative models of honor. These groups both participated in the existing order and, through their own visions of what was truly honourable, paved the way for subsequent political structures. Filling a major lacuna in the study of early China, Lewis presents ways in which the early Chinese empires can be fruitfully considered in comparative context and develops a more systematic understanding of the fundamental role of honor/shame in shaping states and societies.

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V. 1. Early years of the Han dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C -- v. 2. The age of Emperor Wu, 140 to circa 100 B.C.

Volume I. Early years of the Han Dynasty, 209 to 141 B.C. -- The founding of the Han Dynasty (Parts I-VI) -- Part I. The beginning of the revolt -- Shih chi 48. The hereditary house of Ch'en She -- Part II. The vanquished -- Shih chi 7. The basic annals of Hsiang Yü -- Part III. The victor -- Shih chi 8. The basic annals of Emperor Kao-tsu -- Shih chi 16. Reflections on the rise of Emperor Kao-tsu (excerpt) -- Part IV. The great ministers -- Shih chi 53. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Hsiao -- Shih chi 55. The hereditary house of the Marquis of Liu (Chang Liang) -- Shih chi 56. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Ch'en -- Part V. The disaffected -- Shih chi 89. The biographies of Chang Erh and Ch'en Yü -- Shih chi 90. The biographies of Wei Pao and P'eng Yüeh -- Shih chi 91. The biography of Ch'ing Pu -- Shih chi 92. The biography of the Marquis of Huai-yin (Han Hsin) -- Shih chi 93. The biographies of Hann Hsin and Lu Wan -- Shih chi 94. The biography of T'ien Tan -- Part VI. The loyal followers -- Shih chi 95. The biographies of Fan K'uai, Li Shang, Lord T'eng, and Kuan Ying: concluding remarks --Shih chi 96. The biography of Chancellor Chang -- Shih chi 97. The biographies of Li I-chi and Lu Chia -- Shih chi 98. The biographies of Fu K'uan, Chin Hsi, and the Marquis of K'uai-ch'eng: concluding remarks -- Shih chi 99. The biographies of Liu Ching and Shu-sun T'ung -- Shih chi 100. The biographies of Chi Pu and Lüan Pu -- The second era of Han history (Parts VII-XI) -- Part VII. The rulers -- Shih chi 9. The basic annals of Empress Lü -- Shih chi 10. The basic annals of Emperor Wen the Filial -- Shih chi 11. The basic annals of Emperor Ching the Filial -- Shih chi 12. The basic annals of Emperor Wu (fragment) -- Part VIII. The empresses -- Shih chi 49. The hereditary houses of the families related to the emperors by marriage -- Part IX. The great families -- Shih chi 50. The hereditary house of King Yüan of Ch'u -- Shih chi 51. The hereditary houses of Ching and Yen -- Shih chi 52. The hereditary house of King Tao-hui of Ch'i -- Shih chi 54. The hereditary house of Prime Minister Ts'ao (excerpt) -- Shih chi 57. The hereditary house of Chou P'o, the Marquis of Chiang -- Shih chi 58. The hereditary house of King Hsiao of Liang -- Shih chi 59. The hereditary houses of the five families -- Part X. The leader of the revolt -- Shih chi 106. The biography of Liu P'i, the King of Wu -- Shih chi 17, 18, 19. Some remarks on Han Peers -- Part XI. The eminent officials -- Shih chi 84. The biographies of Ch'ü Yüan and Master Chia -- Shih chi 101. The biographies of Yüan Ang and Ch'ao Ts'o -- Shih chi 102. The biographies of Ching Shih-chih and Feng T'ang -- Shih chi 103. The biographies of Lord Wan-shih and Chang Shu -- Shih chi 104. The biography of T'ien Shu.

Volume II. The age of Emperor Wu, 140 to circa 100 B.C. -- Part I. Heaven, earth, and man -- Shih chi 28. The treatise on the Feng and Shan sacrifices -- Shih chi 29. The treatise on the Yellow River and canals -- Shih chi 30. The treatise on the balanced standard -- Part II. Statesmen, generals, and foreign peoples -- Shih chi 107. The biographies of the Marquises of Wei-ch'i and Wu-an -- Shih chi 108. The biography of Han Ch'ang-ju -- Shih chi 109. The biography of General Li Kuang -- Shih chi 110. The account of the Hsiung-nu -- Shih chi 111. The biographies of General Wei Ch'ing and the swift cavalry general Ho Ch'ü-ping -- Shih chi 20. The chronological table of Marquises Enfeoffed from the Chien-yüan era on: introduction -- Shih chi 112. The biographies of the Marquis of P'ing-chin and Chu-fu Yen -- Shih chi 113. The account of southern Yüeh -- Shih chi 114. The account of eastern Yüeh -- Shih chi 115. The account of Ch'ao-hsien -- Shih chi 123. The account of Ta-yüan -- Shih chi 116. The account of the southwestern Barbarians -- Shih chi 117. The biography of Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju -- Shih chi 120. The biographies of Chi An and Cheng Tang-shih -- Part III. The plotters of revolt -- Shih chi 118. The biographies of the kings of Huai-nan and Heng-shan -- Part IV. The collective biographies -- Shih chi 121. The biographies of the Confucian scholars -- Shih chi 119. The biographies of the reasonable officials -- Shih chi 122. The biographies of the harsh officials -- Shih chi 124. The biographies of the wandering knights -- Shih chi 125. The biographies of the emperors' male favorites -- Shih chi 127. The biographies of the diviners of lucky days -- Shih chi 129. The biographies of the money-makers.

Rome and China : points of contact / Hyun Jin Kim, Samuel N.C. Lieu and Raoul McLaughlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Roman envoys and trade ambassadors in Han China -- The Xiongnu Huns from China and the East to Europe and the Roman Empire -- Sodgian ambassadors of the Göktürks and the Eastern Roman Empire -- 'Nestorian' Christians and Manichaeans as links between Rome and China.

"Rome and China provides an updated history and analysis of contacts and mutual influence between two of ancient Eurasia's most prominent imperial powers, Rome and China. It highlights the extraordinary interconnectivity of ancient Eurasia which allowed for actual contacts between Rome and China (however fleeting) and will examine in detail the influences from both ends of Eurasia which had cultural and political consequences for both Rome and China. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on the Roman Empire, Inner Asia, the Silk Routes and China in the classical and Late Antique periods"-- Provided by publisher.

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Zhou Weilie Wang 23 nian zhi Hou Zhou Shizong Xiande 6 nian 周威烈王23年至後周世宗顯德6年 (403 B.C.-959 A.D.)
Appendix (v. 20, p. 1-190): Tongjian shiwen bianwu 12 juan Hu San Xing [zhu] 通鑑釋文辯誤12卷胡三省[著].