Conventional wisdom has it that the concept of individualism was absent in early China. In this uncommon study of the self and human agency in ancient China, Er

This study of the self and human agency in ancient China persuasively argues that an idea of individualism can be applied to the study of early Chinese thought

Explores the religious, political, and cultural significance attributed to music in early China. In early China, conceptions of music became important culturall

When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects,

A richly empirical discussion of ethnic identity formation in the ancient world, presenting the peoples of China's southern frontier.