This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence—warfare, hunting, sacrifice, puni

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

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

What were the intentions of early China's historians? Modern readers must contend with the tension between the narrators' moralizing commentary and their descri

In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for i