Drawing on a vast array of scholarship, this pioneering text illustrates how profoundly astronomical phenomena shaped ancient Chinese civilization.

The Han dynasty Huainanzi is a compendium of knowledge covering every subject from self-cultivation, astronomy, and calendrics, to the arts of government. This

This book focuses on two significant architectural elements in traditional Chinese buildings, that is, Dougong and Zaojing. Dougong is a bracket set often sitti

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the f

The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefact