"This important volume adds a significant number of new and unique materials for teachers at all levels of higher education to use in classroom and seminar disc

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Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China’s Emperor Wu. When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of im

Under the Ancestors’ Eyes presents a new approach to Korean social history by focusing on the origin and development of the indigenous descent group. Martina

Zhang argues that property institutions in preindustrial China and England were a cause of China's lagging development in preindustrial times.