Product Description: This volume launches the translation of a work that describes the development of Chinese political thought from the time of Confucius in the late Chou era into the twentieth century. The author systematically treats leading thinkers, schools, and movements, displaying a consummate mastery of traditional Chinese learning, and of Western analytical and comparative methods...read more

Product Description: Frederick Mote, one of the twentieth century's most prominent Sinologists, has written a historian's memoir that uses observation and personal experiences to understand the intellectual and social transformation of China. Mote's thought-provoking narrative distills his reflections on modern China and details change in Chinese historical studies in the twentieth century...read more

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Product Description: First edition. The six main parts are entitled "From the Earliest Writing to the Earliest Books," "Handwritten Books-Before and After the Invention of Block Printing," "The Highpoint of Printing in the Sung and Yuan Dynasties," "New Dimensions in Ming Printing," "Calligraphy's New Importance in Later Ming Printing" and "The Best of Ch'ing Books...read more

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International scholars and sinologists discuss culture, economic growth, social change, political processes, and foreign influences in China since the earliest pre-dynastic period (view table of contents)