Chinese Civilization: A SourcebookPatricia Buckley Ebrey Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. |
Contents
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The Examination System Humorous and semihumorous anecodotes about mens | 30 |
Two Avengers From the Intrigues of the Warring States | 38 |
The Attractions of the Capital | 41 |
Widows Loyal Unto Death Accounts from a local history glorifying women who showed loyalty to their dead husbands by killing themselves | 253 |
Two Philosophers Letters and conversations of two important thinkers Wang Yangming and Li Zhi | 256 |
A Censor Accuses a Eunuch A memorial to the emperor accusing the eunuch Wei Zhongxian of usurping his authority and acting tyrannically | 263 |
THE QING DYNASTY | 267 |
The Yangzhou Massacre One familys experiences recounted in a diary | 271 |
Proverbs About Heaven Standard sayings | 280 |
Taxes and Labor Service A description of the forms in which taxes and service were assessed in one county | 282 |
Permanent Property The advice a man gave his sons concerning the importance of owning land and how to manage it | 287 |
THE QIN AND HAN DYNASTIES | 47 |
CONFUCIANISM | 48 |
The World Beyond China From Sima Qians Historical Records | 54 |
Social Rituals 40 Zhu Xis Conversations with | 57 |
Exhortations on Ceremony and Deference A lecture delivered by an official in the hope | 64 |
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My Children An essay by a man with five children 391 | 83 |
Generalissimo Jiang on National Identity | 84 |
Ge Hongs Autobiography By a fourthcentury scholar and reluctant official | 91 |
Shi Jin the NineDragoned | 92 |
Peasants in the Cities An interview and a newspaper article concerning the rural | 98 |
Emperor Taizong on Effective Government A summary of political theory written | 112 |
The Errors of Geomancy An officials complaints about the profusion of theories | 120 |
THE SONG AND YUAN DYNASTIES | 137 |
Precepts of the Perfect Truth Daoist Sect Principles of a Daoist monastic sect | 146 |
The Classic of Filial Piety 45 A Schedule for Learning | 151 |
The World Beyond China | 152 |
Rules for the Fan Lineages Charitable Estate The rules by which a charitable trust | 155 |
Women and the Problems They Create Three folktalelike stories of unusual women | 164 |
Zhu Xis Conversations with His Disciples Conversations between a leading | 172 |
The Attractions of the Capital A description of economic activity entertainment | 178 |
The Mutual Responsibility System One magistrates instructions on how these units | 186 |
A Mongol Governor The biography of a Mongol who spent decades putting down | 192 |
A ScholarPainters Diary Two weeks of social and intellectual activity | 199 |
THE MING DYNASTY | 203 |
Proclamations of the Hongwu Emperor A despots complaints about how difficult it was to get his subjects to act properly | 205 |
The Dragon Boat Race A description of the festival as performed in one place in Hunan | 208 |
Village Ordinances Sample ordinances a village could adopt | 211 |
Commercial Activities Sample contracts an essay on merchants and a biography of an admired one | 213 |
What the Weaver Said An artisans view of his work | 221 |
Tenants Two contracts specifying the responsibilities of quasihereditary tenantservants on one estate and reports of riots by tenants | 223 |
Shi Jin the NineDragoned Episode from a novel describing the background of one outlaw | 226 |
Family Instructions Advice and rules found in a lineage genealogy | 238 |
Concubines How concubines were bought the reminiscences of a man for a beloved concubine and an episode from a novel depicting the ploys of a ... | 245 |
Emperor Taizong on Effective 61 Taxes and Labor Service | 292 |
Lan Dingyuans Casebook Two examples of how an energetic Magistrate solved administrative and legal cases | 304 |
Boat People A local historys account of a minority group | 309 |
Wang Fu on Friendship and Getting | 313 |
A Censor Accuses a Eunuch | 318 |
The Conditions and Activities of Workers A stone inscription recording official | 323 |
THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY | 331 |
Ridding China of Bad Customs Proposals for ways to end footbinding suppress | 341 |
Rural Education Recollections of a teacher introducing science to a rural school | 348 |
My Old Home A story showing problems of communication between upper and lower | 354 |
The Spirit of the May Fourth Movement Recollections of a woman who had been | 360 |
The DogMeat General An account of one of the more incompetent and brutal | 373 |
The World Beyond China | 376 |
Funeral Processions A description of two funeral processions with a list of | 385 |
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Women and the Problems They Create | 389 |
Generalissimo Jiang on National Identity Two speeches early and late in the | 401 |
THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC | 407 |
Land Reform An episode from a novel showing peasants learning to stand up | 416 |
Hu Feng and Mao Zedong Letters of a leading intellectual which Mao published with | 422 |
A New Young Man Arrives at the Organization Department An episode from a story | 429 |
Peng Dehuais Critique of the Great Leap Forward Pengs letter to Mao offering | 435 |
Lei Feng Chairman Maos Good Fighter Inspirational anecdotes about a model | 442 |
Red Guards Red Guards accounts of their activities during the Cultural Revolution | 449 |
Victims A short story written after the fall of the Gang of Four showing some | 458 |
The Changing Course of Courtship Four documents that show the changing | 470 |
The OneChild Family One province regulations for fostering the onechild family | 478 |
Posters Calling for Democracy Posters from the 1989 Democracy Protests | 496 |
Glossary | 505 |
FAMILY KINSHIP AND GENDER | 511 |
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