Bibliography for Episode 10
Added 2020-02-24 10:49:45 +0000 UTC
Bielenstein, Hans. The Restoration of the Han Dynasty. 1953.
Chang, Chun-shu. The Rise of the Chinese Empire. 2007.
Chin, Tamara. “Defamiliarizing the Foreigner: Sima Qian's Ethnography and Han-Xiongnu Marriage
Diplomacy.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 70, No. 2 (December 2010). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40930904
De Crespigny, Rafe. Fire over Luoyang : a history of the later Han dynasty. 2017.
Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World. 2015.
Hill, John. Through the jade gate to Rome: a study of the silk routes during the Later Han Dynasty. 2009.
Kroll, Paul W. Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry: Text, Context, and Culture. 2014.
LaFleur, Robert André. China. 2010.
Below is a full bibliography for Episode 10.
You can also access a more user-friendly Recommended Reading list here: https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/recommended-reading/
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Loewe, Michael. Everyday life in early Imperial China during the Han period. 1968.
Loewe, Michael. Faith, myth, and reason in Han China. 2005.
Qingbo, Duan. "Scientific Studies of High Level of Mercury in Qin Shihuangdi's Tomb". 2007. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DWRTFl36nksC&pg=PA202&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Richter, Antje. Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China. 2013.
Sima, Qian and Burton Watson. Records of the grand historian of China, Vol.1 & 2. 1961.
Sun, Yutang and Ma Yong. The Western Regions under the Hsiung-Nu and the Han.
Thorne, T. P. M. "Yellow Sky": Crisis for the Han Dynasty.
Waley, Arthur. A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. 1923.
Yu, Yingshi. Trade and expansion in Han China; a study in the structure of Sino-barbarian economic relations. 1967.
Comments
Isn't 漢 pronounced with the rising tone, and 韓 with the low tone? They are not homonyms?
Cy 'kkm' K'Nelson
2022-09-21 20:45:56 +0000 UTCI think you have confused the names of the small Warring State period kingdom of Han (韓) bordering the Qin with that of the Han (漢) adopted by Han Gaozu for his new empire. The two names are distinct in Chinese characters. BTW, Han Gaozu is the posthumous temple title (literal meaning: The High Ancestor of Han) given to Liu Bang (Liu is the surname). Liu Bang was not born in the kingdom of Han of the Warring State period. He was born in the kingdom of Chu in the vicinity of today's eastern city of Xuzhou (徐州) and spent most of his life there until he joined the anti-Qin rebellion. Since he was the first rebel leader to enter the Qin capital of Xianyang and accept the surrender of the last king of the Qin, he was made by the King (of the Lord) of Hanzong (漢中) by his superior the warlord Xiangyu (項羽). Hanzhong is located in today's southern Shaanxi Province bordering Sichuan Province (thousands of miles west of his hometown). It is from this Hanzhong that Liu Bang with the help of the legendary general Hanxin set out to defeat his erstwhile boss Xiangyu and reunify China. Since his official title was the King of Hanzhong at the time of his final victory, the "Han" in Hanzhong was conveniently adopted as the name of the new empire.
Kahchan Low
2020-06-28 20:16:28 +0000 UTC
