China's Early Empires

Introduction Michael Nylan and Michael Loewe: Part I. Archaeology: 1. Han Dynasty tomb structures and contents Susan N. Erickson; 2. Two Eastern Han sites: Mixian and Houshiguo Michèle Pirazzoli t'Serstevens; 3. Excavated manuscripts: context and methodology Enno Giele; 4. The archaeology of the outlying lands Susan Erickson and Michael Nylan; 5. Urbanism Michèle Pirazzoli t'Serstevens; 6. The Eternal City and the City of Eternal Peace T. Corey Brennan and Hsing I-tien; Appendix: major sources for Chang'an; 7. Imperial tombs Michael Loewe; Appendix: tombs of the Han emperors; 8. Archaeology in China: a view from outside Anthony Snodgrass; Part II. Administration: 9. The laws of 186 BCE Michael Loewe; Appendix: legal documents; 10. Administration of the family (Qihuai bisi) Michael Nylan; Appendix: on the sources; 11. Social distinctions, groups and privileges Michael Loewe; 12. The operation of the government Michael Loewe; Part III. Technical Arts: 13. Numbers, numeracy and the cosmos Christopher Cullen; Appendix: nine canons; 14. Divination and astrology; received texts and excavated manuscripts Marc Kalinowski; Appendix 1. Writings related to divination; Appendix 2. Mantic practitioners; 15. Manuscripts, received texts and the healing arts Li Jian and Vivienne Lo; Appendix: early evidence of the healing arts; 16. Yin-yang, five phases and qi Michael Nylan; Appendix: correlative cosmology; 17. Religious practices in Han Roel Sterckx; 18. Religious change under Eastern Han and its successors; some current perspectives and problems T. H. Barrett; Appendix 1. Four problematic texts in the history of Daoism; Appendix 2. Post-Han extra-canonical sources; Part IV. Modes of Persuasion: 19. The techniques of persuasion and the rhetoric of disorder (Luan) Geoffrey Lloyd; 20. Texts and authors in the Shiji Griet Vankeerberghen; 21. Tropes of music and poetry: from Wudi (r. 141-87 BCE) to ca. 100 CE Martin Kern; 22. The art of persuasion from 100 BCE to 100 CE Michael Nylan; 23. Prose and authority 100-300 CE David Schaberg; 24. Literary criticism and personal character in poetry ca. 100-300 CE Paul W. Kroll.