Revival: Shang yang's reforms and state control in China. (1977) (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138038113 ISBN 13: 9781138038110

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

This title was first published in 1977. The name of Shang Yang (c. 390-338 B.C.) is inseparable from his reforms, which laid the foundation for the first Chinese empire and had a deep and lasting influence on Chinese political thought and institutions. A wide-ranging series of carefully prepared translations of books published in China since 1949, each with an extended introduction by a western scholar.

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About the Author

Born and raised in China, Li Yu-Ning received a B.A. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. She is the author of The Introduction of Socialism into China (Columbia University Press, 1971) and Wu Hanchuan (A Biography of Wu Han) (Hong Kong: Min Pao Publishers, 1973). She edited The First Emperor of China: The Politic s of Historiography (International Arts and Sciences Press, 1975). With Chang Y ii-fa , she compiled and edited Chin-tai Chun?-kuo nu-ch'uan yun-tung shih -liao (Documents on the Feminist Movement in Modern China, 1842-1911)?2 volumes (Taipei: Biographical Literature Publishing Company, 1976). She is editor of the journal Chinese Studies in History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138038113
• ISBN 13: 9781138038110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 261
• Editor: Yu-Ning Li