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Problems of Han administration : ancestral rites, weights and measures, and the means of protest
\"Michael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China's early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor's predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings\"--Provided by publisher.
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Dong Zhongshu, a 'Confucian' Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu
The assumption that a system described as 'Confucianism' formulated by Dong Zhongshu became accepted as the norm during the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE - 9 CE) is challenged and his supposed authorship of the Chunqiu fanlu examined.
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Problems of Han Administration
China's early emperors must pay their respects to their predecessors in the correct form; the conduct of government and commercial practice depended on a generally accepted system of weights and measures; critics needed a secure means of expressing their views.
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Reconstructing Quaternary Environments
Examines the various forms of evidence used to establish the history and scale of environmenal changes during the Quaternary. The evidence is extremely diverse, ranging from landforms and sediments to fossil assemblages and isotope ratios, bringing the book fully up to date since its last publication.
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