One cannot help feeling envious of Esther Jacobson-Tepfer. Many times since the late1980s she has explored some of the most magnificently beautiful—and, for ordinary travelers, largely inaccessible—landscapes on ear...One cannot help feeling envious of Esther Jacobson-Tepfer. Many times since the late1980s she has explored some of the most magnificently beautiful—and, for ordinary travelers, largely inaccessible—landscapes on earth:the Altai and Sayan mountain ranges with their surrounding woodlands and steppes.展开更多
The field of Early China studies is sometimes faulted for being arcane.But here for once is a book that addresses an issue of obvious relevance to our world:the roots of Chinese bureaucracy.Li Feng plumbs the bronze i...The field of Early China studies is sometimes faulted for being arcane.But here for once is a book that addresses an issue of obvious relevance to our world:the roots of Chinese bureaucracy.Li Feng plumbs the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou period for information on govemment officeholders and their activities,and he presents a complex and largely plausible reconstruction of the operation of the royal administration.展开更多
Two remarkable yet very different monographs on the subject of money in early China were published in Japan in 2011.Emura Haruki’s is a masterful archaeological study of bronze coins,whereas Kakinuma Yōhei in the bo...Two remarkable yet very different monographs on the subject of money in early China were published in Japan in 2011.Emura Haruki’s is a masterful archaeological study of bronze coins,whereas Kakinuma Yōhei in the book under review writes from the perspective of economic history.~1 The two volumes felicitously complement one another with little thematic overlap.展开更多
文摘One cannot help feeling envious of Esther Jacobson-Tepfer. Many times since the late1980s she has explored some of the most magnificently beautiful—and, for ordinary travelers, largely inaccessible—landscapes on earth:the Altai and Sayan mountain ranges with their surrounding woodlands and steppes.
文摘The field of Early China studies is sometimes faulted for being arcane.But here for once is a book that addresses an issue of obvious relevance to our world:the roots of Chinese bureaucracy.Li Feng plumbs the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou period for information on govemment officeholders and their activities,and he presents a complex and largely plausible reconstruction of the operation of the royal administration.
文摘Two remarkable yet very different monographs on the subject of money in early China were published in Japan in 2011.Emura Haruki’s is a masterful archaeological study of bronze coins,whereas Kakinuma Yōhei in the book under review writes from the perspective of economic history.~1 The two volumes felicitously complement one another with little thematic overlap.
