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"Ancient East Asia: From City States to the Qin and Han Empires" Author: [Japan] Miyazaki Ichidai Publisher: CITIC Press
"Ancient East Asia: From City States to the Qin and Han Empires" Author: [Japan] Miyazaki Ichidai Publisher: CITIC Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In many people's impressions, since Dayu established the Xia Dynasty, Chinese history has entered a cycle of dynasty changes. The emperor's virtue determines the fate of the dynasty, while ordinary people rarely leave their own traces in history books.
However, in Miyazaki Ichidai's writing, the history of ancient China from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Qin and Han Dynasties is a history of people full of vitality fighting for their own lives. Together with the monarchs and nobles, they promoted the development of ancient society from the clan system, through the city-state, and the territorial state to a powerful human community like the ancient empires of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
In addition, this book includes for the first time two research reviews written by Miyazaki when he was 85 and 90 years old, which can be regarded as a summary of Miyazaki Ichidai's academic career of more than 60 years.
Editor's Recommendation:
★Break the cyclical historical view of dynasties of order, chaos, rise and fall, and restore a history of the formation of the Qin and Han empires that is as vivid as the theory of evolution!
★The academic masterpiece of Miyazaki Ichidai, the winner of the "Nobel Prize for Sinology" and a master of history, is a classic academic symbol of the Kyoto School of Oriental History in Japan and a coordinate system for studying ancient Chinese history.
★The period from the Shang Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period was a city-state period, the Warring States Period was a territorial state period, and the Qin and Han Dynasties were a great empire period. This reveals Miyazaki Ichidai's unique theory of the development stages of ancient states.
Celebrity recommendation:
Miyazaki regarded the period from the Shang Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period as the period of city-states, the Warring States Period as the period of territorial states, and the Qin and Han Dynasties as the period of great empires. This very unique theory of the development stages of ancient states was based on a series of studies on settlement morphology.
——[Japanese] Naohiro Goi (historian)
Related to the universal nature of these ancient cities, the most important and original insights on the theory of ancient Chinese cities were put forward by Miyazaki Ichidai, who conducted many studies related to ancient Chinese cities.
——[Japanese] Kageyama Tsuyoshi (historian)
In today's world where historical research is increasingly fragmented and bookish, we need to learn from Miyazaki's broad research perspective, his concern for daily life, and his free spirit of not blindly believing in authority or being bound by the teachings of his teachers, so as to avoid turning our research into aristocratic scholarship filled with all kinds of word games. Read Miyazaki and I believe you will definitely gain something.
——Zhang Xuefeng (Professor at Nanjing University)
About the Author · · · · · ·
Miyazaki Ichidai (1901-1995) was a Japanese historian, a master of the Kyoto School of History, and a second-generation leader of the Kyoto School of Oriental History. He served as a professor at Kyoto University, and a visiting professor at the University of Paris, Harvard University, and the University of Hamburg. He was awarded the Rulian Prize, known as the "Nobel Prize in Sinology", the Japan Academy Prize, and the Medal of Cultural Merit. His representative works include "A Study of the Nine-Rank System: Pre-History of the Imperial Examination", "Imperial Examination", and "Modern East Asia".
Tonami Mamoru is a Japanese expert on Oriental history and professor emeritus of Kyoto University. He specializes in Chinese history from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang dynasties. His representative works include "Buddhist States in the Sui and Tang Dynasties" and "Studies on the Political and Social History of the Tang Dynasty".
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