Description
Book SynopsisThe value of this collection lies in its linking together of a group of internationally renowned scholars who are at the forefront of their fields to present some of their recent findings on different historical issues. By covering different topics and periods, this volume is representative of contemporary Western scholarship in Chinese history.
Trade ReviewFrom bronze relics in early Zhou to imperial connoisseurship in high-Song to scientific exchange, demographic change, and gender consciousness in a waning Qing, the essays in Windows on the Chinese World are broadly cast, highly informative, and current. The senior scholars represented in the volume have inspired readers for generations, this time adding macro perspectives to their usual erudition. -- Richard L. Davis, Lingnan University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Chronologies of Ancient China: A Critique of the "Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology" Project Chapter 3 2. The Politics of Imperial Collecting in the Northern Song Period Chapter 4 3. Who is Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit Scientific and Technical Transmission from Europe to China in the Eighteenth Century? Chapter 5 4. Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the Lower Yangzi Valley during the Later Eighteenth Century Chapter 6 5. Why Women Were Not a Problem in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Thought
