State and Local Society in Third Century South China - Lander, Brian; Wenchao, Ling; Wen, Xin
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In 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance, and economy of third century central China. Although Wu was one of the famous Three Kingdoms, its administrative history was poorly known until these documents were found, so we have written this book to explain the context and content of these document to help researchers use these valuable texts to rewrite the history of South China.…mehr

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In 1996 archaeologists excavated over 70,000 inscribed pieces of wood from a well in Changsha, the largest such discovery ever made in China. They are local administrative records of the state of Wu in the 230s and provide remarkable detail on the society, governance, and economy of third century central China. Although Wu was one of the famous Three Kingdoms, its administrative history was poorly known until these documents were found, so we have written this book to explain the context and content of these document to help researchers use these valuable texts to rewrite the history of South China.
Autorenporträt
Brian Lander, Ph.D. (2015) Columbia University, is assistant professor of history at Brown University, fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the author of The King's Harvest: A Historical Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021). Ling Wenchao 凌文超, Ph.D. (2011) Peking University, is Professor at Beijing Normal University and has written two books and numerous articles on the Zoumalou documents. Xin Wen 文欣, Ph.D. (2017) Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University and author of The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (Princeton UP, 2022).