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 e

The first volume is a survey and discussion of the inscriptions on about 700 wooden strips found in the excavations at Edsen-gol, being records of the official

In this concise volume, Michael Loewe provides an engaging overview of the government of the early empires of China. Topics discussed are: the seat of supreme a

While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning the Classics, basic competence in official life was generally predicated on acquiring several fo