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Contents : Introduction / Michael Nylan and Michael Loewe -- Archaeology. Han Dynasty tomb structures and contents / Susan N. Erickson ; Two Eastern Han sites : Dahuting and Houshiguo / MicheÌ?le Pirazzoli-t?Serstevens ; Excavated manuscripts : context and methodology / Enno Giele ; The archaeology of the outlying lands / Susan N. Erickson, Yi SoÌ?ng-mi, and Michael Nylan ; Urbanism / MicheÌ?le Pirazzoli-t?Serstevens ; The Eternal City and the City of Eternal Peace / T. Corey Brennan and Hsing I-tien ; Appendix : major sources for Chang?an ; Imperial tombs / Michael Loewe ; Appendix : tombs of the Han emperors ; Archaeology in China : a view from outside Anthony Snodgrass -- Administration. The laws of 186 BCE / Michael Loewe ; Appendix : legal documents ; Administration of the family (Qihuai bisi) / Michael Nylan ; Appendix : on the sources ; Social distinctions, groups and privileges / Michael Loewe ; The operation of the government / Michael Loewe -- Technical arts. Numbers, numeracy and the cosmos / Christopher Cullen ; Appendix : nine canons ; Divination and astrology received texts and excavated manuscripts / Marc Kalinowski ; Appendix : writings related to divination ; Appendix : mantic practitioners ; Manuscripts, received texts and the healing arts / Vivienne Lo and Li Jianmin ; Appendix : early evidence of the healing arts ; Yin-yang, five phases and qi / Michael Nylan ; Appendix : correlative cosmology ; Religious practices in Qin and Han / Roel Sterckx ; Religious change under Eastern Han and its successors : some current perspectives and problems / T. H. Barrett ; Appendix : four problematic texts in the history of Daoism : Appendix : post-Han extra-canonical sources -- Modes of Persuasion. The techniques of persuasion and the rhetoric of disorder (Luan) in late Zhanguo and Western Han texts / Geoffery Lloyd ; Texts and authors in the Shiji / Griet Vankeerberghen ; Tropes of music and poetry : from Wudi (r. 141-87 BCE) to ca. 100 CE / Martin Kern ; The art of persuasion from 100 BCE to 100 CE / Michael Nylan ; Prose and authority 100-300 CE / David Schaberg ; Literary criticism and personal character in poetry ca. 100-300 CE / Pau |
