This paper is a phased result of the 2018 Key Project of the National Social Science Fund of China,"A Study of the Military Governance Ideas and Their Relationship with State Affairs in the Song Dynasty"(18AZS009).
During the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty,the private imperial banquets were effectively employed to unify various political forces,cultivate a harmonious relationship characterized by shared happiness bet...
Confucianism and Daoism share the same origin in Chinese philosophy.The Huang-Lao school,which emerged during the early Han dynasty,produced two branches:Confucianism and Daoism.This school used Chinese society as a l...
The sources of porcelains in the Song Dynasty court were diverse.As porcelains began to play an ever-significant role for monarchs and officials,the capital established kilns for porcelain production in the late-North...
With remarkable force,"decolonization"re-entered the academic agenda some ten years ago.Having been an ambivalent historical experience undergirding postcolonial studies in its emergence in the 1980s,"decolonization"t...
The title of jinshi(presented scholar)was normally conferred upon graduates of the metropolitan and palace examinations.Exceptions did exist,since some would be granted by the special grace of an emperor.This phenomen...
funded by"Western Project of National Social Science Fund"(17XKG006).
Terracotta warriors are an important part of the burial system of the Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum and are the funerary objects of military themes.The appearance of terracotta warriors broke through the architect...