In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese socie

Lewis sheds new light on the early Chinese empires through an ambitious examination of evolving ideas about honor and shame.

In this major new study, Mark Edward Lewis traces how the changing language of honor and shame helped to articulate and justify transformations in Chinese socie

This book employs textual and archaeological material to reconstruct the various features of daily life in ancient China.

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for