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Chinese History: A New Manual (), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an authoritative and often witty guide to Sinology and Chinese history for which he received the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014.The Stanislas Julien prize has been awarded annually Read More..

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Description	Chinese History: A New Manual (), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an authoritative and often witty guide to Sinology and Chinese history for which he received the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014.The Stanislas Julien prize has been awarded annually by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (founded Paris, 1663) in recognition of outstanding scholarship on Asian culture. In all 120 people and two institutions have received the prize since it was inaugurated in 1875.At over 1.5 million words (the equivalent of nine monographs of 400 pages apiece), the New Manual comprises fourteen parts subdivided into a total of seventy-six chapters. Books 1–9 (chapters 1-54) contain extensive introductions to the history of the following subjects: Language; People; Geography and the Environment; Governing and Educating; Ideas, Beliefs, Literature, and the Fine Arts; Agriculture, Food, and Drink; Technology and Science; Trade; and Historiography. Books 10–13 (chapters 55-68) present primary and secondary sources chronologically by period. Book 14 (chapters 69-76) covers bibliography.Each chapter introduces the published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from earliest times to the late twentieth century and not only examines the context in which they were produced, preserved, and received, but also suggests and comments on the best secondary scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. The present fourth edition (green-cover) updates, expands, and corrects the third edition. Some 9,800 primary, secondary, reference works, journals, and databases are introduced in the course of the discussion (compared to 8,800 in the third edition; 4,000 in the yellow-cover edition of 2000; and 2,900 in the blue-cover edition of 1998). In addition to the greatly extended scope of the New Manual, new features are introductions to hundreds of digital resources (including 225 of the latest databases) and a wide selection of up-to-date secondary works (including citations of over 1,500 journal articles and book chapters). Interspersed throughout are short essays introducing the ancillary disciplines required for Chinese historical studies--archeology, astronomy, chronology and calendrics, codicology, diplomatics, epigraphy, genealogy, historical geography, historical linguistics, numismatics, onomastics, paleography, prosopography, sigillography, statistics, textual criticism, topology, and special branches of study such as oracle-bone script, bamboo and silk books, Dunhuang, Qingshuijiang, and Huizhou documents or the Ming-Qing archives. Other short essays address the uses of history and how to avoid errors in thought and analysis. There are chapters on translation into and out of Chinese. Throughout the New Manual lists of basic terms give standard translations.
Description	Chinese History: A New Manual (), written by Endymion Wilkinson, is an authoritative and often witty guide to Sinology and Chinese history for which he received the Prix Stanislas Julien for 2014.The Stanislas Julien prize has been awarded annually by the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (founded Paris, 1663) in recognition of outstanding scholarship on Asian culture. In all 120 people and two institutions have received the prize since it was inaugurated in 1875.At over 1.5 million words (the equivalent of nine monographs of 400 pages apiece), the New Manual comprises fourteen parts subdivided into a total of seventy-six chapters. Books 1–9 (chapters 1-54) contain extensive introductions to the history of the following subjects: Language; People; Geography and the Environment; Governing and Educating; Ideas, Beliefs, Literature, and the Fine Arts; Agriculture, Food, and Drink; Technology and Science; Trade; and Historiography. Books 10–13 (chapters 55-68) present primary and secondary sources chronologically by period. Book 14 (chapters 69-76) covers bibliography.Each chapter introduces the published, excavated, artifactual, and archival sources from earliest times to the late twentieth century and not only examines the context in which they were produced, preserved, and received, but also suggests and comments on the best secondary scholarship in Chinese, Japanese, and Western languages. The present fourth edition (green-cover) updates, expands, and corrects the third edition. Some 9,800 primary, secondary, reference works, journals, and databases are introduced in the course of the discussion (compared to 8,800 in the third edition; 4,000 in the yellow-cover edition of 2000; and 2,900 in the blue-cover edition of 1998). In addition to the greatly extended scope of the New Manual, new features are introductions to hundreds of digital resources (including 225 of the latest databases) and a wide selection of up-to-date secondary works (including citations of over 1,500 journal articles and book chapters). Interspersed throughout are short essays introducing the ancillary disciplines required for Chinese historical studies--archeology, astronomy, chronology and calendrics, codicology, diplomatics, epigraphy, genealogy, historical geography, historical linguistics, numismatics, onomastics, paleography, prosopography, sigillography, statistics, textual criticism, topology, and special branches of study such as oracle-bone script, bamboo and silk books, Dunhuang, Qingshuijiang, and Huizhou documents or the Ming-Qing archives. Other short essays address the uses of history and how to avoid errors in thought and analysis. There are chapters on translation into and out of Chinese. Throughout the New Manual lists of basic terms give standard translations.

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Name	Chinese History: A New Manual, Fourth Edition (2015)
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Authors	Endymion Porter Wilkinson
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Series	Harvard-Yenching Monograph 100
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Isbn	978-0-674-08846-7
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Publisher	Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute distributed by Harvard University Press
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