Mirroring the past : the writing and use of history in imperial China

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Title:	Mirroring the past : the writing and use of history in imperial China; Writing and use of history in imperial China
Author:	Ng, On Cho, 1953; Wang, Q. Edward, 1958
Date:	c2005
Publisher:	Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press
Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-294) and index. The Age of Confucius: the Genesis of History -- From the Warring States Period to the Han: The Formation and Maturation of Historiography -- The Age of Disunity: Proliferations and Variations of Historiography -- The Tang: The History Bureau and Its Critics -- The Song: Cultural Flourishing and the Blooming of Historiography -- The Jin and the Yuan: History and Legitimation in the Dynasties of Conquest -- The Ming: Flowering of Private Historiography and Its Innovations -- The Qing: Histories and the Classics. Table of contents also available via World Wide Web xxiii, 306 p. 25 cm
Identifier:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005008008.html ISBN:0824829131 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN:9780824829131
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/23078
Keywords:	Historiography -- China -- History, China