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While it has become common to compare Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) China with classical Greece or the Roman empire, very little comparative work has been published on the ancient cultures of China and Egypt. In this ground-breaking volume, Anthony Barbieri-Low argues that comparison with Middle and New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 2000–1000 BCE) is appropriate and instructive, despite the great separation in time and space, because China and Egypt had many similarities, including highly developed bureaucracies, belief in an afterlife and paradise, games of fate, legal cases, political reformers, civilizations based on hydraulic management, and empires supplemented with planet states or city-states. By employing a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, this far-ranging study illuminates each civilization, revealing shared structural traits as well as distinctive features.
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Author Biography
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low is professor of Chinese history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His book Artisans in Early Imperial China was awarded the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize, the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, the Joseph Levenson Book Prize, and the James Henry Breasted Prize.
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- Publication Date May 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780295748894
- Pages352
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2017
- Dimensions7x10 inches
- Illustration21 color illus., 41 b&w, 2 maps, 1 chart
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