Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: chinese, philosophy, culture, series, suny, authority, china, writing
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2007-08-28
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0791441148
ISBN-13: 9780791441145

This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed t

Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: philosophy, culture, chinese, series, myths, china, flood
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0791466647
ISBN-13: 9780791466643

Explores how the flood myths of early China provided a template for that society’s major social and political institutions.

Author: Mark Edward Lewis
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: chinese, philosophy, culture, series, suny, violence, china, sanctioned
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1990-03
List price: $74.50
ISBN-10: 079140076X
ISBN-13: 9780791400760

Authors:Mark Edward Lewis, Timothy Brook,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: china, history, imperial, dynasty, tang, cosmopolitan, empire
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-06-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 067403306X
ISBN-13: 9780674033061

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the c

Authors:Mark Edward Lewis,  Timothy Brook,
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Pre
Keywords: china, history, imperial, dynasties, southern, empires, northern
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674026055
ISBN-13: 9780674026056

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions. The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the gar

Author: Sturtevant E. Lewis (Edward Lewis)
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: plants, edible, notes, sturtevant
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $50.99
ISBN-10: 1113527366
ISBN-13: 9781113527363

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Authors:Edward F. Pace-Schott, Mark Solms, Mark Blagrove, Ste
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: reconsiderations, advances, scientific, dreaming, sleep
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-04-21
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0521008697
ISBN-13: 9780521008693

From the study of brainstem-based models of sleep cycle control, current research is moving toward combined brainstem/forebrain models of sleep cognition. The book presents five papers by contemporary leading scientists, and more than seventy-five commentaries on those papers by nearly all of the other distinguished authorities in the field. Topics include mechanisms of dreaming and REM sleep, memory consolidation in REM sleep, and an evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. The papers and commentaries, together with the authors’ rejoinders, represent significant advances in