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Mapping China and Managing the World: Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times (Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship)
Mapping China and Managing the World Culture Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times - Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
Author: Richard J. Smith
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China?s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415685108
ISBN-10: 0415685109
Publication Date: 11/17/2012
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Paperback
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