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The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan尚書大傳

By Fan Lin, Griet Vankeerberghen

An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five Classics

The Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the...

Chang'an 26 BCE

An Augustan Age in China

By Michael Nylan, Griet Vankeerberghen

During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories....