This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household

Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its in

This book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence--warfare, hunting, sacrifice, punis

"This is the first English-language monograph on the early history of cartography in China. Its chief players are three maps found in tombs that date from the f

A thought-provoking book on the archaeology of power, knowledge, social memory, and the emergence of classical tradition in early China.