A Library of the History of Ancient China
A curated collection of scholarly publications and didactic studies treating of the ancient Chinese realms, their systems of governance, ritual constitution, and enduring civilisational inheritance.
The Shang Dynasty: State Structure and Systems of Measurement
A comprehensive historiographical examination of the Shang polity, its early state formation, ritual-administrative hierarchy, bronze culture, and metrological foundations, considered within the broader evolution of Chinese civilisation.
The Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046–256 BCE): The Mandate of Heaven, Feudal Order, and the Constitutional Epoch of Chinese Civilisation
A historiographical analysis of the Zhou dynasty, treating of the emergence of the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven, the feudal constitution of the Western Zhou, the political fragmentation of the Eastern Zhou, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the intellectual efflorescence of the Hundred Schools, and the institutional foundations that informed the later Qin and Han empires.
The Qin Dynasty (221–206 BCE): Historiographical Structure, Ideological Reversal, and the Birth of Empire
A critical historiographical survey of the Qin dynasty, examining its Legalist administrative reforms, imperial centralisation, standardisation of script and measurement, and the institutional architecture that established the first unified Chinese empire.
The Han Dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE): Moral Consolidation and the Canonisation of the Imperial State
An analytical study of the Han dynasty as the first enduring imperial regime of China, examining its inheritance of Qin institutions, the Confucian synthesis under Emperor Wu, bureaucratic maturation, territorial expansion, and the cosmological articulation of imperial sovereignty that became normative for subsequent Chinese civilisation.