Ancient China in Context
Introducing China

These medium-format paperback books are related to the studies in The New Chinese Classics: they pick up a thread in one of those volumes and follow it further, or they isolate a cluster of translated passages and present that text more completely. They supplement the original studies, and will be of interest to the same readership, but they do not assume prior acquaintance with the original studies, or with ancient China in any form. Together, they cover some of the most important persons and ideas of ancient China, and they are written so as to be accessible to those making a first acquaintance with one of the major philosophers, or with the whole history of ancient China. They are our wide-audience series.

• Confucius: Man, Myth, and Movement (est 2013)
• Politics From Below: The Mician Persuasion (est 2016)
• The Art of War: Sundz and Wu Chi (est 2014)
• Dau/Dv Jing: The Power Politics of the Powerless (est 2015)
• Mencius: China's Second Sage (est 2011)
• Jwangdz: Empire and Its Discontents (est 2009)
• Founding an Empire: The Transformation of the Ancient Chinese State (est 2010)

These books provide direct access to important events and the viewpoints that they generated; together, they give a higlighted but also a sophisticated view of how the Chinese public mind evolved during the tumultuous centuries that saw the creation of one state out of many. Fuller analyses of some of these texts and historical developments are available in The New Chinese Classics.

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