Rule: a study of Jia Yi's "Xin shu"

Der hanzeitliche Politiker und Philosoph Jia Yi (200-168 v.Chr.) ist der wichtigste Denker seiner Zeit, das Xin shu das grundlegende Vermachtnis seiner Ideen. Diese Doktorarbeit analysiert das Xin shu als Ausdruck von Jia Yis politischen Theorien. Sie betrachtet Jia Yis Konzepte des Staatsvolkes und dessen Kontrolle sowie seine Ideen von der Natur und den Eigenschaften von Herrschaft und Herrscher. Der bedeutendste Begriff Jia Yis gegenuber politischer Macht ist Ritus, in drei Aspekten: Hierarchie, Portabilitat und Massigung. Sodann tragt die Arbeit die vorangegangene Diskussion in den Bereich des Konkreten und geht um Jia Yis Anwendung der Ritus-Theorie gegenuber zeitgenossischer Politik. Die beiden Schlusskapitel weiten die Analyse durch Betrachtung von zwei Einzelfallen aus: 1) das Prinzip, wonach die hochrangigen Untertanen des Kaisers von korperlichen Strafen befreit sein sollen; 2) die Behandlung der Xiongnu, deren Plunderungen eine Problematik der frühen Han Zeit waren

Literate Community in Early Imperial China The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times

Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China's northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Deduction and Evidence -- Brief Summary of Chapters -- Chapter One: Interacting with Text in Early Imperial China and Beyond -- Starting Point -- Two Models of Literacy -- My Proposal -- Getting at Text in Early China -- Reading ≠ Writing -- Reasons and Means for Learning to Read -- Neuroscience and Psycholinguistics -- Motivations for Learning to Read -- Text and Orality -- Audible Text in Early China -- Speech into Text -- Getting to Text -- The Power of Boredom -- Individual Literacy versus a Literate Community -- Literate Community -- Conscription and the Literate Community -- Chapter Two: Contexts and Sources -- Contacts at the Border -- The Han Military Bureaucracy -- Conscripts and Others -- The Soldiers' Tasks -- Documents -- The Medium -- The Recovery of the Documents -- Chapter Three: Posted Texts -- Standards for Signaling -- Texts for Border Guards -- Posted Documents -- An Edict from 10 CE -- Edicts as Texts to Learn From -- The Edict of Monthly Ordinances from 5 CE -- Edicts as Posted Texts and Primers -- Elevated Language and Audience Understanding -- Posted Rules for Officers -- A Lost Travel Document -- An Edict from 14 BCE -- Chapter Four: Statements of Individuals and Groups -- To Say Oneself -- Women Interacting with Text -- The Blurry Borders of the Literate Community -- Chapter Five: Composite Texts -- Creation by Assembly -- A Western Han Composite Text -- Background -- Previous Studies -- The Object Before Us -- Texts concerning the King's Staff and the Privileges It Brought -- The Ten Strips -- The Numbered Twenty-Six Strips -- The Hantanpo Fragment -- Explanations for the Texts concerning the King's Staff -- Official Life -- Grave Text -- Individual Use -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Practical Texts -- Evaluation Texts as a Type -- Evaluating HorsesThe Content of "Great Brightness" -- Evaluating Dogs -- The Texts in Comparison -- Texts on the Evaluation of Horses from the Northwest -- Sword Evaluation -- Swords in Recovered Documents from the Juyan Region -- The Content of "Evaluating Swords" -- Presentation and Reasoning across the Evaluation Texts -- Coda: Ritual Brew -- Chapter Seven: Cultural Texts -- Edict and Canon -- Classic Quotations, by Name or Not -- Textual Flexibility and Association -- Narrative Texts, Narrative Characters -- Poetry -- Conclusion -- Chapter Eight: Letters -- Xuan to Yousun and His Wife -- A Silk Letter from Xuanquanzhi -- Official Tasks -- Personal Business, Deferential Tone -- Declining a Request -- Accompanying Gifts -- Interaction with Text and with Others -- Conclusion -- Wider Connections -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Transcription Conventions for Paleographic Text -- Note on the Translation of Terms and Titles -- IndexThrough an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China's northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries

Commercial vehicle safety -- technology and practice in Europe.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Policy Planning, Office of International Program, Washington, D.C.Mode of access: Internet.Author corporate affiliation: American Trade Initiatives, Alexandria, Va.Subject code: DEFGSubject code: IJESubject code: KNSubject code: NMCSubject code: QG*EOSubject code: RCGESubject code: RCGKSubject code: RCGLSubject code: W