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Law and Order in Sung China

By: Brian E. McKnight

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This work is the first comprehensive study of law enforcement in traditional China. The depth and rigour to which the subject is treated makes it invaluable in the study of Chinese society or law and order.

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575

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Cambridge University Press

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ISBN 10

0521411211

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9780521411219

Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China

By: Brian E. McKnight

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Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China

By: Brian E. McKnight

In imperial China, workers drawn from the local populace performed many of the basic functions of local administration. Standing between the rulers and the ruled, these men mediated in both directions. McKnight's study concentrates on the nature of this village-level subbureaucratic activity in the Sung period; it sheds new light on the emergence of early Chinese society while providing a background against which to assess social changes during later dynasties.

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232

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University of Chicago Press

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0226560600

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9780226560601

War Paint

Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss

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Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939-1945

By: Brian Foss,Professor of Art History School for Studies in Art and Culture Brian Foss

In this groundbreaking examination of British war art during the Second World War, Brian Foss delves deeply into what art meant to Britain and its people at a time when the nation's very survival was under threat. Foss probes the impact of war art on the relations between art, state patronage, and public interest in art, and he considers how this period of duress affected the trajectory of British Modernism. Supported by some two hundred illustrations and extensive archival research, the book offers the richest, most nuanced view of mid-century art and artists in Britain yet written. The author focuses closely on Sir Kenneth Clark's influential War Artists' Advisory Committee and explores topics ranging from censorship to artists' finances, from the depiction of women as war workers to the contributions of war art to evolving notions of national identity and Britishness. Lively and insightful, the book adds new dimensions to the study of British art and cultural history.

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280

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Yale University Press

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0300108907

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9780300108903

Book's by Brian E. McKnight

Law and Order in Sung China

Law and Order in Sung China

Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China

Village and Bureaucracy in Southern Sung China

War Paint

War Paint

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