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Article: The Human Tradition in Premodern China.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2004
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The Human Tradition in Premodern China. Edited by Kenneth Hammond. (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002. Pp. xx, 172. $42.00.)
This collection of ten essays by ten authors, a volume in the series "The Human Tradition around the World," is intended to "provide minibiographies of 'real people' who ... personalize the collective experience of grand themes ... [by] identify(ing) the essential character of everyday lives of individuals" (series editors' cover page). This is a tall order for a set of essays covering China's history from its beginning to around 1500, and, in the end, a narrower goal is met. Although the authors discuss individuals, in all except ...
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