Balanced Discourses: A Bilingual Edition

by Gan Xu

Book Overview

Written by the Han philosopher Xu Gan (A.D. 170-217), Balanced Discourses is an inquiry into the causes of political breakdown. It provides a unique contemporary account of the social, intellectual, and cosmological factors that Xu Gan identified as having precipitated the demise of the Han order. This edition of Zhonglun (or Balanced Discourses) contains the original Chinese text with annotations and, on facing pages, an English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300092016
• ISBN13: 9780300092011
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.2"