Fields of Study
Early Chinese Culture
About Miranda Brown
Professor Brown’s research and teaching interests include premodern China, in particular, antiquarianism in China, imperial political culture, the history of the family, and the history and historiography of Chinese science.
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Publications
Books:
The Politics of Mourning in Early China (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007).
With Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition (Thomson/Wadsworth, 2005).
With Conrad Schirokauer et al, A Brief History Chinese and Japanese Civilization, 3rd edition (Thompson/Wadsworth, 2005).
Articles:
“Han Steles: How To Elicit What They Have to Tell Us.” In Cary Y. Liu ed., Re-Envisioning Culture: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the ‘Han Dynasty Wu Family Shrines. (Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, Forthcoming [2008]).
“Qinggan yu siwei de weizhi: Lun Zhongguo gudai wenxianzhong de ‘ganqing’” [Emotions and the Seat of Thought: A Discussion of ‘Liver-Feelings’ in the Ancient Chinese Corpus]. Yuandao13 (October 2007): 142-49.
“Neither ‘Primitives’ nor ‘Others,’ But Somehow Not Quite Like ‘Us’: The Fortunes of Psychic Unity and Essentialism in Chinese Studies.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49.2 (2006): 219-252.
“Mothers and Sons in Warring States and Han China, 453 B.C.-A.D. 220.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 5.2 (2003): 137-69.
“Did the Ancient Chinese Attempt to Preserve Corpses? A Reconsideration of the Elite Conceptions of Death.” Journal of East Asian Archaeology 4.1-4 (2002): 201-223.
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