The Cambridge Companion to Song China

Cong Ellen Zhang is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

• Acknowledgments; Notes on conventions; Measurements; Reign titles and periods of Song; Emperors; Maps, figures, and tables; List of contributors; Introduction; The Song dynasty in Chinese history Cong Ellen Zhang; Reflections on western scholarship on Song history Patricia Ebrey; Part I. Power at the Center: 1. Governing Song China: the technocratic-Confucian hybrid Charles Hartman; 2. Mobilizing the Song literati state for war Paul Jakov Smith; 3. Taxation in Song China Christian Lamouroux; Part II. Values and Practices: 4. Perpetuating the patriline Beverly Bossler; 5. Serving the gods Mark Halperin; 6. Studying the classics Ming-kin Chu; 7. Burying the dead Fei Deng; Part III. People: 8. Female virtue, individual talent, and family fortune: the women in Han Qi's funerary biographies Cong Ellen Zhang; 9. Shao Yong (1011–1077) and Song intellectual culture Douglas Skonicki; 10. Su Shi (1037–1101) and his circle: Song literati in and out of office Ronald Egan; 11. Wei Liaoweng (1178–1237): a Song local official Song Chen; 12. Maritime diasporic communities and Song China John Chaffee; 13. Ordinary men and women in the Record of the Listener Xiao Rao; Part IV. Places: 14. The transformation of the yellow river: the ecological history of the Song transition Ruth Mostern; 15. Lin'an: nature, commerce, and transition Xiaolin Duan; 16. Villages and village life Jun Fu; 17. Life along the ancient road of the one hundred Yue James A. Anderson; Part V. Things: 18. The spread of Buddhist print culture during the song Shih-shan Susan Huang; 19. Song ceramics: production, circulation, consumption Yiwen Li; 20. Ready-made drugs and self-help manuals: the imperial pharmacy Ruth Yun-Ju Chen; Glossary and Index.