Han Fu and Han Dynasty Institutions – Taking the Capital, Imperial Hunts, and Rituals as Examples

Author: Cao Shenggao
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The Han Fu and Han Dynasty Institutions—Taking the Capital, Imperial Hunts, and Rituals as Examples opens up a research space at the intersection of Han Fu and Han Dynasty institutions. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, it selects three aspects—capital institutions, imperial hunt institutions, and ritual institutions—and conducts thorough exploration and meticulous elaboration from multiple perspectives, including literary history, institutional history, political history, intellectual history, technological history, folk customs history, and archaeology, thereby further expanding the study of Han Fu. The topic of the paper holds high academic value, with comprehensive arguments, a well-structured layout, rigorous logic, broad perspectives, fluent writing, and a reflection of a pragmatic and innovative research attitude as well as solid expertise. Although research on Han Fu has made significant progress compared to a decade ago, most works have only analyzed and evaluated Han Fu in isolation, without exploring it from a broader perspective. The Han Fu and Han Dynasty Institutions transcends literature itself. It not only substantiates the narratives and descriptions in Han Fu with abundant historical materials but also examines the texts with caution, thereby exploring the details of several Han Dynasty institutions. It moves between the disciplines of literature and history, demonstrating a comprehensive and flexible approach. Among its contributions, the discussion on the social background behind the rise of Eastern Han capital Fu holds a certain theoretical depth; the analysis of Han Fu's detailed descriptions to examine the imperial hunt institutions supplements previously overlooked details of the system; and the exploration of the trends in the evolution of Han Dynasty ritual institutions from the perspective of Han Fu also showcases innovative insights.