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: 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 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 demonstration 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. Han Fu and Han Dynasty Institutions goes beyond literature itself, using abundant historical materials to substantiate the narratives and descriptions in Han Fu. Starting from the texts of Han Fu, it carefully examines and explores the details of several Han Dynasty institutions, moving between the disciplines of literature and history, achieving a comprehensive understanding. Among these, the discussion on the social background behind the rise of Eastern Han capital Fu has a certain theoretical depth; the examination of Han Dynasty imperial hunt institutions based on detailed descriptions in Han Fu supplements previously overlooked details of the system; and the analysis of the evolution of Han Dynasty ritual institutions as reflected in Han Fu also demonstrates innovative insights.