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. It employs an interdisciplinary approach, focusing on three aspects: the capital system, the imperial hunt system, and the ritual system. From multiple perspectives such as literary history, institutional history, political history, intellectual history, technological history, folk history, and archaeology, it conducts thorough exploration and detailed elaboration, further expanding the study of Han Fu. The topic of the paper has high academic value, with comprehensive arguments, a well-structured layout, rigorous logic, broad thinking, and fluent writing, reflecting a pragmatic and innovative research attitude and solid expertise.
Although research on Han Fu has made significant progress compared to ten years ago, most existing works analyze and evaluate Han Fu in isolation, without exploring it from a broader perspective. The Han Fu and Han Dynasty Institutions goes beyond literature itself. It uses extensive historical records to substantiate the narratives and descriptions in Han Fu, carefully examining the texts to explore the details of several Han Dynasty institutions. It transcends the boundaries of literature and history, demonstrating a flexible and insightful approach. Among its contributions, the discussion on the social background of the rise of Eastern Han capital Fu holds a certain theoretical depth; the examination of the Han Dynasty imperial hunt system based on detailed descriptions in Han Fu supplements previously overlooked aspects of the system; and the analysis of the evolution of Han Dynasty ritual systems through Han Fu also showcases innovative insights.