A deeply researched and thought-provoking set of essays on a sorely-neglected topic in Chinese economic, intellectual, and political history.
Elisa Levi Sabattini, Ph.D. (2006) Ca' Foscari University at Venice and INALCO at Paris, was Associate Professor of Chinese Philology at L'Orientale University of Naples. She is currently affiliated at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and she is Senior Research Associate at Ruhr Universität Bochum. Her research focuses on intellectual history, Chinese thought and aesthetic practice of Early China. She is author of several articles and book chapters published for international peer-reviewed journals. She is co-editor together with Paul R. Goldin of Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty (Brill, 2020). Christian Schwermann, Ph.D. (2005), University of Bonn, is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. His research interests include classical Chinese language and literature and early Chinese conceptual and political history.
