State and Local Society in Third Century South China: Administrative Documents Excavated at Zoumalou, Hunan - Hardcover

by Brian Lander (Author), Ling Wenchao (Author), Xin Wen (Author)

This book presents an overview of the historical context and the content of the largest cache of documents ever excavated in China, which provide a wealth of new materials on the history of South China.

Author Biography

Brian Lander, Ph.D. (2015) Columbia University, is assistant professor of history at Brown University, fellow of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and the author of The King's Harvest: A Historical Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire (Yale UP, 2021).

Ling Wenchao 凌文超, Ph.D. (2011) Peking University, is Professor at Beijing Normal University and has written two books and numerous articles on the Zoumalou documents.

Xin Wen 文欣, Ph.D. (2017) Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University and author of The King's Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (Princeton UP, 2022).