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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2024
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2 Anyone familiar with the complexities of correlating of different pre-imperial calendars must be in awe. For another ancient world, see Feeney's, Denis Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Christopher Cullen's impressive body of work, for the Han.
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5 Keightley wrote of the Chinese distaste for depicting bloodshed, in a number of places, perhaps most famously in his essay, “Early Civilization in China: Reflections on How It Became Chinese,” in Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization, edited by Ropp, Paul S. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 15–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.