Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Charts and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Minority as the Protagonists 9
7. A Class Merely on Paper 45
8. An Archeology of Interpretive Schools of the Five Classics in the Western Han Dynasty 77
9. A Reshuffle of Power 113
10. Begin in the Middle 153
11. Conclusion 187
12. Major Official Titles of the Western Han Dynasty 199
13. Notes 203
14. Bibliography 241
15. Index 263