Victor H. Mair

TL;DR: A contemporary translation of the original collection of tales, poems, and parables of Taoist philosophy is presented in this article, covering a wide range of issues, from ambition to politics, accompanied by an introduction on the author and his place in Chinese thought and history.

TL;DR: A database of historical and archaeological information from 30 regions around the world over the last 10,000 years revealed that characteristics, such as social scale, economy, features of governance, and information systems, show strong evolutionary relationships with each other and that complexity of a society across different world regions can be meaningfully measured using a single principal component of variation.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the Xiaohe people were an admixture from populations originating from both the West and the East, implying that the Tarim Basin had been occupied by an admixed population since the early Bronze Age, which is the earliest genetic evidence of an admixtures population settled in theTarim Basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined all the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region, in this acclaimed tour-de-force of scholarship.

TL;DR: The origins and impact of literati culture are discussed in this paper, where the authors present a map of the origins and influence of literature in early China, including the literature of the T'ang Dynasty.