"Age Inflation and Deflation" in Medieval China.
Using the twelve-year animal cycle, this paper uncovers and examines the dual phenomena of "age inflation" and "age deflation" in medieval China. While the first part raises serious doubt on the accuracy of the conventional method for calculating birth year in premodern China, the second section exa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 133; no. 3; pp. 527 - 534 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Jul-Sep2013
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