Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

1/1/1973 - 8/31/1973

Funding Totals

$8,750.00 (approved)
$8,750.00 (awarded)


Ts'ao Ts'ao and the Rise of Wei: The Middle Years

FAIN: FB-11219-72

University of Kansas, Lawrence (Lawrence, KS 66045-7505)
Carl Leban (Project Director: January 1973 to present)

The study centers on the career of the pre-eminent poltical-military figure of the extremely disordered period of early Chinese history known as the Three States period, ca. 180-280 AD. The career of that towering figure, Ts'ao Ts'ao has had a temendous impct on all subsequent Chinese political, institutional, intellectual, and even artistic history.