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Chinese archery

Chinese archery
0 Type: Book

Archer and sinologist Selby collects and translates in alternative paragraphs views of traditional archery in China by historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists, and strategists from 1500 BC to the 20th century. They describe bow building, archery, and crossbow techniq…

Chinese archery

Chinese archery

by Selby, Stephen

0 Type: Book

Chinese Archery is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists and strategists from 1500 BC until the present century. The book is written around parallel text translations of classical chinese sour…

Bows and Spears in Achaemenid Persia

by White, James

0 Type: Thesis

My dissertation focuses on weaponry in the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BC), with an emphasis on bows and spears. Scholars have long recognized the importance of archery in the ancient Near East generally, and the Achaemenid Empire more specifically, but no thorough st…