{"id":1064,"date":"2022-01-12T15:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2022-01-12T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:52:24","slug":"professor-barbieri-awarded-neh-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbierilow.faculty.history.ucsb.edu\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Professor Barbieri Awarded NEH Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was just awarded a full-year fellowship from the NEH to work on the first complete English translation of the\u00a0<em>Discourses on Salt and Iron\u00a0<\/em>(Yantielun\u00a0\u9e7d\u9435\u8ad6), one of the most important classical texts to survive from the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century BCE in Han dynasty China. The\u00a0<em>Discourses on Salt and Iron\u00a0<\/em>is a work in sixty chapters, only twenty-eight of which have been previously translated into English. It purports to be a faithful recording of an imperial court debate held in 81 BCE between the government and its critics about whether to abolish state monopolies on iron and salt production that had been imposed four decades previously.\u00a0 And while some chapters do indeed discuss the state monopolies, the topics in the debate ranged widely, touching upon all the controversial political, military, economic, and social issues of the time. The\u00a0<em>Discourses on Salt and Iron<\/em>\u00a0thus constitutes a rare and indispensable snapshot of the political economy of the Han dynasty.\u00a0 The text is invaluable for understanding the political currents and economic policies of the most populous empire on earth near the turn of the common era.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just awarded a full-year fellowship from the NEH to work on the first complete English translation of the\u00a0Discourses on Salt and Iron\u00a0(Yantielun\u00a0\u9e7d\u9435\u8ad6), one of the most important classical texts to survive from the 1st\u00a0century BCE in Han dynasty China. 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