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25 produkter
Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy
Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China
Av Thomas M. Buoye, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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In this book, Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws upon a large body of actual, documented homicide cases originating in property disputes to recreate the social tensions of rural China during the Qianlong reign …
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Literary Greatness and Cultural Context
Av Eva Shan Chou, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. In the epochal An Lu-shan rebellion, he alone of his contemporaries consistently recorded in poetry the great events and pervasive sufferings of the time. For a millennium, Tu Fu's poetry has been accepted as epitomizing …
Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819
Av Jo-Shui Chen, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of Liu Tsang-yüan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical …
Mourning in Late Imperial China
Filial Piety and the State
Av Norman Kutcher, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
737 kr
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As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the …
Stone Lake
The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193
Av J. D. Schmidt, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
916 kr
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Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (1126-1193), one of the most famous Chinese poets of the twelfth century. For the non-specialist reader the main attraction of this 1992 book will be the translations from an extensive body of Fan Chengda's poetry, which make up …
Law and Order in Sung China
Av Brian E. McKnight, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This study examines law enforcement within the context of Sung society. Professor McKnight shows that the group of criminals who were the core of the habitual criminal group in Sung China were young unattached males with few lifeskills. What became of the criminal after capture and conviction is …
Tun-huang Popular Narratives
Av Victor H. Mair, Patrick Hannan
Inbunden, 1983
2113 kr
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Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early …
China and the Overseas Chinese
A Study of Peking's Changing Policy: 1949-1970
Av Stephen Fitzgerald, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 1980
586 kr
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Originally published in 1972, this is a detailed examination of the policy of the People's Republic of China towards the overseas Chinese - those people of Chinese origin living outside China, mostly in South-East Asia. The overseas Chinese have often been regarded as a kind of fifth column used by …
Stone Lake
The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193
Av J. D. Schmidt, Patrick Hannan
Inbunden, 1992
1872 kr
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Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (1126-1193), one of the most famous Chinese poets of the twelfth century. For the non-specialist reader the main attraction of this 1992 book will be the translations from an extensive body of Fan Chengda's poetry, which make up …
Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819
Av Jo-Shui Chen, Patrick Hannan
Inbunden, 1992
1633 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of Liu Tsang-yüan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical …
Within the Human Realm
The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905
Av J. D. Schmidt, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2153 kr
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This book is a study of the poetry of Huang Zunxian, one of the most famous authors of late nineteenth-century China. The first part consists of a detailed biography outlining Huang's literary and political career. This is followed by a critical discussion of Huang's poetry, including such topics …
The Writing of Official History under the T'ang
Av Denis Twitchett, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
838 kr
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This book describes how the Chinese government, between about 620 and 850, developed an official organization designed to select, process, and edit material for inclusion in official historical works eventually to be incorporated in an official history of the dynasty. The first part gives a …
From War to Nationalism
China's Turning Point, 1924-1925
Av Arthur Waldron, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
838 kr
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Scholars have long recognised that Chinese politics changed fundamentally in 1925, when the radical nationalism of the May Thirtieth Movement took political centre stage. This book explains the connection between the beginning of the Nationalist revolution and the introduction of modern World War I …
Deadly Dreams
Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
Av J. Y. Wong, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
720 kr
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The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged …
The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang
Overseas Chinese Enterprise in the Modernisation of China 1893-1911
Av Michael R. Godley, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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The contribution of the overseas Chinese, particularly from Southeast Asia (Nanyang), to China's early modernization constitutes an important and neglected chapter in Chinese history. During the same years which saw the emergence of the Reform and Revolutionary movements, the ruling Manchu …
The Shanghai Badlands
Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
Av Frederic Wakeman, Jr, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2002
737 kr
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Between August 1937 and December 1941, when the Chinese sectors of Shanghai were occupied by the Japanese, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and assassins of the Japanese military authorities. The most intensely disputed area was the western suburb, the Badlands, but …
Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China
Li Fu and the Lu-Wang School under the Ch'ing
Av C. S. Huang, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
482 kr
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This book explains the general intellectual climate of the early Ch'ing period, and the political and cultural characteristics of the Ch'ing regime at the time. Professor Huang brings to life the book's central characters, Li Fu and the three great emperors - K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng, and Chien-lung - …
The Thought of Chang Tsai (1020-1077)
Av Ira E. Kasoff, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2002
699 kr
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Chang Tsai is one of the three major Chinese philosophers who, in the eleventh century, revitalised Confucian thought after centuries of stagnation and formed the foundation for the neo-Confucian thinking that was predominant till the nineteenth century. The book analyses in depth Chang's views of …
Shen Pao-chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century
Av David Pong, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
586 kr
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The Opium Wars ushered in an era of intensive Western imperialism in China, at a time when the Ch'ing dynasty was already in decline, forcing a small number of Chinese officials to come to the realisation that China must protect itself by adopting the same military technology that had brought it …
Deadly Dreams
Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
Inbunden, 1998
2314 kr
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The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the war. What began as a study of an alleged …
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368)
Av Bettine Birge, Patrick Hannan
Inbunden, 2002
1073 kr
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This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during …
From Chronicle to Canon
The Hermeneutics of the Spring and Autumn according to Tung Chung-shu
Av Sarah A. Queen, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
955 kr
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Every general account of the development of Chinese thought makes mention of Tung Chung-shu (c. 195-105 bce) as one of the pivotal philosophers of the Han. Professor Queen's accomplishment is a meticulous dissection of Tung Chung-shu's major work. The Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn Annals …
Mourning in Late Imperial China
Filial Piety and the State
Av Norman Kutcher, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1677 kr
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As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the …
Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China
A Reading of Tai Fu's 'Kuang-i chi'
Av Glen Dudbridge, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
426 kr
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The remains of Tai Fu's lost collection Kuang-i chi ('The Great Book of Marvels') preserve three hundred short tales of encounters with the other world. This study develops a style of close reading through which those tales give access to the lives of individuals in eighth-century China. Through …
Community, Trade, and Networks
Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century
Av Hugh R. Clark, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
803 kr
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Community, Trade, and Networks traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth century, investigating the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and the expanding role of domestic and foreign …
