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12 produkter
Early Medieval China
A Sourcebook
Av Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1775 kr
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This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political …
Early Medieval China
A Sourcebook
Av Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
449 kr
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This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political …
Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas …
Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE–800 CE
Häftad, 2020
304 kr
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Winner of the Stanislas Julien PrizeWinner of the Joseph Levenson Prize for Scholarship on Pre-1900 ChinaDreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in …
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
Inbunden, 2023
493 kr
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Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, even their …
Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
Häftad, 2023
290 kr
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Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, even their …
Making Transcendents
Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China
Häftad, 2016
300 kr
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By the middle of the third century B.C.E. in China there were individuals who sought to become transcendents (xian)—deathless, godlike beings endowed with supernormal powers. This quest for transcendence became a major form of religious expression and helped lay the foundation on which the first …
Signs from the Unseen Realm
Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
Häftad, 2023
216 kr
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In early medieval China hundreds of Buddhist miracle texts were circulated, inaugurating a trend that would continue for centuries. Each tale recounted extraordinary events involving Chinese persons and places—events seen as verifying claims made in Buddhist scriptures, demonstrating the reality of …
Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents by Liu Xiang (79–8 BCE)
Av Robert Ford Campany, Sarah M. Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
574 kr
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By the middle of the third century BCE, some people in China had begun to imagine it possible to employ esoteric methods to refashion themselves into posthuman beings with spirit-like capabilities, enhanced bodies, and greatly extended lifespans. Such beings were termed transcendents (xian 仙). …
Strange Writing
Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China
Inbunden, 1996
1278 kr
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The first comprehensive, Western-language study of the important Chinese genre of writing known as "accounts of the anomalies" (zhiguai) in its formative period. The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genreBetween the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which …
Strange Writing
Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China
Häftad, 1996
526 kr
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The first comprehensive, Western-language study of the important Chinese genre of writing known as "accounts of the anomalies" (zhiguai) in its formative period. The book sets forth a new view of the nature and origins of the genreBetween the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which …
Signs from the Unseen Realm
Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China
Inbunden, 2012
732 kr
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