Academia Sinica on East Asia – serie
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23 produkter
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era
The Dao among the Miao?
Av Paul R. Katz
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book …
Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia
Perspectives from Environmental History
Av Ts'ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East …
Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia
Changes in the Land, Water and Air
Av Micah Muscolino, Ts'ui-jung Liu
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy.Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental …
Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia
Changes in the Land, Water and Air
Av Ts'ui-jung Liu, Micah Muscolino
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy.Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental …
Divine Justice
Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture
Av Paul R. Katz
Inbunden, 2008
2512 kr
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important …
Taiwan in Japan's Empire-Building
An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan’s larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going …
Poet-historian Qian Qianyi
Inbunden, 2009
3525 kr
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This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly …
Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China
Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions
Inbunden, 2012
2586 kr
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Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early …
Divine Justice
Religion And The Development Of Chinese Legal Culture
Av Paul R. Katz
Häftad, 2009
750 kr
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This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important …
Beyond Confucian China
The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers …
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity
The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
Inbunden, 2010
1749 kr
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This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and …
Taiwan in Japan's Empire-Building
An Institutional Approach to Colonial Engineering
Häftad, 2011
937 kr
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This book explores the institutions through which Taiwan was governed under Japanese colonial rule, illuminating how the administration was engineered and how Taiwan was placed in Japan’s larger empire building. The author argues that rather than envisaging the ruling of the society and then going …
Environmental History in East Asia
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of …
From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee
Lust/Caution
Av Peng Hsiao-yen, Whitney Crothers Dilley
Inbunden, 2014
2888 kr
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In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought …
Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia
Perspectives from Environmental History
Av Ts'ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2826 kr
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Covering the ancient period through to the 21st century, this book examines how landscapes have changed across East Asia over time. Featuring examples of a variety of landscapes, from the riverine and agricultural to the urban and aesthetic, this books thus presents a comprehensive review of East …
Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Western Hunan during the Modern Era
The Dao among the Miao?
Av Paul R. Katz
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book explores how beliefs and practices have shaped the interactions between different ethnic groups in Western Hunan, as well as considering how religious life has adapted to the challenges of modern Chinese history.Combining historical and ethnographic methodologies, chapters in this book …
From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee
Lust/Caution
Av Peng Hsiao-yen, Whitney Crothers Dilley
Häftad, 2017
946 kr
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In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought …
Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China
Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions
Häftad, 2017
877 kr
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Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China’s economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early …
Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia
Häftad, 2018
847 kr
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Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many …
Environmental History in East Asia
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Häftad, 2016
937 kr
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As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of …
Beyond Confucian China
The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin
Häftad, 2015
822 kr
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Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers …
Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity
The Dandy, the Flaneur, and the Translator in 1930s Shanghai, Tokyo, and Paris
Häftad, 2015
611 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and …
Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia
Inbunden, 2015
2586 kr
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Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many …
