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18 produkter
Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian
A Chinese Perspective on Contemporary Western Scholarship
Av Xiaojiang Li
Inbunden, 2018
4318 kr
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Wolf Totem and the Post-Mao Utopian by Li Xiaojiang explores the controversial best-selling novel by the political economist Jiang Rong as an allegory of utopia through discussion of an encyclopaedic range of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that offer thinking on topics introduced …
Companions in Geography
East-West Collaboration in the Mapping of Qing China (c. 1685-1735)
Av Mario Cams
Inbunden, 2017
2400 kr
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In Companions in Geography Mario Cams revisits the early 18th century mapping of Qing China, without doubt one of the largest cartographic endeavours of the early modern world. Commonly seen as a Jesuit initiative, the project appears here as the result of a convergence of interests among the …
World Trade Systems of the East and West
Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks
Inbunden, 2017
2593 kr
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In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's …
Beyond Chinoiserie
Artistic Exchange between China and the West during the Late Qing Dynasty (1796-1911)
Av Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Jennifer Milam
Inbunden, 2018
1715 kr
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The complex interweaving of different Western visions of China had a profound impact on artistic exchange between China and the West during the nineteenth century. Beyond Chinoiserie addresses the complexity of this exchange. While the playful Western “vision of Cathay” formed in the previous …
Foreign Devils and Philosophers
Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800
Inbunden, 2020
3439 kr
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What was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? This book explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly, European (especially …
Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn
Light from the East
Inbunden, 2020
2515 kr
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The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals offers radical rereadings of a misunderstood and undervalued Victorian writer. It reveals that at the metaphysical core of Lafcadio Hearn’s writings is a Buddhist vision as yet unappreciated by his critics and …
Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond
Av Reiko Maekawa, Darwin Stapleton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2244 kr
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Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond explores the personal complexities and ambiguities, and the successes and failures, of crossing borders and boundaries. While the focus is on East Asia, it universalizes cultural anxieties with comparative cases in Russia and the United States. …
Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations
Texts and Histories
Av Katrine Wong
Inbunden, 2020
3414 kr
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Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories is a product of east-west studies crossed with adaptation studies: it goes beyond evaluation of cultural interactions and discussion of forms and manners of adaptation. This volume brings together critical discourses from various …
Jesuit Mission and Submission: Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735
Av Litian Swen
Inbunden, 2021
729 kr
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Jesuit Mission and Submission explains how the Jesuits entered the Manchu world after the Manchus conquered Beijing in 1644. Supported by Qing court archives, the book discovers the Jesuits Manchu-style master-slave relationship with the Kangxi emperor. Against the backdrop of this relationship, …
European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
Inbunden, 2021
2349 kr
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European Perceptions of China and Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative is a collection of fourteen essays on the way China is perceived in Europe today. These perceptions – and they are multiple – are particularly important to the People’s Republic of China as the country grapples with its …
American Pioneer of Chinese Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Benjamin Bowen Carter as an Agent of Global Knowledge
Inbunden, 2021
3063 kr
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Benjamin Bowen Carter (1771-1831), one of the first Americans to speak and read Chinese, studied Chinese in Canton and advocated its use in diplomacy decades before America established a formal relationship with China. Drawing on rediscovered manuscripts, this book reconstructs Carter’s …
Asian Culture, Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, Volume I
China
Inbunden, 2022
2186 kr
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Considering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider’s perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging …
Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West
Av Xinjiang Rong, Sally K. Church Et Al m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
4020 kr
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This first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang’s The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in …
Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific
Av Edward Boyle
Inbunden, 2023
2794 kr
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Contests over heritage in Asia are intensifying and reflect the growing prominence of political and social disputes over historical narratives shaping heritage sites and practices, and the meanings attached to them. These contests emphasize that heritage is a means of narrating the past that …
From Rome to Beijing
Sacred Spaces in Dialogue
Inbunden, 2024
2114 kr
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From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jesuit order’s global corporationgrew increasingly influential within the …
Saved from Desert Sands
Re-discovering Objects on the Silk Roads
Inbunden, 2024
2412 kr
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Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of forgotten manuscript archives and sand-buried cities in the twentieth century …
Logics of Integration
Discourses on Multi-ethnic Empires and Transpacific Japanese Migration from the End of WWI to WWII
Inbunden, 2024
1774 kr
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Logics of Integration, by Noriaki Hoshino, recounts the history of the relationship between modern Japanese transpacific migration and the formation of two multi-ethnic empires (Japan and the United States), focusing on intellectual discourses about migrants and their descendants. This book adopts …
From the Periphery to the Centre
Buddhist Innovations and Networks across Mediaeval Maritime Asia
Inbunden, 2026
1436 kr
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The navigation skills of monsoon sailing brought unprecedented interactions of ideas, cultures, and horizons across Buddhist Asia in the mediaeval period. The interconnected seaways from the Bay of Bengal through the South China Sea to the Sea of Japan underpin a variegated intellectual framework …
