Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China – serie
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Handbook of Christianity in China
Volume Two: 1800 - present
Inbunden, 2009
6231 kr
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This second volume on Christianity in China covers the period from 1800 onwards up to the present, divided into three main periods, and dealing with the complexities of both Catholic and Protestant aspects. Also in this volume the reader will be guided to and through the Chinese and Western primary …
Local Religion in North China in the Twentieth Century
The Structure and Organization of Community Rituals and Beliefs
Inbunden, 2009
2544 kr
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This book is a comprehensive survey of the structure, organization and institutionalization of local community religious traditions in north China villages in the twentieth century. These traditions have their own forms of leaders, deities and beliefs. Despite much local variation one everywhere …
Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume Two
A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities
Av Kenneth Dean, Zhenman ZHENG
Inbunden, 2009
4415 kr
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Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China.At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of …
Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One
Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods
Av Kenneth Dean, Zhenman ZHENG
Inbunden, 2009
2518 kr
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Making ingenious use of a wide variety of sources, and old as well as modern technical resources, Kenneth Dean and Zheng Zhenman here set a new standard for an histoire totale for a coherently well-defined cultural region in China. At the same time it deals in-depth with the ongoing negotiation of …
Words and Their Stories
Essays on the Language of the Chinese Revolution
Av Ban Wang
Inbunden, 2010
2782 kr
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As China joins the capitalist world economy, the problems of social disintegration that gave rise to the earlier revolutionary social movements are becoming pressing. Instead of viewing the Chinese Revolution as an academic study, these essays suggest that the motifs of the Revolution are still …
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (Vol. I)
A Reference Guide, Part One
Inbunden, 2010
4456 kr
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At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and …
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2)
A Reference Guide, Part Two
Inbunden, 2013
4342 kr
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At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and …
Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script
A Vernacular Writing System from Southern China
Av David Holm
Inbunden, 2013
4647 kr
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The traditional Zhuang script is a character script based on Chinese, adapted for the purpose of writing the Tai languages of southern China and northern Vietnam. Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script by David Holm, presents for the first time a systematic overview of such a script, based on a …
History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture
Inbunden, 2015
5527 kr
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A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture is the first publication, in any language, that is dedicated to the study of Chinese epistolary literature and culture in its entirety, from the early empire to the twentieth century. The volume includes twenty-five essays dedicated to a broad …
Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China
Part One: Introduction to the Field
Inbunden, 2022
3104 kr
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This is the first comprehensive book that presents the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China, from the early period of oracle bones to present-day fortune-tellers. It introduces what is out there in the field of Chinese divination and prognostication, …
Dictionary of Taoist Internal Alchemy
Inbunden, 2024
3576 kr
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This dictionary offers a unique perspective on the vast and varied terminology of Taoist Internal Alchemy (Neidan). Drawing on major original texts and premodern lexicons, it provides translations, definitions, and usage examples for over a thousand terms common throughout the tradition. A …
