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Sage Learning of Liu Zhi
Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms
Av Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
520 kr
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Liu Zhi (ca. 1670–1724) was one of the most important scholars of Islam in traditional China. His Tianfang xingli (Nature and Principle in Islam), the Chinese-language text translated here, focuses on the roots or principles of Islam. It was heavily influenced by several classic texts in the Sufi …
In the Wake of the Mongols
The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200–1600
Av Jinping Wang
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and dismantling the existing social order. In the Wake of the Mongols recounts the riveting story of how northern Chinese men and women adapted to these …
Painting Master’s Shame
Liang Shicheng and the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings
Av Amy McNair
Inbunden, 2023
447 kr
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Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1126), Amy McNair argues that it was compiled instead under the direction of Liang Shicheng. Liang, a high-ranking eunuch official who sought to raise his social …
Chinese History
A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth Edition (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition)
Inbunden, 2022
800 kr
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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history …
Chinese History, Volume 2 – A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth Edition (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition)
A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth Edition (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
404 kr
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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history …
Chinese History, Volume 1 – A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth Edition (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition)
A New Manual, Enlarged Sixth Edition (Fiftieth Anniversary Edition)
Häftad, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
404 kr
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Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinction because the author expanded its scope with each new edition. In the process it has grown from a modest research guide to Chinese imperial history …
Articulated Ladies
Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts
Av Paul Rouzer
Inbunden, 2001
451 kr
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This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 BC until 1000 AD. Above all, it discusses the intimate relationship between the representation of gender and the political and social self-representations of elite …
Poetry and Painting in Song China
The Subtle Art of Dissent
Häftad, 2002
352 kr
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Throughout the history of imperial China, the educated elite used various means to criticize government policies and actions. During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some members of this elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, the titles …
Printing for Profit
The Commercial Publishers of Jianyang, Fujian (11th–17th Centuries)
Av Lucille Chia
Inbunden, 2003
448 kr
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From the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries, the publishers of Jianyang in Fujian province played a conspicuous role in the Chinese book trade. Unlike the products of government and educational presses, their publications were destined for the retail book market. These publishers survived …
Allegories of Desire
Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan
Inbunden, 2003
426 kr
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One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century …
Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China
Av Wei Shang
Inbunden, 2003
402 kr
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Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over …
Writing and Materiality in China
Essays in Honor of Patrick Hanan
Av Judith T. Zeitlin, Lydia H. Liu
Inbunden, 2003
598 kr
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Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces, or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China’s …
To Become a God
Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China
Häftad, 2004
246 kr
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Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to …
Words Well Put
Visions of Poetic Competence in the Chinese Tradition
Inbunden, 2006
450 kr
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Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in these narratives through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic …
Householders
The Reizei Family in Japanese History
Inbunden, 2007
549 kr
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As direct descendants of the great courtier-poets Fujiwara no Shunzei (1114–1204) and his son Teika (1162–1244), the heirs of the noble Reizei house can claim an unbroken literary lineage that spans over eight hundred years. During all that time, their primary goal has been to sustain the poetic …
Divine Nature of Power
Chinese Ritual Architecture at the Sacred Site of Jinci
Av Tracy Miller
Inbunden, 2007
404 kr
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Built around three sacred springs, the Jin Shrines complex (Jinci), near Taiyuan in Shanxi province, contains a wealth of ancient art and architecture dating back to the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). The complex's 1,500-year-long textual record allows us to compare physical and written evidence …
Beacon Fire and Shooting Star
The Literary Culture of the Liang (502–557)
Av Xiaofei Tian
Inbunden, 2007
495 kr
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The Liang dynasty (502–557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood. Under the Liang, literary activities, such as writing, editing, anthologizing, and cataloguing, were pursued on an unprecedented scale, yet the …
Lost Soul
“Confucianism” in Contemporary Chinese Academic Discourse
Av John Makeham
Inbunden, 2008
434 kr
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Since the mid-1980s, Taiwan and mainland China have witnessed a sustained resurgence of academic and intellectual interest in ruxue—“Confucianism”—variously conceived as a form of culture, an ideology, a system of learning, and a tradition of normative values. This discourse has led to a …
Through a Forest of Chancellors
Fugitive Histories in Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, an Illustrated Book from Seventeenth-Century Suzhou
Inbunden, 2010
598 kr
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Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. Liu accompanied each figure, presented under the guise of a bandit, with a couplet; the poems, written in various scripts, are surrounded by marginal images …
Ancestors, Virgins, and Friars
Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China
Inbunden, 2010
434 kr
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Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christianity’s foreignness and the social isolation of converts have dominated this debate. Eugenio Menegon uncovers another story. In the sixteenth century, …
Empire’s Twilight
Northeast Asia under the Mongols
Inbunden, 2009
443 kr
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The rise of the Mongol empire transformed world history. Its collapse in the mid-fourteenth century had equally profound consequences. Four themes dominate this study of the late Mongol empire in Northeast Asia during this chaotic era: the need for a regional perspective encompassing all states and …
Empire of Texts in Motion
Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
Inbunden, 2009
598 kr
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By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan’s military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the metropole and sending thousands of Japanese to other parts of East Asia. The constant movement of …
‘Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern’
The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960–1276 CE)
Av Ruth Mostern
Inbunden, 2011
447 kr
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States are inherently and fundamentally geographical. Sovereignty is based on control of territory. This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. On more than a thousand occasions, the Song court founded, abolished, …
Manifest in Words, Written on Paper
Producing and Circulating Poetry in Tang Dynasty China
Inbunden, 2011
451 kr
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This study aims to engage the textual realities of medieval literature by shedding light on the material lives of poems during the Tang, from their initial oral or written instantiation through their often lengthy and twisted paths of circulation. Tang poems exist today in stable written forms …
Songs of Contentment and Transgression
Discharged Officials and Literati Communities in Sixteenth-Century North China
Inbunden, 2010
493 kr
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A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century—Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian—who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Instead of the formal writing expected of scholar-officials, …
Ancestral Memory in Early China
Inbunden, 2011
434 kr
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Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible …
Poetics of Sovereignty
On Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty
Av Jack W. Chen
Inbunden, 2011
549 kr
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Emperor Taizong (r. 626–49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong’s construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings—with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the …
Northern Alternative
Xue Xuan (1389–1464) and the Hedong School
Inbunden, 2011
349 kr
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Conventional portraits of Neo-Confucianism in China are built on studies of scholars active in the south, yet Xue Xuan (1389–1464), the first Ming Neo-Confucian to be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius, was a northerner. Why has Xue been so overlooked in the history of Neo-Confucianism? In this …
Visionary Journeys
Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China
Av Xiaofei Tian
Inbunden, 2012
359 kr
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This book explores the parallel and yet profoundly different ways of seeing the outside world and engaging with the foreign at two important moments of dislocation in Chinese history, namely, the early medieval period commonly known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties (317–589 CE), and the …
Making Personas
Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2013
461 kr
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The film star is not simply an actor but a historical phenomenon that derives from the production of an actor's attractiveness, the circulation of his or her name and likeness, and the support of media consumers. This book analyzes the establishment and transformation of the transnational film star …
