Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions – serie
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Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China
Av Aihe Wang
Häftad, 2006
821 kr
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This radical reinterpretation of the formative stages of Chinese culture and history traces the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China's early empires. It crosses the disciplines of history, social anthropology, archaeology and philosophy to illustrate how cosmological systems, …
Yüan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School
Häftad, 2006
574 kr
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Professor Chou here offers a perspective on the rise and fall of the Kung-an school as a key to understanding the development of Chinese literary criticism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His book focuses upon the literary theories of Yüan Hung-tao (1568-1610) - the leader of …
Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy
Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China
Av Thomas M. Buoye, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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In this book, Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws upon a large body of actual, documented homicide cases originating in property disputes to recreate the social tensions of rural China during the Qianlong reign …
Reconsidering Tu Fu
Literary Greatness and Cultural Context
Av Eva Shan Chou, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2006
879 kr
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Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. In the epochal An Lu-shan rebellion, he alone of his contemporaries consistently recorded in poetry the great events and pervasive sufferings of the time. For a millennium, Tu Fu's poetry has been accepted as epitomizing …
Liu Tsung-yüan and Intellectual Change in T'ang China, 773-819
Av Jo-Shui Chen, Patrick Hannan
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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This book is a comprehensive study of Liu Tsang-yüan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical …
Mourning in Late Imperial China
Filial Piety and the State
Av Norman Kutcher, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
737 kr
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As a conquest dynasty, Qing China's new Manchu leaders desperately needed to legitimize their rule. To win the approval of China's native elites, they developed an ambitious plan to return Confucianism to civil society. Filial piety, the core Confucian value, would once again be upheld by the …
Fu Ssu-nien
A Life in Chinese History and Politics
Av Fan-sen Wang
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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Fu Ssu-nien, scholar, and political and social critic, was one of the most colourful, influential intellectual figures in twentieth-century China. Wang Fan-sen's biography of Fu's life and contributions offers an in-depth examination of his role in intellectual development in modern China. Fu's …
Stone Lake
The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193
Av J. D. Schmidt, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
916 kr
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Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (1126-1193), one of the most famous Chinese poets of the twelfth century. For the non-specialist reader the main attraction of this 1992 book will be the translations from an extensive body of Fan Chengda's poetry, which make up …
Law and Order in Sung China
Av Brian E. McKnight, Patrick Hannan m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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This study examines law enforcement within the context of Sung society. Professor McKnight shows that the group of criminals who were the core of the habitual criminal group in Sung China were young unattached males with few lifeskills. What became of the criminal after capture and conviction is …
Within the Human Realm
The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905
Häftad, 2007
767 kr
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This book is a study of the poetry of Huang Zunxian, one of the most famous authors of late nineteenth-century China. The first part consists of a detailed biography outlining Huang's literary and political career. This is followed by a critical discussion of Huang's poetry, including such topics …
Tun-huang Popular Narratives
Häftad, 2007
921 kr
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Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early …
Land and Lineage in China
A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwel, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties
Häftad, 2009
475 kr
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This is a study of landholding, taxation and social structure in one county of central China that became famous in the Ming and Ch'ing periods for producing great officials and remarkable intellectual traditions. The primary aim of the author is to investigate the composition, organisation and …
The Bureaucracy of Han Times
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This is a comprehensive and fully documented study of Chinese bureaucracy during the Han period, when many of the basic lines of Chinese government practice were laid down. It is also more detailed and wider in scope than similar works on other periods of Chinese history. The book covers the time …
The Literary Works of Ou-yang Hsui (1007-72)
Häftad, 2009
669 kr
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The book is a literary study of one of the greatest of Chinese writers, Ou-yang Hsiu. He was a major writer in each of several genres: prose, poetry, rhapsodies, and tz'u 'songs'. The striking diversity of his work presents an opportunity to investigate how one man's literary talent is manifested …
'The Lament for the South'
Yu Hsin's 'Ai Chiang-Nan Fu'
Häftad, 2008
633 kr
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The Ai Chiang-nan fu by the sixth-century poet Yu Hsin is one of the most famous and difficult of all Chinese medieval poems. It relates in a highly allegorical and elliptical manner the fall of the Liang dynasty, which the poet served. The poem belongs to the genre of the fu; rhapsodical, elegiac …
Coal Mining in China's Economy and Society 1895-1937
Av Tim Wright
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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This book provides an important contribution to the economic history of modern China. It examines the history of the coal mining industry - one of China's largest and most important - from the beginnings of modernisation around 1895 to the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937. It addresses …
The Aristocratic Families in Early Imperial China
A Case Study of the Po-Ling Ts'ui Family
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Much scholarly work has been published on the Chinese medieval 'aristocracy', in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages. It is commonly accepted that the change from an aristocratic society to a 'meritocracy' was one of the turning points of Chinese history. But since almost every aspect of …
Poetry and Politics
The Life and Works of Juan Chi, A.D. 210-263
Häftad, 2009
636 kr
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Poetry and Politics is the first full-length study in any language of the life and works of the Chinese poet and thinker, Juan Chi (AD 210-263). This book contains translations of all Juan Chi's important works, in verse and prose, his letters and all the historical accounts of his life. The reader …
Wage Patterns and Wage Policy in Modern China 1919-1972
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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This book provides an analysis of changes in the level and structure of wages in China from the 1920s to 1972. In the first part of the study Dr Howe uses this analysis as a starting point to evaluate the degree to which wage policy objectives have been achieved, particularly since 1949. The author …
The Hsi-Yu-Chi
A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel
Häftad, 2009
574 kr
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A study of the early versions of the classic Chinese novel known to readers in English as Monkey. Dr Dudbridge examines a long tradition of earlier versions in narrative and dramatic form through which the great episodic cycle slowly took shape. The two main fields of interest are popular culture …
The Han Rhapsody
A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.-A.D.18)
Häftad, 2008
633 kr
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An attempt at an analysis in depth of the work of Yang Hsiung (53 BC-AD 18), and of the Fu or rhapsody (a mixture of rhythmical prose passages interspersed with free, rhymed verse). Yang Hsiung has figured prominently in Chinese literary history, though he is better known for his philosophical and …
Buddhism Under the T'ang
Häftad, 2008
655 kr
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Buddhism Under the Tang is a history of the Buddhist Church during the T'ang dynasty (618-907), when Buddhist thought reached the pinnacle of its development. The three centuries spanned by the T'ang saw the formation of such important philosophical schools as the Fa-hsiang and Hua-yen, the …
Yeh Ming-Ch'en
Viceroy of Liang Kuang 1852-8
Av J. Y. Wong
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of education, endeavour and achievement and not merely a …
T'ao Yüan-ming: Volume 1, Translation and Commentary
His works and their meaning
Av A. R. Davis
Häftad, 2009
706 kr
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All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365-427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal integrity and the meaning of man's life. His …
T'ao Yüan-ming: Volume 2, Additional Commentary, Notes and Biography
His Works and their Meaning
Av A. R. Davis
Häftad, 2009
633 kr
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All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365-427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal integrity and the meaning of man's life. His …
Taiping Rebel
The deposition of Li Hsiu-ch'eng
Av C. A. Curwen
Häftad, 2009
605 kr
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Li Hsiu-ch'eng - the Loyal Prince - was the most important military leader on the rebel side during the last years of the Taiping Rebellion in China (1851-64). The Taiping Rebellion has been called the greatest popular revolt in modern history, and it came remarkably close to toppling the Ch'ing …
Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China
Av Ray Huang
Häftad, 2009
804 kr
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Originally published in 1974, this is a detailed study of the financial administration of the Chinese government during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with particular attention to the sixteenth century, a topic about which very little has been published either in Chinese or any Western language. …
Region and Nation
The Kwangsi Clique in Chinese Politics 1925-1937
Av Diana Lary
Häftad, 2009
653 kr
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A study of the tensions between region and nation in Republican China. Diana Lary gives a detailed examination of Kwangsi province in south-west China, the home base of a major warlord clique that was important both for its interesting internal politics and for its national influence in the late …
Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960-1368)
Häftad, 2010
737 kr
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This book, originally published in 2002, argues that the Mongol invasion of the thirteenth century precipitated a transformation of marriage and property law in China that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how after a period during …
Tun-huang Popular Narratives
Av Victor H. Mair, Patrick Hannan
Inbunden, 1983
2113 kr
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Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early …
