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Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation
Inbunden, 2025
2608 kr
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Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation by Jessica Tsui-yan Li focuses on the self-translation of Zhang Ailing 張愛玲 (Eileen Chang, 1920–1995), one of the most important Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Although self-translation is overlooked in most studies of her work, Chang’s …
Chinese Sky during the Han
Constellating Stars and Society
Av Xiaochun Sun, Jacob Kistemaker
Inbunden, 1997
2432 kr
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A reconstruction of the Chinese sky of two thousand years ago, based on analysis of the first star catalogue in China and other sources. Presented in six well-sized star maps for 100 BC, it is especially important for the history of astronomy. The Han sky, with five times more constellations than …
Sexual Life in Ancient China
A Preliminary Survey of Chinese Sex and Society from ca. 1500 B.C. Till 1644 A.D.
Av R.H. van Gulik, Paul Goldin
Inbunden, 2002
2808 kr
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In 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate Introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik’s volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an …
Zhou Mi’s Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes
An Annotated Translation
Inbunden, 2002
3907 kr
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Subject of this book is the social and cultural history of Chinese art collecting during the early years of Mongol rule in China (the Yuan dynasty, 1276-1368).At the core of Weitz’s book is a complete translation of the Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One’s Eyes (Yunyan guoyan lu), an art …
Confucian Quest for Order
The Origin and Formation of the Political Thought of Xun Zi
Inbunden, 2003
3318 kr
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Xun Zi, one of the principal thinkers of the pre-imperial period and as such still widely read, ought to appear on any reading list on Chinese intellectual history. Dr. Sato's volume deals with the origin and formation of Xun Zi’s political thought, with close focus on the intellectual activity of …
Archives of the Kong Koan of Batavia
Av Leonard Blussé, Menghong Chen
Häftad, 2003
1802 kr
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The archive of the Kong Koan constitutes the only relatively complete archive of a “diaspora” Chinese urban community in Southeast Asia. The essays in the present volume offer important and new insights into many different aspects of Overseas Chinese life between 1780-1965.The Kong Koan of colonial …
Telling Stories
Witchcraft and Scapegoating in Chinese History
Inbunden, 2005
2875 kr
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This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, …
Buddhist Conquest of China
The Spread and Adaptation of Buddhism in Early Medieval China
Av Erik Zürcher
Inbunden, 2007
2648 kr
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"The reprinting in 2007 of a book originally produced nearly fifty years earlier (and based on a doctoral dissertation begun in the early 1950s) is not merely a publishing event. It constitutes a milestone in the academic study of early Chinese Buddhism that shows at once both how far the field has …
Philosopher, Practitioner, Politician: the Many Lives of Fazang (643-712)
Av Jinhua Chen
Inbunden, 2007
3688 kr
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The Buddhist monk Fazang (643-712), regarded today mainly as a scholastic monk, was in fact one of the greatest metaphysicians in Asia. This biographical - and hagiographical - study of Fazang seeks to explore his other contributions and in so doing to correct some major mis-presentations and …
Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125)
Genres, Contexts, and Creativity
Inbunden, 2007
3159 kr
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The Northern Song poet He Zhu is best known for his lyrics (ci) but also produced shi poetry of subtlety, wit, and feeling. This study examines the latter as a response to the options available to a late-eleventh century writer in the pentametrical and heptametrical forms of Ancient Verse, …
International Law as World Order in Late Imperial China
Translation, Reception and Discourse, 1847-1911
Inbunden, 2007
1813 kr
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This is the first systematic analysis of the early introduction and reception of international law as a Western political and legal science in China. International law in late imperial China is studied both as part of the introduction of the Western sciences and as a theoretical orientation in …
Cultivating Perfection
Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism
Inbunden, 2007
3769 kr
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This important work focuses on early Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism, a twelfth-century Daoist religious movement and subsequent monastic order. Emphasis in this first study to approach Quanzhen from a comparative religious studies perspective is placed on the complex interplay among views of …
Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China
The Warp and the Weft
Av Francesca Bray, Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3962 kr
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This collection offers a challenging new interpretation of technical knowledge in Chinese thought and practice. Conveying technical knowledge in China through charts, plans or drawings (tu) dates back to antiquity. Earlier studies focused on specialised forms of tu like maps or drawings of …
Chen Jiru (1558-1639)
The Development and Subsequent Uses of Literary Personae
Inbunden, 2007
3371 kr
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Chen Jiru (1558-1639) was one of the great late-Ming arbiters of culture and taste, and the impact of his innovations can still be traced in present-day China. In late Ming, when culture and taste enjoyed a social prestige beyond their usual standing, Chen's influence appears even greater than it …
Kingship in Early Medieval China
Inbunden, 2008
2507 kr
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The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) With the help of the ensuing insights the volume develops into a portal through which to gain understanding of broader patterns of …
Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China
Ethos, Theory and Practice
Inbunden, 2008
2227 kr
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According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature, the author examines the theoretical underpinnings of the 'silk and bamboo' instrumental …
Modernist Aesthetics in Taiwanese Poetry since the 1950s
Av Chung-to Au
Inbunden, 2008
2900 kr
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Much of the previous scholarship on Taiwanese modernist poetry easily falls into ideological arguments. This book participates in the development of an alternative approach to understanding Taiwanese modernist poetry. Dr. Au’s approach emphasizes the diversity and intensity of experiences of place …
Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre
From the Word to the Image
Inbunden, 2008
2529 kr
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This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions. The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious …
Chinese Translation of Russian Literature
Three Studies
Av Mark Gamsa
Inbunden, 2008
3443 kr
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The important place of Russian literature in China is widely acknowledged. To better understand the processes of its translation, transmission and interpretation during the first half of the 20th century, this book draws on an array of Chinese and Russian sources, providing insight into the …
Performing "Nation"
Gender Politics in Literature, Theater, and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940
Inbunden, 2008
2727 kr
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Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan. Focusing on gender formation, the chapters explore the changing constructs of …
Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music
Essays in Honor of Wilt Idema
Av Maghiel van Crevel, Michel Hockx m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
3411 kr
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Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical …
Glory of Yue
An Annotated Translation of the Yuejue shu
Inbunden, 2010
3371 kr
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The Glory of Yue is the first translation into any Western language of the Yuejue shu, a collection of essays on history, literature, religion, architecture, economic thought, military science, and philosophy related to the ancient kingdoms of Wu and Yue, in present day eastern China. This book …
Power of Patriarchs
Qisong and Lineage in Chinese Buddhism
Inbunden, 2010
2596 kr
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The Chan monk Qisong (1007-1072), an important figure in Northern Song religious and intellectual history, has garnered relatively little scholarly attention. This book provides a detailed biography with a focus on the influential historical writings he composed to defend Chan claims of a …
Xun Xu and the Politics of Precision in Third-Century AD China
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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This biography of the court scholar Xun Xu explores central areas of intellectual life in third-century China — court lyrics, music, metrology, pitch systems, archeology, and historiography. It clarifies the relevant source texts in order to reveal fierce debates. Besides solving technical puzzles …
Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang
Inbunden, 2012
2243 kr
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In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into …
Heavenly Court
Daoist Temple Painting in China, 1200-1400
Inbunden, 2011
3425 kr
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One of the most magnificent and enduring themes in Chinese painting history can be found depicted in Daoist temples from the local village up to the very capital, viz., the paintings of the Heavenly Court (chaoyuan tu). Surprisingly, its images have remained largely unstudied in Western …
Language of the Sangleys
A Chinese Vernacular in Missionary Sources of the Seventeenth Century
Inbunden, 2010
3036 kr
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Handwritten in the seventeenth century, the Arte de la lengua chio chiu is the oldest extant grammar of the Chinese vernacular known as Southern Min or Hokkien, and a spectacular source text for present-day linguistics. Its author, a Spanish Dominican missionary, worked among the Chinese settlers …
From Woodblocks to the Internet
Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition, circa 1800 to 2008
Inbunden, 2010
3197 kr
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The thirteen essays in this volume narrate and analyze the reciprocal influences of technological, intellectual, and sociopolitical changes on the structure of modern China's book (and print) trade; more specifically, they treat the rise of new genres of print, changes in writing practices, the …
Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China
Av Chun Mei
Inbunden, 2011
2458 kr
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The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West. This study focuses on the concept of “the theatrical” to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with …
Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400
Inbunden, 2011
3197 kr
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The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed …
