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Author : John Bell
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719-22 written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel journals of a Scottish physician who served at the Court of Tsar Peter 1.
Author : John Bell (d'Antermony.)
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book A Journey from St Petersburg to Pekin written by John Bell (d'Antermony.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John BELL (of Antermony.)
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book A Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719-22 ... Edited with an Introduction by J.L. Stevenson. [Part of "Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia". With Plates, Including a Map.]. written by John BELL (of Antermony.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lynn Bell
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin written by John Lynn Bell and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell
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Download or read book A journey from St. Petersburg to Pekin, 1719-1722 written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell
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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Travels From St. Petersburg In Russia To Diverse Parts Of Asia written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell
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Download or read book Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book A Journey from St. Peterburgh to Pekin, 1719-1722 written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bell
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Download or read book Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia written by John Bell and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth W. Dunnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134362218
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book New Qing Imperial History written by Ruth W. Dunnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically. Emphasizing the diverse range of peoples in the Qing empire, this book analyzes the importance to Chinese history of Manchu relations with Tibetan prelates, Mongolian chieftains, and the Turkic elites of Xinjiang. In offering a new appreciation of a culturally and politically complex period, the authors discuss the nature and representation of emperorship, especially under Qianlong (r. 1736-1795), and examine the role of ritual in relations with Inner Asia, including the vaunted (but overrated) tribute system. By using a specific artifact or text as a starting point for analysis in each chapter, the contributors not only include material previously unavailable in English but allow the reader an intimate knowledge of life at Chengde and its significance to the Qing period as a whole.
Author : Philip Snow
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300271794
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book China and Russia written by Philip Snow and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for four centuries. In addition to a four-thousand-kilometer border, they have periodically shared a common outlook on political and economic affairs. But they are, in essence, profoundly different polities and cultures, and their intermittent alliances have proven difficult and at times even volatile. Philip Snow provides a full account of the relationship between these two global giants. Looking at politics, religion, economics, and culture, Snow uncovers the deep roots of the two nations’ alignment. We see the shifts in the balance of power, from the wealth and strength of early Qing China to the Tsarist and Soviet ascendancies, and episodes of intense conflict followed by harmony. He looks too at the experiences and opinions of ordinary people, which often vastly differed from those of their governments, and considers how long the countries’ current amicable relationship might endure.
Author : Mengmeng Yan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000572765
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Foreignness and Selfhood written by Mengmeng Yan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-08 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood, this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century English literature, providing detailed critical and literary analysis of individual texts pertaining to China from this period. The author provides a synthesis of approaches to China in eighteenth-century English literature, involving fictional writing related to China, adaptations of Chinese source texts, and translations of Chinese literary works. By discussing various writings about tea and tea-drinking, Arthur Murphy’s The Orphan of China (1759), Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1760–62), and Thomas Percy’s Hau Kiou Choaan (1761), she highlights the significance of reading these texts not simply as documents of a historical kind, but as texts that are worthy of literary and artistic attention on the basis of their rich variety in genre, style, and themes. The author proposes that Chinese and British cultures are not antithetical entities: they exist in relation to one another and create possibilities in the continuing appreciation of diversity amidst a drive to universality. This study will be primarily helpful to university students and professors of English literature, comparative literature, and history worldwide.
Author : Thomas T. Allsen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295900
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Steppe and the Sea written by Thomas T. Allsen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the ultimate luxury good of the Middle Ages, and the Chingissid imperium, the largest contiguous land empire in history, was their unmatched collector, promoter, and conveyor. Thomas T. Allsen examines the importance of pearls, as luxury good and political investment, in the Mongolian empire—from its origin in 1206, through its unprecedented expansion, to its division and decline in 1370—in order to track the varied cultural and commercial interactions between the northern steppes and the southern seas. Focusing first on the acquisition, display, redistribution, and political significance of pearls, Allsen shows how the very act of forming such a vast nomadic empire required the massive accumulation, management, and movement of prestige goods, and how this process brought into being new regimes of consumption on a continental scale. He argues that overland and seaborne trade flourished simultaneously, forming a dynamic exchange system that moved commodities from east to west and north to south, including an enormous quantity of pearls. Tracking the circulation of pearls across time, he highlights the importance of different modes of exchange—booty-taking, tributary relations, market mechanisms, and reciprocal gift-giving. He also sheds light on the ways in which Mongols' marketing strategies made use of not only myth and folklore but also maritime communications networks created by Indian-Buddhist and Muslim merchants skilled in cross-cultural commerce. In Allsen's analysis, pearls illuminate Mongolian exceptionalism in steppe history, the interconnections between overland and seaborne trade, recurrent patterns in the employment of luxury goods in the political cultures of empires, and the consequences of such goods for local and regional economies.
Author : Arthur Waldron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131626453X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Great Wall of China written by Arthur Waldron and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-07-27 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world.
Author : Linda L. BARNES
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020545
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts written by Linda L. BARNES and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "rediscovery" of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions.
Author : Jeroen Duindam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107060680
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Dynasties written by Jeroen Duindam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant and broad-ranging study of dynastic power in the late medieval and early modern world.
Author : H. T. Huang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521652704
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Fermentations and Food Science written by H. T. Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
