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Author : Constance A. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996944014
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions (Revised Edition) written by Constance A. Cook and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constance A. Cook
Publisher : Early China Special Monograph
ISBN 13 : 9780996944007
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)
Download or read book A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions written by Constance A. Cook and published by Early China Special Monograph. This book was released on 2016 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions includes introductory essays and translations and commentaries on 82 bronze inscriptions dating from the late Shang through early Han eras (c. 1200 BCE - 200 CE) by ten scholars, thus representing the range of inscriptional literature and leading modern approaches to their interpretation.
Author : David N. Keightley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520054554
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Sources of Shang History written by David N. Keightley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward L Shaughnessy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350170380
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Ancient China written by Edward L Shaughnessy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brief History of Ancient China adapts a traditional Chinese historical format to present a multi-faceted account of the first two millennia of China's earliest history: from the time of the legendary rulers Yao and Shun (c. 2000 BCE) down to the end of the Qin dynasty (221-207 BCE). Organised into five major sections, it examines the political shifts of the major dynasties, the histories of local states, and the lives of key individuals. Drawing on analysis of textual and visual materials, and a variety of English and non-English sources, Edward L. Shaughnessy offers detailed insight into the contemporary religious and philosophical landscape, governmental and legal practices, and innovations in writing, literature, and music. Incorporating recent developments in the field, this book draws on archaeological discoveries from the last century, and examines the lives of central female figures, and other groups who are often underrepresented.
Author : Alan Lufkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520337840
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book California's Salmon and Steelhead written by Alan Lufkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer than 300. River pollution has also hit hard at fish populations, which within recent decades have diminished by 80 percent. One species, the San Joaquin River spring chinook, became extinct soon after World War II. Other species are nearly extinct. This volume documents the reasons for the decline; it also offers practical suggestions about how the decline might be reversed. The California salmon story is presented here in human perspective: its broad historical, economic, cultural, and political facets, as well as the biological, are all treated. No comparable work has ever been published, although some of the material has been available for half a century. In the richly varied contributions in this volume, the reader meets Indians whose history is tied to the history of the salmon and steelhead upon which they depend; commercial trollers who see their livelihood and unique lifestyle vanishing; biologists and fishery managers alarmed at the loss of river water habitable by fish and at the effects of hatcheries on native gene pools. Women who fish, conservation-minded citizens, foresters, economists, outdoor writers, engineers, politicians, city youth restoring streambeds—all are represented. Their lives—and the lives of all Californians—are affected in myriad ways by the fate of California's salmon and steelhead. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Author : Paul R. Goldin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003861334
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics written by Paul R. Goldin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - with the following animating questions: What is art? Why do we produce it? How do we judge it? The arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this time period were music, poetry, calligraphy, and painting, and this book considers the reasons why these four were privileged. Whereas modern artists most likely consider themselves musicians or poets or calligraphers or painters or sculptors or architects, the pre-modern authors who produced the literature that established Chinese aesthetics prided themselves on being wenren, “cultured people,” conversant with all forms of art and learning. Other comparisons with Western theories and works of art are presented at due junctures. Key Features Addresses Chinese aesthetic discourse on its own terms Provides comparisons of key concepts and theories with examples from Western sources Includes more coverage of primary sources than any other English-language book on the subject Each chapter opens with a helpful summary, highlighting the chapter’s key themes
Author : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197630871
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book A Tripartite Self written by Lisa Raphals and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation traditions. Philosophical debates about the relationship between mind and body are often described in terms of mind-body dualism and its opposite, monism or some kind of "holism." Monist or holist views agree on the unity of mind and body, but with much debate about what kind, whereas mind-body dualists take body and mind to be metaphysically distinct entities. The question is important for several reasons. Several humanistic and scientific disciplines recognize embodiment as an important dimension of the human condition. One version, the problem of mind-body dualism, is central to the history of both philosophy and religion. Some account of relations between body and mind, spirit or soul is also central to any understanding of the self. Recent work in cognitive and neuroscience underscores the importance of our somatic experience for how we think and feel"--
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009116851
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tsung-i Jao
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522573
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Space, Time, Myth, and Morals: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Studies on Cosmological Thought in Early China and Beyond written by Tsung-i Jao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles assembled in this volume present an important selection of Professor Jao Tsung-i’s research in the field of the early Chinese intellectual tradition, especially as it concerns the human condition. Whether his focus is on myth, religion, philosophy or morals, Jao consistently aims to describe how the series of developments broadly associated with the Axial Age unfolded in China. He is particularly interested in showing how early China had developed its own notion of transcendence as well as a system of prediction and morals that enabled man to act autonomously, without recourse to divine providence.
Author : Jeannine Bischoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110786982
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies written by Jeannine Bischoff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields. Detailed analyses of key terms that are associated with the conceptualization of strong asymmetrical dependencies promise to provide new insights into the self-concept and knowledge of pre-modern societies. The majority of these key terms have not been studied from a semantic or terminological perspective so far. Our understanding of lexical fields is based on an onomasiological approach – which linguistic items are used to refer to a concept? Which words are used to express a concept? This means that the concept is a semantic unit which is not directly accessible but may be manifested in different ways on the linguistic level. We are interested in single concepts such as ‘wisdom’ or ‘fear’, but also in more complex semantic units like ‘strong asymmetrical dependencies’. In our volume, we bring together and compare case studies from very different social orders and normative perspectives. Our examples range from Ancient China and Egypt over Greek and Maya societies to Early Modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Islamic and Roman law.
Author : Constance A. Cook
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438498322
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Metaphor and Meaning written by Constance A. Cook and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. To understand another culture's worldview, then, hinges upon identifying the right metaphors, through which it then becomes possible to navigate between shared and unshared experiences. The contributors pursue lines of argument that complement, enhance, or challenge Allan's prior investigations into these root metaphors of early Chinese philosophy, whether by explicitly engaging with conceptual metaphor theory or, more indirectly, by addressing meaning construction in a broader sense. Like Allan's interpretative works, Metaphor and Meaning interrogates both transmitted traditions and newly unearthed archaeological finds to understand how people in early China thought about the cosmos, society, and themselves.
Author : Sarah Allan
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438457774
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Buried Ideas written by Sarah Allan and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Warring States texts discovered during recent decades challenge longstanding understandings of Chinese intellectual history. The discovery of previously unknown philosophical texts from the Axial Age is revolutionizing our understanding of Chinese intellectual history. Buried Ideas presents and discusses four texts found on brush-written slips of bamboo and their seemingly unprecedented political philosophy. Written in the regional script of Chu during the Warring States period (475221 BCE), all of the works discuss Yaos abdication to Shun and are related to but differ significantly from the core texts of the classical period, such as the Mencius and Zhuangzi. Notably, these works evince an unusually meritocratic stance, and two even advocate abdication over hereditary succession as a political ideal. Sarah Allan includes full English translations and her own modern-character editions of the four works examined: Tang Yú zhi dao, Zigao, Rongchengshi, and Bao xun. In addition, she provides an introduction to Chu-script bamboo-slip manuscripts and the complex issues inherent in deciphering them.
Author : Constance A. Cook
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438497709
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Myth and the Making of History written by Constance A. Cook and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth and the Making of History examines the relationship between myth and history in early China, a topic that has been explored by American paleographer and scholar of ancient China Sarah Allan throughout her career. Allan has worked at a crucial and sensitive intersection, where myth and history collide at the very heart of China's origin story. Her work has created an intellectual space in which the disciplines of philosophy, history, anthropology, archeology, philology, and literature have come together, helping to change the way scholars conceive of historical patterns in China's past. In Myth and the Making of History, eleven senior and emerging scholars, from both China and the West, respond to the intellectual challenge raised by Allan's theoretical model of analysis of mythologized and historical figures (and even dynasties) that have intrigued scholars for generations and play a central role in the Chinese historical imagination. The book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of China—of whatever level and discipline—and, indeed, those concerned with other early civilizations as well.
Author : John Minford
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698153839
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book I Ching written by John Minford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning new translation of the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, by the acclaimed translator of the Tao Te Ching and The Art of War Pose a question, then toss three coins (or cast your yarrow stalks) to access the time-honored wisdom of the I Ching. The I Ching, or Book of Change, has been consulted through the ages, in both China and the West, for answers to fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. The oldest extant book of divination, it dates back three thousand years to ancient shamanistic practices involving the ritual preparation of the shoulder bones of oxen. From this early form of communication with the other world, it has become the Chinese spiritual book par excellence. An influence on such cultural icons as Bob Dylan, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Philip K. Dick, and Philip Pullman, the I Ching is turned to by millions around the world for insights on spiritual growth, business, medicine, genetics, game theory, strategic thinking, and leadership, and of course for the window it opens on China. This new translation, over a decade in the making, is informed by the latest archaeological discoveries and features a gorgeously rendered codex of divination signs—the I Ching’s sixty-four Tarot-like hexagrams. It captures the majesty and mystery of this legendary work and charts an illuminating path to self-knowledge.
Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316517616
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book shows how the kings of the Western Zhou period used ritual to create and hold onto their power.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004523561
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully into English, giving a sampling of his diverse insights into literature and its broader significance. Topics range from the religious beliefs underpinning the earliest Chinese writings, to the influence of Chan Buddhism on Chinese poetics, to Gu Yanwu’s (1613–1682) poetic protest against the Manchu conquest. Collectively the essays demonstrate how literary art and spiritual beliefs have been intertwined throughout Chinese history.
Author : Charles Higham
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109962
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations written by Charles Higham and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the historical and cultural changes that occurred in Asia throughout history.
