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Author : Robert Moes
Publisher : Foundation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Auspicious Spirits written by Robert Moes and published by Foundation. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Wolfowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The U.S. and Korea, Auspicious Prospects written by Paul Wolfowitz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Bisschop
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004384367
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Universal Śaivism written by Peter Bisschop and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition, transmission and edition. The Śivadharmaśāstra has arguably played a crucial role in the formation, development and institutionalisation of Śaivism. Through a detailed study of its extensive śānti mantra, Peter Bisschop shows how the text advocates a system in which all worldly and cosmic power is ultimately dependent upon Śiva. The mantra itself is a mine of information on the evolving pantheon of early Brahmanical Hinduism. Thanks to generous support of the J. Gonda Fund Foundation, the e-book version of this volume is available in Open Access.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Department of State Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.
Author : Keith Pratt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136793933
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Korea written by Keith Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by specialists from the University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies, this new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Korean civilisation from early times to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, literature, etc. The Dictionary is intended for students, teachers and researchers, and will also be of interest to the general reader. Entries provide factual information and contain suggestions for further reading. A name index and comprehensive cross-reference system make this an easy to use, multi-purpose guide for the student of Korea in the broadest sense.
Author : United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Current Policy written by United States. Department of State. Bureau of Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rania Huntington
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824867122
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Ink and Tears written by Rania Huntington and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does an extended family, bound by shared history, affection, and duty but divided by generation, gender, status, and personality, memorialize its dead? This fascinating study shows how members of the prominent Yu family passed down their personal and familial memories over five generations, through the traumatic transition from imperial to modern China and amidst the radical change and destruction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their memory writing is unusual and compelling for its quantity, variety, and resonance of themes across generations. It reflects a particular cultural moment and family, yet offers insight into universal practices of writing and remembrance. Ink and Tears begins and ends with the Yu family’s two most famous members: the late Qing writer Yu Yue and his great-great grandson Yu Pingbo, each among the most famous and prolific scholars of their respective generations. Over a span of one and a half centuries, they and their lesser-known female and male kin made use of an impressive diversity of genres—poetry, prefaces, biographies, diaries, correspondence, and strange tales—to preserve their family’s memories. During the times in which they wrote, the technologies of printing and the institutions of publication and book distribution were being transformed, and by the time of the great-grandchildren the language of education and governance, definitions of scholarship and literature, and the map of literary genres had all been remade. The Yus’ memory writing thus reveals not just how different family members remembered and mourned, but the changing tools they had with which to convey their loss. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Rania Huntington focuses on questions of how memory was crafted, preserved, and transmitted as much as on what was remembered, tracing common tropes and shared strategies. Her beautifully observed study will interest scholars of late imperial and early Republican literature and history, as well as readers more broadly concerned with the family, women’s writing, themes of memory and bereavement, and the personal functions of literature.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Cullen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134291302
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Medieval Chinese Medicine written by Christopher Cullen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades various versions of Chinese medicine have begun to be widely practised in Western countries, and the academic study of the subject is now well established. However, there are still few scholarly monographs that describe the history of Chinese medicine and there are none at all on the medieval period. This collection represents the kind of international collaboration of research teams, centres and individuals that is required to begin to study the source materials adequately. The first book in English to discuss this fascinating material in the century since the Dunhuang library was discovered, the text provides a unique and fascinating interpretation of Chinese medical history.
Author : Yeol-su Yoon
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856693578
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Folk Painting written by Yeol-su Yoon and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Handbooks of Korean Art series designed to provide an introduction to major aspects of Korea's artisitic heritage. This book focuses on folk painting.
Author : Asia Society
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9780878481033
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Passion for Asia written by Asia Society and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, John D. Rockefeller III convened a committee to respond to post-World War II interest in developing improved understanding of, and relations with, countries in Asia. His family's longstanding interest in Asia had led him to travel in China and Japan after he graduated from university in 1929. The Rockefellers' deeply felt "passion for Asia" led to the founding of the Asia Society in 1956. Today, the need for better understanding of Asian cultures--political, economic, and artistic--is more urgent than ever. This beautifully produced volume reflects in photographs and words the many-sided mission of the Asia Society. Fascinating archival photographs bring the Rockefeller family's travels, philanthropic activities, social occasions, and wonderful domestic interiors to life. Important objects--sculptures, paintings, prints, screens, ceramics--all collected by members of the family, many from the Society's collection and others from museums around the country, are reproduced in full color. The text includes essays by Rockefeller family members; former Asia Society presidents; Peter Johnson, the family historian; Cynthia Altman, curator of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family estate; and Vishakha Desai, president of the Asia Society. SELLING POINTS: Documents the history and beginnings of this leading global organization whose mission of promoting the exchanges of ideas, education, and arts still holds true today Features period photographs of the Rockefeller family on their many travels to Asia and provides insight into how their collection developed 100 colour & 75 b/w illustrations
Author : Joey Yap
Publisher : Joey Yap Research Group
ISBN 13 : 9670310911
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Qi Men Dun Jia Forecasting Methods - People and Environmental Matters (Book 2) written by Joey Yap and published by Joey Yap Research Group . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore possibilities and outcomes with the ancient art of Qi Men Qi Men Dun Jia Forecasting Methods - People and Environmental Matters (Book 2) is a practical and easy-to-use reference book on utilising the ancient art of Qi Men for divination or forecasting. In this second instalment on forecasting methods, learn how to divine subjects related to people and their relationships, as well as environment factors.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Current Policy written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rania Huntington
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674010949
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Alien Kind written by Rania Huntington and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 2003 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The China of the Ming and Qing dynasties was well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender and the metaphysical realm. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how manoeuvres across that boundary change over time.
Author : David W. Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351697609
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music written by David W. Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, most Japanese now have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, often known and practised only by small groups of people in social structures which have survived since the pre-modern era. Such marginalization of Japanese music is one of the less recognized costs of Japan's modernization. On the other hand, music in its westernized and modernized forms has an extremely important place in Japanese culture and society, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, being so widely known and performed that it is arguably part of contemporary Japanese popular and mass culture. Japan has become a world leader in the mass production of Western musical instruments and in innovative methodologies of music education (Yamaha and Suzuki). More recently, the Japanese craze of karaoke as a musical entertainment and as musical hardware has made an impact on the leisure and popular culture of many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas. This is the first book to cover in detail all genres including court music, Buddhist chant, theatre music, chamber ensemble music and folk music, as well as contemporary music and the connections between music and society in various periods. The book is a collaborative effort, involving both Japanese and English speaking authors, and was conceived by the editors to form a balanced approach that comprehensively treats the full range of Japanese musical culture.
Author : Michele Girardi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226297576
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Puccini written by Michele Girardi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This volume remedies that lack in lively prose accessible to scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824857097
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book God Pictures in Korean Contexts written by Laurel Kendall and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans walking on knives, fairies riding on clouds, kings with dragon mounts: They are gods and they are paper images. Some are repulsed and unsettled by shaman paintings, some cannot stop collecting them, and some use them as sites of veneration. Laurel Kendall, Jongsung Yang, and Yul Soo Yoon explore what it is that makes a Korean shaman painting magical or sacred. How does a picture carry the trace of a god and can it ever be “just a painting” again? How have shaman paintings been revalued as art? Do artfulness and magic ever intersect? Does it matter, as a matter of market value, that the painting was once a sacred thing? Navigating the journey shaman paintings make from painters’ studios to shaman shrines to private collections and museums, the three authors deftly traverse the borderland between scholarly interests in the material dimension of religious practice and the circulation of art. Illustrated with sixty images in color and black and white, the book offers a new vantage point on “the social life of things.” This is not a story of a collecting West and a disposing rest; the primary collectors and commentators on Korean shaman paintings are South Koreans re-imagining their own past in light of their own modernist sensibility. It is a tale told with an awareness of both recent South Korean history and the problematic question of how the paintings are understood by different South Korean actors, most particularly the shamans and collectors who share a common language and sometimes meet face-to-face.
