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Author : Harold Speakman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond Shanghai written by Harold Speakman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Speakman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265412411
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Beyond Shanghai (Classic Reprint) written by Harold Speakman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beyond Shanghai And - China! There is a name to conjure with! What sort of a picture does China bring up? I, for one, had always thought of the Chinese as being a strange, grotesque people. (the years have builded such a vast, irrational barrier of trivial affairs, like chopsticks and queues!) Dah Sing, Quong Wong, soo Chow - there seemed to be something in their very names that made one think of phoenixes, cocka trices, griffins, and other infringements against the spirit of normalcy as we know it. True, the Chinese I had met at different places in the Occident had always been uniformly courteous and friendly. Yet I always had the feeling that they were holding something back. The Insidious Dr. Fu-manchu and all the rest had done their insidious work. At best (i used to think) they were a cold and reserved people; a people almost lacking in some of the characteristics which we have come to look upon as human. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : C. A. Montalto de Jesus
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267137770
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Historic Shanghai (Classic Reprint) written by C. A. Montalto de Jesus and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Shanghai IT has long been an anomaly, if not a reproach, that such an important city as Shanghai should have had its history neglected and unwritten in spite of its having been the starting point of many an epoch-making movement in the remoulding of China's foreign intercourse. From an international point of view Shanghai may well be regarded as the most interesting exponent of the system whereby foreign communities at the treaty ports are constituted into exterritorial and municipal settlements, - quaint little republics fraught with. Significance not only as pledge of concerted action among foreign powers, but also as an object-lesson of modern civilisation among the benighted millions of China. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Lee
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227905873
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Contextualization of Sufi Spirituality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China written by David Lee and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu Zhi (c1662-c1730), a well-known Muslim scholar writing in Chinese, published outstanding theological works, short treatises, and short poems on Islam. While traditional Arabic and Persian Islamic texts used unfamiliar concepts to explain Islam, Liu Zhi translated both text and concepts into Chinese culture. In this erudite volume, David Lee examines how Liu Zhi integrated the basic religious living of the monotheistic Hui Muslims into their pluralistic Chinese culture. Liu Zhi discussed the Prophet Muhammad in Confucian terms, and his work served as a bridge between peoples. This book is an in-depth study of Liu Zhi's contextualization of Islam within Chinese scholarship that argues his merging of the two never deviated from the basic principles of Islamic belief.
Author : Harold Speakman
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340035174
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Beyond Shanghai; written by Harold Speakman and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Feiya Tao
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004532129
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context written by Feiya Tao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Indigenization, edited by Tao Feiya and translated into English by Max L. Bohnenkamp, traces the history of Christianity in China from the Tang era to contemporary times.
Author : H. Lang
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666878175
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Shanghai Considered Socially written by H. Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shanghai Considered Socially: A Lecture The first mention we find of the name, Shang hai, is in the year 1015. The town is first spoken of as Shanghai chin, meaning, the market of Shanghai. The word Shanghai is generally ad mitted to mean up from the sea or the upper sea. But sometimes the characters are transpos ed, in which case the name Hat'shang means upon the sea. All these names indicate that what gave the city its importance was its favour able position as the seaport of the immense and productive region stretching inland. As the natural outlet for the rich products of Keangnan, and of the valley of the upper Yangtse, and as a convenient emporium for the interchange and transhipment of the products of the North and South, we cannot wonder that Shanghai rapidly grew in importance. In 1250 it was made the seat of a district college; in 1360 it attained to the dignity of a hien or district city; while in 1570 the irruptions of the pirates of Japan led to the erection of its walls, towards the building of which we are told that the inhabitants contributed very readily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Archibald Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331980926
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Intimate China written by Archibald Little and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Xun Liu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174864
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Daoist Modern written by Xun Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century Shanghai. In contrast to the usual narrative of Daoist decay, with its focus on monastic decline, clerical corruption, and popular superstitions, this study tells a story of Daoist resilience, reinvigoration, and revival. Between the 1920s and 1940s, Chen led a group of urban lay followers in pursuing Daoist self-cultivation techniques as a way of ensuring health, promoting spirituality, forging cultural self-identity, building community, and strengthening the nation. In their efforts to renew and reform Daoism, Chen and his followers became deeply engaged with nationalism, science, the religious reform movements, the new urban print culture, and other forces of modernity. Since Chen and his fellow practitioners conceived of the Daoist self-cultivation tradition as a public resource, they also transformed it from an “esoteric” pursuit into a public practice, offering a modernizing society a means of managing the body and the mind and of forging a new cultural, spiritual, and religious identity."
Author : Russell H. Conwell
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor (Classic Reprint) written by Russell H. Conwell and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard Taylor The author cannot do less than acknowledge, in this place, his great obligations to the father and mother of Mr. Taylor, to Mrs. Annie Carey, his sister, and to Dr. Franklin Taylor, his cousin, for their generous courtesy and most important assistance in gathering the facts for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Wen Fong
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0300057016
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond Representation written by Wen Fong and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1992 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.
Author : Julia Tao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135181535
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Governance for Harmony in Asia and Beyond written by Julia Tao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmony has become a major challenge for modern governance in the twenty-first century because of the multi-religious, multi-racial and multi-ethnic character of our increasingly globalized societies. Governments all over the world are facing growing pressure to integrate the many diverse elements and subcultures which make up modern pluralistic societies. This book examines the idea of harmony, and its place in politics and governance, both in theory and practice, in Asia, the West and elsewhere. It explores and analyses the meanings, mechanisms, dimensions and methodologies of harmony as a normative political ideal in both Western and Asian philosophical traditions. The book argues that in Western political thought - which sees politics as primarily concerned with resolving social conflicts and protecting individual rights - the concept of harmony has often been neglected. In contrast, since earliest times harmony or ‘he’ has been a profound theme in Confucian thought, and current leaders of many East Asian governments, and the Chinese government, have explicitly declared that the realisation of a harmonious society is their aim. The book also assesses how harmony is pursued, jeopardized or deformed in the real world of politics, based upon empirical analysis of a variety of different cultural, social and political contexts, including: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Denmark, Latin America and the Scandinavian countries. It shows how harmony as an organizing concept can help to promote new thinking in governance, and overcome problems of modern-day governance like distrust, adversarial conflicts, hyper-individualism, coercive state intervention, and free-market alienation. It also discusses the potential problems posed by the pursuit of harmony, in particular in the grave threat of totalitarianism, and considers how these risks could best be mitigated.
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Publisher : مركز الملك فيصل للبحوث والدراسات الإسلامية
ISBN 13 : 6038206396
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Earliest Muslim Communities in China written by and published by مركز الملك فيصل للبحوث والدراسات الإسلامية. This book was released on with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article explores the earliest Muslim immigration into China during the Tang and Song dynasties. The background of such immigration, along with various Chinese titles to designate Muslims, their communities, and their leaders demonstrate the earliest forms of recognition of the Muslims by the Chinese people. The article focuses on the studies of the Muslim leaders’ duties and their confrontations with the Chinese legal system; to adapt to a new society, a community must undergo acculturation. Finally, the system of Muslim leaders was improved by the succeeding Mongol Yuan dynasty, by which time it became an established tradition that has been passed on by the Hui people until today.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004190260
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Inner Quarters and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) that have only recently been rediscovered.
Author : Kai-wing Chow
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 146163301X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm written by Kai-wing Chow and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did China make the decisive turn from tradition to modernity? For decades, the received wisdom would have pointed to the May Fourth movement, with its titanic battles between the champions of iconoclasm and the traditionalists, and its shift to more populist forms of politics. A growing body of recent research has, however, called into question how decisive the turn was, when it happened, and what relation the resulting modernity bore to the agendas of people who might have considered themselves representatives of such an iconoclastic movement. Having thus explicitly or implicitly 'decentered' the May Fourth, such research (augmented by contributions in the present volume) leaves us with the task of accounting for the shape Chinese modernity took, as the product of dialogues and debates between, and the interplay of, a variety of actors and trends, both within and (certainly no less importantly) without the May Fourth camp.
Author : Grace Fong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047412966
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Beyond Tradition and Modernity written by Grace Fong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Tradition and Modernity is a collection of original essays which considers the complexities behind the dramatic changes generated in China during the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth century. As men and women literally-or metaphorically- crossed into new geographical worlds, they came to express their understanding of the expanding universe in a variety of ways which cannot be neatly labeled either traditional or modern. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how the creativity of these writers marked a new moment in historical and literary practices transcending this usual binary and simple teleology. Their essays expose how the ethnographic, literary, and educational projects of these men and women gave voice to new ideals and ideas that reflect the changing boundaries of gender at this time.
Author : Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131718484X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Aesthetics beyond the Arts written by Arnold Berleant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic engagement with the human environment can offer. Written over the past decade, these original and innovative essays lead to a fresh encounter with the possibilities of aesthetic experience, one which has constantly evolved, moving in recent years in the direction of what Berleant terms 'social aesthetics', which enhances human-environmental integration and sociality.
