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Celestial Silks

Author : Judith Rutherford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celestial Silks written by Judith Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the north woods of Minnesota, Paul Two Persons is struggling to keep his resort lodge afloat. He has lent money to his childhood friend, Al, and needs it back fast before the bank forecloses on his business.When Al turns up missing -- and then dead of an apparent suicide -- Paul is propelled into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads to some ugly discoveries. There is corruption within his own Tribal Council, developers' plans for the land that Paul has fought so hard to keep, and the "accidental death" of his eight-year-old son that now seems something more sinister.Haunted by these demons, growing increasingly distant from his grieving wife, and facing the very real threat of losing his livelihood, Paul feels he has become what the Chippewa call atchibai-- a walking shadow. Attempts are made on his life, the lodge is nearly burned to the ground, and people on the reservation behave oddly in his presence.The escalating circumstances of one summer -- and Paul's determination to survive them -- reveal the indomitable spirit that is his Chippewa heritage. Set in the breathtaking landscape of northwestern Minnesota,Don't Think Twiceis a haunting and memorable story about a man's struggle when pushed to the edge.

Silk

Author : Berit Hildebrandt
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1785702807
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Silk written by Berit Hildebrandt and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Already in Greek and Roman antiquity a vibrant series of exchange relationships existed between the Mediterranean regions and China, including the Indian subcontinents along well-defined routes we call the Silk Roads. Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron, precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics and silk, a luxury item that was in great demand in the Roman Empire. These collected papers connect research from different areas and disciplines dealing with exchange along the Silk Roads. These historical, philological and archaeological contributions highlight silk as a commodity, gift and tribute, and as a status symbol in varying cultural and chronological contexts between East and West, including technological aspects of silk production. The main period concerns Rome and China in antiquity, ending in the late fifth century CE, with the Roman Empire being transformed into the Byzantine Empire, while the Chinese chronology covers the Han dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Western and Eastern Jin and Sixteen Kingdoms, ending in 420 CE. In addition, both earlier and later epochs are also considered in order to gather an understanding of developments and changes in long-distance and longer-term relations that involved silk."

Beyond Chinoiserie

Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004387838
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Chinoiserie written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beyond Chinoiserie, historians of art, literature, and material culture address artistic relations between China and the West during the nineteenth century, a time when Western powers’ attempts at extending a sphere of influence in China led to increasingly hostile interactions.

New York Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-09-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

HALI

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book HALI written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Apocalypse Revealed

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Apocalypse Revealed written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Celestial Empire, Or, Points and Pickings of Information about China and the Chinese

Author : Old Humphrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Empire, Or, Points and Pickings of Information about China and the Chinese written by Old Humphrey and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silk Road Affair

Author : Larry Witham
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1665749075
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book The Silk Road Affair written by Larry Witham and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than thirty years after a famed Boston art collection is stolen, Washington learns that it has turned up in the People’s Republic of China—just as Sino-American relations are at a tipping point. To retrieve the artifacts, a covert mission is handed to retired military sleuths Julian Peale and Chinese-American Grace Ho, both art specialists. From Washington to China’s great western desert, and from Boston’s lofty art museums to modernist Shanghai, the search is on. Beijing has meanwhile launched an audacious plan to recover lost Chinese art stolen by the West a century earlier. Not only do Peale and Ho have to iron out their own cultural differences and approaches to espionage, the highest circle of the Beijing government is caught in a web of intrigue between the top leader and two powerful women vying for control of China’s cultural policy. From the annals of art history to China’s world ambitions through “soft power,” The Silk Road Affair travels a historic legacy up to the present, from the Han Dynasty to the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen Square—and on to China Inc. Recovery of the stolen art, its return to the United States, and the political direction of the world’s largest country hang in the balance as Peale and Ho wind their way through the puzzle that is modern China.

On The Ancient History Of The Silk Road

Author : Chuanming Rui
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811232989
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book On The Ancient History Of The Silk Road written by Chuanming Rui and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. This book studies various aspects of the ancient history of the silk road. The 16 chapters in the book are divided into three parts: Silk Road and The Nomads; The Sogdians, the Special Role on the Silk Road; Silk Road and the Spread of Religious Ideas. It studies the purpose and effects of silk exportation, the intermarriage between China and other ethnic groups, the origin of the Turks, the influence and domination of the Sogdians on the nomads, and the religious ideas, especially the Manicheism, spreading across the Silk Road.

Chapters XVII-XX

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Chapters XVII-XX written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Apocalypse Explained: Chapters XVII-XX. The divine love. The divine wisdom. The creed of Athanasius

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Apocalypse Explained: Chapters XVII-XX. The divine love. The divine wisdom. The creed of Athanasius written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chapters XVII-XX. The divine love. The divine wisdom. The creed of Athanasius

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chapters XVII-XX. The divine love. The divine wisdom. The creed of Athanasius written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

Author : William E. Mierse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road written by William E. Mierse and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.

From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls

Author : Justin McDaniel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247361
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls written by Justin McDaniel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls looks closely at a wide variety of Asian manuscript traditions with a special focus on both their history and the ways in which scholars have employed digital technology to make their cataloguing, comparative study, and aesthetic appreciation more accessible to scholars and students.

The Celestial Empire, Or, Points and Pickings of Information about China and the Chinese

Author : George Mogridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Celestial Empire, Or, Points and Pickings of Information about China and the Chinese written by George Mogridge and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Silk Trade Routes: Selected Works From Symposium On Cross Cultural Exchanges And Their Legacies In Asia

Author : Dashu Qin
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814619116
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Silk Trade Routes: Selected Works From Symposium On Cross Cultural Exchanges And Their Legacies In Asia written by Dashu Qin and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As key nodes that connected ancient silk routes traversing China, Japan and India, trading hubs, towns and cities in Java and Sumatra and other places in Asia were key destination points for merchants, monks and other itinerants plying these routes.Recent archaeological excavations in countries bordering the South China Sea and around the Indian Ocean unveiled remarkable similarities in artifacts recovered both on land and from the sea. The similarities underlined the many facets of regional exchanges and cross-cultural influences among people and places in these networks. Some of the findings indicate a distinct Chinese presence in the commercial, social and religious activities of these early Asian trading posts.This book collects papers from the symposium on Ancient Silk Trade Routes — Cross Cultural Exchanges and Their Legacies in Asia. It explores several threads arising from this regional exchange of goods and ideas, in particular, the cross-cultural dimensions of the exchanges in the areas of textile trade, ceramic routes, trading hubs, arts and artifacts and Buddhism.

The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

Author : Jonathan Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857739263
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran written by Jonathan Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From the East came silk, precious stones, tea, jade, paper, porcelain, spices and cotton; from the West, horses, weapons, wool and linen, aromatics, entertainers and exotic animals. From its earliest beginnings in the days of Alexander the Great and the Han dynasty, the Silk Road expanded and evolved, reaching its peak during the Tang dynasty and the Byzantine Empire and gradually withering away with the decline of the Mongol Empire. In this beautifully illustrated book, which covers the Central Asian section of the Silk Road - from Lake Issyk-kul through Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, the Kyzyl Kum Desert, Khiva and Merv to Herat, Kabul and Iran - Jonathan Tucker uses travellers' anecdotes and a wealth of literary and historical sources to celebrate the cultural heritage of the countries that lie along the Silk Road and illuminate the lives of those who once travelled through the very heart of the world.