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China Vignettes

Author : Dominic Barton
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9810580916
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book China Vignettes written by Dominic Barton and published by Thorogood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to understand the changes sweeping China. The texture of life at a household level is captured in this new book, which seeks to understand lived experience in China, from coast to interior, city to countryside, and across the widening income divide. The book interviews 30 Chinese men and women from different walks of life, and from different regions. Interviewees provide their household budget, a typical daily chronology and they share a sense of each day's pressures and priorities. In addition, 13 well-known Chinese writers, commissioned by editors at Rongshu Publishing, have contributed short stories presenting daily life from the points of view of different ages, genders, professions, income levels and life situations. It contains essays by well-known Chinese sociologist Deng Weizhi and political scientist Cao Peilin which complete the book.

Vignettes from the Late Ming

Author :
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580226X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ming written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.

Vignettes from the Chinese

Author : Don Cohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Vignettes from the Chinese written by Don Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Wisdom Alive

Author : Kuang-ming Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608768714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Wisdom Alive written by Kuang-ming Wu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China deeply enters "here now" to make sense of life's ongoing millennia fresh. China thinks as it tropes along myriad things in life world, their opposites and levels interpenetrating. China thinks story-way to express all things inter-weaving into history, an "open system" that keeps growing. Chinese wisdom is alive today millennia young. The West is objective; China is intersubjective. The West is logically systematic; China coherently story-thinks to compose history. Western philosophy is analytically abstract; Chinese wisdom is actually sensible. As existence is inter-existence, so China welcomes the West to interculture equally, globally. Filled with concrete stories in depth, this volume has four parts. Part I depicts Chinese wisdom as not prudence or theories but "vignettes of life-thinking", to present thinking in shifting actuality. Part II sketches heart-logic pulsing in seasons, to cyclone-breathe things as music-historic reason in Chinese Wisdom Alive. Part III depicts such story-thinking that musically includes all, melodious and dissonant, to undergo pain to comprehend all, factual, historical, futuristic, and imagined. Part IV shows how Chinese wisdom is alive today, rooted in its tradition millennia fresh, in ten abiding features cosmic-concrete, making sense intercultural. Such Chinese wisdom is so alive today as to be resiliently comical, chanting odes to the ultimate joy of heartbeat alive, thriving precisely on joys and bloody tragedies of days and ages. No usual logic can parse such "musical reason" singing through pain and death through time, birthing without ceasing.

Vignettes of Taiwan

Author : Joshua Samuel Brown
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9780971594081
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Vignettes of Taiwan written by Joshua Samuel Brown and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with insufficient funds, zero job prospects and an over-packed suitcase. Like much else in his life up to that point, his decision to move to Taiwan was based largely on random occurrence and cosmic coincidence. He was twenty-four years old, thousands of miles away from home, and at that moment the happiest man alive. This anthology of short stories, travel essays, photographs, random meditations, and political meanderings grew out of his years on the island formerly known as Formosa.

Brahmanic Vignettes

Author : V. Siddharthacharry
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482812916
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Brahmanic Vignettes written by V. Siddharthacharry and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brāhmanic Vignettes is a boon to readers of all ages interested in India's past, its traditions, as well as its possible future. The author's erudition in Sanskrit, English, and French has been used to illuminate his varied experiences first as student, then teacher, later as career diplomat, and after retirement, founder of a unique school in Mysore, India. The school emphasizes Sanskrit teaching; its students participate in a unique experiment called Dharmamananam (described in the book), introducing them to Vedantic values of ancient Indian culture. Glimpses of other countries, leaders, benefactors, and common folk are vividly brought to light, prompting the reader's intellectual and moral involvement. His meetings with Dr. S. Radhakrishnan (scholar and former president of India), Jawaharlal Nehru (first prime minister of India, who chose him as a diplomatic recruit in the new Indian Republic), and many events and encounters with fascinating people from varied cultures have many interesting insights. The author's unique Brāhmanic perspective of India's foreign policy, Shakespeare, the Indian epic Ramayana, and the need to revamp society and education using the Gurukula model of ancient India and the Kibutzims of Israel makes for compelling reading. His personal involvement with and the account of the Portuguese enclaves and Goa becoming integral with the nascent Indian republic, describes the pulls and pressures of history and political reality with his own clarity of vision and immediacy. There are many such sketches meriting study and reflection.

Chinese International Students and Citizenship

Author : Xiudi Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811510210
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Chinese International Students and Citizenship written by Xiudi Zhang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-22 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how Chinese international students reconfigure their sense of themselves as citizens when they reflect on what Chinese citizenship means in the context of New Zealand. Adopting a case study approach, it develops a theory relating to the thoughts of Chinese international students; the theory is based on the communities, schools, family and state relationships of both their past and their contemporary daily experiences. It finds that the struggles of Chinese young people lie in between being individuals and submitting to the general will of the family, state and guanxi (a Chinese concept of interpersonal relationships). The book argues that the Western literature on citizenship is not sufficient in helping us understand how it is viewed in the Chinese contexts. It offers readers a picture of what citizenship means for Chinese young people and the role of citizenship education in Modern Chinese society, and demonstrates that the Chinese young people studied re-educated themselves on citizenship in a way that is unstable and emotional. This book makes important contributions to the literature on Chinese students who are studying abroad by going beyond the well-researched topics of academic and social experience to explore deeper understandings of each individual student’s relationship to family and the state in China and how the study abroad experience has developed new understandings of individual’s relationships to China, and new possibilities for contributing to Chinese society on return.

Asian Expansions

Author : Geoff Wade
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135043531
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Asian Expansions written by Geoff Wade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia helps rectify the fallacy, long-held and deeply entrenched, that Asian polities have been interested only in the control of populations, not in expanding their command of territory. In countering this misapprehension, this book suggests that Asian polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and expansion over time, whether for political or strategic advantage, trade purposes, defence needs, agricultural expansion or increased income through taxation. The book explores the historical experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia, specifically in East and Southeast Asia, and, by examining the motivations, mechanisms, processes, validations and limitations of these Asian territorial expansions, reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and centralised political structures, and this aids in a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice, both past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative introduction, the book interrogates key concepts such as imperialism and colonialism, and the applicability and relevance of such terminology in Asian contexts, both historical and contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history, as well as by those with an interest in Asian interactions, international relations, polity expansion, Asia--Europe historical comparisons and globalisation.

Chinese Vignettes

Author : Sister Beatrice Fleischbein (S.M.I.C.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Vignettes written by Sister Beatrice Fleischbein (S.M.I.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Popular Culture in Late Imperial China

Author : David George Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061729
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture in Late Imperial China written by David George Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Guide to the English Pottery and Porcelain in the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography

Author : British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the English Pottery and Porcelain in the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography written by British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Everyday Political Objects

Author : Christopher Fletcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000397033
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Everyday Political Objects written by Christopher Fletcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate. Materiality and objects have gradually made their way into the historian’s toolbox in recent years, but the distinctive contribution that a set of methods developed for the study of objects can make to our understanding of politics has yet to be explored. This book shows how everyday objects play a certain role in politics, which is specific to material things. It provides case studies which re-orientate the view of the political in a way that is distinct from, but complementary to, the study of political institutions, the social history of politics and the analysis of discourse. Each chapter shows, in a distinctive and innovative way, how historians might change their approach to politics by incorporating objects into their methodology. Analysing case studies from France, the Congo, Burkina Faso, Romania and Britain between the early Middle Ages and the present day makes this study the perfect tool for students and scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, political science, anthropology and archaeology. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003147428

Vignettes - Life's Tales Book Three

Author : William Baker
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456605976
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Vignettes - Life's Tales Book Three written by William Baker and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIGNETTES, Book Three, is a collection of short stories about the life experiences of its author, William (Bill) Baker. it contains about twenty short stories. The stories are historically accurate and told in a sensitive, humorous way. Parts, are very touching. Every reader will find themselves in one or more of the real life stories which range from: -Days of childhood mischief, to a Senior Air Force Officer, -Teen-age hitch-hiking, to serving a Four Star Knighted Officer of the Royal British Air Force, -Hanging a high school football effigy -Experiencing the Kamikaze raids at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, to romance on a cattle ranch.

Brush & Shutter

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606060546
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Brush & Shutter written by Jeffrey W. Cody and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.

Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare E-Book

Author : Volker Scheid
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702048364
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare E-Book written by Volker Scheid and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional East Asian healthcare systems have moved rapidly from the fringes of healthcare systems in the West towards the centre over the past 50 years. This change of status for traditional medicines presents their practitioners with both opportunities and challenges as the focus shifts from one of opposition towards one of integration into biomedically dominated healthcare systems. Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare examines the opportunities and challenges of integrating East Asian medicine into Western healthcare systems from an interdisciplinary perspective. Volker Scheid and Hugh MacPherson bring together contributions from acknowledged experts from a number of different disciplines - including clinical researchers, Chinese Medicine practitioners, historians, medical anthropologists, experts in the social studies of science, technology and medicine - to examine and debate the impact of the evidence-based medicine movement on the ongoing modernization of East Asian medicines. The book considers the following questions: •What are the values, goals and ethics implicit within traditional East Asian medical practices? • What claims to effectiveness and safety are made by East Asian medical practices? •What is at stake in subjecting these medical practices to biomedical models of evaluation? • What constitutes best practice? How is it to be defined and measured? • What are the ideologies and politics behind the process of integration of East Asian medical practices into modern health care systems? • What can we learn from a variety of models of integration into contemporary healthcare?

Transgender China

Author : H. Chiang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113708250X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Transgender China written by H. Chiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.

There's No Poetry in a Typhoon

Author : Agnès Bun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881662958
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book There's No Poetry in a Typhoon written by Agnès Bun and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnès Bun is a video journalist for AFP. Before the age of 30, she had reported on the aftermath of the 2013 typhoon in the Philippines, come under fire in Eastern Ukraine, covered fatal earthquakes in Nepal and floods in Sri Lanka, filmed the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.