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Author : Arthur F. Wright
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804700184
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Confucian Persuasion written by Arthur F. Wright and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James T. C. Liu
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674117556
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (175 download)
Download or read book China Turning Inward written by James T. C. Liu and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1988 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the traumatic opening decades of the Southern Sung, Emperor Kao-tsung's unspoken determination to win imperial safety at any cost shaped not only court policy but Confucian intellectual developments. Liu explores how Kao-tsung used ideological window-dressing to consolidate extraordinary state power in the emperor's hands.
Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380159
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Critical Readings on Tang China written by Paul W. Kroll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Author : Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170125
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Inside a Service Trade written by Rudolf G. Wagner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a tightly controlled environment, literature has become the major screen onto which the political class of the People’s Republic of China projects some of its battles. This work explores the potential of literary analysis for illuminating the PRC’s social, intellectual, and political history, illustrating swings in the Party line with stories, articles, and cartoons from the popular press. This book presents materials hitherto scarcely topped and should offer new insights to those interested in Chinese literature, Russian and East European literature, and modern social and political history.
Author : Tu-ki Min
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170036
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book National Polity and Local Power written by Tu-ki Min and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's "response to the West." To a surprising extent, this bias has prevailed even among Chinese historians, for whom the reaction to imperialism has remained a dominant concept. This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western,goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during the transition to modernity. Min sets the stage with two chapters about Chinese scciety under Ch'ing rule, one on a Korean visitor's reaction to eighteeenth-century China, the other on the social condition of the lower gentry. Each casts new light on the Chinese elite and their relation to state power. The chapters that follow-particularly the discussion of "political feudalism"-examine the conceptual resources available within the Chinese tradition for coming to terms with modernity. Min's internalist approach provides both a creative new vision of the encounter between two civilizations and a distinguished introduction to Korean Sinology.
Author : Jingyuan Ma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108488234
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Confucian Culture and Competition Law in East Asia written by Jingyuan Ma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how cultural factors have influenced the development of competition law in China, Japan and Korea.
Author : Elizabeth Endicott-West
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170052
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Mongolian Rule in China written by Elizabeth Endicott-West and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mongolian Yuan dynasty, 1272-1368, is a short but interesting chapter in the long history of Sino-Mongolian relations. Faced with the challenge of governing a huge sedentary empire, the traditionally nomadic Mongols acceded to some Chinese institutional precedents, but, in large part, adhered to their own Inner Asian practices of staffing and administering the government apparatus.Yuan administrative documents provide information that permits a fairly accurate reconstruction of the day-to-day functioning of the local government bureaucracy. From these materials, Elizabeth Endicott-West has put together a detailed picture of the Mongols' methods of selecting local officials, the ethnic backgrounds of officials, and policy formation and implementation at the local level.
Author : Lara C.W. Blanchard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004369392
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire written by Lara C.W. Blanchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire; Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist’s or patron’s interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.
Author : Peter Nosco
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170087
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Remembering Paradise written by Peter Nosco and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Paradise studies three major eighteenth-century nativist scholars in Japan: Kada no Azumamaro, Kamo no Mabuchi, and the celebrated Motoori Norinaga. Peter Nosco demonstrates that these scholars, frequently depicted as the formulators of rabid xenophobia, were intellectuals engaged in a quest for meaning, wholeness, and solace in what they perceived to be disordered times. He traces the emergence and development of their philosophies, identifying elements of continuity into the eighteenth century from the singular Confucian-nativist discourse of the seventeenth century. He also describes the rupture between nativism and Confucianism at the start of the eighteenth century and the quest for ancient, distinctly Japanese values. The emphasis on patriotism and nostalgia in the works of these three scholars may have relevance to the kind of nationalism emerging in Japan in the 1980s, manifested in a renewed interest in visiting one’s home place and in the history and culture of the seventeenth through mid-nineteenth centuries. The current fusion of nationalism and nostalgia can perhaps be better understood through Nosco’s analysis of comparable sentiments that were important in earlier times.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521327275
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170044
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Tang Transformation Texts written by Victor H. Mair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen (“transformation texts” i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them—the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.
Author : Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894104
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (941 download)
Download or read book Muscovy and the Mongols written by Donald Ostrowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1998 study of the impact of the Mongols on the Rus lands using a broad and extensive source base.
Author : Paul J. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170095
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Taxing Heaven's Storehouse written by Paul J. Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tea growing was a prosperous industry in Sichuan when Wang Anshi's New Policies created a Tea Market Agency to buy up Sichuanese tea and trade it to Tibetan tribesmaen for cavalry horses. At first the highly autonomous agency not only acquired the needed horses but made a profit. After the Junchen conquest of Noth China, however, market realities changed and the combined Tea and Horse Agency's once successful policies ruined tea farmers, failed to meet quotas for horses, and ran a deficit. Paul J. Smith details the workings of Sichuan tea farming and the tea trade, examines the geopolitical factors that forced the Song to buy horses, and graphically describes the difficulties of driving them more than a thousand miles through rugged mountains with only inexperienced conscripts as trail hands. In this study of fiscal sociology, Smith also explains how the Tea and Horse Agency transformed the Sichuan local eleite, which was notorious for its resistance to state power, into imperial civil servants eager to tax their own region. He draws on modern theories of corporate behavior to explain what made the inner workings of the Agency an extraordinary departure for the Chinese civil service; and he demonstrates how the agency put into practice the most radical New -Policies theories of state economic activism. The Agency made entrepreneurs out of bureaucrats, but ultimately became ruinously tyrannical as the system of state rewards and punishments drove its personnel to actions that crippled key sectors of the economy.
Author : Robert W. Leutner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 168417001X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Shikitei Sanba and the Comic Tradition in Edo Fiction written by Robert W. Leutner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades of the eighteenth century gave rise to an explosion of literary activity in Edo (now Tokyo) that lasted until the mid-nineteenth century, with an army of writers producing prodigious quantities of fiction. This study traces the life and literary career of Shikitei Sanba (1776-1882), a writer in the mainstream of that generation, the author of more than one hundred works of fiction, many in comic veins. This book-length critical treatment of a major writer of gesaku(playful compositions) is a welcome breakthrough, since Samba's life, his era of literary activity, and the popular genres in which he worked have received scant treatment in English. Robert Leutner describes Sanba as a representative writer within a literary scene shifting from amateur to professional and becoming increasingly commercial. The text is enhanced by Leutner's translations of excerpts from Sanba's various writings and culminates in two long passages in original translations, fully annotated, of Ukiyoburo, "The Bathhouse of the Floating World," one of Sanba's best-known works. In "The Men's Bath" and "The Women's Bath" readers will encounter an array of Edo types. Their informal conversations convey the qualities of humor, the sociological characteristics, and much of the flavor of life in Sanba's Edo.
Author : American Oriental Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Oriental Society written by American Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Author : Edwin George Pulleyblank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Essays on Tang and Pre-Tang China written by Edwin George Pulleyblank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of studies by Professor Pulleyblank opens with an abridged version of his inaugural lecture at Cambridge, on Chinese history and world history. The next pieces look at the historiography of Tang China, and more broadly at Chinese attitudes to the writing of history and the critical methods that were employed. The An Lushan rebellion (755CE) forms an important focal point in the book, with studies on the racial background of the rebel and the impact of the rebellion on governmental systems, as well as on the intellectual history of the period. A further article examines the system of population registration in Tang China and its bearing on the interpretation of population statistics, while the final item goes outside the Tang to discuss the origins and role of slavery as a legal institution in China.
Download or read book THE CHINESE THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
