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Author : Zhong Guan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Economic Dialogues in Ancient China written by Zhong Guan and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara T. Chin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170788
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Savage Exchange written by Tamara T. Chin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance (“Silk Road”) markets. Tamara T. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. To promote a radically quantitative approach to the market, some thinkers developed innovative forms of fiction and genre. In opposition, traditionalists reasserted the authority of classical texts and advocated a return to the historical, ethics-centered, marriage-based, agricultural economy that these texts described. The discussion of frontiers and markets thus became part of a larger debate over the relationship between the world and the written word. These Han debates helped to shape the ways in which we now define and appreciate early Chinese literature and produced the foundational texts of Chinese economic thought. Each chapter in the book examines a key genre or symbolic practice (philosophy, fu-rhapsody, historiography, money, kinship) through which different groups sought to reshape the political economy. By juxtaposing well-known texts with recently excavated literary and visual materials, Chin elaborates a new literary and cultural approach to Chinese economic thought. Co-Winner, 2016 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association; Honorable Mention, 2016 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-1900 Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies
Author : Isabella M. Weber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042995395X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book How China Escaped Shock Therapy written by Isabella M. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketization—but struggled over how to go about it. Should China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope and pace, whereas Russia’s economy collapsed under shock therapy. Based on extensive research, including interviews with key Chinese and international participants and World Bank officials as well as insights gleaned from unpublished documents, the book charts the debate that ultimately enabled China to follow a path to gradual reindustrialization. Beyond shedding light on the crossroads of the 1980s, it reveals the intellectual foundations of state-market relations in reform-era China through a longue durée lens. Overall, the book delivers an original perspective on China’s economic model and its continuing contestations from within and from without.
Author : Elisa Levi Sabattini
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466436
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Between Command and Market written by Elisa Levi Sabattini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply researched and thought-provoking set of essays on a sorely-neglected topic in Chinese economic, intellectual, and political history.
Author : W. Allyn Rickett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218986
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Guanzi written by W. Allyn Rickett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named for the famous Chinese minister of state Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this volume, W. Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the Guanzi into English. Throughout the text, Rickett provides extensive notes. He also supplies an introduction to the volume and a comprehensive index.
Author : Kuan-tzu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Economic Dialogues in Ancient China written by Kuan-tzu and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zhaoming Qian
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608130
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Ezra Pound's Chinese Friends written by Zhaoming Qian and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literary figure of the past century - in America or perhaps in any other Western country - is comparable to Ezra Pound in the scope and depth of his exchange with China. To this day, scholars and students still find it puzzling that this influential poet spent a lifetime incorporating Chinese language, literature, history, and philosophy into Anglo-American modernism. How well did Pound know Chinese? Was he guided exclusively by eighteenth to nineteenth-century orientalists in his various Chinese projects? Did he seek guidance from Chinese peers? Those who have written about Pound and China have failed to address this fundamental question. No one could do so just a few years ago when the letters Pound wrote to his Chinese friends were sealed or had not been found. This book brings together 162 revealing letters between Pound and nine Chinese intellectuals, eighty-five of them newly opened up and none previously printed. Accompanied by editorial introductions and notes, these selected letters make available for the first time the forgotten stories of Pound and his Chinese friends. They illuminate a dimension in Pound's career that has been neglected: his dynamic interaction with people from China over a span of forty-five years from 1914 until 1959. This selection will also be a documentary record of a leading modernist's unparalleled efforts to pursue what he saw as the best of China, including both his stumbles and his triumphs.
Author : Caroline Frank
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226260283
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Objectifying China, Imagining America written by Caroline Frank and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the ever-expanding presence of China in the global economy, Americans more and more look east for goods and trade. But as Caroline Frank reveals, this is not a new development. China loomed as large in the minds—and account books—of eighteenth-century Americans as it does today. Long before they had achieved independence from Britain and were able to sail to Asia themselves, American mariners, merchants, and consumers were aware of the East Indies and preparing for voyages there. Focusing on the trade and consumption of porcelain, tea, and chinoiserie, Frank shows that colonial Americans saw themselves as part of a world much larger than just Britain and Europe Frank not only recovers the widespread presence of Chinese commodities in early America and the impact of East Indies trade on the nature of American commerce, but also explores the role of the this trade in American state formation. She argues that to understand how Chinese commodities fueled the opening acts of the Revolution, we must consider the power dynamics of the American quest for china—and China—during the colonial period. Filled with fresh and surprising insights, this ambitious study adds new dimensions to the ongoing story of America’s relationship with China.
Author : Benjamin Isadore Schwartz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043316
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The World of Thought in Ancient China written by Benjamin Isadore Schwartz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture. Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts, to the evolution of early Confucianism, to Mo-Tzu, to the Taoists the legalists, the Ying-Yang school, the five classics as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture.
Author : Endymion Wilkinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171806
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The History of Imperial China written by Endymion Wilkinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction in English to Sinological methods and traditional Chinese historical writing. The time span ranges from earliest times to 1911, with special emphasis on the years between the third century B.C. and the eighteenth century. The author includes introductions to major reference works and biographical information, and explanations of such matters as converting traditional dates. In addition to standard histories, the survey covers biographical writing, historical and administrative geography, works on statecraft, archival sources, and Confucian, Buddhist, and Taoist writings.
Author : Alec Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350096571
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light written by Alec Marsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right ideology to this day: States' Rights, White-supremacy and racial segregation, the usurpation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court, and history as racial struggle. Pound's struggle was also personal. These poems also celebrate his passion for his muse and lover, Sheri Martinelli, as he tries to teach her his politics and, in the final poems, mount his legal defence against the unresolved treason charges hanging over his head. Reading the poetry alongside correspondence and unpublished archival writings, Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is an important new work on a poet who stands at the heart of 20th-century Modernism. Building on his previous book John Kasper and Ezra Pound: Saving the Republic (Bloomsbury, 2015), Alec Marsh explores the way the political ideas revealed in Pound's correspondence manifested themselves in his later poetry.
Author : Zhong Guan
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
ISBN 13 : 9780887273247
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Guanzi 1 written by Zhong Guan and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 2001 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheng & Tsui is pleased to offer the first revised paperback edition of this monumental work. First published in 1985, W.
Author : Peter J. Golas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521580007
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China, Part 13, Mining written by Peter J. Golas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-25 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking covers the subjects of chemistry and chemical technology. This, the thirteenth part of the volume, is the first history of Chinese mining to appear in a western language. Covering from the Neolithic period to the present day it deals with the full range of Chinese mining from copper to mercury, arsenic to coal and a large number of other minerals and materials. The author draws extensively not only on written sources but also on archaeological remains, and observation of traditional techniques still in use. The interrelationship between Chinese mining and the social, economic and political conditions in which it took place is examined, and leads the author to conclude that these extraneous factors were probably more important in determining how mining was carried out than technological progress.
Author : Aat Emile Vervoorn
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622014152
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Men of the Cliffs and Caves written by Aat Emile Vervoorn and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gwei-Djen Lu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136612556
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Celestial Lancets written by Gwei-Djen Lu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of different points on the body's surface; moxibustion is the burning of Artemisia tinder (moxa) either directly on the skin or just above it. For 2500 years the Chinese have used both techniques to relieve pain and to heal a wide variety of illnesses and malfunctions. Providing a full historical account of acupuncture and moxibustion in the theoretical structure of Chinese medicine, Doctors Lu and Needham combine it with a rationale of the two techniques in the light of modern scientific knowledge.
Author : Charles Le Blanc
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622091792
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Huai-nan Tzu written by Charles Le Blanc and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1985-12-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huai-nan Tzu (139BC) was viewed, for its great diversity of subject-matter, ideas and style, by traditional Chinese scholars as a composite work of the Eclectic School. It is the author's contention, however, that one overriding concern pervades the work: the attempt to define the essential conditions for a Taoist political utopianism. The present study emphasizes Chapter Six of Huai-nan Tzu in expounding the theory of kan-ying STIMULUS-RESPONSE; RESONANCE, which postulates that all things in the universe are interrelated and influence each other according to pre-set patterns. Only in the True Man, who is 'one with Tao' and 'attuned to the cosmos', does kan-ying attain its ultimate realization, 'the Great Peace' and 'the Great Merging'. 'After all,' concludes the author, ' it is in Huai-nan Tzu that we find the statement'
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136574484
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Grand Titration written by Joseph Needham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969. The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissance that Europe drew ahead. Throughout those fifteen centuries, and ever since, the West has been profoundly affected by the discoveries and invention emanating from China and East Asia. In this series of essays and lectures, Joseph Needham explores the mystery of China's early lead and Europe's later overtaking.
