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Inner China

Author : Eva Sjödin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner China written by Eva Sjödin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. INNER CHINA is the first of Eva Sjödin's books to be translated into English. It is the poetic narrative of a young girl navigating a tenuous yet vibrant landscape of hardship and neglect, resilience and self-reliance. "By turns catastrophic and luminous, INNER CHINA, in Jennifer Hayashida's translation, is unflinching in its gaze, economical in its language, and fearless as it enters the difficult terrain that is childhood. Here the interior and exterior worlds, the magical and the mundane collide--brutally and beautifully."--Genya Turovskaya "In Eva Sjödin's INNER CHINA, the imaginative life born of the desire for heaven, for somewhere else, is the starkest reminder that we reside not there, but here: on earth. While 'heaven and dirt cave in, twist together,' the young narrator makes a life and language of the fertile and porous nature beyond her cold realities, an emotional world marked by decay and resilience. This tale is then, also, a map of the human psyche as it maneuvers around that which threatens its body."--E. Tracy Grinnell "INNER CHINA, the first of Sjödin's works to be translated into English, consists of a series of poems that form a narrative about a young girl dealing with hard times and being neglected; by relying on herself and never giving up, she embarks on a moving journey of self-discovery."--Translation Review

The Inner Quarters

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520081587
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Quarters written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword

Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China

Author : Xiaorong Li
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804432
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China written by Xiaorong Li and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were both a real and an imaginary place. Originally popularized in sixth-century "palace style" poetry, the inner chambers were used by male writers as a setting in which to celebrate female beauty, to lament the loneliness of abandoned women, and by extension, to serve as a political allegory for the exile of loyal and upright male ministers spurned by the imperial court. Female writers of lyric poetry (ci) soon adopted the theme, beginning its transition from male fantasy to multidimensional representation of women and their place in society, and eventually its manifestation in other poetic genres as well. Emerging from the role of sexual objects within poetry, late imperial women were agents of literary change in their expansion and complication of the boudoir theme. While some take ownership and de-eroticizing its imagery for their own purposes, adding voices of children and older women, and filling the inner chambers with purposeful activity such as conversation, teaching, religious ritual, music, sewing, childcare, and chess-playing, some simply want to escape from their confinement and protest gender restrictions imposed on women. Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China traces this evolution across centuries, providing and analyzing examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers, and demonstrating the complication and nuancing of the gui theme by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.

Teachers of the Inner Chambers

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804723596
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Teachers of the Inner Chambers written by Dorothy Ko and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pathbreaking work argues that literate gentry women in 17th-century Jiangnan, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system. Momentous socioeconomic and intellectual changes in 17th-century Jiangnan provided the stimulus for the flowering of women's culture. The most salient of these changes included a flourishing of commercial publishing, the rise of a reading public, a new emphasis on emotions, the promotion of women's education, and, more generally, the emergence of new definitions of womanhood. The author reconstructs the social, emotional and intellectual worlds of 17th-century women, and in doing so provides a new way to conceptualize China's past, one offering a more realistic and complete understanding of the values of Chinese culture and the functioning of Chinese society.

Anxious China

Author : Li Zhang
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520344197
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Anxious China written by Li Zhang and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathless pace of China’s economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people’s inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety—broadly construed in both medical and social terms—has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.

China

Author : Damian Harper
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200359
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book China written by Damian Harper and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful guide makes the vast enigma of China accessible to every visitor. Continuing the series' winning formula, this new edition combines in-depth, up-to-date descriptions with dazzling photographs, detailed maps, cutaway illustrations of renowned structures, and a wealth of useful travel tips organized by cities and areas.

Transforming Inner Mongolia

Author : Yi Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538146088
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Inner Mongolia written by Yi Wang and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book analyzes the dramatic impact of Han Chinese migration into Inner Mongolia during the Qing era. In the first detailed history in English, Yi Wang explores how processes of commercial expansion, land reclamation, and Catholic proselytism transformed the Mongol frontier long before it was officially colonized and incorporated into the Chinese state. Wang reconstructs the socioeconomic, cultural, and administrative history of Inner Mongolia at a time of unprecedented Chinese expansion into its peripheries and China’s integration into the global frameworks of capitalism and the nation-state. Introducing a peripheral and transregional dimension that links the local and regional processes to global ones, Wang places equal emphasis on broad macro-historical analysis and fine-grained micro-studies of particular regions and agents. She argues that border regions such as Inner Mongolia played a central role in China’s transformation from a multiethnic empire to a modern nation-state, serving as fertile ground for economic and administrative experimentation. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, and European sources, Wang integrates the two major trends in current Chinese historiography—new Qing frontier history and migration history—in an important contribution to the history of Inner Asia, border studies, and migrations.

From a Darkened Room

Author : Arthur Crew Inman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From a Darkened Room written by Arthur Crew Inman and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967–69

Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004213937
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Purge of the Inner Mongolian People's Party in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1967–69 written by Kerry Brown and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Chinese Cultural Revolution from 1967 to 1969, some 16,000 Mongolians died and over a quarter of a million suffered injury during the purge of what was claimed to be a separatist party in the Inner Mongolian region. This study looks at the purge through an analysis of the voices found in contemporary documents – those of Red Guard groups, local leaders felled during the campaign, and the new leaders put in place by the central government in Beijing. At the heart of this was the struggle for domination by a central government asserting national unity, opposed to any expression of local particularities in Inner Mongolia. The author examines the discourse strategies by which central government attempted to impose total control , asserting a dominant ideology and narrative based on Marxism-Leninism. The volume offers a unique insight into the relationship between language and culture of political power in modern China, at a time of crisis and violence.

Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030904684X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it. Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China's grasslands to overgrazing and excessive cultivation of marginal areas and discuss measures to limit the damage. The book gives its view on the Chinese approach to the study of grasslands and the relevance of this activity in China to global scientific concerns.

Changing Inner Mongolia

Author : David Sneath
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Changing Inner Mongolia written by David Sneath and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastoral Mongolian minority there. It examines the effects of five decades of social engineering by the Chinese state, and explores the role of economic forms, ritual, symbolism, and ideology in the transformations and continuities of life on the inner Mongolian steppe.

Inner Asian Frontiers of China

Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inner Asian Frontiers of China written by Owen Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study has been made with the co̲peration of the Secretariat of the Institute of Pacific Relations and constitutes a report in its International research series." Bibliography: p. [553]-572

China Marches West

Author : Peter C Perdue
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042026
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book China Marches West written by Peter C Perdue and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mongolia under their control, while gaining dominant influence in Tibet. The China we know is a product of these vast conquests. Peter C. Perdue chronicles this little-known story of China's expansion into the northwestern frontier. Unlike previous Chinese dynasties, the Qing achieved lasting domination over the eastern half of the Eurasian continent. Rulers used forcible repression when faced with resistance, but also aimed to win over subject peoples by peaceful means. They invested heavily in the economic and administrative development of the frontier, promoted trade networks, and adapted ceremonies to the distinct regional cultures. Perdue thus illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China's frontier expansion. The Beijing government today faces unrest on its frontiers from peoples who reject its autocratic rule. At the same time, China has launched an ambitious development program in its interior that in many ways echoes the old Qing policies. China Marches West is a tour de force that will fundamentally alter the way we understand Central Eurasia.

Inner Asian Frontiers of China

Author : Owen Lattimore
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inner Asian Frontiers of China written by Owen Lattimore and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1940 by the American Geographical Society in its International Research Series, has remained the classic study of the Central Asian region of China from ancient times to the period immediately prior to World War II. In particular, Lattimore examines the effect of the region's frontier status on its history and development. The book is based on extensive travel and research throughout the region as well as on exhaustive reading in Chinese, Russian, Mongolian and English sources.

Major Aspects of Chinese Religion and Philosophy

Author : Chun Shan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642293174
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Major Aspects of Chinese Religion and Philosophy written by Chun Shan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses academically the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy, designated as the doctrine of being internal sage and external king. The perspective applied is the integration between western and Chinese scholarship and English readers may gain an easy and interesting access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s”. By this contrast the intellectual charms and spiritual merits of Chinese tradition will be better appreciated, hence conducive to the much anticipated dialogues between western and eastern civilizations at this globalized yet conflicted world.

The Party

Author : Richard McGregor
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061998087
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Party written by Richard McGregor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A masterful depiction of the party today. . . . McGregor illuminates the most important of the contradictions and paradoxes. . . . An entertaining and insightful portrait of China’s secretive rulers.” —The Economist “Few outsiders have any realistic sense of the innards, motives, rivalries, and fears of the Chinese Communist leadership. But we all know much more than before, thanks to Richard McGregor’s illuminating and richly-textured look at the people in charge of China’s political machinery. . . . Invaluable.” — James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic In this provocative and illuminating account, Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor offers a captivating portrait of China’s Communist Party, its grip on power and control over China, and its future. China’s political and economic growth in the past three decades has been one of astonishing, epochal dimensions. The most remarkable part of this transformation, however, has been left largely untold—the central role of the Chinese Communist Party. McGregor delves deeply into China’s inner sanctum for the first time, showing how the Communist Party controls the government, courts, media, and military and keeps all corruption accusations against its members in-house. The Party’s decisions have a global impact, yet the CCP remains a deeply secretive body, hostile to the law and unaccountable to anyone or anything other than its own internal tribunals. It is the world’s only geopolitical rival of the United States, and is primed to think the worst of the West.

The Inner Teachings of Taoism

Author : Chang Po-tuan
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 157062710X
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Teachings of Taoism written by Chang Po-tuan and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-09 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taoist inner alchemy is a collection of theories and practices for transforming the mind and refining the self. The Inner Teachings of Taoism includes a classic of Chinese alchemy known as Four Hundred Words on the Gold Elixir. Written in the eleventh century by a founder of the Complete Reality School, this text is accompanied by the lucid commentary of the nineteenth-century adept Lui I-ming.