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Download or read book Martial Ruler written by Mu QingLei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want the heavens to not be able to cover my eyes, the earth to not bury my heart. I want all living beings to understand me. I want all buddhas to vanish into thin air!
Book Synopsis The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China by : Alice Yao
Download or read book The Ancient Highlands of Southwest China written by Alice Yao and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC. In the first century BC, Han imperial conquest reduced local power and began a process of cultural assimilation. Instead of a clash between center and periphery or barbarism and civilization, this book examines the classic study of imperial rule as a confrontation between different political temporalities. The author provides an archaeological account of the southwest where Bronze Age landscape formations and funerary traditions bring to light a history of competing warrior cultures and kingly genealogies. In particular, the book illustrates how mourners used funerals and cemetery mounds to transmit social biographies and tribal affiliations across successive generations. Han incorporation thus entangled the orders of state time with the generational cycles of local factions, foregrounding the role of time in the production of power relations in imperial frontiers. The book extends approaches to empires to show how prehistoric time frames continue to shape the futures of frontier subjects despite imperial efforts to unify space and histories.
Book Synopsis Sources of Japanese Tradition by : Wm. Theodore de Bary
Download or read book Sources of Japanese Tradition written by Wm. Theodore de Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-19 with total page 1449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic boom, Watergate, and defeat in Vietnam led to an unraveling of the national consensus. During the decade, ideas about the United States, how it should be governed, and how its economy should be managed changed dramatically. Berkowitz argues that the postwar faith in sweeping social programs and a global U.S. mission was replaced by a more skeptical attitude about government's ability to positively affect society. From Woody Allen to Watergate, from the decline of the steel industry to the rise of Bill Gates, and from Saturday Night Fever to the Sunday morning fervor of evangelical preachers, Berkowitz captures the history, tone, and spirit of the seventies. He explores the decade's major political events and movements, including the rise and fall of détente, congressional reform, changes in healthcare policies, and the hostage crisis in Iran. The seventies also gave birth to several social movements and the "rights revolution," in which women, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities all successfully fought for greater legal and social recognition. At the same time, reaction to these social movements as well as the issue of abortion introduced a new facet into American political life-the rise of powerful, politically conservative religious organizations and activists. Berkowitz also considers important shifts in American popular culture, recounting the creative renaissance in American film as well as the birth of the Hollywood blockbuster. He discusses how television programs such as All in the Family and Charlie's Angels offered Americans both a reflection of and an escape from the problems gripping the country.
Download or read book Martial Ruler written by Mu QingLei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want the heavens to not be able to cover my eyes, the earth to not bury my heart. I want all living beings to understand me. I want all buddhas to vanish into thin air!
Download or read book Martial Ruler written by Mu QingLei and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want the heavens to not be able to cover my eyes, the earth to not bury my heart. I want all living beings to understand me. I want all buddhas to vanish into thin air!
Book Synopsis The Ancient Zombie Emperor by : Tang XiaoMi
Download or read book The Ancient Zombie Emperor written by Tang XiaoMi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The good-for-nothing son of the outer elder of the Flowing Moon Sect, Xiao Feng Lin, had his dantian sea broken by his fellow sect members and died. He was thrown into the forbidden mountain to obtain the remnant soul of the ancient corpse ancestor, and was then reborn into the current world as the sole zombie.
Book Synopsis Reborn to be a Self-indulgent Ruler by : Xue Er
Download or read book Reborn to be a Self-indulgent Ruler written by Xue Er and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 1505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long Xiaoyuan had been reborn, he was extremely happy.However, why was he reborn in the body of an unconscious monarch?This fatuous ruler loved his subjects and killed them for their loyalty. He was truly unscrupulous to the extreme!This flabbergasted ruler, after marrying the son of a general, had given him endless torment!How could he recreate such a person?That male wife of the empress is obviously an unparalleled beauty, right? Since he didn't want such a person, then let him!
Book Synopsis Intellectual Developments in Greece and China by : Raymond W.K. Lau
Download or read book Intellectual Developments in Greece and China written by Raymond W.K. Lau and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a study of historical sociology and a comparison of ancient Greece’s and ancient China’s intellectual developments. It provides a special historical-sociological theoretical model, allowing the exploration of how and why Greece’s and China’s developments followed two different trajectories. This model allows a superior explanation of this phenomenon than previous studies, which all employ the outdated methodology of mono-causal determinism. This work takes the critique of Eurocentric views in comparative studies, pioneered by Joseph Needham in Science and Civilization in China, to a new level of excellence, because, in addition to presenting new empirical findings and dispelling previous misunderstandings, it also provides a sophisticated theoretical analysis. It will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of comparative intellectual studies, sinology, historical sociology, classics, and intellectual history.
Book Synopsis Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued by : Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Download or read book Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued written by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conquer and Govern by : Robin McNeal
Download or read book Conquer and Govern written by Robin McNeal and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s Warring States era (ca. 5th–3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political changes were driven in large part by the increasing scope and scale of warfare, and some of the best minds of the day (including Sunzi, whose Art of War is still widely read) devoted their attention to the systematic analysis of all factors involved in waging war. Conquer and Govern makes available for the first time in any Western language a corpus of military texts from a long neglected Warring States compendium of historical, political, military, and ritual writings known as the Yi Zhou shu, or Remainder of the Zhou Documents. The texts articulate concretely and vividly the relationship between military conquest of an enemy and incorporation of conquered territories into one’s civilian government, expressed dynamically through the paired Chinese concept of wen and wu, the civil and the martial. Exploring this conceptual dyad as it evolved across the Warring States era into the early Western Han (ca. 2nd–1st century BCE) provides an alternative view of the social and intellectual history of classical China—one based not primarily on philosophical works but on a complex array of ideological writings concerned with the just, effective, and appropriate use of state power. In addition, this study presents a careful reconstruction of the poetic structure of these texts; analyzes their place in the broader discourse on warfare and governance in early China; introduces the many text historical problems of the Yi Zhou shu itself; and offers a synthetic analysis of early Chinese thinking about warfare, strategy, and the early state’s use of coercive power. Conquer and Govern will find a ready audience among specialists and students of Chinese philosophy and history, particularly those interested in the history of military thought and practice, and comparative philosophy.
Book Synopsis Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography by : Kerry Brown
Download or read book Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography written by Kerry Brown and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 1744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the first publication of its kind since 1898, is the work of more than one hundred internationally recognized experts from nearly a dozen countries. It has been designed to satisfy the growing thirst of students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for knowledge about China. It makes the entire span of Chinese history manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years. In 135 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 words and written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography takes the reader from the important (even if possibly mythological) figures of ancient China to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The in-depth essays provide rich historical context, and create a compelling narrative that weaves abstract concepts and disparate events into a coherent story. Cross-references between the articles show the connections between times, places, movements, events, and individuals.
Book Synopsis For King and Country by : Heather Jones
Download or read book For King and Country written by Heather Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ground-breaking history of the British monarchy in the First World War and of the social and cultural functions of monarchism in the British war effort. Heather Jones examines how the conflict changed British cultural attitudes to the monarchy, arguing that the conflict ultimately helped to consolidate the crown's sacralised status. She looks at how the monarchy engaged with war recruitment, bereavement, gender norms, as well as at its political and military powers and its relationship with Ireland and the empire. She considers the role that monarchism played in military culture and examines royal visits to the front, as well as the monarchy's role in home front morale and in interwar war commemoration. Her findings suggest that the rise of republicanism in wartime Britain has been overestimated and that war commemoration was central to the monarchy's revered interwar status up to the abdication crisis.
Book Synopsis The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece by : Lynette Mitchell
Download or read book The Heroic Rulers of Archaic and Classical Greece written by Lynette Mitchell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an in-depth exploration of rule by a single man and how this was seen as heroic activity, the title challenges orthodox views of ruling in the ancient world and breaks down traditional ideas about the relationship between so-called hereditary rule and tyranny. It looks at how a common heroic ideology among rulers was based upon excellence, or arete, and also surveys dynastic ruling, where rule was in some sense shared within the family or clan. Heroic Rulers examines reasons why both personal and clan-based rule was particularly unstable and its core tension with the competitive nature of Greek society, so that the question of who had the most arete was an issue of debate both from within the ruling family and from other heroic aspirants. Probing into ancient perspectives on the legitimacy and legality of rule, the title also explores the relationship between ruling and law. Law, personified as 'king' (nomos basileus), came to be seen as the ultimate source of sovereignty especially as expressed through the constitutional machinery of the city, and became an important balance and constraint for personal rule. Finally, Heroic Rulers demonstrates that monarchy, which is generally thought to have disappeared before the end of the archaic period, remained a valid political option from the Early Iron Age through to the Hellenistic period.
Book Synopsis Sun Pin: Military Methods by : Ralph D. Sawyer
Download or read book Sun Pin: Military Methods written by Ralph D. Sawyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the awesome army commanded by Sun Pin, a direct descendent of the legendary Sun Tzu. This translation comments on Sun Pin's life and times. It analyzes in detail Sun Pin's tactics in battles, and compares his strategic thinking with that of Sun Tzu.
Book Synopsis Early Daoist Scriptures by : Stephen R. Bokenkamp
Download or read book Early Daoist Scriptures written by Stephen R. Bokenkamp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of historic proportions. . . . A whole new world of ancient religious life is being opened to us here, and readers can trust Bokenkamp to guide them through that world."--Russell Kirkland, University of Georgia "Bokenkamp, whose previous works on Daoism are already deservedly well known and appreciated, presents complete translations of six major Daoist texts. His introductions to each of them delineate and elucidate some points of both the history and fundamental notions of Daoism, which so far have remained unclear or subject to debate. This book will undoubtedly provide a better understanding of Daoism."--Isabelle Robinet, author of Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity
Book Synopsis The Home-ruler's Manual by : Richard Barry O'Brien
Download or read book The Home-ruler's Manual written by Richard Barry O'Brien and published by London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner. This book was released on 1890 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Domus Bolezlai: Values and social identity in dynastic traditions of medieval Poland (c.966-1138) by : Przemyslaw Wiszewski
Download or read book Domus Bolezlai: Values and social identity in dynastic traditions of medieval Poland (c.966-1138) written by Przemyslaw Wiszewski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on the formative force of national identity for the Poles – the transmission of values – the book offers a tour of a huge set of primary sources from the period 966-1138 in search of the traditions of the Piasts – the ruling dynasty of Poland.
