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Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849

Author : Betty Peh-T'I Wei
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622097858
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 written by Betty Peh-T'I Wei and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou.

Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849

Author : Betty Peh-T'I Wei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789622097858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Ruan Yuan, 1764-1849 written by Betty Peh-T'I Wei and published by . This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou.

Encyclopedia of Chinese History

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317817168
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Chinese History written by Michael Dillon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media. Our understanding of China’s history has also been evolving. The study of history in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao Zedong period was strictly regulated and primary sources were rarely available to westerners or even to most Chinese historians. Now that the Chinese archives are open to researchers, there is a growing body of academic expertise on history in China that is open to western analysis and historical methods. This has in many ways changed the way that Chinese history, particularly the modern period, is viewed. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire span of Chinese history from the period known primarily through archaeology to the present day. Treating Chinese history in the broadest sense, the Encyclopedia includes coverage of the frontier regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet that have played such an important role in the history of China Proper and will also include material on Taiwan, and on the Chinese diaspora. In A-Z format with entries written by experts in the field of Chinese Studies, the Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students of Chinese history, politics and culture.

A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

Author : Taiping Chang Knechtges
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192513931
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Chinese Literature written by Taiping Chang Knechtges and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as well as including a useful list of further reading at the end of most entries, this dictionary is a key reference point for students of Asian literature and languages, and those studying world literature in general.

Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography

Author : Yuri Pines
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004685367
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Zuozhuan and Early Chinese Historiography written by Yuri Pines and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability. In the present volume—the first of its kind in any Western language—leading scholars of ancient China, Greece, and Rome approach Zuozhuan from multi-faceted perspectives to examine in detail Zuozhuan’s sources, narrative patterns, and meta-narrative devices; analyze the text in dialogue with other ancient Chinese works; and open it to the comparative study with ancient Greek and Roman historiography. Contributors are: Chen Minzhen, Stephen Durrant, Joachim Gentz, Martin Kern, Wai-yee Li, Nino Luraghi, Ellen O’Gorman, Yuri Pines, David Schaberg, and Kai Vogelsang.

The Inner Quarters and Beyond

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004190260
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Quarters and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-07-14 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women’s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women engaged with topics as varied as war, travel, illness, love, friendship, female heroism, and religion. Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize these materials. They question previous assumptions about women’s lives and abilities, open up new critical space in Chinese literary history and offer new perspectives on China’s culture and society. “This volume rewrites the history of Chinese women’s literature by taking a truly inter-disciplinary (instead of merely multi-disciplinary) approach. In so doing, it ends up illuminating the centrality of writing women to the social, political, and intellectual lives of the Chinese empire from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.” Prof. Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (California, 2005).

The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity

Author : Jerry D. Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252290
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity written by Jerry D. Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examination of his thought and literary theory, and four chapters studying his highly original contributions to poetry on the human realm, nature verse, narrative poetry, and the poetry of ideas, including his writings on science and technology. Over a hundred pages of translations of his verse conclude the work.

Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon

Author : Matthias Schemmel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031087976
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Knowledge in the Mohist Canon written by Matthias Schemmel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a new translation, interpretation and analysis of selected passages from the so-called Mohist Canon, a Chinese text from ca. 300 BCE, and discusses the role of the text in the world history of science, arguing that it represents an early emergence of theoretical, systematized knowledge that is independent from parallel developments in ancient Greece. It is aimed at historians of science, of knowledge and of philosophy, and generally at readers interested in these topics from an intercultural perspective and particularly with respect to China.

Ancient Chinese Academy, Confucianism, and Society II

Author : Xiao Yongming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000772217
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Chinese Academy, Confucianism, and Society II written by Xiao Yongming and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the second volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective, this title investigates the multifaceted roles and political and cultural significance of the academy. Inaugurated in the Tang dynasty and eventually abolished in the late Qing dynasty, the academy, as a unique cultural and educational organization in the Chinese history, exerted extensive and profound influence on the ancient Chinese culture, politics, and social life. This title first discusses the state control of the academy and how it functions in social governance, then examines the sacrificial ritual of the academy and its influence on education, enculturation, Confucian orthodoxy, and intellectual ethos, and finally elaborates on the academy's role in enriching the regional cultures in terms of local cultural undertakings and talent cultivation. The title will be a useful reference for scholars, students, and general readers interested in cultural history, intellectual history, and educational history of ancient China and especially the Chinese academy culture.

Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China

Author : Yu Zhang
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498557864
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China written by Yu Zhang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as interrelated texts composed by three generation of members from one extended gentry family in South China. Based on the framework of family bonds, this book uses the three tanci works, authored by a mother, her daughter, and a nephew, to examine the history of how the changing aesthetics of tanci developed over China’s turbulent nineteenth century. It also demonstrates how the three writers used the genre of tanci to blur the boundaries of orthodox Confucian norms, in order to depict the evolving nature of gendered power relations at the dawn of China’s modernity.

Confucian Concord

Author : Federico Brusadelli
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434712
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Confucian Concord written by Federico Brusadelli and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Confucian Concord, Federico Brusadelli offers an intellectual analysis of Kang Youwei’s posthumous utopian masterpiece, the Datong Shu.

Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting

Author : Chia-Ling Yang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501358359
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Appropriating Antiquity for Modern Chinese Painting written by Chia-Ling Yang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pursuit of antiquity was important for scholarly artists in constructing their knowledge of history and cultural identity in late imperial China. By examining versatile trends within paintings in modern China, this book questions the extent to which historical relics have been used to represent the ethnic identity of modern Chinese art. In doing so, this book asks: did the antiquarian movements ultimately serve as a deliberate tool for re-writing Chinese art history in modern China? In searching for the public meaning of inventive private collecting activity, Appropriating Antiquity in Modern Chinese Painting draws on various modes of artistic creation to address how the use of antiquities in early 20th-century Chinese art both produced and reinforced the imaginative links between ancient civilization and modern lives in the late Qing dynasty. Further exploring how these social and cultural transformations were related to the artistic exchanges happening at the time between China, Japan and the West, the book successfully analyses how modernity was translated and appropriated at the turn of the 20th century, throughout Asia and further afield.

A History of Chinese Mathematics

Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540337830
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A History of Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-17 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.

Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics, Volume 10

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Publisher : ATF Press
ISBN 13 : 1925371654
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics, Volume 10 written by and published by ATF Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume dealing with ancient Chines cultural relics in the Qing Dynasty, 1644 to 1911. There are 375 relics. A continuation of Volume 9, dealing with the Qing Dynasty and describes paintings, calligraphy, embroidery and brocade, gold and silver ware and metal enamel ware and clocks. Paintings in this period can be divided into the early, middle and late stages. Early stage: Four Wangs painting school: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Hui and Wang Yuanqi. Midle stage: representative artists include: Jiao Bingzhenb, Leng Mei, Tang Dai during Kangxi's reign,and Ding Guanpeng, Jin Tingbiao, Xu Yang, Zhang Zongcang, Jian Tingxi and Zou Yigui in Qianlong's reign. Late stage paintings of literati gradually declined. When the newly developed business cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, opened as trading ports, changes were made in themes and styles. New schools formed: 'Secoast School' in Shanghai and 'Ling,an School' in Guangzhou. The former group artists included: Xu Gu, Zhao Zhiqian, Wu Changshuo, while the other school included: Su Liupeng, Su Ren Sahn, Ju Chao and Ju Lian. This book, the tenth in a ten-volume collection, brings to the English-speaking world a series of books from China which has been complied by an Expert Committee of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics. There are 375 descriptions.

The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll

Author : Shane McCausland
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789148340
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll written by Shane McCausland and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first extended history of the Chinese picture-scroll. The Chinese picture-scroll, a long, horizontal painting or calligraphic work, has been China’s pre-eminent aesthetic form throughout the last two millennia. This first history of the picture-scroll explores its extraordinary longevity and adaptability to social, political, and technological change. The book describes what the picture-scroll demands of a viewer, how China’s artists grappled with its cultural power, and how collectors and connoisseurs left their marks on scrolls for later generations to judge.

China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850

Author : Georg Lehner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004201505
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850 written by Georg Lehner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the ways in which English, French, and German eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century encyclopaedias dealt with things Chinese, offering an analysis of the broad variety of sources and an overview of the main strands of discourse on China.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modern Asian Educators

Author : Shin'ichi Suzuki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317391136
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modern Asian Educators written by Shin'ichi Suzuki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a unique and major resource on modern educators of Asia and their contribution to Asian educational development through the 19th and 20th centuries when modernization started in Asia. In one comprehensive volume, this handbook covers a selection of modern educators from East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia – and their contributions to the development of modern education, practically and theoretically. The diversity of cultures and religion as well as the multilinguistic and ethnic context have made Asian modernization unique and complex. Educational modernization in Asia reflected this historical context in many ways and resulted in the diverse forms of learning, teaching, institutions, and administration. Modern Asian educators compiled in this handbook represent various fields of Asian society: not only educational but cultural and social fields like academia, politics, economics, religion, literature, theatre, fine arts, and civic genres including the media. Through this Handbook, readers may discover the individual modern educators, male and female, and their contributions to Asian educational modernization. All of them were committed to the cause of education for children, youth, adults and in particular women. In addition, this volume has an extraordinarily rich subject index which can be an excellent guide and introduction to information touching divergent dynamics of educational developments in modern Asia. This insightful volume is perfect for students and researchers working on history of education, comparative education and educational development, particularly for those interested in Asian contexts.