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Author : George William Skinner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (278 download)
Download or read book The City in Late Imperial China written by George William Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh D. R. Baker
Publisher : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City in Late Imperial China written by Hugh D. R. Baker and published by Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143840798X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China written by Linda Cooke Johnson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy. The six studies focus on the urban centers of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou, and Shanghai. Emphasizing the regional focus, the authors explore the interconnections and sequential relationships between these major cities and analyze common themes such as the development of handicraft industry, transport and commerce, class structure, ethnic diversity and internal immigration, and the social and political pressures generated by developments in manufacturing, taxes, and government politics. The book provides a valuable resource on commercial development and internal economic and social development in pre-modern China, particularly on specific regional development and the historical role of traditional Chinese cities.
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Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Образовательный уровень, истоčники средств суščествования, обščественные группы, занятость населения отдельныч национальностей в отрасляч материального производства и непроизводственной сферы. - 1992. 365 С. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521776035
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Modern Chinese State written by David Shambaugh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-08 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726936
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China written by Benjamin A. Elman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service in fostering the world's first professional class based on demonstrated knowledge and skill. While millions of men dreamed of the worldly advancement an imperial education promised, many more wondered what went on inside the prestigious walled-off examination compounds. As Benjamin A. Elman reveals, what occurred was the weaving of a complex social web. Civil examinations had been instituted in China as early as the seventh century CE, but in the Ming and Qing eras they were the nexus linking the intellectual, political, and economic life of imperial China. Local elites and members of the court sought to influence how the government regulated the classical curriculum and selected civil officials. As a guarantor of educational merit, civil examinations served to tie the dynasty to the privileged gentry and literati classes--both ideologically and institutionally. China did away with its classical examination system in 1905. But this carefully balanced and constantly contested piece of social engineering, worked out over the course of centuries, was an early harbinger of the meritocratic regime of college boards and other entrance exams that undergirds higher education in much of the world today.
Author : Emily Mokros
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574880X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China written by Emily Mokros and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), China experienced far greater access to political information than suggested by the blunt measures of control and censorship employed by modern Chinese regimes. A tenuous partnership between the court and the dynamic commercial publishing enterprises of late imperial China enabled the publication of gazettes in a wide range of print and manuscript formats. For both domestic and foreign readers these official gazettes offered vital information about the Qing state and its activities, transmitting state news across a vast empire and beyond. And the most essential window onto Qing politics was the Peking Gazette, a genre that circulated globally over the course of the dynasty. This illuminating study presents a comprehensive history of the Peking Gazette and frames it as the cornerstone of a Qing information policy that, paradoxically, prized both transparency and secrecy. Gazettes gave readers a glimpse into the state’s inner workings but also served as a carefully curated form of public relations. Historian Emily Mokros draws from international archives to reconstruct who read the gazette and how they used it to guide their interactions with the Chinese state. Her research into the Peking Gazette’s evolution over more than two centuries is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the relationship between media, information, and state power.
Author : Martin W. Huang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173574
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China written by Martin W. Huang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debates.Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China shows that the obsession of authors with individual desire is an essential quality that defines traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre. Thus the maturation of the genre can best be appreciated in terms of its increasingly sophisticated exploration of the phenomenon of desire."
Author : Shang Wei
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170435
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China written by Shang Wei and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi’s (1701–54) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite’s futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns. Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati’s enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors’ alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works?
Author : Weijing Lu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080478678X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book True to Her Word written by Weijing Lu and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking book examines the broad cultural, social, and gender meanings of the "faithful maiden" cult in late imperial China (1368–1911). Across the empire, an increasing number of young women or "faithful maidens," defied their parents' wishes and chose either to live out their lives as widows upon the death of a fiancé or killed themselves to join their fiancé in death. The book analyzes the familial conflicts, government policies, ideological controversies, and personal emotions surrounding the cult. Concentrating on the dramatic acts of spirit wedding and suicide, the faithful maidens' unique code of conduct, and the extraordinary life journey of "virgin mothers," Lu documents the ideological, psychological, cultural, and economic aspects of these young women's mentality and behavior, and the implications of this behavior for their families and the broader society. The book's narrative of the faithful maiden cult interweaves late imperial political, cultural, social and intellectual history, thus, providing a new window onto the history of the late imperial period.
Author : Wing-Yee Yuen
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ISBN 13 : 9781374723177
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (231 download)
Download or read book The City in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan written by Wing-Yee Yuen and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The City in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan" by Wing-yee, Yuen, 袁詠儀, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The City in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan (1) Abstract This is a comparative study of urban history, which introduces its readers to the spectacular late imperial China and Tokugawa Japan. Prior to the advent of Western challenges in the mid-nineteenth century, both China and Japan had already accomplished a remarkably high level of urbanism that dwarfed their occidental counterparts. This exhilarating period of urban growth and development has been extensively studied by scholars in different academic domains. The present study is by no means an exhaustive or illustrious exploration. It starts from the basic premise that the city in Western Europe has long played the pivotal role in engineering societal changes and therefore been considered an agent of change since the late medieval era. On the contrary, the city in traditional China was the very antithesis of its Western European counterpart. The writer will eventually set out to explain how and why this happened. In juxtaposition with the late imperial Chinese city, the city in Tokugawa Japan lay in between the polarities of the oriental and occidental urban traditions. Having drawn a distinction between these two cultural disparities, the writer will conclude with a reflection on the value of this comparative study. DOI: 10.5353/th_b2989301 Subjects: Cities and towns - China - History Cities and towns - Japan - History
Author : Jenny Huangfu Day
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471323
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Qing Travelers to the Far West written by Jenny Huangfu Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fundamentally new interpretation of the Qing reveals how Sino-Western engagements transformed traditions, institutions, and networks of communications.
Author : Yuhang Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231548737
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Becoming Guanyin written by Yuhang Li and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming Studies The goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the Ming (1358–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity in China. In Becoming Guanyin, Yuhang Li examines how lay Buddhist women in late imperial China forged a connection with the subject of their devotion, arguing that women used their own bodies to echo that of Guanyin. Li focuses on the power of material things to enable women to access religious experience and transcendence. In particular, she examines how secular Buddhist women expressed mimetic devotion and pursued religious salvation through creative depictions of Guanyin in different media such as painting and embroidery and through bodily portrayals of the deity using jewelry and dance. These material displays expressed a worldview that differed from yet fit within the Confucian patriarchal system. Attending to the fabrication and use of “women’s things” by secular women, Li offers new insight into the relationships between worshipped and worshipper in Buddhist practice. Combining empirical research with theoretical insights from both art history and Buddhist studies, Becoming Guanyin is a field-changing analysis that reveals the interplay between material culture, religion, and their gendered transformations.
Author : Andrea Goldman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804782628
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Opera and the City written by Andrea Goldman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late imperial China, opera transmitted ideas across the social hierarchy about the self, family, society, and politics. Beijing attracted a diverse array of opera genres and audiences and, by extension, served as a hub for the diffusion of cultural values. It is in this context that historian Andrea S. Goldman harnesses opera as a lens through which to examine urban cultural history. Her meticulous yet playful account takes up the multiplicity of opera types that proliferated at the time, exploring them as contested sites through which the Qing court and commercial playhouses negotiated influence and control over the social and moral order. Opera performance blurred lines between public and private life, and offered a stage on which to act out gender and class transgressions. This work illuminates how the state and various urban constituencies manipulated opera to their own ends, and sheds light on empire-wide transformations underway at the time.
Author : Michael Szonyi
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197245
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Art of Being Governed written by Michael Szonyi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018--an innovative look at how families in Ming dynasty China negotiated military and political obligations to the state.tate.
Author : Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174120
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Dao of Muhammad written by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book documents an Islamic–Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material—the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, The Dao of Muhammad shows how the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim scholars, their Confucian social context, and China’s imperial rulers. Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful “school” within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both within Islam and within Chinese culture."
Author : Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520921474
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China written by Benjamin A. Elman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03-22 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this multidimensional analysis, Benjamin A. Elman uses over a thousand newly available examination records from the Yuan, Ming, and Ch'ing dynasties, 1315-1904, to explore the social, political, and cultural dimensions of the civil examination system, one of the most important institutions in Chinese history. For over five hundred years, the most important positions within the dynastic government were usually filled through these difficult examinations, and every other year some one to two million people from all levels of society attempted them. Covering the late imperial system from its inception to its demise, Elman revises our previous understanding of how the system actually worked, including its political and cultural machinery, the unforeseen consequences when it was unceremoniously scrapped by modernist reformers, and its long-term historical legacy. He argues that the Ming-Ch'ing civil examinations from 1370 to 1904 represented a substantial break with T'ang-Sung dynasty literary examinations from 650 to 1250. Late imperial examinations also made "Tao Learning," Neo-Confucian learning, the dynastic orthodoxy in official life and in literati culture. The intersections between elite social life, popular culture, and religion that are also considered reveal the full scope of the examination process throughout the late empire.
