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The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893818388
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Face of China is devoted to the works of such largely unsung photographers as Felice A. Beato, John Thomson, E. H. Wilson, the White Brothers, and Thomas Childe. Most tended to focus on the rarefied and exotic. Who could resist the staggering architecture: the Great Wall, the magnificent battlements of Peking, or the rococo retreats of the mandarins? Or the mandarins themselves: prosperous gentlemen whose tiny-footed wives wore embroidered silk coveted by the soigne of Paris and London."--BOOK JACKET. "A few photographers saw more than the elevated society and resplendent architecture, and ventured in search of the less visible China. Felice Beatro traveled with the Anglo-French armies to depict the conquest of Tientsin and the sacking of the Imperial summer Palace. With a documentarian's eye, John Thomson directed his lens at both the imperial family and its subjects. His prints contrast the great distance between ruler and ruled, warning of more upheaval in a country already torn and, equally important, fixing forever subtle attitudes and mores. Using cumbersome equipment, Donald Mennie and the White Brothers photographed the dreamlike and harmonious panoramas so beloved by great Chinese landscape artists."--BOOK JACKET.

About Face

Author : James Mann
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book About Face written by James Mann and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret story, covering the years since Nixon's arrival at the White House, of how American leaders first courted China's Communist government and then belatedly changed their minds after the Tiananmen Square massacre and the Soviet collapse. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912

Author : Nigel Cameron
Publisher : Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers, 1860-1912 written by Nigel Cameron and published by Millerton, N.Y. : Aperture. This book was released on 1978 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprinted for the first time since its original publication twenty years ago, The Face of China is an evocative and candid collection of some of the first photographs made in that country. Along with descriptive captions, these images describe the daily Life and surroundings of an era now passed. The people are as seen through Western eyes, and the places are as traversed by foreigners. These early photographers were explorers and adventurers. They tugged huge cameras with heavy glass plates over rugged, unfamiliar terrain. Interspersed throughout the book are passages from significant texts and travelers' diaries, observations and opinions that echo and illuminate the images. For many Chinese, these photographers were the first white faces ever seen, and they carried with them previously undreamed of contraptions. For all this, there is an unguarded air to many of the portraits, and the street scenes have the candid took of today's street photographer.

The Face of China

Author : Ying Hwa Loh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Face of China written by Ying Hwa Loh and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The face of China 1860-1912

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The face of China 1860-1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

China Ink

Author : Judy Polumbaum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742573141
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book China Ink written by Judy Polumbaum and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding on a global scale. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Judy Polumbaum puts a human face on vital political and philosophical issues of freedom of expression and information that will shape China's future. The author's extended and frank conversations with journalists from a range of news outlets reveal diversity, passion, humor, and optimism that belie the stereotype of journalists as cogs in a rigidly controlled machine. Neither dissidents nor paragons but rather people working day in and day out within China's existing and evolving media, these talented and ambitious reporters open new windows to understanding Chinese journalism and intellectual life. Some of their tales could happen only in China; others will resonate with readers everywhere. As the first book to explore experiences and ideas of everyday journalists who are helping to shape their rapidly changing country, this unique and timely work will appeal to all those interested in China's dynamic society.

Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture

Author : Hung Wu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174031
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture written by Hung Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.

Face Reading in Chinese Medicine - E-Book

Author : Lillian Bridges
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702051926
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Face Reading in Chinese Medicine - E-Book written by Lillian Bridges and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new, full-colour edition of Face Reading in Chinese Medicine featuring over 200 colour photographs and practical instructions on how to conduct a face reading! Face reading has been part of Traditional Chinese Medicine for many centuries, and Professor Lillian Bridges is a popular academic and international lecturer on the subject who gained her fascinating knowledge through her family line of Master Face Readers in China. Based on an understanding of the shapes, markings and features of a face, practitioners can learn about the health and life of a patient relating to the principles of Chinese medicine. In addition to understanding how the body's internal functions - physical, psychological and emotional - can be seen on a face, practitioners can also learn how to evaluate Shen to understand non-verbal expressions. Technical and detailed information is presented in an upbeat, insightful and highly readable manner. This was the first book to focus on the deeper aspects of face reading and diagnosis, this edition includes ancient Taoist knowledge regarding the Original Face and Facial Jing and Qi markers which have previously only been taught through the oral tradition. Clear discussions demonstrate how this technique can be used as a supplement to other diagnostic tools in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Engaging, insightful, highly readable text is written by a well-known and experienced lecturer in the field. Extensive illustrations give you a clear understanding of theories and techniques. A focus on the deeper aspects of face reading and diagnosis helps readers become more conscious of their actions, reactions, and the health consequences of behavior.

The Three Faces of Chinese Power

Author : David M. Lampton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520254422
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Three Faces of Chinese Power written by David M. Lampton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “By learning more not only about China, but from China, America is more likely to sustain a constructive relationship with the rising China. Lampton insightfully provides us with the much-needed guidance.”–Zbigniew Brzezinski, Center for Strategic and International Studies "Professor Lampton's stimulating and well-researched book provides a comprehensive framework for intelligent thinking about the implications for the United States and the world of the rapid expansion of China's economic and military power. Serious students of world affairs and non-specialists concerned about the outlook for U.S.-China relations will all benefit from the historically-based insights and judgments that fill the pages of this thought-provoking volume."—J. Stapleton Roy, former United States ambassador to China

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face

Author : Christine Mollier
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824831691
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face written by Christine Mollier and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals dimensions of the interaction between Buddhism and Taoism in medieval China. This book demonstrates the competition and complementarity of the two great Chinese religions in their quest to address personal and collective fears of diverse ills, including sorcery, famine, and untimely death.

SAVING FACE IN CHINA

Author : Anne-Laure Monfret
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456890654
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book SAVING FACE IN CHINA written by Anne-Laure Monfret and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy to read and full of humor, this useful and entertaining guide will be invaluable to anyone working in China or with Chinese. It deals with an essential element of social codes in China: the importance of "saving face." The author brings up this sensitive subject by presenting many real life experiences and anecdotes of Chinese and foreigners (Europe and North America) interacting with each other. It provides an important tool in building good relations and efficient communication with the Chinese, offers helpful tips and provides a basic knowledge of the most important aspects of etiquette and customs in China. The advice offered is straightforward and easy to apply both in daily life and in business.

The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912

Author : Philadelphia Museum of Art
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780860920267
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Face of China as Seen by Photographers & Travelers 1860-1912 written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Changing Face of China

Author : John Gittings
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622370
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Face of China written by John Gittings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is China heading in the 21st century? Can its Communist Party survive or is it being challenged by growing inequality and unrest? Will the US and China cooperate or compete in a dangerous future? Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe? In this highly readable account, John Gittings provides the essential information to help answer these vital questions for the world. In the 60 years since Mao Zedong took the road to victory, China has undergone not one but two revolutions. The first swept away the old corrupt society and sought to build a 'spotless' new socialism behind closed doors; the second since Mao's death has focused on an economic agenda which accepts the goals of global capitalism. From Mao to the global market, Gittings charts this complex but epic tale and concludes with some hard questions for the future.

The China Choice

Author : Hugh White
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199684715
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The China Choice written by Hugh White and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should the West respond to the inexorable rise of China? Hugh White attempts to answer the key geopolitcal question of the 21st century - one which will have momentous consequences for us all.

We Have Been Harmonized

Author : Kai Strittmatter
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063027313
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book We Have Been Harmonized written by Kai Strittmatter and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2020 by the Washington Post As heard on NPR's Fresh Air, We Have Been Harmonized, by award-winning correspondent Kai Strittmatter, offers a groundbreaking look, based on decades of research, at how China created the most terrifying surveillance state in history. China’s new drive for repression is being underpinned by unprecedented advances in technology: facial and voice recognition, GPS tracking, supercomputer databases, intercepted cell phone conversations, the monitoring of app use, and millions of high-resolution security cameras make it nearly impossible for a Chinese citizen to hide anything from authorities. Commercial transactions, including food deliveries and online purchases, are fed into vast databases, along with everything from biometric information to social media activities to methods of birth control. Cameras (so advanced that they can locate a single person within a stadium crowd of 60,000) scan for faces and walking patterns to track each individual’s movement. In some schools, children’s facial expressions are monitored to make sure they are paying attention at the right times. In a new Social Credit System, each citizen is given a score for good behavior; for those who rate poorly, punishments include being banned from flying or taking high-speed trains, exclusion from certain jobs, and preventing their children from attending better schools. And it gets worse: advanced surveillance has led to the imprisonment of more than a million Chinese citizens in western China alone, many held in draconian “reeducation” camps. This digital totalitarianism has been made possible not only with the help of Chinese private tech companies, but the complicity of Western governments and corporations eager to gain access to China’s huge market. And while governments debate trade wars and tariffs, the Chinese Communist Party and its local partners are aggressively stepping up their efforts to export their surveillance technology abroad—including to the United States. We Have Been Harmonized is a terrifying portrait of life under unprecedented government surveillance—and a dire warning about what could happen anywhere under the pretense of national security. “Terrifying. … A warning call." —The Sunday Times (UK), a “Best Book of the Year so Far”

China 1945

Author : Richard Bernstein
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743217
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book China 1945 written by Richard Bernstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn’t have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year’s end, Chinese Communist soldiers were setting ambushes for American marines; official cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust, a pattern which would continue for a quarter century, with the devastating wars in Korea and Vietnam among the consequences. In China 1945, Richard Bernstein tells the incredible story of the sea change that took place during that year—brilliantly analyzing its far-reaching components and colorful characters, from diplomats John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service to Time journalist, Henry Luce; in addition to Mao and his intractable counterpart, Chiang Kai-shek, and the indispensable Zhou Enlai. A tour de force of narrative history, China 1945 examines American power coming face-to-face with a formidable Asian revolutionary movement, and challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern Sino-American relations.

The Face of China

Author : Emily Georgiana Kemp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Face of China written by Emily Georgiana Kemp and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: