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Author : Wolfram Eberhard
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Local Cultures of South and East China written by Wolfram Eberhard and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Birrell
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801861833
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Chinese Mythology written by Anne Birrell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-04-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.
Author : Daniel L. Overmyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521538237
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Religion in China Today written by Daniel L. Overmyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512806323
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Family in History written by Charles E. Rosenberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that goes beyond a mere examination of the role of the family in structuring sexual relationships, kinship relations, and child rearing practices. Here are historical examples of the family as a source of labor and capital accumulation, as a mechanism for the transmission of property, and as a means for the imposition of social control.
Author : Glen Dudbridge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004147705
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Books, Tales and Vernacular Culture written by Glen Dudbridge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen research papers on traditional China. They form three groups, each mixing discursive pieces with more technical research: books and publishing; medieval narrative and culture; vernacular culture. Fundamentally these studies develop a more open way of reading China's traditional narrative literature.
Author : Andrew H. Plaks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400856469
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Chinese Narrative written by Andrew H. Plaks and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David Holm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111383091
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia written by David Holm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Stockard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804720144
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Daughters of the Canton Delta written by Janice Stockard and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes an extraordinary traditional marriage system, 'delayed transfer marriage', that is virtually unknown in the ethnographic literature on Chinese Society, though it was widely established in the Canton Delta. In striking contrast to the orthodox Confucian form of marriage, brides in delayed transfer marriages were required to separate from their husband shortly after marriage and return to live with their parents for at least three more years. During this customary period of separation, brides were expected to visit their husband on several festival occasions each year. Idelly, brides became pregnant about three years after marriage and then settled in the husband's home. The area in which delayed transfer marriage was the customary and dominant form of marriage encompassed the rich silk-producing district of the Canton Delta as well as adjacent rice-producing areas. The book analyzes the effect of economic change on the practice of delayed transfer marriage in the silk district.
Author : Tsung-i Jao
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004522573
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Space, Time, Myth, and Morals: A Selection of Jao Tsung-i’s Studies on Cosmological Thought in Early China and Beyond written by Tsung-i Jao and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles assembled in this volume present an important selection of Professor Jao Tsung-i’s research in the field of the early Chinese intellectual tradition, especially as it concerns the human condition. Whether his focus is on myth, religion, philosophy or morals, Jao consistently aims to describe how the series of developments broadly associated with the Axial Age unfolded in China. He is particularly interested in showing how early China had developed its own notion of transcendence as well as a system of prediction and morals that enabled man to act autonomously, without recourse to divine providence.
Author : Scott Pearce
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173558
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200–600 written by Scott Pearce and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the fall of the Han in 220 and the reunification of the Chinese realm in the late sixth century receives short shrift in most accounts of Chinese history. The period is usually characterized as one of disorder and dislocation, ethnic strife, and bloody court struggles. Its lone achievement, according to many accounts, is the introduction of Buddhism. In the eight essays of Culture and Power in the Reconstitution of the Chinese Realm, 200-600, the authors seek to chart the actual changes occurring in this period of disunion, and to show its relationship to what preceded and followed it. This exploration of a neglected period in Chinese history addresses such diverse subjects as the era's economy, Daoism, Buddhist art, civil service examinations, forays into literary theory, and responses to its own history.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969568
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969975
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book A History of Daoism and the Yao People of South China written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lihui Yang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195332636
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Chinese Mythology written by Lihui Yang and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.
Author : Liwei Jiao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351684078
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture written by Liwei Jiao and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Language and Culture represents the first English anthology that delves into the fascinating and thought-provoking relationship between the Chinese language and culture, exploring various macro and micro perspectives. Chinese culture boasts a history of ten thousand years, while the Chinese language’s recorded history spans at least three thousand years, dating back to the Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (OBI). This handbook is comprised of 17 chapters from 18 scholars including Victor Mair and William S-Y. Wang. Many chapters approach their respective topics with a comprehensive and historical outlook. Certain extensive subjects are addressed in multiple chapters, complementing one another. These topics include: The languages and peoples of China, and the southern Chinese dialects Mandarin’s evolution into a national language and its related writing reforms Language as a propaganda tool in the Cultural Revolution and in contemporary China Chinese idioms and colloquialisms This book offers an approachable exploration of the subject, appealing to both specialists and enthusiasts of the Chinese language and culture.
Author : Judith A. Berling
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159752235X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture written by Judith A. Berling and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book on Chinese religion and culture by Judith Berling has been welcomed by longtime scholars of the same as a vital and fresh perspective. 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' is a story of faith meeting faith that will enrich wisdom-seekers as well as provide a tool to introduce students to cross-cultural and interfaith issues. Berling tells how she became immersed in the issues of religious diversity, of her experiences living with religious neighbors, and of discovering how different from her own Midwestern Protestant milieu is the world of Chinese religion and culture. In China, one can be Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist, and animist at a single moment. Exploring how this inclusivity can be achieved infuses 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture'. The multiplicity of deities, the notion of Truth as having many embodiments, even patterns of hospitality - Berling examines how these key aspects of Chinese culture shape and inform religion in China. Through the tales it tells, 'A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture' offers readers insights that no textbook can match, bringing home what religious diversity means in surprising and illuminating ways.
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602735X
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2 written by Mircea Eliade and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity—all are encompassed in this volume.
Author : A. Kleinman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401749868
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture written by A. Kleinman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g. , psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of normal and ab normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at least a few important aspects of that subject.
