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Author : Florence Nightingale
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Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Notes on Hospitals written by Florence Nightingale and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aisaburō Akiyama
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Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Sights of Old Capital written by Aisaburō Akiyama and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804753593
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Between Heaven and Modernity written by Peter J. Carroll and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou’s streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou’s and greater China’s modernity.
Author : George Newenham Wright
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Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book China, in a series of views, displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits, of that ancient empire written by George Newenham Wright and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Göran Aijmer
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629961039
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (61 download)
Download or read book New Year Celebrations in Central China in Late Imperial Times written by Göran Aijmer and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keenly attuned to the play of symbols, this anthropological study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition: the celebration of lunar the New Year. It analyzes a multitude of folk practices within a holistic perspective on Chinese traditional society, crafting a new picture of a world in which the social rhetoric of gender, lineage continuity, and ancestry were challenged by ritual manifestations of iconic symbolism. Viewed through the lens of Chinese imagery, the traditional calendar reveals new stories about the social organization of time as an expression of existential concerns in late imperial Chinese social life.
Author : Aisaburō Akiyama
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Pagodas in Sunrise Land written by Aisaburō Akiyama and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749881
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Artisans in Early Imperial China written by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by individuals who contributed greatly to the foundations of early Chinese culture. With Artisans in Early Imperial China, Anthony Barbieri-Low combines historical, epigraphic, and archaeological analysis to refocus our gaze from the glittering objects and monuments of China onto the men and women who made them. Taking readers inside the private workshops, crowded marketplaces, and great palaces, temples, and tombs of early China, Barbieri-Low explores the lives and working conditions of artisans, meticulously documenting their role in early Chinese society and the economy. First published in 2007, winner of top prizes from the Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, College Art Association, and the International Convention of Asia Scholars, and now back in print, Artisans in Early Imperial China will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, as well as to scholars of comparative social history, labor history, and Asian art history.
Author : Hobart Caunter
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Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Oriental Annual, Or, Scenes in India written by Hobart Caunter and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Kodansha International
ISBN 13 : 4770029926
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Classic Bonsai of Japan written by and published by Kodansha International. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces a collection of the finest bonsai pieces to be found in Japan today. Over 180 plates of priceless specimens with informative commentary provide a definitive tour of the bonsai world. The notes for each piece offer insights into the balance, style, harmony and aesthetic as well as history of the bonsai. The Nippon Bonsai Association, Japan's pre-eminent voice of the bonsai tradition, introduces a collection of the finest bonsai pieces to be found in Japan today - some of them presented to a Western audience for the first time. Over 130 full-colour and 71
Author : Robert Burford
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Description of a View of Canton, the River Tigress, and Surrounding Country written by Robert Burford and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald M. Bernier
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636022
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Himalayan Architecture written by Ronald M. Bernier and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad treatment of architecture throughout the region of the Himalaya mountains is the first book of its kind. The author has based this study on many years of research in Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, and the Darjeeling area of northeast India, northern Pakistan, and Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest. These areas make up an artistic and, to some degree, a cultural unit. It is unique and definable for its design qualities as well as its use of materials. Dramatic and lofty structures rise as towering palaces and as temples dedicated to Hindu and Buddhist ideals. The impact of neighboring Tibet and India is often evident in the art, but other influences are found as well. The area has not been isolated, as some studies suggest, but was in fact always linked to the rest of Asia and to the West by means of the Silk Road, at least since the second century B.C. This study progresses from east to west, beginning in the foothills of India's Assam. It is richly illustrated with photographs, most of which are the author's or his wife's, and many of the photographs are published here for the first time. The archives of the Archaeological Survey of India and the Department of Archaeology of His Majesty's Government of Nepal are also used here.
Author : Werner Blaser
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Japanese Temples and Tea-houses written by Werner Blaser and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. C. Arlington
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ISBN 13 : 9781927077214
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (772 download)
Download or read book In Search of Old Peking written by L. C. Arlington and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Old Peking isportrait of one of the world's great cities in the 1930's and a lament for the end of a unique era. First published in 1935, this book was regarded as the standard guide to Peking. It remains astonishingly evocative today, for residents and visitors alike.
Author : H. Batterson Boger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Traditional Arts of Japan written by H. Batterson Boger and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses all the arts, crafts and ceremonies of Japan.
Author : Carolyn Wakeman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239903
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Assignment, Shanghai written by Carolyn Wakeman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's photographs from 1947 Shanghai express the brutality, confusion, and tumult of a country on the verge of major change, capturing the beggars, street executions, refugees, prostitutes, and ordinary people who made this city a spectacular locale for photo-journalists during the revolution. (History)
Author : Harley Harris Bartlett
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Japanese Botany During the Period of Wood-block Printing written by Harley Harris Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andre Alexander
Publisher : Serindia Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Temples of Lhasa written by Andre Alexander and published by Serindia Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The Temples of Lhasa is a comprehensive survey of historic Buddhist sites in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. The study is based on the Tibetan Heritage Fund's official five-year architectural conservation project in Tibet, during which the author and his team had unlimited access to the buildings studied. The documented sites span the entire known history of Tibetan Buddhist art and architecture from the 7th to the 21st centuries The book is divided into thirteen chapters, covering all the major and minor temples in historic Lhasa. These include some of Tibet's oldest and most revered sites, such as the Lhasa Tsukla-khang and Ramoche, as well as lesser-known but highly important sites such as the Jebumgang Lha-khang, Meru Dratsang and Meru Nyingpa. It is illustrated with numerous color plates taken over a period of roughly 15 years from the mind-1980s to today and is augmented with rare photographs and reproductions of Tibetan paintings. This book also provides detailed architectural drawings and maps made by the project. Each site has been completely surveyed, documented and analyzed. The history of each site has been written - often for the first time - based on source texts and survey results, as well as up-to-date technology such as carbon dating, dendrochronology, and satellite data. Tibetan source texts and oral accounts have also been used to reconstruct the original design of the sites. Matthew Akester has contributed translations of Tibetan source texts, including excerpts from the writings of the Fifth and Thirteenth Dalai Lamas. This documentation of Tibetan Buddhist temple buildings is the most detailed of its kind, and is the first professional study of some of Tibet's most significant religious buildings. The comparative analysis of Tibetan Buddhist architecture covers 13 centuries of architectural history in Tibet."--Publisher's website.
