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Author : Jianren Wu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870751257
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Chʻing written by Jianren Wu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580226X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ming written by and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writers. Hsiao-p’in, characterized by spontaneity and brevity, were a relatively informal variation on the established classical prose style in which all scholars were trained. Written primarily to amuse and entertain the reader, hsiao-p’in reflect the rise of individualism in the late Ming period and collectively provide a panorama of the colorful life of the age. Critics condemned the genre as escapist because of its focus on life’s sensual pleasures and triviality, and over the next two centuries many of these playful and often irreverent works were officially censored. Today, the essays provide valuable and rare accounts of the details over everyday life in Ming China as well as displays of wit and delightful turns of phrase.
Author : Jianren Wu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ching written by Jianren Wu and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shih S. Liu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622010154
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Vignettes from the Late Ch'ing written by Shih S. Liu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1976-01-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II. Kort opens with a summary of the debate over Hiroshima as it has evolved since 1945. He then provides a historical overview of thye events in question, beginning with the decision and program to build the atomic bomb. Detailing the sequence of events leading to Japan's surrender, he revisits the decisive battles of the Pacific War and the motivations of American and Japanese leaders. Finally, Kort examines ten key issues in the discussion of Hiroshima and guides readers to relevant primary source documents, scholarly books, and articles.
Author : Chloë F. Starr
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004156291
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Red-Light Novels of the Late Qing written by Chloë F. Starr and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chloe Starr's book offers a comprehensive literary reading of six nineteenth-century Chinese red-light novels and assesses how and why they alter our view of late Qing fiction and the authorial self.
Author : Christopher A. Reed
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841214
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Gutenberg in Shanghai written by Christopher A. Reed and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism that would have a far-reaching and irreversible influence on Chinese culture. In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technological transformation that included the drastic expansion of China's "Gutenberg revolution." This is a vital reevaluation of Chinese modernity that refutes views that China's technological development was slowed by culture or that Chinese modernity was mere cultural continuity.
Author : Thomas Buoye
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0892641568
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)
Download or read book China written by Thomas Buoye and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future combines original essays by leading experts with excerpts from primary sources, the latest scholarship, Chinese literature, and Western media reports to provide a comprehensive textbook on contemporary China. Completely updated, China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future is the latest in a series of classroom units on China from the Center of Chinese Studies at The University of Michigan. It is not only ideal for courses on contemporary China but also an excellent supplement for courses in area studies, international affairs and economics, and women's studies. Each section, in addition to essay and excerpts, also includes a bibliography of additional topical works as well as suggestions for complementary video and internet teaching resources.
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah A. Deacon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474661
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book War Imagery in Women's Textiles written by Deborah A. Deacon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the centuries, women have used textiles to express their ideas and political opinions, creating items of utility that also function as works of art. Beginning with medieval European embroideries and tapestries such as the Bayeux Tapestry, this book examines the ways in which women around the world have recorded the impact of war on their lives using traditional fabric art forms of knitting, sewing, quilting, embroidery, weaving, basketry and rug making. Works from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, the Middle and Near East, and Oceania are analyzed in terms of content and utility, and cultural and economic implications for the women who created them are discussed. Traditional women's work served to document the upheaval in their lives and supplemented their family income. By creating textiles that responded to the chaos of war, women developed new textile traditions, modified old traditions and created a vehicle to express their feelings.
Author : Pamela Kyle Crossley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224986
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Orphan Warriors written by Pamela Kyle Crossley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1600s, Manchu bannermen spearheaded the military force that conquered China and founded the Qing Empire, which endured until 1912. By the end of the Taiping War in 1864, however, the descendants of these conquering people were coming to terms with a loss of legal definition, an ever-steeper decline in living standards, and a sense of abandonment by the Qing court. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), Orphan Warriors is the first attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. The book reveals that the Manchus were not "sinicized," but that they were growing in consciousness of their separate ethnicity in response to changes in their own position and in Chinese attitudes toward them. Pamela Kyle Crossley's treatment of the Suwan Guwalgiya family of Hangzhou is hinged upon Jinliang (1878-1962), who was viewed at various times as a progressive reformer, a promising scholar, a bureaucratic hack, a traitor, and a relic. The author sees reflected in the ambiguities of his persona much of the plight of other Manchus as they were transformed from a conquering caste to an ethnic minority. Throughout Crossley explores the relationships between cultural decline and cultural survival, polity and identity, ethnicity and the disintegration of empires, all of which frame much of our understanding of the origins of the modern world.
Author : University of Auckland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Research Report written by University of Auckland and published by . This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L. Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502484
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History written by Susan L. Mann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of gender and sexuality in modern China? Susan Mann answers this by focusing on state policy, ideas about the physical body and notions of sexuality and difference in China's recent history, from medicine to the theater to the gay bars; from law to art and sports. More broadly, the book shows how changes in attitudes toward sex and gender in China during the twentieth century have cast a new light on the process of becoming modern, while simultaneously challenging the universalizing assumptions of Western modernity.
Author : H. Chiang
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113708250X
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Transgender China written by H. Chiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-23 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together experts with diverse disciplinary backgrounds in the China field, from cultural studies to history to musicology, to make a timely intervention—from the historical demise of enuchism to male cross-dressing shows in contemporary Taiwan—to inaugurate a subfield in Chinese transgender studies.
Author : Oscar 'Skip' Booth
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312682655
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Linthicum Vignettes: Tales of a Linthicum Historian written by Oscar 'Skip' Booth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local historian Oscar 'Skip' Booth spent his life living, working, advocating for and writing about his hometown of Linthicum, Maryland. His "Vignette" series provided some of the only written histories of the small, unincorporated Baltimore suburb. The historical local landmarks like Tauber's, Chuck's Drive-In, BWIi Airport, and Bruce's Hardware are carefully detailed here. Skip passed away after a short illness in 2014. His commitment to community lives on in the pages of this book.
Author : David E. Pollard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027216282
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Translation and Creation written by David E. Pollard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late Qing period, from the Opium War to the 1911 revolution, China absorbed the initial impact of Western arms, manufactures, science and culture, in that order. This volume of essays deals with the reception of Western literature, on the evidence of translations made. Having to overcome Chinese assumptions of cultural superiority, the perception that the West had a literature worth notice grew only gradually. It was not until the very end of the 19th century that a translation of a Western novel ("La dame aux camelias") achieved popular acclaim. But this opened the floodgates: in the first decade of the 20th century, more translated fiction was published than original fiction.The core essays in this collection deal with aspects of this influx according to division of territory. Some take key works (e.g. Stowe s "Uncle Tom s Cabin, " Byron s The Isles of Greece ), some sample genres (science fiction, detective fiction, fables, political novels), the common attention being to the adjustments made by translators to suit the prevailing aesthetic, cultural and social norms, and/or the current needs and preoccupations of the receiving public. A broad overview of translation activities is given in the introduction.To present the subject in its true guise, that of a major cultural shift, supporting papers are included to fill in the background and to describe some of the effects of this foreign invasion on native literature. A rounded picture emerges that will be intelligible to readers who have no specialized knowledge of China.
Author : Chun Mei
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004195939
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China written by Chun Mei and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.
Author : Merle Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521797108
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (971 download)
Download or read book An Intellectual History of Modern China written by Merle Goldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual history.
