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Author : Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Research Department written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil K. Y. Ho
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199282714
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Understanding Canton written by Virgil K. Y. Ho and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.
Author : Igor de Rachewiltz
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447033398
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book In the Service of the Khan written by Igor de Rachewiltz and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library). written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Saiyed Jafar Reza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180698323
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (983 download)
Download or read book The Essence of Islam written by Saiyed Jafar Reza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas T. Allsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521602709
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia written by Thomas T. Allsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirteenth century, the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that functioned as a cultural 'clearing house' for the Old World. Under Mongol auspices various commodities, ideologies and technologies were disseminated across Eurasia. The focus of this path-breaking study is the extensive exchanges between Iran and China. The Mongol rulers of these two ancient civilizations 'shared' the cultural resources of their realms with one another. The result was a lively traffic in specialist personnel and scholarly literature between East and West. These exchanges ranged from cartography to printing, from agriculture to astronomy. The book concludes by asking why the Mongols made such heavy use of sedentary scholars and specialists in the elaboration of their court culture and why they initiated so many exchanges across Eurasia. This is a work of great erudition which crosses new scholarly boundaries in its analysis of communication and culture in the Mongol empire.
Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986272
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Knowledge in Translation written by Patrick Manning and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of knowledge—cartography, health and medicine, material construction, astronomy—and a wide geographical range, from Eurasia to Africa and the Americas. Contributors literate in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Minnan, Ottoman, and Persian explore the history of science in the context of world and global history, investigating global patterns and implications in a multilingual and increasingly interconnected world. Chapters reveal cosmopolitan networks of shared practice and knowledge about the natural world from 1000 to 1800 CE, emphasizing both evolving scientific exchange and the emergence of innovative science. By unraveling the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, Knowledge in Translation highlights key moments of transmission, insight, and critical interpretation across linguistic and faith communities.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521058025
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1962 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : East-West Center. Library
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Select List of Recent Publications written by East-West Center. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Overdijkink
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482865
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Lin Tsê-hsü written by Overdijkink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph S. M. Lau
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513869
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Chinese Stories from Taiwan, 1960-1970 written by Joseph S. M. Lau and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1976-06-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Stories From Taiwan, 1960-1970
Author : Tōyō Bunko (Japan). Kenkyūbu
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Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko (the Oriental Library) written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan). Kenkyūbu and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812223
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Silk Roads written by Vadime Elisseeff and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the cultural, or intercultural, exchange that took place in the Silk Roads and the role this has played in the shaping of cultures and civilizations.
Author : George Sarton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Isis written by George Sarton and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brief table of contents of vols. I-XX" in v. 21, p. [502]-618.
Author : Nathan Sivin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387789561
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Granting the Seasons written by Nathan Sivin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
