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Author : Yuhuan Zhang
Publisher : Science Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Ancient Chinese Pagodas written by Yuhuan Zhang and published by Science Press (NY). This book was released on 1988 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ran Wei
Publisher : Cn Times Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781627740180
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Buildings written by Ran Wei and published by Cn Times Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buddhist Buildings is a heavily illustrated exploration of ancient Chinese Buddhist architecture, using the history of the spread of Buddhism throughout China as a foundation.
Author : Ssu-ch eng Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Chinese Architecture written by Ssu-ch eng Liang and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zhewen Luo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ancient Pagodas in China written by Zhewen Luo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ling Li
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819760127
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Study on the Concepts of Harmony Embodied in the Ancient Chinese Architecture written by Ling Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrienne Ward
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0838756964
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Pagodas in Play written by Adrienne Ward and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pagodas in Play analyzes the treatment of China in the imaginative and spectacular world of eighteenth-century Italian opera. It shows how Italians used perceptions of Chinese culture to address local and transnational developments, particularly Enlightenment and secular reform initiatives. Its focus on the texts and performance practices of opera, an entertainment form accessible to a wide public, reveals cultural operations and identities harder to detect in non-fictional reformist writings, the texts traditionally privileged to explain Italian mediations of Enlightenment ideas. In its close reading of nine libretti of the most salient Settecento operas treating China (opere serie and opere buffe by authors including Metastasio, Zeno, Goldoni and Lorenzi), Pagodas in Play differentiates Italian iterations of Chinese culture from French and English counterparts. It further challenges certain tenets of orientalism, showing how it operates when nationalist and/or colonialist projects are absent, and how orientalist practices in eighteenth-century Italy exhibit early on the complexity some scholars locate only in the twentieth century. Adrienne Ward teaches Italian literature and culture at the University of Virginia.
Author : Lin Donn
Publisher : Good Year Books
ISBN 13 : 9781596474079
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ancient China written by Lin Donn and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting lessons proven on the firing line, creative teacher Mr. Donn and his circus dog Maxie show how to immerse students in learning ancient history and keep them coming back for more. Sections feature well-structured plans supported by reproducibles, special lessons for the computer lab (with links and handouts), and additional lessons for substitute teachers. Topics in this unit include geography; the Shang and Zhou dynasties; Confucianism, Taoism, and legalism; the Qin dynasty; the Great Wall; the Han dynasty; daily life; the Silk Road; the T'ang dynasty; Buddhism; Chinese inventions; the Chinese calendar; ancient Chinese festivals; and a virtual visit to China. Grades 6-8. Revised Edition.
Author : Social Studies School Service
Publisher : Social Studies
ISBN 13 : 1560042559
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ancient China written by Social Studies School Service and published by Social Studies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kids learn about ancient civilizations with these enriching, hands-on projects and writing activities."--Page 4 of cover
Author : Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Liao Architecture written by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liao Architecture is a study of Buddhist halls, tombs, and pagodas built primarily through the patronage of Northeast Asian lords of Qidan nationality from the mid-tenth through the first decades of the twelfth century. During those years, North China was part of a larger Qidan empire known as the Liao dynasty. The Qidan, in the ninth century, were a seminomadic tribe living along China's northern and northeastern borders. Less than fifty years later, by the early years of the tenth century, they and other North Asia groups were confederated under the leadership of a Qidan chieftain named Abaoji. In 947 Abaoji's son established a Chinese-style dynasty named Liao. Liao territory stretched from the Gobi Desert, across Mongolia, into China's Northeast provinces (former Manchuria), and into Korea. It also included sixteen prefectures of North China.
Author : Ran Wei
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783211830093
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Buddhist Buildings written by Ran Wei and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the spread and integration of Buddhism with Confucianism, devotional buildings underwent an evolution, of which numerous pagodas, temples and grottos with statues of Buddha and other gods have survived. The Chinese Buddhist temples were organized around courtyards and verandas with a central pagoda surrounded by smaller houses for the monks. There are also two main categories of grotto temples cut into hillsides: Phil, based on a square plan, and the horseshoe-shaped Shiite temples.
Author : Daigorō Chihara
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105126
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia written by Daigorō Chihara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.
Author : Liao Yiwu
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307388379
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Corpse Walker written by Liao Yiwu and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called “The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.
Author : Eric Stratton
Publisher : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9788179360064
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Indian Stupa Architecture in East Asia written by Eric Stratton and published by Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: I. Introduction. II. Symbolic analysis of religious architecture. III. Indianization in Southeast Asia: lineage one: 1. Religious foundations. 2. Architecture. 3. Java. 4. Cambodia. 5. Champa. IV. Burma : lineage two: 1. Thai Era. 2. The lineages of stupa forms. V. The philosophical Indianization of Northeast Asia : the third lineage: 1. China. 2. Korea. 3. Japan. 4. Tibet. 5. Mongolia. 6. The Tibetan stupa. Bibliography."This work seeks to explore the development of East Asian architecture based upon its borrowings from the Indian stupa. While most scholars agree that some features of East Asian religious architecture have been strongly influenced by the symbolic architecture of the stupa, this study specifically seeks to identify three distinct architectural "lineages" originating from India to East Asia. These lineages were inspired by the work of Liang Ssu-Ch?eng who first identified several "families" of pagoda structures in Mainland China in the early part of the 20 century. However, here we extend our search to all the nations that have employed the stupa architecture outside India (and Nepal). These other lineages have been identified through careful analysis in archaeological, anthropological, historical, and religious studies."The first of these lineages extends through Indo-China and Indonesia. The second lineage is mainly found extending through Burma. Both lineages, one and two, meet together in later Thai architecture. The third lineage extends across Central Asia to the shores and nations of Far East Asia, such as Japan, Korea and China. As all the lineages are demonstrated to be imbued and propagated by the scared and ancient symbolism of India, each chapter examines the history of Indian thought as it was introduced into a region and then discusses the features of the most well known structures of that region." (jacket)
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870052
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Souls of China written by Ian Johnson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2017 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist: a revelatory portrait of religion in China today, its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. Following a century of violent antireligious campaigns, China is now awash with new temples, churches, and mosques as well as cults, sects, and politicians trying to harness religion for their own ends. Driving this explosion of faith is uncertainty over what it means to be Chinese, and how to live an ethical life in a country that discarded traditional morality a century ago and is still searching for new guideposts. Ian Johnson lived for extended periods with underground church members, rural Daoists, and Buddhist pilgrims. He has distilled these experiences into a cycle of festivals, births, deaths, detentions, and struggle a great awakening of faith that is shaping the soul of the world s newest superpower. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout).
Author : Sicheng Liang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Chinese Architecture written by Sicheng Liang and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Michael Lockwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947758445
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (584 download)
Download or read book The Unknown Buddha of Christianity written by Michael Lockwood and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231531001
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Early Medieval China written by Wendy Swartz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, and a pervasive divide between north and south. Deploying thematic categories, the editors sketch the period in a novel way for students and, by featuring many texts translated into English for the first time, recast the era for specialists. Thematic topics include regional definitions and tensions, governing mechanisms and social reality, ideas of self and other, relations with the unseen world, everyday life, and cultural concepts. Within each section, the editors and translators introduce the selected texts and provide critical commentary on their historical significance, along with suggestions for further reading and research.
