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Guan-Yu the Hero

Author : Frankie KT Neo
Publisher : Partridge Singapore
ISBN 13 : 1482894246
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Guan-Yu the Hero written by Frankie KT Neo and published by Partridge Singapore. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a classic historical novel of enormous influence, is considered to be one of the four great Chinese classic novels. Written by Luo Guanzhong, a scholar who lived in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, it chronicled the efforts of the Wei, Shu, and Wu kingdoms to reunite the empire at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This fascinating period in Chinese history inspired many other authors, poets, artists, and playwrights, including Luo Guanzhong's novel, which is a work of enduring historical and literary impact and beauty. Guan Yu, the hero, has had a significant impact on Chinese culture and the arts. That influence has spread to Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and to all Chinese communities in the world. Guan Yu is well respected and worshiped in Taoism, Buddhism, Shintoism, and Caodaiism. He has also influenced modern entertainment and mass media as well, including television, video games, Manga, and more. The study and critical interpretation of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Guan Yu has captivated scholars, artists, and writers for centuries. Now, modern-day scholar and collector Frankie KT Neo offers the best of his research. Readers are invited to a detailed tour of his extensive collection of antiques and other artifacts commemorating Three Kingdoms and its hero, Guan Yu. His collection, called the Sanfen Tang Collection, currently features more than a thousand pieces, many of which are detailed within.

Guan Yu

Author : Barend J. ter Haar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192525433
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Guan Yu written by Barend J. ter Haar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan, of the same importance as the Buddhist bodhisattva Guanyin. This is a study of his cult, but also of the tremendous power of oral culture in a world where writing became increasingly important. In this study, we follow the rise of the deity through his earliest stage as a hungry ghost, his subsequent adoption by a prominent Buddhist monastery during the Tang (617-907) as its miraculous supporter, and his recruitment by Daoist ritual specialists during the Song dynasty (960-1276) as an exorcist general. He was subsequently known as a rain god, a protector against demons and barbarians, and, eventually, a moral paragon and almost messianic saviour. Throughout his divine life, the physical prowess of the deity, more specifically Lord Guan's ability to use violent action for doing good, remained an essential dimension of his image. Most research ascribes a decisive role in the rise of his cult to the literary traditions of the Three Kingdoms, best known from the famous novel by this name. This book argues that the cult arose from oral culture and spread first and foremost as an oral practice.

Guan Yu

Author : B. J. ter Haar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803648
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Guan Yu written by B. J. ter Haar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guan Yu was a minor general in the third century CE, but over time, he became known as one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord Guan or Emperor Guan. The work explores the cult of Guan Yu by examining the tremendous power of oral culture in creating the mythology of a deity

Guan Yu

Author : Dan Jolley
Publisher : Graphic Universe
ISBN 13 : 158013890X
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Guan Yu written by Dan Jolley and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of one of China's most famous epics, now put into graphic novel form.

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama

Author : Rudolf G. Wagner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520059542
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama written by Rudolf G. Wagner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An entirely original, illuminating work of critical scholarship. Wagner brings to bear a formidable familiarity with the Chinese practice of allusion, together with a good understanding of the issues confronting Mao, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese nation since 1949. An important contribution to the study of contemporary Chinese political history."--Cyril Birch, University of California, Berkeley "An entirely original, illuminating work of critical scholarship. Wagner brings to bear a formidable familiarity with the Chinese practice of allusion, together with a good understanding of the issues confronting Mao, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese nation since 1949. An important contribution to the study of contemporary Chinese political history."--Cyril Birch, University of California, Berkeley

Guan Yu

Author : Dan Jolley
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
ISBN 13 : 0761339949
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Guan Yu written by Dan Jolley and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of one of China's most famous epics, now put into graphic novel form.

China Tales and Stories

Author : Zhou Wenjing
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497334649
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book China Tales and Stories written by Zhou Wenjing and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Tales and Stories: GUAN YU: English Version The Guan Yu story is from the Mead-Hill collection, China Tales and Stories. Guan Yu is a great adventure, based on the life of one of the most beloved characters in Chinese history. By telling some of the life events of a real person, the story also presents some of China's exciting and interesting history. Guan Yu's bold tale was told and retold so many times that he became more than a famous hero - he became almost an archetype. In that way, Guan Yu even became part of China thinking. (For more about that idea, please see Mead-Hill's, China Thinking - An Introduction.) Guan Yu is published in multiple Mead-Hill editions. Each edition is illustrated by a different artist. Each artist uses a different style of Chinese illustration. Each illustrated set can be collected; the collections can be put together to build a special library of China tales and stories. The Guan Yu story is available in multiple Mead-Hill versions. www.mead-hill.com

Taoism and the Arts of China

Author : Stephen Little
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520227859
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Taoism and the Arts of China written by Stephen Little and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.

China Tales and Stories: GUAN YU

Author : Zhou Wenjing
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497334694
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book China Tales and Stories: GUAN YU written by Zhou Wenjing and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Tales and Stories: GUAN YU (Chinese Version) The Guan Yu story is from the Mead-Hill collection, China Tales and Stories. Guan Yu is a great adventure, based on the life of one of the most beloved characters in Chinese history. By telling some of the life events of a real person, the story also presents some of China's exciting and interesting history. Guan Yu's bold tale was told and retold so many times that he became more than a famous hero - he became almost an archetype. In that way, Guan Yu even became part of China thinking. (For more about that idea, please see Mead-Hill's, China Thinking - An Introduction.) Guan Yu is published in multiple Mead-Hill editions. Each edition is illustrated by a different artist. Each artist uses a different style of Chinese illustration. Each illustrated set can be collected; the collections can be put together to build a special library of China tales and stories. The Guan Yu story is available in multiple Mead-Hill versions. www.mead-hill.com

How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea

Author : Hyuk-chan Kwon
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004678328
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book How Three Kingdoms Became a National Novel of Korea written by Hyuk-chan Kwon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative exploration of the impact of a celebrated Chinese historical novel, the Sanguozhi yanyi (Three Kingdoms) on the popular culture of Korea since its dissemination in the sixteenth century. It elucidates not only the reception of Chinese fiction in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910), but also the fascinating ways in which this particular story lives on in modern Korea. The author specifically explores the dissemination, adaptations, and translations of the work to elucidate how Three Kingdoms has spoken to Korean readers. In short, this book shows how a quintessentially Chinese work equally developed into a Korean work.

The Story of Hua Guan Suo

Author : Gail Oman King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Hua Guan Suo written by Gail Oman King and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale about the fictional hero Guan Suo, son of Guan Yu. It is one of the fourteen works of hitherto-unknown popular literature that were unearthed from a Ming Dynasty tomb in Jiading county near Shanghai in 1967.

Sword and Moon

Author : Hu Liqun
Publisher : Sellene Chardou
ISBN 13 : 1304422682
Total Pages : 1490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Sword and Moon written by Hu Liqun and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think of me as a big Chinese nation. Since Pangu's creation, it has been passed down by three emperors and five emperors. Up to now, it has a history of more than 4,000 years, just like the endless cold water of the Yangtze River, which lasts forever

Making National Heroes

Author : Jacqueline Zhenru Lin
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888842757
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (888 download)

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Download or read book Making National Heroes written by Jacqueline Zhenru Lin and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making National Heroes is an ethnography of the making of national heroes in the commemoration of the Second World War in contemporary China. Foregrounding the lived experience of men and women who participate in commemorative activities, it theorises how masculinity and nationalism entangle in recollecting war memories. Taking the feminist line of inquiry, this anthropological study develops an approach to capture the centrality of making exemplars in the realisation of hegemonic masculinities. It adds a gender perspective to studies on exemplarist moral theory and theorises exemplary men’s cross-cultural significance in defining masculinities. Researchers in the fields of critical masculinity studies, anthropology, feminist methodology, China studies, and memory studies will be interested in this book. “I highly recommend this book about the grassroots redress movement that seeks to make national heroes of the largely forgotten KMT soldiers from pre-1949 times. By way of exploring this intriguing topic, Jacqueline Zhenru Lin gives a fascinating account of how nationalism and gender interact to produce exemplary masculinities in present-day China.”—Kam Louie, University of Hong Kong “Firmly grounded in anthropology, but with historical and digital analyses woven throughout, the author eloquently opens new avenues for reflection in Chinese masculinities research. This important contribution draws new attention to links between masculinity, nation, and memory in a media-saturated world.”—Jamie Coates, University of Sheffield

The Greatest of Heroes

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher : DW Three Kingdoms
ISBN 13 : 0980372402
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest of Heroes written by Daniel Webster and published by DW Three Kingdoms. This book was released on 2008 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historical novel based on China's most revered story, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms."-- Provided by publisher.

Knowing Words

Author : Lisa Raphals
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732137
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Words written by Lisa Raphals and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Greeks, the craft of Odysseus and the wisdom of Athena were examples of metis, an elusive cast of mind that ranged from wisdom and forethought to craft and cunning. Although it informed many aspects of Greek society, metis was all but absent from the language of Greek philosophy. Invoking Indigenous Chinese debates, Lisa Raphals here examines the role and significance of metic intelligence in classical Chinese philosophy, literature, history, and military strategy. Raphals first examines the range of meanings of the Chinese word zhi. As with the Greek metis, the uses of zhi include "wisdom, " "knowledge, " "intelligence, " "skill, " "cleverness, " and "cunning." Drawing on parallels between the two traditions, she argues that, in China as in Greece, metic intelligence tacitly informed many aspects of cultural and social life. In China, these included views of the nature of knowledge and language, standards of personal and social morality, and theories of military strategy and statecraft. After surveying representative texts from the Warring States period, Raphals considers the function of metic intelligence as the dominant quality of central characters in two novels from the Ming dynasty, the Romance of Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West. Finally, she compares the treatment of themes of heroism and recognition in the Chinese and Greek narrative traditions. Knowing Words will be welcomed by sinologists, classicists, and scholars of comparative philosophy and literature.

Beijing Opera Costumes

Author : Alexandra B. Bonds
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824829565
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Opera Costumes written by Alexandra B. Bonds and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the costumes of Beijing opera, this comprehensive volume provides both theory and analysis of the costumes and the method of selection for the roles as well as technical information on embroidery, patterns and construction.

Intertextuality in the English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi

Author : Wenqing Peng
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000412377
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Intertextuality in the English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi written by Wenqing Peng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Guo Yan Yi is one of the best-known classic Chinese novels in the English-speaking world. The earliest English translation came out in 1820, while a range of further translations have been produced over the past two hundred years. How do the different versions relate to each other? This volume examines the intertextual relations between the English translations of San Guo Yan Yi. Intertextuality refers to the interdependence of texts in relation to one another. Focusing on the perspectives of impact, quotation, parallels and transformation, the author compares a range of the translated versions, including two full-length translations and over twenty excerpted renderings and partial adaptations since the 1820s. She discovers that excerpted translations are selected to fit the translators’ own narrations, and are adapted to many genres, such as poetry, drama, fairytales, and textbooks. Moreover, the original text, translated texts and other related English works are interconnected in one large network, for which intertextuality offers an ideal basis for research. Students and scholars of Chinese literature and translation studies will benefit from this book.