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Author : Justine M. Cordwell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110810247
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Visual Arts written by Justine M. Cordwell and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521247610
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Tun-huang Popular Narratives written by Victor H. Mair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-11-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.
Author : Victoria M. Siu
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611461294
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Gardens of a Chinese Emperor written by Victoria M. Siu and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Quing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r. 1661-1722) and expanded by his son, Yongzheng (r. 1722-1736) and brought to its greatest glory by his grandson, Qianlong (r. 1736-1796). A lover of literature and art, Qinglong sought an earthly reflection of his greatness in his Yuanming Yuan. For many years he designed and directed an elaborate program of garden arrangements. Representing two generations of painstaking research, this book follows the emperor as he ruled his empire from within his garden. In a landscape of lush plants, artificial mountains and lakes, and colorful buildings, he sought to represent his wealth and power to his diverse subjects and to the world at large. Having been looted and burned in the mid-nineteenth century by western forces, it now lies mostly in ruins, but it was the world’s most elaborate garden in the eighteenth century. The garden suggested a whole set of concepts—religious, philosophical, political, artistic, and popular—represented in landscape and architecture. Just as bonsai portrays a garden in miniature, the imperial Yuanming Yuan at the height of its splendor represented the Qing Empire in microcosm. Includes 62 color plates and 35 black & white photographs.
Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521466561
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10, Part 1 written by Clive Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives.
Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773589104
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Shadow Woman written by Grant Hayter-Menzies and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
Author : Edward H. Schafer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Golden Peaches of Samarkand written by Edward H. Schafer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the people of the T'ang Empire. This book examines the exotics imported into China during the T'ang Dynasty, and depicts their influence on Chinese life. This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a 'humanistic essay, however material its subject matter.'
Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521434379
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the history and present practice of theater in the world.
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Total Pages : 618 pages
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Author : LESLIE SPIER
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Total Pages : 744 pages
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Author : Laurence G. Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Chinese Religion in Western Languages: 1991-1995 written by Laurence G. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: Olm to Sh written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library Catalogue: Subject catalogue written by University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Stanton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521446549
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre written by Sarah Stanton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from The Cambridge guide to theatre_
Author : William Frederick Mayers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book The Chinese reader's manual written by William Frederick Mayers and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Sidney Gardner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies of Fourteen Non-American Specialists on the Far East ... written by Charles Sidney Gardner and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
