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Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Beijing Qingming Scroll and Its Significance for the Study of Chinese History written by Valerie Hansen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexandra Chang
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062951815
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Days of Distraction written by Alexandra Chang and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Startlingly original and deeply moving.... Chang here establishes herself as one of the most important of the new generation of American writers.” — George Saunders A Recommended Book From Buzzfeed * TIME * USA Today * NPR * Vanity Fair * The Washington Post * New York Magazine * O, the Oprah Magazine * Parade * Wired * Electric Literature * The Millions * San Antonio Express-News * Domino * Kirkus A wry, tender portrait of a young woman—finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely—from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why—she doesn’t know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. And when her longtime boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New York town for grad school, she sees an excuse to cut and run. Moving is supposed to be a grand gesture of her commitment to J and a way to reshape her sense of self. But in the process, she finds herself facing misgivings about her role in an interracial relationship. Captivated by the stories of her ancestors and other Asian Americans in history, she must confront a question at the core of her identity: What does it mean to exist in a society that does not notice or understand you? Equal parts tender and humorous, and told in spare but powerful prose, Days of Distraction is an offbeat coming-of-adulthood tale, a touching family story, and a razor-sharp appraisal of our times.
Author : Zhang Zeduan
Publisher : Shanghai Press
ISBN 13 : 9781602200036
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book Scenes along the River during the Qingming Festival written by Zhang Zeduan and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The painting Qingming Shang He Tu ("Scenes along the River during the Qingming Festival"),an over 16-foot panorama running from right to left, is considered to be one of the most brilliant works in Chinese art history. It is a masterpiece of realism, recording the pulse of a thriving, historical town and showing extraordinary detail.
Author : Ken Nicolson
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888028103
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Happy Valley written by Ken Nicolson and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong's oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the need for urgent action to conserve the built and natural heritage resources of this important cultural landscape. The author challenges the reader to reconsider the basic approach to heritage conservation adopted in Hong Kong where a false dichotomy persists between natural and built heritage conservation initiatives. The Hong Kong Cemetery provides an excellent example of a precious cultural landscape which is deteriorating because simplistic approaches to site management have failed to understand and protect the complex interrelationship between the natural (flora mid fauna - habitats) and built (monuments and Memorials) heritage resources. The first-three chapters introduce the cemetery garden concept as it evolved in early nineteenth century Europe, and was eventually established in Hong Kong by the British.-The second half of the book provides a self-guided tour of the cemetery highlighting its resources as well as explaining the main conservation problems and possible solutions to protect the cemetery.
Author : Alfred Naylor Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Search for Knowledge and Other Papers written by Alfred Naylor Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beijing Foreign Language Press
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9812296425
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Chinese Auspicious Culture written by Beijing Foreign Language Press and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Chinese Auspicious Culture, we examine how Chinese folk customs have evolved over the centuries to become a natural science that includes a combination of multidisciplinary thoughts such as philosophy, geography, zoology, architecture and psychology. All these are elements of Chinese auspicious culture, which has been practised by the Chinese for fortune, prosperity and longevity. In order to survive in a world beset with calamities, the ancient Chinese had developed a variety of taboos and customs that must be observed, and they remain the guidelines for the people today.
Author : Deborah A. Bekken
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645617X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book China written by Deborah A. Bekken and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cub. Traditionally believed to possess attributes of strength and protection, statues such as these once stood guard outside imperial buildings, temples, and wealthy homes in China. Now, centuries later, they guard this incredible permanent exhibition. China’s long history is one of the richest and most complex in the known world, and the Cyrus Tang Hall of China offers visitors a wonderful, comprehensive survey of it through some 350 artifacts on display, spanning from the Paleolithic period to present day. Now, with China: Visions through the Ages, anyone can experience the marvels of this exhibition through the book’s beautifully designed and detailed pages. Readers will gain deeper insight into The Field Museum’s important East Asian collections, the exhibition development process, and research on key aspects of China’s fascinating history. This companion book, edited by the exhibition’s own curatorial team, takes readers even deeper into the wonders of the Cyrus Tang Hall of China and enables them to study more closely the objects and themes featured in the show. Mirroring the exhibition’s layout of five galleries, the volume is divided into five sections. The first section focuses on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods; the second, the Bronze Age, the first dynasties, and early writing; the third, the imperial system and power; the fourth, religion and performance; and the fifth, interregional trade and the Silk Routes. Each section also includes highlights containing brief stories on objects or themes in the hall, such as the famous Lanting Xu rubbing. With chapters from a diverse set of international authors providing greater context and historical background, China: Visions through the Ages is a richly illustrated volume that allows visitors, curious readers, and China scholars alike a chance to have an enduring exchange with the objects featured in the exhibition and with their multifaceted histories.
Author : Michael Zee
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473542154
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)
Download or read book SymmetryBreakfast written by Michael Zee and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the 20 best food books of 2016' The Guardian SymmetryBreakfast is a beautiful cookbook for foodies and feeders who wonder why breakfast has to be out of a box. It's for people who love exploring diverse foods, those who get a kick out of hosting friends and family, and those who like making food look pretty on the plate. Through inspirational food and gorgeous photography, it explores what breakfast is and what it means to people around the world. From Hawaiian Loco Moco and Russian blinis, to Spanish churros and New York bagels, it surprises with the foreign and delights with the familiar. With over 90 delicious recipes and cocktails for perfectly plated breakfasts, more complex dishes for seasoned cooks and recipes with a great story behind them, SymmetryBreakfast will make you hungry, cheer you up and change the way you think about breakfast.
Author : Jennifer Pan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190087447
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Welfare for Autocrats written by Jennifer Pan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the costs of the Chinese regime's fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or "stability?" In Welfare for Autocrats, Jennifer Pan shows that China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. This distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. Pan traces how China's approach to enforcing order transformed at the turn of the 21st century and identifies a phenomenon she calls seepage whereby one policy--in this case, quelling dissent--alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. Using novel datasets and a variety of methodologies, Welfare for Autocrats challenges the view that concessions and repression are distinct strategies and departs from the assumption that all tools of repression were originally designed as such. Pan reaches the startling conclusion that China's preoccupation with order not only comes at great human cost but in the case of Dibao may well backfire.
Author : João Biehl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520939638
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Subjectivity written by João Biehl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today.
Author : Cheng Yishi
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1648970311
Total Pages : 1121 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Promise You Lifelong Happiness written by Cheng Yishi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Hospital, it was supposed to be a synonym for the divine and the noble. However, unacceptable events were occurring one after another.For the sake of her father, Lin Qingrou had challenged the "Devil City".However, as her revenge progressed, she suddenly realized that the culprit behind all of the crimes was her own father, who had supported her until now!In the face of this bloody and dilapidated result, what should she do to end this mess, or should she avoid suicide?At the crossroads of fate, there was no one left to help her this time ...
Author : Barnabas Tiburtius
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1645468453
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Self Empowering Wisdom written by Barnabas Tiburtius and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume in the series of books published under the title ‘Self Empowering Wisdom –Through Deeper Interpretations of Mythologies, Sciences and Spiritual Texts.’ It contains 85 short articles on various spiritual and existential themes aimed at the elevation of human consciousness to a higher level. The purpose of this book is to collate the wisdom, which is increasingly revealing itself in our lives, as the consciousness of Homo Sapiens is being peeled open like the opening of a bud into a fragrant flower or the metamorphosis of the pupae into a lovely butterfly. This is an ongoing journey of human consciousness ascending through the wisdom of the ancients which was enclosed in mythological narrations, then through the deep insight of spiritual masters more explicitly expressed in sacred texts and now, in the present age, through scientific discoveries unravelling the cosmic dimension and the nature of our existence. The content of each article is to bring to light the interconnectivity so that the esoteric and mystical dimensions of mythologies and scriptures are made easy for grasping through current knowledge in the area of sciences, psychology and arts. I am sure that this book will be an empowering tool for all seekers as to the true purpose of our creation and the multiverse in which we live.
Author : Guobin Xu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811081565
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Chinese Culture written by Guobin Xu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, it offers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to Chinese culture and addresses the fundamentals of Chinese cultural and social development. It notably considers Chinese traditional culture, medicine, arts and crafts, folk customs, rituals and etiquette, and is a key read for scholars and students in Chinese Culture, History and Language.
Author : David S. Nivison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505351
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Nivison Annals written by David S. Nivison and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his last essay just weeks before his death at the age of 91, David S. Nivison says, "Breaking into a formal system - such as a chronology - must be like breaking into a code. If you are successful, success will show right off." Since the late 1970's Nivison has focused his scholarship on breaking the code of Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang, Zhou) chronology by establishing an innovative methodology based on mourning periods, astronomical phenomenon, and numerical manipulations derived from them. Nivison is most readily known in the field for revising (and then revising again) the date of the Zhou conquest of Shang, and for his theory that Western Zhou kings employed two calendars (His so-called "Two yuan" theory), the second being set in effect upon the death of the new king's predecessor and counted from the completion of post-mourning rites for him (i.e., a "second 'first' year"). Nivison's enabling discovery that the Bamboo Annals (BA) had a historical basis was initially designed to make Wang Guowei's analysis of lunar phase terms (the so-called "Four quarter" theory that separated each month into four quarters) work for Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. In order to do so he had to assume that some inscriptions used a second yuan counted from completion of mourning. The king's death was the most important event late in a reign, so this implied that a king's reign-of-record was normally counted from the second yuan, omitting initial mourning years. It follows that when the unexpressed mourning years are forgotten (or edited out) but the dates of the beginning and end of the dynasty are still known, the remaining reigns-of-record cluster toward the beginning and end, and a reign in the middle is enlarged. Problems, ideas, and solutions like the one described above are found throughout this new collection of important works on chronology, astronomy, and historiography.
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Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Asian American Religious Cultures [2 volumes] written by Jonathan H. X. Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S. population—roughly 5 percent—Asian Americans are a widely diverse group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions. This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian American Christians.
Author : Horst Jürgen Helle
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004330607
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book China: Promise or Threat? written by Horst Jürgen Helle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In China: Promise or Threat? Helle compares the cultures of China and the West through both private and public spheres. For China, the private sphere of family life is well developed while behaviour in public relating to matters of government and the law is less reliable. In contrast, the West operates in reverse. The book’s twelve chapters investigate the causes and effects of threats to the environment, military confrontations, religious differences, fundamentals of cultural history, and the countries’ orientations for finding solutions to societal problems, all informed by the Confucian impulse to recapture the lost splendour of a past versus faith in progress toward a blessed future. The West has promoted individualism while China is locked in its kinship society.
Author : 张媛
Publisher : 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 : 756893005X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (689 download)
Download or read book 烹饪英语 written by 张媛 and published by 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本教材是四川旅遊學院大學英語課程――餐飲英語的教學成果體現。教材編寫基於該校的特色優質專業建設，圍繞餐飲相關文本進行聽、說、讀、寫、譯技能訓練，培養學生餐飲英語聽、說、讀、寫、譯能力。文本選擇包括餐飲歷史、飲食習俗、飲食價值觀、菜品製作、餐廳就餐等板塊，將知識傳授、技能訓練與價值觀引領協同進行。教材內容以中西對照方式進行，每個板塊分別選擇中西餐飲內容，鍛煉學生思辨能力、培養學生文化自覺、文化自信。單元設置包括引入(聽力)、課文(精讀)、補充閱讀(泛讀)、討論、翻譯、寫作等部分。 More
