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The Career Of Yang Kuei Fei
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Book Synopsis Critical Readings on Tang China by : Paul W. Kroll
Download or read book Critical Readings on Tang China written by Paul W. Kroll and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.
Book Synopsis The Yang Kuei-fei Legend in Japanese Literature by : Masako Nakagawa Graham
Download or read book The Yang Kuei-fei Legend in Japanese Literature written by Masako Nakagawa Graham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the evolution of the Yang Kuei-fei legend, which has been told and retold in works of Japanese verse and prose.
Book Synopsis Sexual Life in Ancient China by : R.H. van Gulik
Download or read book Sexual Life in Ancient China written by R.H. van Gulik and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 Robert van Gulik published his pioneering overview of Sexual Life in Ancient China. This edition of the work is preceded by an elaborate introduction by Paul Rakita Goldin assessing the value of Van Gulik’s volume, the subject itself, and its author. The introduction is followed by an extensive and up-to-date bibliography on the subject, which guides the modern reader in the literature on the field which appeared after the publication of Van Gulik's volume. One of the criticisms in 1961 regarded the Latin translations of passages deemed too explicit by Van Gulik. In this 2002 edition all Latin has for the first time been translated into unambiguous English, thus making the full text widely available to an academic audience.
Book Synopsis Yang Kuei-fei by : Shu-chʻiung Huang Wu
Download or read book Yang Kuei-fei written by Shu-chʻiung Huang Wu and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poetry and Career of Li Po by : Arthur Waley
Download or read book The Poetry and Career of Li Po written by Arthur Waley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When this was originally published in 1950 this was the fullest biography of one of China’s greatest poets that had ever appeared in any language. It tells the story of the poet’s life against the background of contemporary history and, in doing so, gives a brilliant picture of Chinese life in the eighth century A.D. – during a period of the Tang Dynasty, fertile in great poets, such as Wang Wei, Tu Fu and Mêng Haojan.
Book Synopsis Sui and T'ang China, 589-906 by : John King Fairbank
Download or read book Sui and T'ang China, 589-906 written by John King Fairbank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes seven and eight of The Cambridge History of China are devoted to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), the only segment of later imperial history during which all of China proper was ruled by a native, or Han, dynasty. These volumes provide the largest and most detailed account of the Ming period in any language. Summarising all modern research, volume eight offers detailed studies of governmental structure, the fiscal and legal systems, international relations, social and economic history, transportation networks, and the history of ideas and religion, incorporating original research on subjects never before described in detail. Although it is written by specialists, this Cambridge History intends to explain and describe the Ming dynasty to general readers who do not have a specialised knowledge of Chinese history, as well as scholars and students. This volume can be utilised as a reference work, or read continuously.
Book Synopsis Power and Politics in Tenth-century China by :
Download or read book Power and Politics in Tenth-century China written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Narrative Poetry by : Dore Jesse Levy
Download or read book Chinese Narrative Poetry written by Dore Jesse Levy and published by Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet paradoxically, their narrative qualities have been little recognized or explored in either traditional Chinese or modern Western scholarship. The reason for this neglect is that Western literary traditions acknowledge their origins in epic poetry and thus take narrative for granted, but the Chinese tradition is fundametally based on lyric and does not admit of a separate category for narrative poetry. Drawing on both classical Chinese critical works and the most recent Western contributions to the theory of narrative, Levy shows how narrative elements developed out of the lyrical conventions of shih. In doing so, she accomplishes a double purpose, guiding the modern reader to an understanding of the nature of narrative in Chinese poetry and shedding light on the ways in which Chinese poets adapted the devises of lyric to the needs of a completely different expressive mode. Students of Chinese literature will welcome this pathbreaking study, but Chinese Narrative Poetry will interest other scholars as well because it addresses questions of crucial importance for literary theory and comparative literature, particularly the central issue of the applicability of Western critical concepts to non-Western literature and culture.
Book Synopsis Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire by : Lara C.W. Blanchard
Download or read book Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire written by Lara C.W. Blanchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the winner of the 2020 Joseph Levenson Pre-1900 Book Prize, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire, Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire; Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist’s or patron’s interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.
Book Synopsis The Columbia History of Chinese Literature by : Victor H. Mair
Download or read book The Columbia History of Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 1369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original chapters by leading specialists cover all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, with a special focus on such subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Östasiatiska museet and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The China Journal of Science & Arts by :
Download or read book The China Journal of Science & Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China Journal of Science and Arts by :
Download or read book China Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China Throughout the Ages by : Léon Wieger
Download or read book China Throughout the Ages written by Léon Wieger and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis China, Yesterday and To-day by : Edward Thomas Williams
Download or read book China, Yesterday and To-day written by Edward Thomas Williams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism by : Peter N. Gregory
Download or read book Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism written by Peter N. Gregory and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Tsung-mi is part of the Studies in East Asian Buddhism series. Author Peter Gregory makes extensive use of Japanese secondary sources, which complements his work on the complex Chinese materials that form the basis of the study.
Book Synopsis China's Courts and Concubines by : Bernard Llewellyn
Download or read book China's Courts and Concubines written by Bernard Llewellyn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people’s memories. Thus you will read of magicians and immortals; of dragons and pills of eternal life; of generals and eunuchs; of emperors and poets; of palaces and concubines. The author has made nothing up; if there are liars along the route, they were there before he came along. The study of stories and ballads from deep in a country’s past can tell a reader much about the present-day culture of a society; this is surely true with these tales from China’s history.
