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Book Synopsis The Jade Figurine by : Bill Pronzini
Download or read book The Jade Figurine written by Bill Pronzini and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle of cash to smuggle a jade carving of a bird out of Singapore—which doesn’t make the thieves or the authorities happy. When an old cohort is killed, Connell discovers that only by finding the bird can he avoid his own murder.
Download or read book THE JADE FIGURINE written by JACK FOXX and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wearing Culture written by Heather Orr and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields—from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians—to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern Mesoamerica, the Gulf Coast Olmec region (Olman), and the Maya lowlands, this book demonstrates that adornment was used as a tool for communicating status, social relationships, power, gender, sexuality, behavior, and political, ritual, and religious identities. Despite considerable formal and technological variation in clothing and ornamentation, the early indigenous cultures of these regions shared numerous practices, attitudes, and aesthetic interests. Contributors address technological development, manufacturing materials and methods, nonfabric ornamentation, symbolic dimensions, representational strategies, and clothing as evidence of interregional sociopolitical exchange. Focusing on an important period of cultural and artistic development through the lens of costuming and adornment, Wearing Culture will be of interest to scholars of pre-Hispanic and pre-Columbian studies.
Book Synopsis Recording State Rites in Words and Images by : Yi Song-mi
Download or read book Recording State Rites in Words and Images written by Yi Song-mi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated, interdisciplinary look at the ceremonies and protocols of the dynastic court of Joseon Korea Recording State Rites in Words and Images provides an engaging and in-depth exploration of the large corpus of court statutes compiled during the Joseon dynasty of Korea. The term uigwe, commonly translated as “royal protocols,” is the name given to the collection of nearly four thousand books that were commissioned and written to document the customs, rituals, rules, protocols, and ceremonial practices of the Joseon dynasty. In this generously illustrated book, Yi Song-mi introduces readers to the rich and varied documentary tradition embodied in the uigwe, sharing invaluable insights into time-honored court customs through text and images and analyzing changes in ritual practice over time. The first comprehensive study of its kind in English, Recording State Rites in Words and Images presents groundbreaking research that opens a window on Korean history and art and will serve as an inspiration to students, scholars, and anyone interested in topics such as dynastic customs, court artists, and bookmaking. Published in association with the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University
Book Synopsis The Olmec & Their Neighbors by : Matthew Williams Stirling
Download or read book The Olmec & Their Neighbors written by Matthew Williams Stirling and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1981 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one papers on the Olmec were written for this volume in tribute to Matthew W. Stirling, "pioneer archaeologist, ethnologist, and the discoverer of the Olmec civilization."
Download or read book Modeling Peace written by Jie Shi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent by his father, Emperor Jing (r. 157–141 BCE), to rule the Zhongshan kingdom near the northern frontier of the Western Han Empire, neighboring the nomadic Xiongnu confederation. Modeling Peace interprets Western Han royal burial as a political ideology by closely reading the architecture and funerary content of this site and situating it in the historical context of imperialization in Western Han China. Through a study of both the archaeological materials and related received and excavated texts, Jie Shi demonstrates that the Mancheng site was planned and designed as a unity of religious, gender, and intercultural concerns. The site was built under the supervision of the future occupants of the royal tomb, who used these burials to assert their political ideology based on Huang-Lao and Confucian thought: a good ruler is one who pacifies himself, his family, and his country. This book is the first scholarly monograph on an undisturbed and fully excavated early Chinese royal burial site.
Download or read book The Naked Gaze written by Carlos Rojas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of visuality in early modern and modern China. Its focus, however, is not so much on imagery per se but rather on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts. Of particular interest is how these discourses of vision have been used to articulate issues of gender and desire, and specifically processes of gendered subject formation. Through detailed readings of narrative works by eight authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—ranging from the canonical to the popular to the esoteric—the study identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively. At the same time, however, it argues that those historical periodizations themselves do not reflect a smooth, unidirectional temporal movement; rather, they are the result of a complex process of retrospection and anticipatory projection. The goal of this volume is to use a focus on tropes of visuality and gender to reflect on shifting understandings of the significance of Chineseness, modernity, and Chinese modernity.
Book Synopsis The Jin Yong Phenomenon by : Ann Huss
Download or read book The Jin Yong Phenomenon written by Ann Huss and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in twentieth-century Chinese literary history. His novels are regarded by readers and critics as "the common language of Chinese around the world" because of their international circulation and various adaptations (film, television serials, comic books, video games). Not only has the public affirmed the popularity and literary value of his novels, but the academic world has finally begun to notice his achievement as well. The significance of this book lies in its interpretation of Jin Yong's novels through the larger lens of twentieth-century Chinese literature. It considers the important theoretical issues arising from such terms as modernity, gender, nationalism, East/West conflict, and high literature versus low culture. The contributors of the articles are all eminent scholars, including famous exiled scholar, philosopher, and writer Liu Zaifu.
Book Synopsis The Serpent's Son by : S.A. Bouraleh
Download or read book The Serpent's Son written by S.A. Bouraleh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What starts with a sudden kidnapping reveals to be so much more: a prophetic call to adventure that had been foretold ages before the heroes of this story came around. In a world where the only thing extraordinary is the amount of unengaging ordinariness, below the seemingly mundane surface lies an incredible, lavish secret world that not many are privy to. From Whisperers of Death, to Dragons, to Kabuki Creatures and ghoulish Zombies, those aware of this hidden reality have fantastical journeys and adventurous trials laying in wait for them. Some seek to rescue a kidnapped friend and distribute justice while keeping malevolent forces at bay. Others plot to eliminate the existence of those pesky do-gooders, plans of conquesting combat and corrupting those that stand in their way. Others still just happened to be caught up in the cross-fire, and they are NOT happy about it. Whatever actions they take and consequences they face, at the end of the day, the sword shall always be sheathed.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1380 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (35 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1822 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Intergovernmental Coordination of Power Development and Environmental Protection Act by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Download or read book Intergovernmental Coordination of Power Development and Environmental Protection Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture by : Hung Wu
Download or read book Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture written by Hung Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Book Synopsis Chinese Works of Art by : American Art Association
Download or read book Chinese Works of Art written by American Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Terracotta Warriors by : Maurice Cotterell
Download or read book The Terracotta Warriors written by Maurice Cotterell and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first emperor of unified China, Ch'in Shi Huangdi, felt his death approaching, he decreed that he be entombed within a pyramid and that his tomb be protected by an army of terracotta figures. Cotterell decodes the emperor's farewell message concealed in the terracotta warriors--a message that reveals the secrets of heaven and hell.
Book Synopsis Jade of the Shang Dynasty by : Kako Crisci
Download or read book Jade of the Shang Dynasty written by Kako Crisci and published by Dynastic Jade Gallery. This book was released on with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From around 3000 to 1900BC, the late Neolithic period was a time of transition. In Mesopotamia, Egypt, and all around the Mediterranean basin, better living standards saw the rise of new cultures. In China Far East, along the Yellow River, settlements started to flourish and create their own unique identity. Jade was a precious and extremely difficult to carve mineral, mainly dedicated to the service of rituals or religious ceremonies. However, for a long time, the Shang dynasty jade design was regarded as a mere reproduction of the widely available bronzes the Shang were known for. In this book, the author revisits pre-conceived historical knowledge and, based on the research of well-respected scholar Hayashi Minao and expert historians Deng Shuping and Cai Qingliang, proposes that many of the jades pieces exhibited today in museums and private collections may have come from distinct earlier cultures and that bronze design may have been influenced by these devotional objects, not the reverse. Part one of this book, Jade from the early and middle Shang, presents the historical context in which cultures such as the Erlitou and the Erligang developed their unique style before being assimilated into the later Shang Dynasty. Part two, Jade from the late Shang, focuses on specific examples of ceremonial, weapons, and decorative jade to prove further that these pieces may actually have been anterior to the predominantly bronze ear and, by doing so, bring to light the exceptional craftsmanship of much older cultures. Eighty-four illustrations and photographs of unique jade artworks open a unique window of appreciation for these late neolithic times' sophisticated and little-known cultures.
Download or read book Dream Crusher written by J.C. Diem and published by Seize The Night Publishing Agency. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working for a vampire hadn’t been in Harmoni’s plans, but so far it was turning out to be better than she’d expected. She and her friends were gaining more skills and experience doing what they loved best. Ares was bonus eye candy for Harm, along with fitting in well with her crew. The handsome warrior has also proven he has talents he shouldn’t possess, given his harrowing past. Omen made a deal with his young employees and so far, he wasn’t living up to his end of their bargain. They needed him to find the creature who’d altered Ares, but it wasn’t going to be easy to force him to cooperate. Now that he knows they have combat skills, she’s worried he’ll try to turn them into his personal assassins. Harmoni and Ares have a close connection, being the only two of their kind in the entire world. Their bond will be strengthened when they discover a magical artifact. While it will bring them closer together, it could also endanger Harm. They will need to weigh their desire for each other against the threat it could pose to Harmoni.
Book Synopsis Echoes of Silk by : Peregrine Peverell
Download or read book Echoes of Silk written by Peregrine Peverell and published by Publifye AS. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Echoes of Silk"" weaves a captivating tapestry of history and magic, following three extraordinary women across time. Mei, a modern archaeologist, unearths an ancient jade amulet that thrusts her into vivid dreams of past lives. Suddenly connected to Ayla, a 7th-century Sogdian merchant's daughter, and Zarina, a 13th-century Venetian explorer, Mei embarks on a journey that challenges her understanding of history and her own identity. Set against the backdrop of the ancient Silk Road, the novel brings to life bustling markets, exotic spices, and the clash of cultures. As Mei races to unravel the amulet's secrets, she grapples with academic rivals and personal revelations. The story masterfully intertwines the women's timelines, showcasing their growth from cautious beginners to trailblazers in their respective eras. Through lyrical prose and meticulous historical detail, readers are transported across centuries, experiencing the wonder of discovery alongside the protagonists. This blend of historical fiction and magical realism explores themes of female empowerment, cultural exchange, and the enduring power of artifacts to connect us to our shared past. With its rich world-building and complex characters, ""Echoes of Silk"" offers a unique and intellectually stimulating journey through time, appealing to readers who relish historical puzzles and stories of women shaping history.
