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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jianping gao”
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  • The Invisible Body in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting

    by Jianping Gao ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores Chinese calligraphy and painting from an aesthetic perspective, using modern visual theory to analyze the theoretical implications of the relationship between ancient Chinese literati painting and calligraphy, in contrast to Western aesthetic traditions.It highlights the action-oriented nature of Chinese calligraphy and painting, demonstrating that these art forms should be ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Aesthetics and Art

    Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective

    by Jianping Gao ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of aesthetics throughout history, as well as the changes and improvements in Chinese aesthetics in the context of globalization. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Economic Performance in China

    Overall Competitiveness of China's Provincial Economy (2012)

    Edited by Li Jianping, Li Minrong, Gao Yanjing, Li Jianjian, Huang Maoxing, Su Hongwen ...
    Series series China Competitive Performance and Analysis
    Winner of the prestigious 'Biggest Impact Awards' from China's Excellent Book Series Award. Annual Report on Overall Competitiveness of China's Provincial Economy (2012) offers the very latest research results and analysis on China's vital provincial economies. This includes the 31 economies on the mainland, plus the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, and ... Read more

    $169.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jet Transport Technique

    Theory and Application

    by Jianping Yuan, Jianlin Chen, Chen Gao, Chuan Ma, Josep J. Masdemont, Gerard Gómez ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on the Jet Transport (JT) technique and gives a systematic introduction on its theory development, algorithm implementation, and in particular, the applications in the field of astronautics including uncertainty propagation, filtering, as well as guidance and control. It features on the combination of mathematical theory and engineering applications, making the technique to be ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

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  • On Ethics and History

    Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng

    by Philip J. Ivanhoe ...
    Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's essays and letters should challenge our current understanding of this Qing dynasty philosopher. On ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • A Story of Ruins

    Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

    by Wu Hung ...
    This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to ‘ruin culture’ in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions ... Read more

    $66.49 CAD

  • Life and Death

    Art and the Body in Contemporary China

    by Silvia Fok ...
    Fok focuses on the ways in which these artists use their own bodies, animals’ bodies and other corporeal substances to represent life and death in performance art, installations, and photography. Over the course of her investigations, corporeality emerges as a common means of highlighting the social and cultural issues that surround these life and death. By assessing its effectiveness in the ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Imperial Illusions

    Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces

    by Kristina Kleutghen ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative Books
    In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were ... Read more

    $72.79 CAD

  • A Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture

    by Hui Zou ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian and French Jesuits, the garden described in this book was a wonderland of multistoried buildings, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lyrical in Epic Time

    Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways.Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century B.C.E

    A Comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric

    by Xing Lu ...
    Series series Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
    A thorough exploration of the Chinese rhetorical traditionXing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. She focuses on the works of five schools of thought and ten well-known Chinese ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • The Craft of Oblivion

    Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

    by Albert Galvany ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD