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  • Huashan Rock Art

    Edición de Baohua Hu, Fubin Wan, Tong Li ...
    Nestled in the rugged but fascinating landscape of Guangxi, China, the Huashan rock art stands as a testament to the ancient culture and artistic expression of early human civilizations in southern China.Huashan Rock Art takes us to this remarkable collection of over 1,900 pictographs, etched and painted on the towering cliffs along the Zuojiang River, which spans a period of more than 2,000 years ... Leer más

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  • The Discovery of Chinese Literature (Wenxue)

    de Laiming Yu ...
    Traducido por Dan Qin ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This booktraces the origin and evolvement of two Chinese characters “wenxue”(literature) by using the methods of conceptual history and historical and cultural semantics, and by taking the evolution and changes of the concept of the these two characters and their interpretations in the west as a window, and re-examining the contemporary morphology of concept evolution in the historical context of ... Leer más

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    China's Search for a Common Language: Penguin Specials

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edición de Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Leer más

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  • Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society

    de Yuehping Yen ...
    Series series Anthropology of Asia
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  • An Anatomy of Chinese

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    de Perry Link ...
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  • Chinese History and Culture

    Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century

    de Ying-shih Yü ...
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    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Leer más

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  • Women in Early Imperial China

    de Bret Hinsch ...
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    After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the ... Leer más

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  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Leer más

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  • The Crafting of the 10,000 Things

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    The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most ... Leer más

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    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 ... Leer más

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