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Vols. 1-4, 1926/27-1929/30, include proceedings and lists of members of the society.
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Natural history
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Vols. 1-4, 1926/27-1929/30, include proceedings and lists of members of the society.
Author : Carla Nappi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
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ISBN : 0674054350
This is the story of a Chinese doctor, his book, and the creatures that danced within its pages. The Monkey and the Inkpot introduces natural history in sixteenth-century China through the iconic Bencao gangmu (Systematic materia medica) of Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593). In the first book-length study in English of Li's text, Carla Nappi reveals a "cabinet of curiosities" of gems, beasts, and oddities whose author was devoted to using natural history to guide the application of natural and artificial objects as medical drugs.
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Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Agriculture
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Publisher : American Oriental Society
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 2021-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1948488973
The Sōushen houji 搜神後記 (Latter Notes on Collected Spirit Phenomena), attributed to the celebrated poet Tao Qian 陶潛 (365-427), is a compilation of anecdotes and stories known as zhiguai 志怪 ('records of the anomalous') that document strange and unusual phenomena the author observed in his lifetime. Intended to serve as a sequel to Gān Bǎo's 干寳 (d. 336) Sōushenji 搜神記 (Collected Spirit Phenomena), the original text was lost but was reconstructed in the late Ming dynasty. This volume presents an annotated translation of the entire Ming version of the Sōushen houji as well as of an additional set of surviving stories that were identified and restored to the text by the modern scholar Lǐ Jianguo 李劍國. The book also includes a history of the Sōushen houji text, an examination of its linguistic style and characteristics, a discussion of the historical nature of its contents and how it fits into the zhiguai genre, providing a window onto medieval Chinese society and culture, and a brief overview of recent zhiguai scholarship to guide readers who hope to continue their exploration of the genre.
Author : Library of the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Page : 438 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Science
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Author : Willliam J. Haas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1315481278
A biography of an important but little-known American scientist that evokes the issues of religious and secular beliefs and the evolution of Chinese scientific and educational institutions during the early 1900s.
Author : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2211 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315493993
A bibliographical guide to the works in American libraries concerning the Christian missionary experience in China.
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Page : 560 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1925
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Page : 834 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : China
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Author : Lisa Claypool
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 1040132057
What is design in modern China? And what are the ecological stakes in understanding how modern Chinese design encourages us to see? This book takes up these questions though exploration into the work of three famous designers who were actively engaged with the natural sciences in early twentieth-century Shanghai, Canton, and Beijing. The designed objects asking for heightened vision into interior and exterior worlds make their way across temporal and cultural boundaries. This book, then, is also about that movement, and the emotions of the eye which support it. Porcelain dishes, textiles, magazine covers, and paintings moved the people who lived with them a century ago in China to an awareness of their edges, rims, borders as boundary lines, and to see things through those in-between forms from a new point of view; to share pleasure in colour and pattern, perhaps, but also to connect to other deeply transformative feelings at the boundary. The book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, art history, and Chinese studies.