Author : Zhang Zeduan
Publisher : Shanghai Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,26 MB
Release : 2010-10-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781602200036
The painting Qingming Shang He Tu ("Scenes along the River during the Qingming Festival"),an over 16-foot panorama running from right to left, is considered to be one of the most brilliant works in Chinese art history. It is a masterpiece of realism, recording the pulse of a thriving, historical town and showing extraordinary detail.
Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781526406965
In the 1100s China was arguably the richest country in the world, having experienced several centuries of sustained economic growth. A key factor in this prosperity was a commercial revolution that greatly expanded trade across the region.
Author : Patricia Frick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004384383
Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware, edited by Patricia Frick and Annette Kieser, focuses on various aspects of East Asian lacquer art ranging from the 2nd century BC to the 17th century. Recent excavations in China, the distribution of lacquer objects throughout the Eurasian region, the significance of lacquer ware in everyday life, technical aspects of lacquer production in Korea, and the appreciation of Japanese lacquer in Asia and Europe are analysed in six chapters by international experts in the field: Patricia Frick; Annette Kieser; Nanhee Lee; Yan Liu; Margarete Prüch and Anton Schweizer. Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware is published in association with the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology.
Author : Xiaoyuan Jiang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811223475
Chinese Astrology and Astronomy: An Outside History discusses the ancient Chinese's needs and reasons for engaging in astronomy. It presents the study on ancient astronomical phenomena and manuals, and analyzes the cosmological views of ancient Chinese. It also expounds the nature and functions of astronomy to ancient Chinese, as well as its difference from the western modern astronomy of today, exploring on new issues in a bold but logical fashion, and offering arguments that challenge even the views of authority.This book stands as a translated version, by Chen Wenan, an associate professor of Ningbo University, of the original Chinese publication Tianxue Waishi by Jiang Xiaoyuan.
Author : He Bian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0691179042
The last pharmacopeia -- Converting tribute -- The nature of drugs -- Virtuosity and orthodoxy -- The marketplace and the shop -- Eating exotica.
Author : Alfreda Murck
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674007826
During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions--some transparent, others deliberately concealed.
Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108479871
This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
Author : Vivienne Lo
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2018
Category : MEDICAL
ISBN : 9789004362161
A remarkable journey through Chinese medical illustrations from the earliest illustrated manuscripts to advertising and comic books. Senior and emerging scholars from Asia, Europe and the Americas rethink the history of medicine, its epistemologies and materialities, challenging Eurocentric narratives.
Author : Roger V. Des Forges
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 25,36 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004421068
Roger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004423621
The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynasties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete arguments defended or contested in areas ranging from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system. By examining uses of evidence, habits of inference, and the criteria by which some arguments were judged to be more persuasive than others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for a history of argumentative practice in one of the richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of rationality.
