Author : Xiaoneng Yang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN :
Yang also introduces the new discovery of a previously unidentified medium that is located in the gray zone between writing and decoration, which he calls "pictorial inscriptions." Further, Yang discusses the sources, contexts, and correlation among the three media."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nathan Sivin
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN :
A collection of essays which presents insights into the Chinese scientific tradition and its interaction with Western science. An introductory overview and biographical assessments of Shen Kua and Wang Hsi-shan are included in the discussion.
Author : Li Feng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2013-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521895529
A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.
Author : Paul W. Kroll
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9004438203
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.
Author : Ron Chew
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Through 71 intimate stories and portraits, elders in Seattle's Chinese American community share, for the first time, their personal memories, both sweet and bitter. In their own voices, they describe their early life in Chinese villages, their passage to America and Seattle's Chinatown. They share their experiences working in laundries, restaurants and canneries. They tell of the climate of racial discrimination, the era of World War II and the community that emerged after the war." "These stories are supplemented by an original historical essay on Seattle's Chinese American community by Doug Chin. The essay provides a window for understanding the struggles and achievements of Chinese Americans during the period from 1860 to the 1960s, the landmark first 100 years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Feng Li
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295804505
The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing systems. In the past three decades, the discovery of previously unknown texts dating to the third century BCE and earlier, as well as older versions of known texts, has revolutionized the study of early Chinese writing. The long-term continuity and stability of the Chinese written language allow for this detailed study of the role literacy played in early civilization. The contributors to Writing and Literacy in Early China inquire into modes of manuscript production, the purposes for which texts were produced, and the ways in which they were actually used. By carefully evaluating current evidence and offering groundbreaking new interpretations, the book illuminates the nature of literacy for scribes and readers.
Author : Timothy Hugh Barrett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1990-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520064416
The thirteen essays in this volume, all by experts in the field of Chinese studies, reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. Together they reveal the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrate how an understanding of traditional China can enrich and broaden our own contemporary worldview.
Author : Steven Shankman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791453131
The first edited volume in Sino-Hellenic studies, this book compares early Chinese and ancient Greek thought and culture.
Author : Philip J Ivanhoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135012369
Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe argues that the Analects is as relevant and important today as it has proven to be over the course of its more than 2000 year history, not only for the people who live in East Asian societies but for all human beings. The fact that this text has inspired so many talented people for so long, across a range of complex, creative, rich, and fascinating cultures offers a strong prima facie reason for thinking that the insights the Analects contains are not bound by either the particular time or cultural context in which the text took shape.
Author : Henry Rosemont
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business ethics
ISBN :
"Henry Rosemont raises hard questions, commonly overlooked, and does so with sensitivity, compassion, and broad understanding. The questions focus on modern China, but extend far beyond, to general problems of development, the moral foundations of civilization, and the nature of a just society. It is a challenging and thoughtful enquiry." --Noam Chomsky
