Author : S. Wells Williams
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 1681 pages
File Size : 30,91 MB
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004217819
This classic survey (in its much revised edition of 1883) of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants remains a valuable source of reference to scholars of the nineteenth century.
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136217312
Published in the year 2006, Middle Kingdom 2 Vol Set is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science and Anthropology.
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1317949889
First published in 2009. This work by S. Wells Williams is a complete look at the Chinese Empire during the mid-nineteenth century. Subjects include the divisions of the Empire, geographical descriptions, religion and art, literature, the second war between Great Britain and China and social life among the Chinese. This is Volume one of two.
Author : David Wingrove
Publisher : Atlantic Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : China
ISBN : 9781848877306
The year is 2196. After more than a century of peace and stability, Chung Kuo - the great Empire of Ice controlled by seven ruling kings, the T'ang - has finally been shaken. Lwo Kang, Minister of the Edict - the legal instrument that prevents change - has been assassinated; blown away while in the imperial solarium.
Author : John Romer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1466849592
"Another solid work of history from an author and historian who truly grasps the mysteries of ancient Egypt." - Kirkus Reviews Drawing on a lifetime of research, John Romer chronicles the history of Ancient Egypt from the building of the Great Pyramid through the rise and fall of the Middle Kingdom: a peak of Pharaonic culture and the period when writing first flourished. Through extensive research over many decades of work, reveals how the grand narratives of 19th and 20th century Egyptologists have misled us by portraying a culture of cruel monarchs and chronic war. Instead, based in part on discoveries of the past two decades, this extraordinary account shows what we can really learn from the remaining architecture, objects, and writing: a history based on physical reality.
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher :
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1876
Category : China
ISBN :
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004677984
This book spins around the convening idea of variability to offer fourteen new views into the Pyramid and Coffin Texts and related materials that overarch archaeology, philology, linguistics, writing studies, religious studies and social history by applying innovative approaches such as agency, politeness, material philology and object-based studies, and under a strong empirical focus. In this book, you will find from a previously unpublished coffin or a reinterpretation of the so-called ‘Letters to the Dead’ to graffiti’s interaction with monumental inscriptions, ‘subatomic’ studies in the spellings of the Osiris’ name or the puzzles of text transmission, among other novel topics.
Author : Harold M. Hays
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004227490
The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest body of religious texts in the world. This book weds traditional philology to linguistic anthropology to associate them with two spheres of ritual action, mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife.
Author : Raymond Westbrook
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1235 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 904740209X
The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.
Author : Bennett Zon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 31,89 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351557580
Filling a significant gap in current scholarship, the fourteen original essays that make up this volume individually and collectively reflect on the relationship between music and Orientalism in the British Empire over the course of the long nineteenth century. The book is in four themed sections. 'Portrayal of the East' traces the routes from encounter to representation and restores the Orient to its rightful place in histories of Orientalism. 'Interpreting Concert Music' looks at one of the principal forms in which Orientalism could be brought to an eager and largely receptive - yet sometimes resistant - mass market. 'Words and Music' investigates the confluence of musical and Orientalist themes in different genres of writing, including criticism, fiction and travel writing. Finally, 'The Orientalist Stage' discusses crucial sites of Orientalist representation - music theatre and opera - as well as tracing similar phenomena in twentieth-century Hindi cinema. These final chapters examine the rendering of the East as 'unachievable and unrecognizable' for the consuming gaze of the western spectator.
