A Passion For Asia

Author : Asia Society
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0878481036

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A Passion for Asia by Asia Society Pdf

In 1955, John D. Rockefeller III convened a committee to respond to post-World War II interest in developing improved understanding of, and relations with, countries in Asia. His family's longstanding interest in Asia had led him to travel in China and Japan after he graduated from university in 1929. The Rockefellers' deeply felt "passion for Asia" led to the founding of the Asia Society in 1956. Today, the need for better understanding of Asian cultures--political, economic, and artistic--is more urgent than ever. This beautifully produced volume reflects in photographs and words the many-sided mission of the Asia Society. Fascinating archival photographs bring the Rockefeller family's travels, philanthropic activities, social occasions, and wonderful domestic interiors to life. Important objects--sculptures, paintings, prints, screens, ceramics--all collected by members of the family, many from the Society's collection and others from museums around the country, are reproduced in full color. The text includes essays by Rockefeller family members; former Asia Society presidents; Peter Johnson, the family historian; Cynthia Altman, curator of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family estate; and Vishakha Desai, president of the Asia Society. SELLING POINTS: Documents the history and beginnings of this leading global organization whose mission of promoting the exchanges of ideas, education, and arts still holds true today Features period photographs of the Rockefeller family on their many travels to Asia and provides insight into how their collection developed 100 colour & 75 b/w illustrations

Author : Tong Lam
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520950351

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A Passion for Facts by Tong Lam Pdf

In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, "the fact" became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China’s social survey movement, A Passion for Facts analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices—census, sociological investigation, and ethnography—was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.

Author : Saskia E Wieringa
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782843344

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Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia by Saskia E Wieringa Pdf

This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0974556114

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Passion for Form by Anonim Pdf

Author : Maggie Campbell-Culver
Publisher : Random House
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448109852

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A Passion For Trees by Maggie Campbell-Culver Pdf

Given the extent of his influence on 17th-century life, and his lasting impact on the British landscape it is remarkable that no book has been written before about John Evelyn. He was a longstanding friend of Samuel Pepys (who wrote of him, ' A most excellent person he is, and must be allowed a little for conceitedness; but he may well be so, being a man so much above others.'), a founder-member of the Royal Society and a prolific writer and diarist. He was an early advocate of the garden city but his most important work was Sylva: a Discourse of Forest Trees. Sylva was presented to the Royal Society to promote the planting of timber trees 'for the supply of the Navy, the employment and advantage of the poor as well as the ornamenting of the nation.' He was responsible for the first great raft of tree-planting and for a great influx of tree introductions to Britain. Maggie Campbell-Culver's book, like Sylva, has at its core a section detailing the characteristics, history and uses of 33 trees incorporating the advice Evelyn gave and demonstrating its relevance still in the 20th-century. Not only was Evelyn probably the first horticultural writer to show an appreciation of the aesthetic benefits of trees in our landscape, he is shown to be a founder-father of the modern conservation movement.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1588860957

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Passion for Form by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cheng-Wen Wu,Chwan-Wen Liu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789812838391

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A Passion for Life by Cheng-Wen Wu,Chwan-Wen Liu Pdf

This is a biography of Dr Felicia Wu.Felicia was a scientist with a successful career in cancer research, but what marked the most extraordinary aspect about her life was her journey as a truly brave cancer patient and an incredibly determined cancer fighter. Originally, this book was intended to be an autobiography written and narrated by Felicia herself. She wanted to share with other cancer sufferers her 13 long years of experience fighting cancer to prepare them for the side effects and uncertainties of the treatment, and also to encourage them to brace and face their own treatment without fear. What she did not realize then was that her time was ticking away, and her life trickling off quickly. Writing her own autobiography proved to be an impossible task.Felicia succumbed to the prolonged battle and departed from this world. Her husband, Dr Cheng-Wen Wu, finished the uncompleted task of writing the book in loving memory of her. The biography of Felicia, originally published in Chinese edition, has been recommended as a reading model for students in schools and was nominated for an award in Taiwan. Felicia's story had also inspired the production of a documentary film entitled, “A Passion for Life,” funded and sponsored by The American Cancer Society. This biography of Felicia in English edition, painstakingly translated by Dr Cheng-Wen Wu and his collaborating translator, Ms Annie Chen, will certainly live up to its original premise as an inspiration to touch more lives and as a source of strength to all who encounter difficulty, disappointment and hurt at any point of their lives.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1787016528

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Lonely Planet Southeast Asia by Lonely Planet Pdf

Lonely Planet's Southeast Asia is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the Temples of Angkor, Halong Bay's hidden lagoons, and Bangkok's nightlife; all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Kevin Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1940689066

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Vanishing Asia by Kevin Kelly Pdf

This is a 3-volume set of oversize books that span the continent of Asia. Ancient and beautiful traditions in Asia that are rapidly disappearing are recorded here in 9,000 images on 1,000 pages. The author has visited 35 countries in Asia and has travelled to the end of the road in its most remote places to capture the costumes, architecture, festivals, and lifestyles that are vanishing. The diverse cultures range from Turkey in the west to Japan in the east, from Siberia in the north to Indonesia in the south, and everything in between. Volume 1 covers West Asia, Volume 2 Central Asia, and Volume 3 East Asia. Every one of its 1,000 pages is uniquely designed, and every one of its 9,000 images is captioned. This is an ambitious and extreme passion project that the author/photographer has worked on for 49 years. Many of the scenes depicted in the book are now gone from the world, and others are becoming rarer by the day. There is no other book like it.

Author : Chua Thai Keong,Donny Suparman
Publisher : Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811876998

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Voices from Asians and Europeans on "The Future of Asia-Europe Cooperation" by Chua Thai Keong,Donny Suparman Pdf

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) is an inter-governmental, not-for-profit organisation that promotes understanding and interactions between Asia and Europe. In 2022-2023, ASEF is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. The past 25 years have been an extraordinary opportunity to bring Asia and Europe closer. The next 25 years could be more challenging; in a fragmenting world, it could also mean a bigger role for ASEF given its bridging capabilities and its reputation as an honest broker. As the only permanent institution of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), the future of ASEF is inextricably linked to ASEM. How would Asia-Europe Cooperation look like 25 years from now? What are the driving forces? What do Asians and Europeans stand to gain or lose? What is at stake? What is your vision for ASEM’s destination? Voices from Asians and Europeans on The Future of Asia-Europe Cooperation: An Essay Competition Commemorating ASEF’s 25th Anniversary collects 68 essays from Asians and Europeans that elaborate on this topic, seeking to answer these questions and present the hopes for the future of Asia-Europe cooperation.

Author : David C.L. Lim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047433705

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Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies by David C.L. Lim Pdf

This book examines the passion for race in Malaysia through a burgeoning archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Singapore
ISBN : OCLC:1290783755

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Power and Passion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : iSmithers Rapra Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 1859570909

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Utech Asia'97 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fritz Pointer
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Apartheid in literature
ISBN : 0865438188

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A Passion to Liberate by Fritz Pointer Pdf

A literary biography of one of South Africa's most extraordinary and eminent men of letters, Justine Alexander La Guma, better known as Alex La Guma. Concerned with the writing life of one of South Africa's most prolific, eloquent and courageous authors, it covers his contribution in the fight to overturn apartheid as well as his literary work and journalism.

Author : Julie Hankey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857715555

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A Passion for Egypt by Julie Hankey Pdf

The biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist who was involved in the exploration and conservation of the monuments and antiquities of a region stretching from Luxor to the Sudan border. At a time when Egypt was being ransacked by private collectors and the agents of Western museums, it was said that, without Weigall, much more would have been lost altogether - most notably, the wall paintings in the Tombs of the Nobles. The enthusiasm and energy of the man and of the books and articles he wrote played a large part in popularising Egypt and Egyptology, and in promoting the then radical view that Egypt's antiquities belonged to the Egyptians. When, in 1922, Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered by his old colleague Howard Carter, Weigall came into open conflict with Carter's patron, Lord Carnarvon, for his handling of the question of rights in the tomb, and for his sale of information from it to the London Times. Following Carnarvon's premature death in Egypt, it was Weigall's remarks to the press that led to the notorious story of the 'Curse of the Pharaohs': a myth that persists to this day. Weigall had many talents: he also designed theatre scenery, made films and wrote novels. But his real legacy derives from his passion for Egypt, both ancient and modern - a passion that informs the whole of his compelling story.