Cherishing Antiquity

Author : Olivia Milburn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170739

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Cherishing Antiquity by Olivia Milburn Pdf

Cherishing Antiquity describes the commemoration within Chinese literature and culture of the southern kingdom of Wu, which collapsed in 473 BCE. The sudden rise and tragic fall of Wu within the space of just over one century would inspire numerous memorials in and around the city of Suzhou, once the capital of this ancient kingdom. A variety of physical structures, including temples, shrines, steles, and other monuments, were erected in memory of key figures in the kingdom’s history. These sites inspired further literary representations in poetry and prose—musings on the exoticism, glamour, great wealth, and hideous end of the last king of Wu. Through an analysis first of the history of Wu as recorded in ancient Chinese texts and then of its literary legacy, Olivia Milburn illuminates the remarkable cultural endurance of this powerful but short-lived kingdom

Author : Jeffrey Moser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226822464

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Nominal Things by Jeffrey Moser Pdf

Introduction -- Part I. The lexical picture. Names as implements; Picturing names -- Part II. The empirical impression. The style of antiquity; Agents of change; Nominal empiricism -- Part III. The schematic thing. Substance into schema; Nominal casting -- Conclusion.

Author : Andrew Chittick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190937560

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The Jiankang Empire in Chinese and World History by Andrew Chittick Pdf

This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.

Author : Thomas Herbert
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Iran
ISBN : 9780415344708

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Travels in Persia, 1627-1629 by Thomas Herbert Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Clara Ho,Ricardo Mak,Yue-him Tam
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110585148

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Voyages, Migration, and the Maritime World by Clara Ho,Ricardo Mak,Yue-him Tam Pdf

This is a multi-author volume resulted from an international conference focusing on topics related to our understanding of the role of China in the global history. Apart from introductory chapters exploring methodological issues and providing big pictures of framing China in the world in particular time zones, this volume also covers rich discussions on the following themes from the ancient period to the twentieth century: organized water transport, cultural interactions, navigators, port cities, smuggling activities, customs service, foreign relations, migration, and diasporas. Written by scholars of different generations who are based in diverse regions including Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, the UK and the US, the chapters in this volume either address old questions from new perspectives, or table new topics that were largely ignored in previous scholarship. Some go further to brainstorm possible research directions in the future. This thought-provoking volume will be beneficial to readers who are interested in rethinking China's position in the global historical stage against the backdrop of Post-Orientalism.

Author : Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170920

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The Halberd at Red Cliff by Xiaofei Tian Pdf

"The turn of the third century CE—known as the Jian’an era or Three Kingdoms period—holds double significance for the Chinese cultural tradition. Its writings laid the foundation of classical poetry and literary criticism. Its historical personages and events have also inspired works of poetry, fiction, drama, film, and art throughout Chinese history, including Internet fantasy literature today. There is a vast body of secondary literature on these two subjects individually, but very little on their interface.The image of the Jian’an era, with its feasting, drinking, heroism, and literary panache, as well as intense male friendship, was to return time and again in the romanticized narrative of the Three Kingdoms. How did Jian’an bifurcate into two distinct nostalgias, one of which was the first paradigmatic embodiment of wen (literary graces, cultural patterning), and the other of wu (heroic martial virtue)? How did these largely segregated nostalgias negotiate with one another? And how is the predominantly male world of the Three Kingdoms appropriated by young women in contemporary China? The Halberd at Red Cliff investigates how these associations were closely related in their complex origins and then came to be divergent in their later metamorphoses."

Author : Jan Nelis
Publisher : Academia Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9789038218830

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Receptions of Antiquity by Jan Nelis Pdf

"This volume presents a series of papers which cover the general theme of the reception of antiquity, a topic which has in recent years become a discipline in itself, or what some might call a 'cross-discipline'. Indeed the Nachleben of the (culture of) classical antiquity, and of antiquity as a whole, manifests in a number of diverse domains, opening up the field of reception studies to scholars from disciplines other than Classics. This collection of papers illustrates this diversity, uniting as it does original research by scholars from a variety of disciplines: classicists, historians, theatre historians, architectural historians, psychologists, archaeologists, artists, and more, all of whom have treated some aspect of the so-called 'classical tradition' by means of their own individual approaches, leading to a volume rich and dense in themes and methodologies. 'Receptions of antiquity' has been written by friends of Freddy Decreus, in honour of his career, and in celebration of his thought."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015015799425

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Bulletin - The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Ford Campany
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781684176427

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The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE - 800 CE by Robert Ford Campany Pdf

Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke—that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE – 800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with—and celebrated—the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.

Author : Hsiao-t'i Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171019

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Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China by Hsiao-t'i Li Pdf

"Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China experimented with both stage and scripts to present bold new plays centering on social reform. Operas became closely intertwined with social and political issues. This trend toward “politicization” was to become the most dominant theme of Chinese opera from the 1930s to the 1970s, when ideology-laden political plays reflected a radical revolutionary agenda.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, this book focuses on the reformed operas staged in Shanghai and Xi’an. By presenting extensive information on both traditional/imperial China and revolutionary/Communist China, it reveals the implications of these “modern” operatic experiences and the changing features of Chinese operas throughout the past five centuries. Although the different genres of opera were watched by audiences from all walks of life, the foundations for opera’s omnipresence completely changed over time."

Author : Jieh-min Wu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176557

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Rival Partners by Jieh-min Wu Pdf

Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People’s Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan spent more than three decades pouring capital and talent into China? In award-winning Rival Partners, Wu Jieh-min follows the development of Taiwanese enterprises in China over twenty-five years and provides fresh insights. The geopolitical shift in Asia beginning in the 1970s and the global restructuring of value chains since the 1980s created strong incentives for Taiwanese entrepreneurs to rush into China despite high political risks and insecure property rights. Taiwanese investment, in conjunction with Hong Kong capital, laid the foundation for the world’s factory to flourish in the southern province of Guangdong, but official Chinese narratives play down Taiwan’s vital contribution. It is hard to imagine the Guangdong model without Taiwanese investment, and, without the Guangdong model, China’s rise could not have occurred. Going beyond the received wisdom of the “China miracle” and “Taiwan factor,” Wu delineates how Taiwanese business people, with the cooperation of local officials, ushered global capitalism into China. By partnering with its political archrival, Taiwan has benefited enormously, while helping to cultivate an economic superpower that increasingly exerts its influence around the world.

Author : Anne Eriksen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782382997

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From Antiquities to Heritage by Anne Eriksen Pdf

Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or medieval churches are transformed from antiquities to monuments to heritage sites? This book argues that the transformations concern more than words alone: They reflect fundamental changes in the way we experience the past, and the way historical objects are assigned meaning and value in the present. This book presents a series of cases from Norwegian culture to explore how historical objects and sites have changed in meaning over time. It contributes to the contemporary debates over collective memory and cultural heritage as well to our knowledge about early modern antiquarianism.

Author : 范成大,James Morris Hargett
Publisher : Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015076124299

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Riding the River Home by 范成大,James Morris Hargett Pdf

This book presents a complete and annotated English translation of the text Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu (Wuchuan lu), a travel journal written by the famous Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) government official and writer Fan Chengda (1126-1193). The journal describes a boat journey the author made in the summer and fall of 1177 from Chengdu (Sichuan) to his home near Suzhou (Jiangsu). Fan's trip covered a distance of approximately 1,700 English miles and took 122 days to complete. The Diary of a Boat Trip to Wu is especially valuable because it provides detailed, first-hand descriptions of many aspects of the Song dynasty (960-1279) geography, history, literature, art, and religion. Perhaps most noteworthy are the author's lengthy and often fascinating accounts and assessments of scenic and historic sites he stopped to visit during the trip. --

Author : Dimitris Tziovas,Dēmētrēs Tziovas
Publisher : Classical Presences
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199672752

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Re-imagining the Past by Dimitris Tziovas,Dēmētrēs Tziovas Pdf

"This book had its origins in a conference I organized at the University of Birmingham in June 2011 and represents a selection of the papers presented there" -- Page v.

Author : Tomas Hägg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520076389

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The Novel in Antiquity by Tomas Hägg Pdf

Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.