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Author : Gerald Willoughby-Meade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:39000005830273
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Folklore
ISBN : OCLC:8083900
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000132249396
I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought especially for "weird beauty"; and I could not forget this striking observation in Sir Walter Scott's "Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad" "The supernatural, though appealing to certain powerful emotions very widely and deeply sown amongst the human race, is, nevertheless, a "spring which is peculiarly apt to lose its elasticity by being too much pressed upon."" -- Lafcadio Hearn
Author : Ronald Suleski
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004361034
In this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:72008311
Author : Hearn Lafcadio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318820596
Author : Robert J. Antony
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Criminal anthropology
ISBN : 9781538169346
Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals China's history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folk studies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, sorcerers, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China.
Author : Alan Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000320893
Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
Author : Anthony C. Yu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231512503
Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative scholarship. In these essays, Yu explores the overlap between literature and religion in Chinese and Western literature. He opens with a principal method for relating texts to religion and follows with several essays that apply this approach to single texts in discrete traditions: the Greek religion in Prometheus; Christian theology in Milton; ancient Chinese philosophical thought in Laozi; and Chinese religious syncretism in The Journey to the West. Yu's essays juxtapose Chinese and Western texts Cratylus next to Xunzi, for example and discuss their relationship to language and subjects, such as liberal Greek education against general education in China. He compares a specific Western text and religion to a specific Chinese text and religion. He considers the Divina Commedia in the context of Catholic theology alongside The Journey to the West as it relates to Chinese syncretism, united by the theme of pilgrimage. Yet Yu's focus isn't entirely tied to the classics. He also considers the struggle for human rights in China and how this topic relates to ancient Chinese social thought and modern notions of rights in the West. "In virtually every high-cultural system," Yu writes, "be it the Indic, the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese, or the Judeo Christian, the literary tradition has developed in intimate indeed, often intertwining-relation to religious thought, practice, institution, and symbolism." Comparative Journeys is a major step toward unraveling this complexity, revealing through the skilled observation of texts the extraordinary intimacy between two supposedly disparate languages and cultures.
Author : Maurice Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000324525
This book takes the argument first set out in Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China a step further. It incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data (gathered in the Hong Kong New Territories in 1963) and draws on a wide variety of written sources. As in his first book on the subject, the author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society within the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.
Author : Christopher M. Moreman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780742565524
Beyond the Threshold is the first book to seriously consider the interplay between traditional world religions and metaphysical experiences in exploring the timeless question of what happens when we die. Christopher M. Moreman examines and compares the beliefs and practices of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as psychic phenomena such as mediums and near-death experiences. While ultimately the afterlife remains unknowable, Moreman's unique, in-depth exploration of both beliefs and experiences can help readers reach their own understanding of the afterlife and how to live.
Author : Ole Bruun
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0824826728
For well over a century, Chinese fengshui, or "geomancy," has interested Western laymen and scholars. Today, hundreds of popular manuals claim to use its principles in their advice on how people can increase their wealth, happiness, longevity, and so on. This study is quite different, approaching fengshui from an academic angle. The focus is on its significance in China, but the recent history of its reinterpretation in the West is also depicted. The author argues that fengshui serves as an alternative tradition of cosmological knowledge, which is used to explain a range of everyday occurrences in rural areas, such as disease, mental disorders, accidents, and common mischief. The study includes a historical account of fengshui over the last 150 years augmented by the results of anthropological fieldwork on contemporary practices in two Chinese rural areas.
Author : Charles F. Emmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015024369228
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462900169
Chinese Ghost Stories offers a selection of entertaining Chinese tales of the fantastical and paranormal. Author Lafcadio Hearn had a great affinity for the traditional ghost stories of China, and these stories clearly inspired him as he penned subsequent works. Set in richly atmospheric locales, these tales speak of heroic sacrifice, chilling horror, eerie beauty and otherworldly intervention. The six ghost stories include: The Soul of the Great Bell The Story of Ming Yi The Legend of Zhi Nu The Return of Yan Zhenjing The Tradition of the Tea Plant The Tale of the Porcelain God This completely reset and pinyin-converted edition of Hearn's classic work contains a new foreword by Victoria Cass, which places the stories, their author, and his love for the strange and mysterious into perspective. If you're seeking insights into the traditional Chinese world of ghosts, goblins and demons--or just want to feel a chill run down your spine on a dark and lonely night--then this book is the perfect companion.
Author : Hsiao-tung Fei,Xiaotong Fei
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226239576
These seven essays on the structure of Chinese society are based on articles contributed by Fei to Chinese newspapers in 1947 and 1948. Six case histories from a study of the gentry by Yung-teh Chow are appended. "The chief interest and charm of this book lie in the fact that it is not directed to the Western reader; these were studies written in Chinese, by an erudite Chinese, for a Chinese public. . . . Mrs. Redfield is to be complimented for her own careful research in preparing this translation for a non-Chinese public."—Robert F. Spencer, American Anthropologist
