Copper Coins And The Emperor S Wallet The Role Of Currency In Ming China

Author : Sui-Wai Cheung
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004687530

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Copper Coins and the Emperor's Wallet: The Role of Currency in Ming China by Sui-Wai Cheung Pdf

Sui-Wai Cheung’s study of the institutional history of copper coins in the Ming dynasty reveals how emperors and statesmen perceived and used the copper coins at their disposal. In this process, he uncovers the reality of the Sons of Heaven, showing that although Ming emperors seemed to have unlimited power, they could not afford the upkeep on their palace. In this revealing history of Ming China, Cheung argues that especially after the breakdown of the household registration system, the aim of the Ming coinage system was to create a new source of income in order to maintain the emperor's domain in Beijing.

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : UOM:39015086589028

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A Chinese-English Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892363223

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Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice by Arie Wallert,Erma Hermens,Marja Peek Pdf

Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.

Author : Rotem Kowner,Walter Demel
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004292926

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Race and Racism in Modern East Asia by Rotem Kowner,Walter Demel Pdf

"Race and Racism in Modern East Asia (Vol. 2)" examines in depth interactions between Western and local constructions of race. This insightful 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping analysis of issues of race, racism, nationalism and gender in the region that is unsurpasssed in previous scholarship.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Coins
ISBN : UOM:39015068962714

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Spink & Son's Monthly Numismatic Circular by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liao Yiwu
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307388377

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The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu Pdf

The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called “The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.

Author : Alessandro Rippa
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789048543564

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Borderland Infrastructures by Alessandro Rippa Pdf

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland infrastructures. Trade, Development, and Control in Western China addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.

Author : Sui-Wai Cheung
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351737906

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Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia by Sui-Wai Cheung Pdf

The legal recognition of private land ownership -- Conclusion -- Notes -- PART V: Land reform in China to the 1930s -- 12. Too little, too late: China catching up on land registration in the 1930s -- Compiling the cadastral record -- Ownership under the Land Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese characters -- Index.

Author : Francesca Bray,Peter A. Coclanis,Edda L. Fields-Black,Dagmar Schäfer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107044395

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Rice by Francesca Bray,Peter A. Coclanis,Edda L. Fields-Black,Dagmar Schäfer Pdf

Rice is a first step toward a history of rice and its place in capitalism from global and comparative perspectives.

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071170090

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A Chinese-English Dictionary by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Mika Lehtimäki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004517844

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The Investment Game in Private Equity by Mika Lehtimäki Pdf

In The Investment Game in Private Equity, Mika Lehtimäki discusses the legal relationship between investors and managers of private equity funds and sets out a game-theoretical framework for evaluating the role of regulation and contract in asset management.

Author : Jeffrey Archer
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447204800

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Clean Sweep Ignatius by Jeffrey Archer Pdf

Clean Sweep Ignatius is part of The Year of Short Stories and is one of several digital shorts released to celebrate the publication of Jeffrey Archer’s magnificent seventh collection, Tell Tale. Taken from Jeffrey Archer's second collection of short stories, A Twist in the Tale, comes Clean Sweep Ignatius, an irresistible, witty and ingenious short read. Nigeria's newly appointed Minister of Finance is determined to make his country sit up straight with his rigorous overhaul of the system, soon earning him the nickname 'Clean Sweep Ignatius'. But, somehow, large sums of money are still falling through invisible cracks. At his wits end, General Otobi grants Ignatius with the authority to take whatever means he deems necessary to track down the errant funds . . . Be sure to look out for more from The Year of Short Stories collection, including The Endgame and The Man Who Robbed His Own Post Office.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : IND:30000007148673

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The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace Pdf

Author : Herbert Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU15915115

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A Chinese-English Dictionary: Dictionary. v. 2. (fasc. 1-3) A-Liao. 1909-10 by Herbert Allen Giles Pdf

Author : John Whitney Hall,Toyoda Takeshi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520325524

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Japan in the Muromachi Age by John Whitney Hall,Toyoda Takeshi Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.