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Author : Min-sun Chen
Publisher : Thunder Bay, ON : Lakehead University Library
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : IND:32000004552230
Collection consists of ten published articles and two revised preliminary papers.
Author : Hartmut Walravens
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783752628876
The Sino-Western Cultural Relations Journal of which 38 fascicles were published between 1979 and 2016 is a mine of information on issues, events, articles and reviews on the subject. It attracted at first a very small constituency of experts in this relatively new field of research, at first focusing on the early China Mission, but then widening its scope and addressing the whole area of cultural relations between China and the West. This journal was edited and financed single-handedly by David E. Mungello who is known as a historian and an outstanding Leibniz expert. SWCRJ published contributions in English, German, French and Chinese, thus also supporting the growing interest in the subject in China. The present bibliography provides a complete listing of the contents of the journal and facilitates access by a name and a subject index. It is common knowledge that everything of value may be found on the internet but whoever puts this statement to the test will soon find out that "everything" actually means "something". Therefore the few serious students of the field will welcome the present modest bibliography.
Author : Patrick Taveirne
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9058673650
The study describes the origins of the Southwest Mongolia vicariate beyond the Great Wall and along the Yellow River Bend during the transition period from Lazarist missionary activities in the 1840s to the Scheutists in the early 1870
Author : Sergio Ticozzi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789819931736
The volume approaches the relations between China and the Catholic Church in a quite comprehensive and unprejudiced way. Its approach is new since it clarifies the root of the persistent antagonism of both the imperial and republican Chinese Authorities toward the Catholic Church: no matter how the Catholic approach has been, they kept their Sino-centric attitude. It also points out the lack of a truly objective and complete understanding of China by the Western society, including Catholic missionaries: from a blind admiration to a negative evaluation, determined by contingent circumstances and motivations. It tries to clarify myths and stereotyped understandings, that have been created during the historical process, including the role of the Jesuits and in particular of Fr. Matteo Ricci. It also pays particular attention to the role of the Vatican in the recent religious policy of Chinese Government. The reading of the book could be enlightening especially for academics, university students and Christian clergy interested in the history of Catholic Missions in China.
Author : Dongshin Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135007515
This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period, the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China, Britain’s expanding material interest in China, the presence of British imperial power in Asia, and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized, Chang emphasizes that the Jesuits’ depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of China’s material and visual attractions. Central to the book’s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences, manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other, the representations questioned, satirized, and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self.
Author : Xiaolin Duan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793614919
The first book-length English-language study focusing on the early modern export of Chinese silk to New Spain from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, An Object of Seduction compares and contrasts the two regions from perspectives of the sericulture development, the widespread circulation of silk fashion, and the government attempts at regulating the use of silk. Xiaolin Duan argues that the increasing demand for silk on the worldwide market on the one hand contributed to the parallel development of silk fashion and sericulture in China and New Spain, and on the other hand created conflicts on imperial regulations about foreign trade and hierarchical systems. Incorporating evidence from local gazetteers, correspondence, manual books, illustrated treatises, and miscellanies, this book explores how the growing desire for and production of raw silk and silk textiles empowered individuals and societies to claim and redefine their positions in changing time and space, thus breaking away from the traditional state control.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029869099
The papers included in these volumes, with their wide geographical and disciplinary range, and long time span, reflect the comprehensive nature of the Congress.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000107695540
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2504644
Author : John W. Witek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019186944
Nettetal, Germany. Some 30 essays emerging from an International Conference held in Louvain, Belgium in 1988 (on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Verbiest's death) examine various aspects of the life and work of the Belgian Jesuit Ferdinand Verbiest--scientist, engineer, and diplomat, and above all a missionary who contributed significantly to the growth of Christianity in China. Includes some 70 bandw illustrations. Published by Institut Monumenta Serica, Sank Augustin, distributed by Steyler Verlag, Postfach 24 60, D-41311 Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : John J. Collins,Michael Fishbane
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791499542
Belief in a spirit world, and a blissful or agonizing afterlife, is one of the most pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristics of religion. This volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of this basic religious theme. Most of the case studies are drawn from Jewish and Christian tradition, providing in-depth coverage of Judaism and Christianity from late Antiquity through the Medieval period. There are also examples from Islamic, Japanese, and Chinese traditions for a comparative perspective with Western traditions. Several chapters deal with the formative period of Jewish and Christian apocalypticism, which is concerned not only with the end of the physical world but also with the eternal heavenly world. These chapters are also important for illustrating the development of mysticism in Western traditions. The most distinctive aspect of this book is that it does not deal with antiquity alone, but juxtaposes the historical essays with a survey of modern day, near-death experiences. It raises issues of fundamental importance for the psychology of religion as well as for its history The most distinctive aspect of this book is that it does not deal with antiquity alone, but juxtaposes the historical essays with a survey of modern day, near-death experiences. It raises issues of fundamental importance for the psychology of religion as well as for its history.
Author : Xin Fan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842600
Focuses on individual lived experiences to trace the development of world-historical studies in China's long twentieth century.
Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226561615
The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage of their history. The author suggests that from the Neolithic beginnings of grain agriculture to the present major social changes in all parts of the world were triggered by new or newly important foreign stimuli, and he presents a persuasive narrative of world history to support this claim. In a retrospective essay titled "The Rise of the West after Twenty-five Years," McNeill shows how his book was shaped by the time and place in which it was written (1954-63). He discusses how historiography subsequently developed and suggests how his portrait of the world's past in The Rise of the West should be revised to reflect these changes. "This is not only the most learned and the most intelligent, it is also the most stimulating and fascinating book that has ever set out to recount and explain the whole history of mankind. . . . To read it is a great experience. It leaves echoes to reverberate, and seeds to germinate in the mind."—H. R. Trevor-Roper, New York Times Book Review
Author : Peter C Perdue
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674042025
From about 1600 to 1800, the Qing empire of China expanded to unprecedented size. Through astute diplomacy, economic investment, and a series of ambitious military campaigns into the heart of Central Eurasia, the Manchu rulers defeated the Zunghar Mongols, and brought all of modern Xinjiang and Mongolia under their control, while gaining dominant influence in Tibet. The China we know is a product of these vast conquests. Peter C. Perdue chronicles this little-known story of China's expansion into the northwestern frontier. Unlike previous Chinese dynasties, the Qing achieved lasting domination over the eastern half of the Eurasian continent. Rulers used forcible repression when faced with resistance, but also aimed to win over subject peoples by peaceful means. They invested heavily in the economic and administrative development of the frontier, promoted trade networks, and adapted ceremonies to the distinct regional cultures. Perdue thus illuminates how China came to rule Central Eurasia and how it justifies that control, what holds the Chinese nation together, and how its relations with the Islamic world and Mongolia developed. He offers valuable comparisons to other colonial empires and discusses the legacy left by China's frontier expansion. The Beijing government today faces unrest on its frontiers from peoples who reject its autocratic rule. At the same time, China has launched an ambitious development program in its interior that in many ways echoes the old Qing policies. China Marches West is a tour de force that will fundamentally alter the way we understand Central Eurasia.
Author : John Staller,Michael Carrasco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441904713
The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing understanding of the various roles of foods and cuisines in Mesoamerican cultures. The volume is organized thematically into three sections. Part 1 gives an overview of food and feasting practices as well as ancient economies in Mesoamerica. Part 2 details ethnographic, epigraphic and isotopic evidence of these practices. Finally, Part 3 presents the metaphoric value of food in Mesoamerican symbolism, ritual, and mythology. The resulting volume provides a thorough, interdisciplinary resource for understanding, food, feasting, and cultural practices in Mesoamerica.
