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Author : Jermyn Chi-Hung Lynn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : 3931997332
Author : Jermyn Chi-hung Lynn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475463660
Author : Qihong Lin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Beijing (China)
ISBN : UOM:39015008859160
Author : Justus Doolittle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781136888571
First Published in 2005. This is the most complete and detailed account of the traditional domestic and daily life of the Chinese in the mid-nineteenth century. Writing in the 1860's, Doolittle concentrates on social and religious customs, revealing the people through their practices and material culture which he observed for over fourteen years. Colourful, exotic and compelling, this is a more telling portrait than any history or encyclopedia, an innovative tour de force of popular culture, and a classic ahead of its time. Doolittle lived midway between Shanghai and Canton, the origin of the overseas Chinese diaspora. The world he describes here may have vanished in mainland China, but endures in Chinatowns and Chinese homes around the world.
Author : Sidney D. Gamble
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004217997
Brill Research Perspectives in Biblical Interpretation (RPBI) The growth of scholarly literature continues to accelerate at an exponential rate. Staying current on a variety of subjects is becoming increasingly difficult. RPBI brings a substantial range of contemporary methodological conversations about biblical literature to a wide readership. The main goal of each book is to address a particular contemporary question and/or problem of interpretive importance as it intersects with biblical scholarship, raising the issues and suggesting further directions. Race, class, gender, nationality, sexuality, geography, and ecology are examples of lenses that the authors incorporate into these discussions. These books are perfect for keeping abreast of conversations in the field, updating college and graduate-level courses with cutting-edge biblical scholarship, and exploring new and alternative approaches to long-standing questions in the field.
Author : Justus Doolittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : China
ISBN : OSU:32435055631808
Author : Justus Doolittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 974 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : China
ISBN : RMS:RMS1LSO$000005670$$$O
Author : Justus Doolittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : China
ISBN : OSU:32435055631857
Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802779120
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.
Author : Susan Naquin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0520923456
The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521846080
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Author : Ai-li S. Chin,Maurice Freedman,Joint Committee on Contemporary China. Subcommittee on Research on Chinese Society
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804707138
Includes bibliographical references.
Author : P. Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137499516
This is the first history of the bicycle to trace not only the technical background to its invention, but also to contrast its social and cultural impact in different parts of the world, and assess its future as a continuing global phenomenon.
Author : Daniel T. L. Shek,Robert M. Hollister
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811038778
This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility. In addition to addressing the nature of and concepts surrounding University Social Responsibility, as well as its ties to areas such as service learning or engaged scholarship, the book also presents effective practices from around the world. Dedicated chapters demonstrate how University Social Responsibility can manifest itself in different types (civic, moral, economic or global responsibility), levels (local, national, regional or international), and formats (partnership, venture or joint project), depending on local contexts and needs. The book also focuses on three areas of work – educating students to take on social responsibility, broadening access to education, and applying knowledge to societal problems – to highlight the potential and viable ways University Social Responsibility can be employed to promote quality of life in society. Offering a unique resource, it is intended to stimulate thinking and expand the repertoire of all educators, administrators, and organizations who wish to incorporate societal needs into their core mission and promote quality of life in different communities around the world.
Author : Zhidong Hao,Sheying Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461422242
Since 1978, the opening up and reform in China has brought tremendous economic and social changes. While China’s economic progress has been commendable, the social problems that go with economic changes have raised serious concerns. Some of those concerns are related to gender, ethnic, labor, and environmental issues. This book is about what has happened in these arenas in China since the opening up and reform in 1978. The study of gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment touches on some of the fundamental problems of modernization, especially the development of individuals and groups. So even though gender, ethnicity, labor, and environment seem to be separate issues, they are in fact related in some fundamental ways. That’s what this book will explore as well. To understand is one thing and to do is another. This book also incorporates studies of NGO practices to see how NGOs have helped in transforming gender, ethnic, labor, and environment interplay. Our study of NGOs in helping improve such interplay sheds light on how specifically civil society can prod the state to transform social relations for the better. This book is an attempt to assess the changes, both positive and negative, in gender, ethnic, ethnic, and environmental relations in China especially in the past 30 years of opening up and reform, especially regarding national identity formation.
