The Poet Zheng Zhen 1806 1864 And The Rise Of Chinese Modernity

Author : Jerry D. Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004252295

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The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity by Jerry D. Schmidt Pdf

In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examination of his thought and literary theory, and four chapters studying his highly original contributions to poetry on the human realm, nature verse, narrative poetry, and the poetry of ideas, including his writings on science and technology. Over a hundred pages of translations of his verse conclude the work.

Author : Hailian Chen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004383043

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Zinc for Coin and Brass by Hailian Chen Pdf

In Zinc for Coin and Brass Hailian Chen offers the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc over the long eighteenth century. This book covers a wide range of topics including Qing China’s political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society.

Author : Yifeng Sun,Chris Song
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351001229

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Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature by Yifeng Sun,Chris Song Pdf

Translating Chinese Art and Modern Literature examines issues in cross-cultural dialogue in connection with translation and modern Chinese art and literature from interdisciplinary perspectives. This comprises the text-image dialogue in the context of Chinese modernity, and cross-cultural interaction between modern literature in Chinese and other literatures. This edited collection approaches these issues with discrete foci and approaches, and the ten chapters in this volume are to be divided into two distinct parts. The first part highlights the mutual effects between literary texts and visual images in the media of book, painting, and film, and the second part includes contributions by scholars of literary translation.

Author : Kaveh Yazdani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004330795

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India, Modernity and the Great Divergence by Kaveh Yazdani Pdf

This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.

Author : Zhiyi Yang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472903917

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Poetry, History, Memory by Zhiyi Yang Pdf

Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. The significance of his biography is evident from an ongoing war on cultural memory: modern mainland China prohibits serious academic research on wartime collaboration in general, and on Wang Jingwei in particular. At this critical juncture, when the recollection of World War II is fading from living memory and transforming into historical memory, this knowledge embargo will undoubtedly affect how China remembers its anti-fascist role in WWII. In Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times, Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China. In this book, Yang brings disparate methodologies into a fruitful dialogue, including sophisticated methods of poetic interpretation. The author argues that Wang’s lyric poetry, as the public performance of a private voice, played a central role in constructing his political identity and heavily influenced the public’s posthumous memory of him. Drawing on archives (in the PRC, Taiwan, Japan, the USA, France, and Germany), memoires, historical journals, newspapers, interviews, and other scholarly works, this book offers the first biography of Wang that addresses his political, literary, and personal life in a critical light and with sympathetic impartiality.

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250202581

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The Story of China by Michael Wood Pdf

A single volume history of China, offering a look into the past of the global superpower and its significance today. Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world’s oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years. After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world’s second largest economy. But how did it become so dominant? Wood argues that in order to comprehend the great significance of China today, we must begin with its history. The Story of China takes a fresh look at the Middle Kingdom in the light of the recent massive changes inside the country. Taking into account exciting new archeological discoveries, the book begins with China’s prehistory—the early dynasties, the origins of the Chinese state, and the roots of Chinese culture in the age of Confucius. Wood looks at particular periods and themes that are now being reevaluated by historians, such as the renaissance of the Song with its brilliant scientific discoveries. He paints a vibrant picture of the Qing Empire in the 18th century, just before the European impact, a time when China’s rich and diverse culture was at its height. Then, Wood explores the encounter with the West, the Opium Wars, the clashes with the British, and the extraordinarily rich debates in the late 19th century that pushed China along the path to modernity. Finally, he provides a clear up-to-date account of post-1949 China, including revelations about the 1989 crisis based on newly leaked inside documents, and fresh insights into the new order of President Xi Jinping. All woven together with landscape history and the author’s own travel journals, The Story of China is the indispensable book about the most intriguing and powerful country on the world stage today.

Author : Tsung-I Jao
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781942242826

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The Residue of Dreams by Tsung-I Jao Pdf

Author : Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811609244

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The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies by Zhengdao Ye Pdf

This new major reference work provides a comprehensive overview of linguistic phenomena in a variety of Sinitic languages in a global context, highlighting the dynamic interaction between these languages and English. This “living reference work” offers a window into the linguistic sphere in China and beyond, and showcases the latest research into diverse and evolving linguistic phenomena that have resulted from intensified interactions between the Sinophone world and other lingua-spheres. The Handbook is divided into five sections. The chapters in Section I (New Research Trends in Chinese Linguistic Research) present fast-growing research areas in Chinese linguistics, particularly those undertaken by scholars based in China. Section II (Interactions of Sinitic Languages) focuses on language-contact situations inside and outside China. The chapters in Section III (Meaning, Culture, Translation) explore the meanings of key cultural concepts, and how ideas move between Chinese and English through translation across various genres. Section IV (New Trends in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) covers new ideas and practices relating to teaching the Chinese language and culture. The final section, Section V (Transference from Chinese to English), explores dynamic interactions between varieties of Chinese and varieties of English, as they play out in multilingual sites and settings

Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315400129

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Victorian Material Culture by Adelene Buckland Pdf

From chatelaines to whale blubber, ice making machines to stained glass, this six-volume collection will be of interest to the scholar, student or general reader alike - anyone who has an urge to learn more about Victorian things. The set brings together a range of primary sources on Victorian material culture and discusses the most significant developments in material history from across the nineteenth century. The collection will demonstrate the significance of objects in the everyday lives of the Victorians and addresses important questions about how we classify and categorise nineteenth-century things. The fourth volume will look at raw materials that were handled and used by Victorians including blubber and coal.

Author : Xu Di
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030133566

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The Dunhuang Grottoes and Global Education by Xu Di Pdf

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective. The Dunhuang Grottoes are well-known in the world for their stunning beauty and magnificence, but the teaching of Dunhuang advocates a philosophical perspective that cosmos, nature, and humanity are an interconnected whole, and that all elements function interactively according to universal and relational principles of continuity, cause-and-effect, spiritual connection, and enlightenment. Xu Di and volume contributors highlight the moral education and ethics found throughout the Dunhuang with numerous stories of the personal journeys and growth of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, discussing and analyzing these teachings, and their possible implications for modern education systems throughout China and the world today.

Author : Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350162150

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness by Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.

Author : Michel Hockx
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 9073782228

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A Snowy Morning by Michel Hockx Pdf

A survey of the poetry written between 1917 and 1922 by Zhou Zuoren, Xu Yunuo, Ye Shaojun, Yu Pingbo, Zhu Ziqing, Liu Yanling, Guo Shaoyu and Zheng Zhenduo.

Author : Jui-Sung Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004318731

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Body, Ritual and Identity by Jui-Sung Yang Pdf

In Body, Ritual and Identity: A New Interpretation of Yan Yuan, Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan’s ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system.

Author : Ding Xiang Warner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004276338

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Transmitting Authority by Ding Xiang Warner Pdf

Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo’s textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo’s cultural value for medieval China’s literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable.

Author : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605849

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Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature by Stephanie Elsky Pdf

Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant legal system that was also foundational to England's constitutionalist politics. The strange temporality assigned to legal custom, that is, its purported existence since 'time immemorial', furnished it with a unique and paradoxical capacity—to make new and foreign forms familiar. This volume shows that during a time when novelty was suspect, even insurrectionary, appeals to the widespread understanding of custom as a legal concept justified a startling array of fictive experiments. This is the first book to reveal fully the relationship between Renaissance literature and legal custom. It shows how writers were able to reimagine moments of historical and cultural rupture as continuity by appealing to the powerful belief that English legal custom persisted in the face of conquests by foreign powers. Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature thus challenges scholarly narratives in which Renaissance art breaks with a past it looks back upon longingly and instead argues that the period viewed its literature as imbued with the aura of the past. In this way, through experiments in rhetoric and form, literature unfolds the processes whereby custom gains its formidable and flexible political power. Custom, a key concept of legal and constitutionalist thought, shaped sixteenth-century literature, while this literature, in turn, transformed custom into an evocative mythopoetic.