Author : Rita Aero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015232062
Things Chinese
Rita Aero
Things Chinese
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Things Chinese
Ronald G. Knapp
Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781462908585
Things Chinese by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf
China's art objects and traditional manufactured products have long been sought by collectors—from porcelains and silk fabrics to furniture and even the lacquered chopsticks that are a distant relation to ones found in most Chinese restaurants. Things Chinese presents sixty distinctive items that are typical of Chinese culture and together open a special window onto the people, history, and society of the world's largest nation. Many of the objects are collectibles, and each has a story to tell. The objects relate to six major areas of cultural life: the home, the personal, arts & crafts, eating & drinking, entertainment, and religious practice. They include items both familiar and unfamiliar—from snuff bottles and calligraphy scrolls to moon cake molds and Mao memorabilia. Ronald Knapp's evocative text describes the history, cultural significance, and customs relating to each object, while Michael Freeman's superb photographs illustrate them. Together, text and photographs offer a unique look at the material culture of China and the aesthetics that inform it.
Things Chinese
J. Dyer Ball
Author : J. Dyer Ball
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783846049242
Things Chinese by J. Dyer Ball Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1900.
Ten Thousand Things
Lothar Ledderose
Author : Lothar Ledderose
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691252889
Ten Thousand Things by Lothar Ledderose Pdf
An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized parts Chinese workers in the third century BC created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century AD, Chinese builders constructed a pagoda from as many as thirty thousand separately carved wooden pieces. As these examples show, throughout history, Chinese artisans have produced works of art in astonishing quantities, and have done so without sacrificing quality, affordability, or speed of manufacture. In this book, Lothar Ledderose takes us on a remarkable tour of Chinese art and culture to explain how artists used complex systems of mass production to assemble extraordinary objects from standardized parts or modules. He reveals how these systems have deep roots in Chinese thought and reflect characteristically Chinese modes of social organization. Combining invaluable aesthetic and cultural insights with a rich variety of illustrations, Ten Thousand Things make a profound statement about Chinese art and society.
Vanishing into Things
Barry Allen
Author : Barry Allen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674286467
Vanishing into Things by Barry Allen Pdf
Barry Allen explores the concept of knowledge in Chinese thought over two millennia and compares the different philosophical imperatives that have driven Chinese and Western thought. Challenging the hyperspecialized epistemology of modern Western philosophy, he urges his readers toward an ethical appreciation of why knowledge is worth pursuing.
Things Chinese
Feibao Du,Bai Du
Author : Feibao Du,Bai Du
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106016907930
Things Chinese by Feibao Du,Bai Du Pdf
Offers visitors to China information on contemporary Chinese culture and folklore including ancient relics, architecture, clothing, food, entertainment, and medicine among other topics.
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Zhiping Zhou,夏岩,Meow Hui Goh
Author : Zhiping Zhou,夏岩,Meow Hui Goh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0691090483
éñéñ by Zhiping Zhou,夏岩,Meow Hui Goh Pdf
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Things Chinese
J. Dyer Ball
Author : J. Dyer Ball
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783846049259
Things Chinese by J. Dyer Ball Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1900.
Things Chinese
James Dyer Ball
Author : James Dyer Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020074717
Things Chinese by James Dyer Ball Pdf
The Lives of Chinese Objects
Louise Tythacott
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857452399
The Lives of Chinese Objects by Louise Tythacott Pdf
This is the biography of a set of rare Buddhist statues from China. Their extraordinary adventures take them from the Buddhist temples of fifteenth-century Putuo – China’s most important pilgrimage island – to their seizure by a British soldier in the First Opium War in the early 1840s, and on to a starring role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the 1850s, they moved in and out of dealers’ and antiquarian collections, arriving in 1867 at Liverpool Museum. Here they were re-conceptualized as specimens of the ‘Mongolian race’ and, later, as examples of Oriental art. The statues escaped the bombing of the Museum during the Second World War and lived out their existence for the next sixty years, dismembered, corroding and neglected in the stores, their histories lost and origins unknown. As the curator of Asian collections at Liverpool Museum, the author became fascinated by these bronzes, and selected them for display in the Buddhism section of the World Cultures gallery. In 2005, quite by chance, the discovery of a lithograph of the figures on prominent display in the Great Exhibition enabled the remarkable lives of these statues to be reconstructed.
Things Chinese
James Dyer Ball
Author : James Dyer Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020074725
Things Chinese by James Dyer Ball Pdf
Things Chinese
James Dyer Ball
Author : James Dyer Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:220524380
Things Chinese by James Dyer Ball Pdf
Things Chinese
J. Dyer (James Dyer) Ball
Author : J. Dyer (James Dyer) Ball
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1407702475
Things Chinese by J. Dyer (James Dyer) Ball Pdf
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The "Chinese" Way of Doing Things
Samuel Ling,Samuel D. Ling,Clarence Cheuk
Author : Samuel Ling,Samuel D. Ling,Clarence Cheuk
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1892632020
The "Chinese" Way of Doing Things by Samuel Ling,Samuel D. Ling,Clarence Cheuk Pdf
We are pleased to launch this series of books to help Christian leaders, missionaries, international student ministers, seminarians, and mission-minded Christians understand the complex relationship between the Christian gospel and Chinese culture.
Cities of Others
Xiaojing Zhou
Author : Xiaojing Zhou
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780295805429
Cities of Others by Xiaojing Zhou Pdf
Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - depict urban settings. Zhou goes beyond examining popular portrayals of Chinatowns by paying equal attention to life in other parts of the city. Her innovative and wide-ranging approach sheds new light on the works of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American writers who bear witness to a variety of urban experiences and reimagine the American city as other than a segregated nation-space. Drawing on critical theories on space from urban geography, ecocriticism, and postcolonial studies, Zhou shows how spatial organization shapes identity in the works of Sui Sin Far, Bienvenido Santos, Meena Alexander, Frank Chin, Chang-rae Lee, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others. She also shows how the everyday practices of Asian American communities challenge racial segregation, reshape urban spaces, and redefine the identity of the American city. From a reimagining of the nineteenth-century flaneur figure in an Asian American context to providing a framework that allows readers to see ethnic enclaves and American cities as mutually constitutive and transformative, Zhou gives us a provocative new way to understand some of the most important works of Asian American literature.
