Download Full eBooks in PDF
Toward The Study Of The Sword As Dynastic Talisman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Toward The Study Of The Sword As Dynastic Talisman book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Helen Burwell Chapin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3510590
Author : Qian Sima,William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0253340225
This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi(The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 BC to ca. 100 BC) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In The Grand Scribe's Records, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalised the style of the annals he had written for previous rulers. Here are accounts of the peasant who founded the dynasty, Liu Pang, a man noted as much for his licentiousness as he was his ruthless political instinct, and of his cruel wife, Empress Lÿ, who murdered her chief rival for Liu Pang's affections in the most gruesome manner. The annals of two relatively undistinguished emperors follow. The volume concludes with Ssu-ma's depiction of perhaps the greatest ruler of the Han, Emperor Wu, told within the context of his delusive attempts to find a means to achieve immortality. When completed this translation will bring all 130 chapters of the Shih chi into English. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.
Author : Edward H. Schafer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520341142
In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the people of the T'ang empire. This book examines the exotics imported into China during the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), and depicts their influence on Chinese life. Into the land during the three centuries of T'ang came the natives of almost every nation of Asia, all bringing exotic wares either as gifts or as goods to be sold. Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girls—the author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry. This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject matter."
Author : University of California (1868-1952)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UCSF:31378008248901
Author : Suzanne Elizabeth Cahill
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804721122
Drawing on medieval Chinese poetry, fiction, and religious scriptures, this book illuminates the greatest goddess of Taoism and her place in Chinese society.
Author : Jue Chen
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211759845
Jue Chen's "Record of an Ancient Mirror" is a study on the "Gujing ji", one of the few extant texts of the early Tang dynasty (618-907) "chuanqi" fiction. It presents concrete research on the textual history and close reading of the work, against the background of detailed informational material regarding the historical careers of Wang Du and Wang Ji, as well as the intellectual context of Sui-Tang politics, philosophy, and religion. Based on that, Chen's analysis illuminates a broad range of fields: art history and the lore of medieval Buddhism and Daoism; the spiritual geography of China's "sacred mountains"; ancient Chinese medicine and occult arts; and other related topics. Like the text on which it is based, this study deals with a wide variety of seemingly disjointed elements. Yet they all come together in a comprehensive view of the workings of Tang "tales of the strange", and traditional Chinese fictional and historical narrative in general, with their frequent adumbration of historical and religious implications beyond the specific episodes presented.
Author : James Morris Hargett
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001636299
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017436218
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119278401
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UCLA:L0067357111
Author : Curtis W. Stucki
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Department of Fareastern Studies, Cornell University
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036633373
Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 6687 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1957-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781465538468
For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.
Author : James Frazer
Publisher : Litres
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040868049
Author : Michael Sims,Mitsue Frey
Publisher : [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Crossroads Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015011251074
Author : William Jay Youmans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3080868