Within The Four Seas

Author : Ulrich Libbrecht
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9042918128

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Within the Four Seas-- by Ulrich Libbrecht Pdf

Our world has evolved in such a way that we can no longer reduce it to just a market - it has also become an agora, where philosophers exchange world-views in order to understand one another. Europe has lost its position at the centre of the world and should stop pretending it holds the one true religion, philosophy, economy and science. Instead, we should turn our attention to fulfilling the dream of Erasmus reflected in his statement: "I wish to be a citizen of the world". First and foremost, we should learn to play fair when comparing different cultures and not rely on exlusively western criteria. This book explains how a comparative model, based on the paradigm-free axes of energy and information, accommodates the current world-views of Taoism, Buddhism and Rationalism - representing Chinese, Indian and Western heritages respectively - and shows how science and religion interrelate within such a global framework.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136574696

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Within the Four Seas by Joseph Needham Pdf

First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems. The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests that the events of the twentieth century were a natural development of Chinese history, not a deviation from it.

Author : Veronica Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1931907439

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Journey Across the Four Seas by Veronica Li Pdf

This is a true and touching story of one Chinese woman's search for home. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became one of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China's finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She thought she had found the ideal husband, but soon discovered that he suffered from emotional disorders caused by family conflicts and the wars he had grown up in. Whenever he had a breakdown, Flora would move the family to another city, from Shanghai to Nanking to Hong Kong to Bangkok to Taipei and finally across the four seas to the U.S. Throughout her migrations, Flora kept her sight on one goal-providing her children with the best possible education. Author of a thriller, Nightfall in Mogadishu, Veronica Li grew up mostly in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. with her parents at fifteen. She has a B.A. in English from University of California, Berkeley and a master's in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. Li was a journalist for seven years, working for the Asian Wall Street Journal and other news organizations. She later joined the World Bank, for which she traveled extensively and got her inspiration for her novel and other writings. Her most recent book is a novel called Confucius Says.

Author : Hsin-hai Chang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : East and West
ISBN : WISC:89069702751

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Within the Four Seas by Hsin-hai Chang Pdf

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : China
ISBN : LCCN:77440120

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Within the Four Seas by Joseph Needham Pdf

Author : Joshua Henry Jones
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021933031

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Poems of Four Seas by Joshua Henry Jones Pdf

A collection of poetry that explores the natural world and the human experience, written by Joshua Henry Jones. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Louise Levathes
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504007368

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When China Ruled the Seas by Louise Levathes Pdf

One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.

Author : Chunming Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811640797

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The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China by Chunming Wu Pdf

This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their cultural interaction with the northern Huaxia (华夏) in early Chinese civilization within the geopolitical order of the “Central State-Four Peripheries Barbarians-Four Seas”. Archaeological typologies of the prehistoric remains reveal a unique cultural tradition dominantly originating from the local Paleolithic age and continuing to early Neolithization across this border region. Further analysis of material culture from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age proves the stability and resilience of the indigenous cultures even with the migratory expansion of Huaxia and Han (汉) from north to south. Ethnographical investigations of aboriginal heritage highlight their native cultural context, seafaring technology and navigation techniques, and their interaction with Austronesian and other foreign maritime ethnicities. In a word, this manuscript presents a new perspective on the unique cultural landscape of indigenous ethnicities in southeast China with thousands of years’ stable tradition, a remarkable maritime orientation and overseas cultural hybridization in the coastal region of southeast China.

Author : Heather M. Wysocki
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625840806

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Four Seas Ice Cream by Heather M. Wysocki Pdf

For over 75 years, Four Seas Ice Cream, located in Centerville, Massachusetts, has not only been Cape Cod's favorite ice cream shop, it has also been a destination for people from across the nation and the world. The proposed History Press publication will include the history of Four Seas as well as tidbits about what makes it special from its famous fans to its local high-school employees who come back year after year to work at the tiny, seven-table shop that attracts tens of thousands of customers each summer. The book will also explain why they never, ever put sprinkles onto their ice cream; why a frappe is NOT a milkshake; why their medium-size ice cream cone is shaped like a triangle; and why vanilla is still their most popular flavor.

Author : Bettis Alston Garside
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : OCLC:1122800361

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Within the Four Seas by Bettis Alston Garside Pdf

Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Submarines (Ships)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1INV

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne Pdf

Author : Ko-lin Chin
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765612208

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Heijin by Ko-lin Chin Pdf

Black-gold politics, or heijin, refers to the infiltration of violent racketeers and self-serving businessmen into the political arenas of Taiwan. In Heijin, Ko-Lin Chin examines the structure and illegal activities of organised crime groups in Taiwan and he explores the intricate triangular relationship among businessmen, underworld figures, and government officials and elected deputies. This study adds to our understanding of the social and political contexts of organized crime and the development and impact of black-gold politics in Taiwan.

Author : J.G. Cheock
Publisher : J.G. Cheock
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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China Myth or History? by J.G. Cheock Pdf

Viewing ancient China in world context, exploring the possibilities of international activities particularly in relation to the Philippines, during their classical dynasties based on the presence of abundant artifacts, ancient texts, and new archaeological discoveries.

Author : Yanwu Gu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231542678

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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays by Yanwu Gu Pdf

Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an introduction explaining the personal and political dimensions of the scholar's work. Gu Yanwu wrote the essays and poems featured in this volume while traveling across China during the decades immediately after the fall of the Ming Dynasty. They merge personal observation with rich articulations of Confucian principles and are, as Gu said, "not old coin but copper dug from the hills." Like many of his contemporaries, Gu Yanwu believed the Ming Dynasty had suffered from an overconcentration of power in its central government and recommended decentralizing authority while strengthening provincial self-government. In his introduction, Ian Johnston recounts Gu Yanwu's personal history and reviews his published works, along with their scholarly reception. Annotations accompany his translations, and a special essay on feudalism by Tang Dynasty poet and scholar Liu Zongyuan (773–819) provides insight into Gu Yanwu's later work on the subject.

Author : Paul Greenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781101442296

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Four Fish by Paul Greenberg Pdf

“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna. Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg reveals our damaged relationship with the ocean and its inhabitants. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex marketplace. Four Fish offers a way for us to move toward a future in which healthy and sustainable seafood is the rule rather than the exception.