The Culture of Language in Ming China. Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge, Paperback - Nathan Vedal

The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

Reducere. Although China and Japan have had virtually uninterrupted contact going back over many centuries, the lion's share of works addressing both China a...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Qitao GuoIllustration(s): 8 color illus.; 5 tables; 1 mapNumber of pages: 303Publication ...

Reducere. Now known to the Chinese as the ten years of chaos, the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution...

DescriptionThe discovery of sound laws by comparing attested languages is the method which has unlocked the history of European languages stretchin...

Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800-1127 CE) was marked by a xenoph...

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First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

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Reducere. KU HUNG-MING (1857--1928), the author of the Book "The Sprit of the Chinese People", one of his representative works written in English by him. He ...

Reducere. With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes. Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Str...

Reducere. The Jesuit mission to China more than four hundred years ago has been the subject of sustained scholarly investigation for centuries. Focusing on t...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Ming Dynasty, China, then keep reading..China is one of the longest settled areas of the...

Shows that foreign policy encounters between rising powers and Global South states do not necessarily exhibit the same logics, behaviors, or invest...

DescriptionThis distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the...

DescriptionIn the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature...

DescriptionDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from pop...

Reducere. This book is a collection of quiz questions and answers, full of interesting general knowledge, commonly heard trivia, and fascinating facts. If yo...

This volume traces the emergence of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis, and demonstrates how the radical, cross-disciplinary dialogues that form its foun...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simp...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

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My First Book of Chinese Words introduces young children to basic words and concepts in the Chinese language through colorful rhymes and beautiful ...

Reducere. ``Does what it sets out to do and serves as a Chinese history text teenagers might actually read.`` --Asian Review of Books on Division to Unificat...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Ulrich GutmairTranslator: Simon PareNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 142 x 208 x 21Cover typ...

Distillation of Sound traces the beginnings of dub music in Jamaica and how the culture is distilled throughout the world. It focuses on the analys...

Reducere. China's vast and ancient body of documented knowledge about plants includes horticultural manuals and monographs, comprehensive encyclopedias, geog...

The first full-scale discussion of English Phonology since Chomsky and Halle's The Sound Pattern of English, this is a thorough and engaging explor...

Reducere. The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the...

Leading historians, anthropologists, educators and designers explore the role of materiality in medical education. With a broad focus, internationa...

Rhetorical Animals explores what the study of communication and persuasion would look like if it included the voices of all persuasive species, fro...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as di...