Androgyny in Late Ming and Early Qing Literature, Hardback - Zuyan Zhou

Zuyan Zhou offers an astute look at the concept of androgyny in key works of Chinese fiction and drama from the 16th to the 18th centuries. This st...

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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...

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Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions. He develo...

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...

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...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Freya JohnstonIllustration(s): 31 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

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...

China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and...

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.Publisher: Getty Trust Publication...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...

An illustrated look at the Routemaster which is an iconic London bus, recognised around the world, from the late 1970s to early 1980.

Reducere. Istoria Turpanului mi-a aprins iubirea arzatoare pentru orasul meu natal. Asemenea unui burete care absoarbe apa, am surprins cu aparatul de fotogr...

The rise of the first dinosaurs is the story of opportunity and evolutionary innovation. This title explores the roots of the dinosaur family tree ...

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There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the c...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, a conviction that China was somehow weaker than other political states in Asia and the West spread acros...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ai QingTranslator: Robert DorsettNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 18Cover ...

Reducere. The revival of the Olympic games in 1896 and the subsequent rise of modern athletics prompted a new, energetic movement away from more sedentary ha...

This book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province o...

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism and heritage protection have formed a productive alliance for the transformation of inner-city distri...

Ron Castleman has done us all a great service in writing "Julip". In recording his memories and in clarifying them with careful research, he has gi...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that ...

The papers in Karia and the Dodekanese Vol. I focus on regional developments and interregional relations in western Asia Minor and the Dodekanese d...

Based on China's most famous online crime serial, a killer crowd-sources his victims, playing a deadly but ingenious game of cat-and-mouse with the...

Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

Publisher: Graffeg LimitedAuthor(s): Qing Chao MaIllustration(s): 270 illustrationsNumber of pages: 276Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 262 x 251 ...

Reducere. This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data ...

The saga of Sword Art Online continues with three side stories set during the Aincrad and Alfheim eras. The game of death took its toll on every pl...

By deploying time series analysis, Fourier transform, functional analysis, min-plus convolution, and fractional order systems and noise, this book ...

Sarmatian cemeteries from Banat (late 1st – early 5th centuries AD) - Lavinia Grumeza

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

Publisher: ACA Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): Zhou DaxinTranslator: Haiwang YuanPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 149 x 37Cover type: HardbackR...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xinfeng ZhouAuthor: Sameer JainActive Equity Management provides a comprehensive understanding of technical, fundamental, a...

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The biblical book of Genesis stands nearly without parallel in the shared history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this book stud...

Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...