Friendship and Hospitality: The Jesuit-Confucian Encounter in Late Ming China, Paperback - Dongfeng Xu

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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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...

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

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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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly t...

Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yua...

This book analyses China's approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of C...

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly...

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support la...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susanne HohlerNumber of pages: 272Collection: Library of Modern RussiaPublication date: 2016Dimensio...

Comprising a detailed study of more than 30 projects, Digital Architecture in China provides a comprehensive overview of how digital architecture i...

This book addresses the dynamics of China's grain production, consumption and trade with a particular emphasis on China's demand for feedgrain vis-...

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

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A brilliantly fun search-and-find puzzle book for children from 6+, developed in consultation with the British Museum!Tom's not only lost in time, ...

This book forges a link between residential CO2 emissions and time use, focussing on China as a key case study. Residential Electricity Consumption...

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

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...

DescriptionWisdom from the East ...for Living in the West. Discover the foundation behind this fascinating system of holistic health based on sever...

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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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Contributor(s): Author: Mark C. ElliottIn 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's rude northeastern frontier, overthrew t...

Architecture can revitalize, spark rural self-confidence, and turn wasteland into a welcoming space--and it can do it at a low cost. This is the mi...

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Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, ...

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

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

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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

This expanded second edition includes many more gentle Qigong exercises and soothing Qigong massage techniques to ease your back pain, strengthen y...

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...

Reducere. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing th...

A thousand-year history of how China's obsession with silver influenced the country's financial well-being, global standing, and political stability

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...

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

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Philip J. IvanhoeNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2002Dimensions: 215 x 142 x 14Cover type: Pa...

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Reducere. The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and...

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