Honor and Shame in Early China, Hardback - Mark Edward Lewis

Shedding new light on the history of the early Chinese empires, Mark Edward Lewis explores the evolution of ideas about honor and shame. He shows t...

In 221 BC the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In ...

After the collapse of the Han dynasty, China divided along a north-south line. Lewis traces the changes that underlay and resulted from this split ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Mark Edward LewisEditor: Timothy BrookThe Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age, " a period of commercial, relig...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book provides new insight into the creation of the Chinese empire by examining the changing forms of permitted violence--warfare, h...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 175 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 308 x 312 x 29Cover type: Hard...

In this book, researcher Matthew Gibson reviews the role of shame and pride in social work, providing invaluable new insights from the first study ...

Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading...

A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in nineteenth-century ChinaPub...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Unni WikanTranslator: Anna PatersonNumber of pages: 314Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to decons...

This book brings together studies conducted by researchers in East Asian countries who seek to better understand the impact of China's rise and the...

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressNumber of pages: 290Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackRede...

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Compiled in China in the fourth-third centuries BCE, The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to rule over society. In Yuri Pine...

Alexander Des Forges reads shiwen from a literary perspective, showing how the examination essay redefined prose aesthetics, transformed the work o...

Reducere. Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper rel...

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Reducere. An Honorific Gospel: Biblically Faithful & Culturally Relevant Christians engaged in communicating the gospel navigate a challenging tension: faith...

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First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.Illustrations: 1 Line drawings, black and white

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.Number of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 7Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Mich...

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

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

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From a master of the genre, Die of Shame is a chilling story of addiction, subterfuge, and murder.Every Monday evening, six people gather in a smar...

Publisher: North Star EditionsAuthor(s): Mark L. LewisNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x 236 x 10Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Reducere. One of the finest historians of her generation, Jan Ellen Lewis transformed our understanding of the early U.S. Republic. Her groundbreaking essays...

Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century, and features the ...

Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and socia...

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The preeminent historian Ying-shih Yu offers a magisterial examination of religious and cultural influences in the development of China's early mod...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): He BianIllustration(s): 9 b/w illus. 3 tables. 4 maps.Number of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dim...

Exciting investigations in northwest China are set to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Dael A. NorwoodIllustration(s): 21 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 312Collection: A...

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

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

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DescriptionInfused with clinical wisdom, this book describes a supportive group treatment approach for survivors just beginning to come to terms wi...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...