Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China, Paperback - Craig Clunas

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...

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...

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

Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how...

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...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, village...

The Early Mediterranean Village: Agency, Material Culture, and Social Change in Neolithic Italy - John Robb

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced a...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 41 Illustrations, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 233 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(...

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Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to under...

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

Reducere. Unconventional and provocative, My Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement...

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Christine M. E. GuthIllustration(s): 40 color illustrations, 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of page...

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This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conferences sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at t...

Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between ...

In 1850, China was the 'sick man of Asia'. Now it is set to become the most powerful nation on earth.The Penguin History of Modern China shows how ...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where qu...

Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the archetypal queens of Weste...

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts. There are infinite ways for things t...

This interdisciplinary edited collection draws early modern art and material culture into the discussion of the "oceanic turn" in cultural studies,...

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The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

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

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imaginati...

Illustrates the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes -- .

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

Bringing together intellectual history, international political thought and international law, Schroeder explores the extent to which seventeenth-c...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkl...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

Chinese Asianism analyzes Chinese views of East Asian solidarity in light of Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese relations. Advocates of Asianism...

Recounting a walk of twenty miles across Beijing, Long Peace Street takes the reader on a journey through the city's recent history, explaining how...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Uses court records to re-evaluate women's economic roles in early modern Scotland. -- .

This book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the leading et...

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period. -- .

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

Reducere. The bestselling, comprehensive, and carefully researched guide to the ins-and-outs of the American class system with a detailed look at the definin...