Zhou History Unearthed: The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography, Paperback - Yuri Pines

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. Why would anyone feel the need to polish a dragon? Well, you might, if you were making a 360-degree film about China and insisted that every shot o...

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

Reducere. The first volume of David M. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought offers a close study of Confucius, that tradition's proto-classicist....

Reducere. For thousands of years, the people of China have been enthralled and entertained by stories of real historical figures and events of the past, and ...

John Kieschnick provides an innovative, expansive account of how Chinese Buddhists have sought to understand their history through a Buddhist lens....

Reducere. The Revised Edition of A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions offers English translations and commentary on over eighty-two important...

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In November 2019, 30 famous poets from various countries will be in Hong Kong and ten cities in China afterwards to read their works based on the t...

Reducere. This is a true story about a black couple, Ella and Marion Auther, who had a dream of starting their own black resort during the time of segregatio...

Reducere. When Gao Wenqian first published this groundbreaking, provocative biography in Hong Kong, it was immediately banned in the People's Republic. Using...

Contributor(s): Author: Yuri SlezkineThis masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age--an...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Chenshu ZhouIllustration(s): 10 b-w illustrations, 1 map, 3 tablesNumber of pages: 282Publicati...

Examines the role of history in the study of media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historical...

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

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 ...

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

DescriptionModern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It explains the broad philosophical background...

Reducere. 'Early China' refers to the period from the beginning of human history in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. The roots of modern Chines...

With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for ...

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

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...

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. It s...

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

Reducere. We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African c...

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

Description'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especi...

This book, first published in 2003, is a detailed survey of book scripts used in western and central Europe from c.1100 to c.1530. Illustrated with...

Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWIIPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eric Beck R...

Examines the role of history in the study of media and of newness itself, discussing how the 'new' in new media must be understood to be historical...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...