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The Presence Of Peach Spring - Daoism, Ritual, And Locality

de Mark Meulenbeld

~~85,04€~~ 76,54€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork, Mark Meulenbeldâ€™s The Presence of Peach Spring reassesses Tao Qianâ€™s classic Daoist story â€œRecord of Peach Blossom Springâ€ through the category of the sacred and connects it to its geographic context and ritual referents in northern Hunan.
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Feeling The Past In Seventeenth-Century China

de Xiaoqiao Ling

174,90€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writersâ€™ memories during the Mingâ€"Qing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literatureâ€™s mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.
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Paradox Of Being - Truth, Identity, And Images In Daoism

de Poul Andersen

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 Through research into Daoist ritual in history and as it survives today, Andersen shows that the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way, and consists in seeking to be an exception to ordinary norms and rules of behavior which nonetheless engages what is common to us all.
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Performing Enlightenment - Buddhism And Theater In Early Modern China

de Mengxiao Wang

~~60,77€~~ 54,69€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries resolved their conflict between religion and worldly entertainment by transforming playwriting, stage performance, and theatergoing into a creative mode of devotional practice.
Dialogues In The Dark - Interpreting Â€Œheavenly Questionsâ€ Across Two Millennia

de Nicholas Morrow Williams

~~74,29€~~ 66,86€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem â€œHeavenly Questionsâ€ (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). Nicholas Morrow Williams analyzes how the poemâ€™s meaning evolved in different time periods and provides three new translations.
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Health And The Art Of Living: Illness Narratives In Early Medieval Chinese Literature

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Health And The Art Of Living: Illness Narratives In Early Medieval Chinese Literature

de Antje Richter

~~56,71€~~ 51,04€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200â€"ca. 600) through a range of literary sourcesâ€"essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious scriptures, and poetry; including works by Liu Xie and Xie Lingyun.
The Manchu Mirrors And The Knowledge Of Plants And Animals In High Qing China

de He Bian e Marten Soderblom Saarela

~~71,58€~~ 64,42€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century. Bian and SÃ¶derblom Saarela show how Qing lexicographical practices left a lasting impact on natural historical scholarship in the modern era.
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A Historical Taxonomy Of Talking Birds In Chinese Literature

de Wilt L. Idema

~~74,29€~~ 66,86€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema traces the development of the parrot and the mynah as characters in many forms of poetry and prose of Chinese elite literature, as well as in the long narrative ballads of traditional popular literature.
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The Collapse Of Heaven - The Taiping Civil War And Chinese Literature And Culture, 1850â€“1880

de Huan Jin

~~67,53€~~ 60,78€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War (1851â€"1864). Huan Jin examines manifold literary and cultural transformations through pamphlets, diaries, poetry, fiction, and drama. The book offers an important comparative perspective on the global nineteenth century.
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Dreaming And Self-Cultivation In China, 300 Bceâ€“800 Ce

de Robert Ford Campany

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 In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCEâ€"800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.
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Genealogy And Status - Hereditary Office Holding And Kinship In North China Under Mongol Rule

de Tomoyasu Iiyama

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 By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called â€œgenealogical stelesâ€ that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271â€"1368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles and kinship through their own cultural tradition.
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Chinese History

de Endymion Wilkinson

51,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.
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Chinese History

de Endymion Wilkinson

51,31€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.
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Localizing Learning - The Literati Enterprise In Wuzhou, 1100â€“1600

de Peter K. Bol

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 The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces how debates over the relative value of cultural accomplishment and political service unfolded locally. Close readings and quantitative analysis of social networks consider why and how the local literati enterprise was built.
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Ethnic Chrysalis - Chinaâ€™S Orochen People And The Legacy Of Qing Borderland Administration

de Loretta E. Kim

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 Ethnic Chrysalis is the first book in English to cover the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas now belonging to the Russian Federation and the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China. Kim examines how the impact of political organization in one era can endure in a groupâ€™s social and cultural values.
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Just A Song - Chinese Lyrics From The Eleventh And Early Twelfth Centuries

de Stephen Owen

56,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 â€œSong Lyric,â€ ci, is one of the most loved forms of Chinese poetry, radically distinct from â€œClassical Poetry,â€ shi. Stephen Owen examines song lyricâ€™s literary traditions, including its origins, major writers and collections, and development into a genre, while offering a new hypothesis on the relationship between song practice and written text.
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Building For Oil - Daqing And The Formation Of The Chinese Socialist State

de Li Hou

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 Building for Oil is a historical account of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People's Republic and describes Daqing's rise and fall as a national model city. Hou Li traces the roots of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies.
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After The Prosperous Age - State And Elites In Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou

de Seunghyun Han

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 Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of â€œstate activismâ€ and often associate the Taiping Rebellion and postbellum restoration efforts with the origins of elite activism. Seunghyun Han, however, argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century.
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The Burden Of Female Talent - The Poet Li Qingzhao And Her History In China

de Ronald C. Egan

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 An exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were men, the woman poet Li Qingzhao (1084â€"1150s) occupies a crucial place in Chinese literature. Ronald C. Egan challenges conventional thinking about Li, examining how critics tried to accommodate her to cultural norms from late imperial times into the twentieth century.
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Cherishing Antiquity - The Cultural Construction Of An Ancient Chinese Kingdom

de Olivia Milburn

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 The rapid rise and fall of the southern kingdom of Wu inspired many memorials in the former capital city of Suzhou, including the building of temples, shrines, and monuments. Analyzing the history of Wu as recorded in ancient Chinese texts and literature, Olivia Milburn illuminates the cultural endurance of this powerful but short-lived kingdom.
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Readings In Chinese Literary Thought

de Stephen Owen

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 This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Châ€™ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature as well as theorists and scholars of other languages.
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Songs Of Contentment And Transgression - Discharged Officials And Literati Communities In Sixteenth-Century North China

de Tian Yuan Tan

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 This book explores three discharged Ming officials in the sixteenth centuryâ€"Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixianâ€"who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. As their efforts reveal, a disappointing end to an official career and a physical move away from the center led to their embrace and pursuit of a marginalized literary genre, qu.
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Â€˜Dividing The Realm In Order To Governâ€™ - The Spatial Organization Of The Song State (960â€“1276 Ce)

de Ruth Mostern

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 This book uses Song China to explain how a pre-industrial regime organized itself spatially in order to exercise authority. By detailing the relationship between the court and local administration, Mostern complicates the received paradigm of Song centralization and decentralization.
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Flourishing Fasts - Vegetarian Sects In Late Imperial And Modern Chinese Societies

de Nikolas Broy

74,16€

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 Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, â€œvegetarian sects,â€ that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in Taiwan today. Through historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Broy shows their engagement in political, economic, legal, and cultural affairs.
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