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  • af Indiana) Wang & Aihe (Purdue University
    535,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    This radical reinterpretation of the formative stages of Chinese culture and history traces the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China's early empires. It crosses the disciplines of history, social anthropology, archaeology and philosophy to illustrate how cosmological systems shaped political culture.

  • - A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwel, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties
    af Hilary J. Beattie
    382,95 kr.

    This is a study of landholding, taxation and social structure in one county of central China that became famous in the Ming and Ch'ing periods for producing great officials and remarkable intellectual traditions. The primary aim of the author is to investigate the composition, organisation and economic basis of the local elite.

  • - Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941
    af Frederic & Jr. Wakeman
    474,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Between 1937 and 1941, terrorist wars broke out between Nationalist secret agents and the assassins of the Japanese military authorities who occupied most of Shanghai. The release of secret Chinese police files exposes the inner workings of these groups and their links to the Green Gang for the first time.

  • af Ira E. Kasoff
    498,95 kr.

    One of the major eleventh-century Chinese philosophers, Chang Tsai helped to reinvigorate Confucian thought. This book analyses in depth Chang's views of man, his nature and endowments, the cosmos, heaven and earth, the problems of learning and self-cultivation, the ideal of the sage - and how that ideal might be attained.

  • af Jo-Shui (Professor of History) Chen
    474,95 - 1.343,95 kr.

    This study offers an interpretation of the origins of the T'ang-Sung intellectual tradition.

  • - Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century
    af Pennsylvania) Clark & Hugh R. (Ursinus College
    591,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Community, Trade, and Networks traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth century, investigating the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and the expanding role of domestic and foreign trade.

  • af David (University of Delaware) Pong
    405,95 kr.

    A look at the life of Shen Pao-chen who devoted his life to building China's first modern naval dockyard and academy. His successes and failures shed new light on the story of China's efforts at modernisation.

  • af Chih-p'ing Chou
    405,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Professor Chou here offers a new perspective on the rise and fall of the Kung-an school as a key to understanding the development of Chinese literary criticism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His book focuses upon the literary theories of Yuan Hung-tao (1568-1610) and his two brothers.

  • - The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193
    af Vancouver) Schmidt & J. D. (University of British Columbia
    535,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda, one of the most famous Chinese poets. Along with translations of Fan Chengda's poetry, this 1992 book also contains a biography of the poet and a discussion of his relationship with poets of the generation before him, and discussion of the major themes of his work.

  • - Literary Greatness and Cultural Context
    af Eva Shan Chou
    511,95 - 1.392,95 kr.

    Tu Fu is, by universal consent, is the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition and the epitome of the Chinese moral conscience at its highest. Eva Shan Chou investigates the evolution of his stature as an icon, and provides translations of many poems, both well known and obscure.

  • - Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China
    af J. Y. (University of Sydney) Wong
    508,95 - 1.527,95 kr.

    Wong reveals the extent of Britain's reliance on the opium and tea trade with China, and argues that Victorian free trade ideology was a less decisive factor in the Arrow War (1856-60) than was Britain's economic struggle to support a vast colonial enterprise.

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