Collected Writings on Chinese Culture

Collected Writings on Chinese Culture
Author: Tsuen-hsuin Tsien
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9629964228

Focuses on such topics as Chinese documents, Chinese paper, ink-making, printing, cultural exchange, libraries, and biographies

Encountering the Chinese

Encountering the Chinese
Author: Cornelius Grove
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1473643708

Decode Chinese values and cultural norms while identifying cross-cultural factors that often lead to failed business negotiations with Encountering the Chinese. In this third edition, the advice and recommended skills enable Westerners and the Chinese to establish more effective and rewarding relationships, both inside and outside of the People's Republic of China.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture
Author: Edward Lawrence Davis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1158
Release: 2005
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 041577716X

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

中國文化叢談

中國文化叢談
Author: Vivian Ling
Publisher:
Total Pages: 231
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780887101915

Talks on Chinese Culture (TOCC) is a post-basic Chinese language textbook intended for students who possess solid mastery of at least two years of college-level Chinese. It is designed to serve as a bridge along the path from basic command to professional level functionality. TOCC takes the view that the student of Chinese needs to be conversant with both forms of the Chinese character: simplified and traditional/complex. Text materials are thus presented in both forms and in a manner which challenges the student to master both forms. The various topics presented in TOCC serve as vehicles for the mastery of the kind of basic vocabulary that characterizes the conversations and writings of educated Chinese speakers. TOCC is based on the widely-known Yale series of Chinese language texts, which even today retains an unsurpassed degree of correlation with currently used vocabulary and sentence patterns. However, students from different curricular backgrounds may also use this text with success. The goal of TOCC is to advance the student's skill levels in listening and speaking as well as reading and writing.

China's Cultural Relics

China's Cultural Relics
Author: Li Li
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521186560

China's Cultural Relics provides an illustrated introduction to ancient Chinese artifacts and the preservation of these relics in modern times.

Chinese History and Culture

Chinese History and Culture
Author: Ying-shih Yü
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2016-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231542003

The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes investigate two central questions through all aspects of Chinese life: what core values sustained this ancient civilization through centuries of upheaval, and in what ways did these values survive in modern times? From Ying-shih Yü's perspective, the Dao, or the Way, constitutes the inner core of Chinese civilization. His work explores the unique dynamics between Chinese intellectuals' discourse on the Dao, or moral principles for a symbolized ideal world order, and their criticism of contemporary reality throughout Chinese history. Volume 2 of Chinese History and Culture completes Ying-shih Yü's systematic reconstruction and exploration of Chinese thought over two millennia and its impact on Chinese identity. Essays address the rise of Qing Confucianism, the development of the Dai Zhen and Zhu Xi traditions, and the response of the historian Zhang Xuecheng to the Dai Zhen approach. They take stock of the thematic importance of Cao Xueqin's eighteenth-century masterpiece Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) and the influence of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People, as well as the radicalization of China in the twentieth century and the fundamental upheavals of modernization and revolution. Ying-shih Yü also discusses the decline of elite culture in modern China, the relationships among democracy, human rights, and Confucianism, and changing conceptions of national history. He reflects on the Chinese approach to history in general and the larger political and cultural function of chronological biographies. By situating China's modern encounter with the West in a wider historical frame, this second volume of Chinese History and Culture clarifies its more curious turns and contemplates the importance of a renewed interest in the traditional Chinese values recognizing common humanity and human dignity.

Chinese Furniture

Chinese Furniture
Author: Xiaoming Zhang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2011-03-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521186463

This book provides an accessible, illustrated introduction to the long history, production techniques and cultural significance of Chinese furniture.

Keywords in Chinese Culture

Keywords in Chinese Culture
Author: Li Wai-yee
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2019-12-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9882371191

Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453-V221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 6th?V18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What sort of resonance and reverberations do we expect a keyword to have? How much does the semantic range of a keyword explain its significance? What kinds of arguments does it generate? What are the stories told to illustrate its meanings? What are political and intellectual implications of the keyword's reevaluation? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages? Throughout Chinese history, new ideas and new approaches often mean reinterpreting important words; rupture, continuities, and inflection points are inseparable from the linguistic history of specific terms. The premise of this book is that taking the long view and encompassing different disciplines yield new insights and unexpected connections. The authors, who come from the fields of history,

An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family

An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family
Author: Howard Giskin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2001-07-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780791450475

An Introduction to Chinese Culture through the Family covers a central element of Chinese culture, the idea of family, or jia. Written for both beginners and specialists, this book considers the role of family--literally, metaphorically, and as an organizing principle--in the creation of the Chinese worldview. Individual chapters explore philosophy, art, language, music, folk literature, fiction, architecture, film, and women and gender.