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Academies and Society in Southern Sung China
Author | : Linda A. Walton |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824819620 |
Academies were part of the educational institutions of the Sung (960-1279), an era in China marked by profound changes in economy, technology, thought, and social and political order. This study explains the phenomenon in the light of the changes in society and in intellectual circles.
Understanding Canton
Author | : Virgil K. Y. Ho |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199282714 |
By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.
Possessing the Past
Author | : 國立故宮博物院 |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0810964945 |
A major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Beyond Representation
Author | : Wen Fong |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Calligraphy, Chinese |
ISBN | : 0300057016 |
Beyond Representation surveys Chinese painting and calligraphy from the eighth to the fourteenth century, a period during which Chinese society and artistic expression underwent profound changes. A fourteenth-century Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368) literati landscape painting presents a world that is totally different from that portrayed in the monumental landscape images of the early Sung dynasty (960 - 1279). To chronicle and explain the evolution from formal representation to self-expression is the purpose of this book. Wen C. Fong, one of the world's most eminent scholars of Chinese art, takes the reader through this evolution, drawing on the outstanding collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Focusing on 118 works, each illustrated in full color, the book significantly augments the standard canon of images used to describe the period, enhancing our sense of the richness and complexity of artistic expression during this six-hundred-year era.
Granting the Seasons
Author | : Nathan Sivin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 663 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0387789561 |
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty years of devastating war. This book explains how and why, and reconstructs the observatory and the science that made it possible. For two thousand years, a fundamental ritual of government was the emperor’s “granting the seasons” to his people at the New Year by issuing an almanac containing an accurate lunisolar calendar. The high point of this tradition was the “Season-granting system” (Shou-shih li, 1280). Its treatise records detailed instructions for computing eclipses of the sun and moon and motions of the planets, based on a rich archive of observations, some ancient and some new. Sivin, the West’s leading scholar of the Chinese sciences, not only recreates the project’s cultural, political, bureaucratic, and personal dimensions, but translates the extensive treatise and explains every procedure in minimally technical language. The book contains many tables, illustrations, and aids to reference. It is clearly written for anyone who wants to understand the fundamental role of science in Chinese history. There is no comparable study of state science in any other early civilization.
China, Britain and Hong Kong, 1895-1945
Author | : Kit-ching Chan Lau |
Publisher | : Chinese University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789622014091 |
Daily Report
Author | : United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Education in Traditional China
Author | : Thomas H.C. Lee |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 2018-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004389555 |
This is the first comprehensive study in English on the social, institutional and intellectual aspects of traditional Chinese education. The book introduces the Confucian ideal of 'studying for one's own sake', but argues that various intellectual traditions combined to create China's educational legacy. The book studies the development of schools and the examination system, the interaction between state, society and education, and the vicissitudes of the private academies. It examines family education, life of intellectuals, and the conventions of intellectual discourse. It also discusses the formation of the tradition of classical learning, and presents the first detailed account of student movements in traditional China, with an extensive bibliography. While a general survey, this book includes various new ideas and inquiries. It concludes with a critical evaluation of China's rich educational experiences.
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Author | : East-West Center. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : East and West |
ISBN | : |