The Culture of Love in China and Europe

The Culture of Love in China and Europe
Author: Paolo Santangelo
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 839
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004397833

In The Culture of Love in China and Europe Paolo Santangelo and Gábor Boros offer a survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century. They describe parallel evolutions within the two cultures, and how innovatively these independent civilisations developed their own categories and myths to explain, exalt but also control the emotions of love and their behavioural expressions. The analyses contain rich materials for comparison, point out the universal and specific elements in each culture, and hint at differences and resemblances, without ignoring the peculiar beauty and attractive force of the texts cultivating love.

Love Never Ends

Love Never Ends
Author: Sui BingBing
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636894844

Four years ago, she had pretended to commit suicide while pregnant and disappeared from his world. Four years later, in order to treat her child's illness, she met him and fell in love with him again.

His Stubbornship: Prime Minister Wang Anshi (1021--1086), Reformer and Poet

His Stubbornship: Prime Minister Wang Anshi (1021--1086), Reformer and Poet
Author: Jonathan O. Pease
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 677
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004469257

China’s most controversial prime minister, path-breaking reformer, and an iconic Song-dynasty poet, Wang Anshi (1021—1086) is fully chronicled in English for the first time in almost a century, with a new emphasis on his luminous late verse.

A Dialogue Between Law and History

A Dialogue Between Law and History
Author: Baosheng Zhang
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9811596859

This book builds on the success of the First International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue between Law and Philosophy (Shanghai, China, May 2016), which was co-hosted by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization (CICJC) and East China Normal University. The Second International Conference on Facts and Evidence: A Dialogue between Law and History was jointly organized by the CICJC, the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science (ELFS) at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), and Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL) in Shenzhen, China, on November 16–17, 2019. Historians, legal scholars and legal practitioners share the same interest in ascertaining the “truth” in their respective professional endeavors. It is generally recognized that any historical study without truthful narration of historical events is fiction and that any judicial trial without accurate fact-finding is a miscarriage of justice. In both historical research and the judicial process, practitioners are invariably called upon, before making any arguments, to prove the underlying facts using evidence, regardless of how the concept is defined or employed in different academic or practical contexts. Thus, historians and legal professionals have respectively developed theories and methodological tools to inform and explain the process of gathering evidentiary proof. When lawyers and judges reconsider the facts of cases, “questions of law” are actually a subset of “questions of fact,” and thus, the legal interpretation process also involves questions of “historical fact.” The book brings together more than twenty leading history and legal scholars from around the world to explore a range of issues concerning the role of facts as evidence in both disciplines. As such, the book is of enduring value to historians, legal scholars and everyone interested in truth-seeking.

Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds

Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds
Author: Hyunhee Park
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107018684

This book documents the relationship and wisdom of Asian cartographers in the Islamic and Chinese worlds before the Europeans arrived.

On Their Own Terms

On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674036476

In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.

Rethinking China's Rise

Rethinking China's Rise
Author: Jilin Xu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108470750

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu's essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China's rise.

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II
Author: Lily Xiao Hong Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317515625

This volume of the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women completes the four-volume project and contains more than 400 biographies of women active in the Tang through Ming dynasties (618-1644). Many of the entries are the result of original research and provide the only substantial information on women available in English. Of note is the inclusion of a large number of women who reached positions of authority during this period as well as women artists and writers, especially poets, during this period of increased female literacy and more liberal social attitudes to women's cultural roles. Wherever possible, entries incorporate translations of poems and sometimes prose works so as to let the women speak for themselves. The book also includes a multitude of entertainers and actresses. The volume includes a Guide to Chinese Words Used, a Chronology of Dynasties and Major Rulers, a Finding List by Background or Fields of Endeavor, and a Glossary of Chinese Names. It will prove to be a useful tool for research and teaching.

The Culture of Love in China and Europe

The Culture of Love in China and Europe
Author: Paolo Santangelo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Chinese literature
ISBN: 9789004396869

The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century.

Here in 'China' I Dwell

Here in 'China' I Dwell
Author: Zhaoguang Ge
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2017-08-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004279997

Here in ‘China’ I Dwell is a historiographical account of the formation of Chinese historical narratives in light of outside pressures on China — the view from China’s borders. There is a special discussion of the inf luence of Japanese historians on the concept of China and its borders, including the nature of their sources, cultural and religious and more. In Ge’s comparative account, a new portrait of Chinese historical narratives, along with the views and assumptions implicit in these narrat ives, emerges in the context of East Asia, a similarly constructed concept with its own multitudes of frontiers and peoples.