Critical Readings on Tang China

Critical Readings on Tang China
Author: Paul W. Kroll
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004380159

The Tang dynasty, lasting from 618 to 907, was the high point of medieval Chinese history, featuring unprecedented achievements in governmental organization, economic and territorial expansion, literature, the arts, and religion. Many Tang practices continued, with various developments, to influence Chinese society for the next thousand years. For these and other reasons the Tang has been a key focus of Western sinologists. This volume presents English-language reprints of fifty-seven critical studies of the Tang, in the three general categories of political history, literature and cultural history, and religion. The articles and book chapters included here are important scholarly benchmarks that will serve as the starting-point for anyone interested in the study of medieval China.

The Chinese Rime Tables

The Chinese Rime Tables
Author: David Prager Branner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027247854

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Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology

Problems in Comparative Chinese Dialectology
Author: David Prager Branner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783110158311

This book discusses the methodology of systematic Chinese Dialect classification, with particular attention to the conservative Miin and Hakka groups spoken in southern China. The primary linguistic methodology employed is the historical-comparative method, and the dialects chosen as examples of classification are those spoken in and around the township of Wann'an in western Fukien's Longyan country. The book features extensive comparative tables of dialect forms, and a two-hundred page appendix outlining the diasystem of the four principal Wann'an dialects.

Unearthing Bon Treasures

Unearthing Bon Treasures
Author: Dan Martin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004121232

This unprecedented account of one of the earliest Tibetan treasure revealers also seeks to understand the role social or familial interests and sectarian polemic have played in perpetuating and transforming the textual narratives about him.

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
Author: Philip Boas Yampolsky
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 1967
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780231083614

A definitive English translation of the Platform Sutra. Includes a detailed historical introduction on the history and legends of Ch'an Buddhism, and discussions and analysis of the Platform Sutra.

Buddhism in China

Buddhism in China
Author: Kenneth Kuan Sheng Ch'en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0691216053

CONTENTS: Preface. Table of Chinese Dynasties. Maps of Dynasties. Introduction, Growth and Domestication. Maturity and Acceptance. Decline. Conclusion. Glossary. Chinese Names and Titles. Bibliography. Index.

ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 28

ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES 28
Author: Ian G Baird
Publisher: ASIAN HIGHLANDS PERSPECTIVES
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

AHP's 2013 annual collection contains 5 original research articles, 7 new pieces of fiction, & 20 reviews of recent books. ARTICLES Ian G Baird-Shifting Contexts & Performances: The Brao-Kavet & Their Sacred Mountains in Northeast Cambodia Dpa' mo skyid-The 'Descent of Blessings': Ecstasy & Revival among the Tibetan Bon Communities of Reb gong Gerong Pincuo & Henrëtte Daudey-Too Much Loving-kindness to Repay: Funeral Speeches of the Wenquan Pumi Wang Shiyong-Towards a Localized Development Approach for Tibetan Areas in China. William Noseworthy-The Cham's First Highland Sovereign-Po Romé (r. 1627-1651) FICTION Bsod nams 'gyur med-Folktales from Gcig sgril Lhundrom-Longing for Snow-covered Peaks: Deity Possession in the Philippines Thub bstan-Elopement Ba Lobsang Gonbo-Love in Shambala Pad+ma skyabs-The Price of a Thesis Pad ma rin chen-Scattered Memories of a Misspent Youth & Conflict REVIEWS Review - Scripture of the Ten Kings (305-313) Nietupski, Paul Review - Tibet: A History (315-317) Vargas-O'Bryan, Ivette Review - Mongolian Language Scholarship on the Mongols of the Gansu-Qinghai Region (319-327) Balogh, Mátyás Review - China's Environmental Challenges (329-338) Bleisch, Bill Review - Le bergers du Fort Noir (339-341) Buffetrille, Katia Review - Islam and Tibet (343-347) Chaudhry, Faisal Review - The Art of Not Being Governed (349-355) Grant, Andrew Review - Recent Research on Ladakh (357-361) Singh, Binod Review - Revisiting Rituals in a Changing Tibetan World (363-369) Kilby, Christina Review - Japanese-Mongolian Relations (371-373) Reid, Anja Review - China's 'Tibetan' Frontiers (375-380) Weiner, Benno Review - Drokpa (381-385) Beebe, Ligaya Review - Transforming Nomadic Resource Management and Livelihood Strategies (387-392) Winkler, Daniel Review - Explorers and Scientists in China's Borderlands (393-396) Rohlf, Gregory Review - Origins and Migrations in the Extended Eastern Himalayas (397-403) Hayes, Jack Review - The Sherthukpens of Arunachal Pradesh (405-411) Weedall, Christopher Review - Critical Han Studies (413-417) Ye, Zhiguo Review - Trade and Society along the Ancient Silk Road (419-422) Sengar, Bina Review - Emerging Bon (423-449) Zeisler, Bettina Free download of entire volume here http://www.plateauculture.org/writing/ahp-28-entire-volume At-cost hardcover:http://www.lulu.com/shop/various/ahp-28/hardcover/product-21362829.html

Military Thought in Early China

Military Thought in Early China
Author: Christopher C. Rand
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438465181

This study of the philosophy of war in early China examines the recurring debate, from antiquity through the Western Han period (202 BCE–8 CE), about how to achieve a proper balance between martial (wu) force and civil (wen) governance in the pursuit of a peaceful state. Rather than focusing solely on Sunzi's Art of War and other military treatises from the Warring States era (ca. 475–221 BCE), Christopher C. Rand analyzes the evolution of this debate by examining a broad corpus of early Han and pre-Han texts, including works uncovered in archeological excavations during recent decades. What emerges is a framework for understanding early China's military philosophy as an ongoing negotiation between three major alternatives: militarism, compartmentalism, and syncretism. Military Thought in Early China offers a look into China's historical experience with a perennial issue that is not only of continuing relevance to modern-day China but also pertinent to other world states seeking to sustain strong and harmonious societies.

Reform in China

Reform in China
Author: Noriko Kamachi
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1684172292

This work describes the career of Huang Tsun-hsien. a late Ch'ing diplomat, bureaucrat, and political thinker, who was one of the f i r s t modern Chinese. i n t e l l e c t u a l s that s e r i o u s l y recommended Meiji Japan as a model of modernization for China, His study on Japanese history became the blueprint for the Hundred Days Reform in 1898.

What Is Taoism?

What Is Taoism?
Author: Herrlee Glessner Creel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1982-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226120473

What Is Taoism? traces, in nontechnical language, the history of the development of this often baffling doctrine. Creel shows that there has not been one "Taoism," but at least three, in some respects incompatible and often antagonistic. In eight closely related papers, Creel explicates the widely used concepts he originally introduced of "contemplative Taoism," "purposive Taoism," and "Hsien Taoism." He also discusses Shen Pu-hai, a political philosopher of the fourth century B.C.; the curious interplay between Confucianism, Taoism, and "Legalism" in the second century B.C.; and the role of the horse in Chinese history.