Emperor Of China Self Portrait Of Kang Hsi
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Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307823067 |
A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Author | : Kangxi (Emperor of China) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393307801 |
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
Author | : Michael Dillon |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780700704392 |
This new reference work contains approximately 1500 entries covering Chinese civilisation from Peking Man to the present day. Subjects include history, politics, art, archaeology, and literature to name but a few.
Author | : Frederic Wakeman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0029336805 |
From Simon & Schuster, The Fall of Imperial China is Frederic Wakeman, Jr.'s exploration of Imperial China—both its astronomic rise and steep decline. From the Introduction: "Historians of modern China are used to contrasting the dizzying changes in post-renaissance Europe with the glacial creep of Confucian civilization. The West's global expansion to new vistas of discovery thus distorts our perspective of those older worlds that resisted European conquest. The most tenacious of these ancient civilizations was the Chinese empire."
Author | : Stephen A. Wadley |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Manchu literature |
ISBN | : 9783447052269 |
Majority of the papers presented at the conference.
Author | : Norman A. Kutcher |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520969847 |
Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule offers a new interpretation of eunuchs and their connection to imperial rule in the first century and a half of the Qing dynasty (1644–1800). This period encompassed the reigns of three of China’s most important emperors, men who were deeply affected by the great eunuch corruption of the fallen Ming dynasty. In this groundbreaking and deeply researched book, the author explores how Qing emperors sought to prevent a return of the harmful excesses of eunuchs and how eunuchs flourished in the face of the restrictions imposed upon them. We meet powerful eunuchs who faithfully served, and in some cases ultimately betrayed, their emperors. We also meet ordinary eunuchs whose lives, punctuated by dramas large and small, provide a fascinating perspective on the Qing palace world.
Author | : Dominic Ziegler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1594203679 |
Black Dragon River recounts a personal journey down one of Asia's great rivers. The world's ninth largest river, the Amur serves as a large part of the border between Russia and China. As a crossroads for the great empires of Asia, this area offers Economist journalist Dominic Ziegler a lens with which to examine the societies at Europe's only borderland with East Asia. Part travel writing, part history, it reveals how the long shared history on the Amur has conditioned the way China and Russia behave toward each other.
Author | : Ruth W. Dunnell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2004-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134362226 |
New Qing Imperial History uses the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911). Well-known contributors argue that the Qing was not simply another Chinese dynasty, but was deeply engaged in Inner Asia not only militarily, but culturally, politically and ideologically. Emphasizing the diverse range of peoples in the Qing empire, this book analyzes the importance to Chinese history of Manchu relations with Tibetan prelates, Mongolian chieftains, and the Turkic elites of Xinjiang. In offering a new appreciation of a culturally and politically complex period, the authors discuss the nature and representation of emperorship, especially under Qianlong (r. 1736-1795), and examine the role of ritual in relations with Inner Asia, including the vaunted (but overrated) tribute system. By using a specific artifact or text as a starting point for analysis in each chapter, the contributors not only include material previously unavailable in English but allow the reader an intimate knowledge of life at Chengde and its significance to the Qing period as a whole.
Author | : Eric Reinders |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2015-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474227295 |
The most common Buddhist practice in Asia is bowing, yet Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem is the first study of Buddhist obeisance in China. In Confucian ritual, everyone is supposed to kowtow, or bow, to the Chinese emperor. But Buddhists claimed exemption from bowing to any layperson, even to their own parents or the emperor. This tension erupted in an imperial debate in 662. This study first asks how and why Buddhists should bow (to the Buddha, and to monks), and then explores the arguments over their refusing to bow to the emperor. These arguments take us into the core ideas of Buddhism and imperial power: How can one achieve nirvana by bowing? What is a Buddha image? Who is it that bows? Is there any ritual that can exempt a subject of the emperor? What are the limits of the state's power over human bodies? Centuries later, Christians had a new set of problems with bowing in China, to the emperor and to “idols.” Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow problem compares these cases of refusing to bow, discusses modern theories of obeisance, and finally moves to examine some contemporary analogies such as refusing to salute the American flag. Contributing greatly to the study of the body and power, ritual, religion and material culture, this volume is of interest to scholars and students of religious studies, Buddhism, Chinese history and material culture.