Author: Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Qing shi wen ti
The Emperor’s Four Treasuries
Author: R. Kent GuyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684172675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The compilation of the Complete Library of the Four Treasuries (Ssu-k'u ch' an-shu) was one of the most ambitious intellectual projects of the Ch'ing dynasty. Initiated by imperial command in 1772, the project sought to evaluate, edit, and reproduce the finest Chinese writings in the four traditional categories: Confucian classics, histories, philosophy, and belles lettres. The final products, created over a twenty-two year period, were an annotated catalog of some ten thousand titles and seven new manuscript libraries of nearly thirty-six hundred titles. The project had its darker side as well, for together with the evaluation of books there developed a campaign of censorship and proscription. Guy's study gives a balanced account of the project and its significance. Dozens of celebrated Chinese scholars willingly participated in the project, though it was sponsored by the Manchu emperor, and Guy explains their reasons for doing so. He also reconsiders the issue of censorship, arguing that it grew as much from tensions and jealousies within the intellectual elite as from imperial command. Guy's work will be useful to all those interested in the relationship between intellectuals and the state in late imperial China.
Chʻing-shih Wen-tʻi
Author: Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Mainland China, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
Author: Albert FeuerwerkerPublisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN: 9780674123014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- General Works -- The Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties -- The Republic -- Economic History -- Intellectual and Cultural History -- Reference Works -- List of Publishers -- Index.
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521320214
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology and deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the history of China. These operations are the basic techniques in the production of yarn and thread, pre-requisite to weaving, and any study of Chinese textile technology must start with the raw material obtained from fibre plants such as hemp, ramie, jute, cotton, etc, and silk reeled off from cocoons of the domestic silkworm. The time-span covered runs from the neolithic to the nineteenth century. Archaeological and pictoral evidence, the bulk of it hitherto unpublished in the West, is brought together with Chinese textual sources (which are extensively translated and interpreted) to illustrate Chinese achievements in this field. Professor Kuhn's study reveals the way in which Chinese textile-technological inventiveness has influenced textile production in other regions of the world and in medieval Europe. It explains how textile technology reached its high point between the tenth and thirteenth centuries and attempts to indicate the reasons for its subsequent relative decline. The development of the textile industry in Europe was a key factor in the rise of capitalism. In the case of China after Sung times, textile technology and the organisation of textile labour may help indicate why such a development did not take place in China.
The West in Russia and China
Author: Donald W. TreadgoldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521085557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
National Polity and Local Power
Author: Tu-ki MinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170036
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Despite efforts to attain a more balanced approach, Western historians have largely interpreted China's modern period in terms of China's "response to the West." To a surprising extent, this bias has prevailed even among Chinese historians, for whom the reaction to imperialism has remained a dominant concept. This book, by a scholar who is neither Chinese nor Western,goes far to set the balance right. Min Tu-ki, Korea's leading Sinologist, shows how China's own internal agenda has conditioned Chinese political life during the transition to modernity. Min sets the stage with two chapters about Chinese scciety under Ch'ing rule, one on a Korean visitor's reaction to eighteeenth-century China, the other on the social condition of the lower gentry. Each casts new light on the Chinese elite and their relation to state power. The chapters that follow-particularly the discussion of "political feudalism"-examine the conceptual resources available within the Chinese tradition for coming to terms with modernity. Min's internalist approach provides both a creative new vision of the encounter between two civilizations and a distinguished introduction to Korean Sinology.