Author: Guillaume Pauthier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Chine Moderne, Ou Description Historique, Géographique Et Littéraire de Ce Vaste Empire
Author: Guillaume Pauthier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The Geography of Perversion
Author: Rudi Bleys
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712657
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates that representation of cultural "otherness," as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of homosexual identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712657
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender behavior and hermaphroditism; and the semiotics of genitalia. The author also demonstrates that representation of cultural "otherness," as found in European thought from the Enlightenment through modern times, is closely related to modern constructions of homosexual identity. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Catalogue of the Astor Library
Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, Now a Part of the Oriental Library, Tokyo, Japan: Books in other languages than English
Author: Tōyō Bunko (Japan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The New World: Problems in Political Geography
A Short History of Paper in Imperial China
Author: Jean-Pierre Drège
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110701596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide range of archaeological evidence and literary sources. The volume introduces the materials and technologies of paper production and presents the cultural history of paper in traditional China. A comprehensive survey of literary sources on the production and use of paper is undertaken starting with the ongoing debate about the origin and genesis of paper, which was fuelled by recent archaeological discoveries of paper or proto-paper from the last two centuries BCE. In addition to its having become a popular writing material produced in many different qualities for both handwriting and printing, it also served as a material for wrapping or decorating, money and numerous uses in everyday life, such as umbrellas, windows, clothing, wallpapers, curtains and kites. Precious paper contributed to the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting, catering to the taste of the educated elite and artists.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110701596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide range of archaeological evidence and literary sources. The volume introduces the materials and technologies of paper production and presents the cultural history of paper in traditional China. A comprehensive survey of literary sources on the production and use of paper is undertaken starting with the ongoing debate about the origin and genesis of paper, which was fuelled by recent archaeological discoveries of paper or proto-paper from the last two centuries BCE. In addition to its having become a popular writing material produced in many different qualities for both handwriting and printing, it also served as a material for wrapping or decorating, money and numerous uses in everyday life, such as umbrellas, windows, clothing, wallpapers, curtains and kites. Precious paper contributed to the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting, catering to the taste of the educated elite and artists.
Catalogue Or Alphabetical Index of the Astor Library
Author: Astor Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Catalogue or alphabetical index
Author: New York city, Astor libr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description