Author: Peking Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Journal of the Peking Oriental Society
Author: Peking Oriental SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Peking
Author: Susan NaquinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.
Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review
Author: Journal of the China Branch
Author: Trubner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
List of Works on Corea, Japan, and China
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Journal of the American Oriental Society
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oriental philology
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 5, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521085748
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).