Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Klaw & Erlander's Production of The Grand Mogul
Author: Mapping Chengde
Author: Philippe ForetPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863518
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on the Manchu summer capital, reveals how this unlikely architectural and landscape enterprise came to help forge a dynasty's multicultural identity and concretize its claims of political legitimacy. Using both visual and textual materials, the author explores the hidden dimensions of landscape, showing how geographical imagination shaped the aesthetics of Qing court culture while proposing a new interpretation of the mental universe that conceived one of the world's most remarkable examples of imperial architecture.
Neither East Nor West
Author: Kerstin W. ShandsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789189315891
Category : East and West in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Learning from Others
Author: Oriental Influences in Swahili
Author: Abdulaziz LodhiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
Author: Olorunnisola, Anthony A.Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1466641983
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa has always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats, activists, and others who work towards political transformations. New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective, this book also presents case studies and national experiences for media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.
Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume One
Author: Anna WinterbottomPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137567570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth century to the early modern period. Themes include theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers. Overall, the books argue that, throughout the period of study, the Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. The two volumes are the first to use the Indian Ocean World as a geographical and conceptual framework for the study of disease. It will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.
A House for Mr Biswas
Author: V. S. NaipaulPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780330522892
Category : Autonomy (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas's struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight for dignity and a life with meaning. A House for Mr. Biswas is touted as Naipaul's finest novel. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Twentieth-century World
Author: Carter V. FindleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780395526620
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Coexisting Contemporary Civilizations
Author: Guy AnkerlPublisher: INU PRESS
ISBN: 9782881550041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Some important questions are discussed in this book: Are there any civilisations other than the Western one living in our so-called Global-Age? 'Eastern civilisation'? Is the concept of East anything more than non-West? Or does there exist, in reality, a distinct Chinese, Indian, Arabo-Muslim, and Western civilisation? Is the construction of large civilisation-states such as China and India an unparalleled historical achievement? Do economic ties always eclipse other forms of affiliation such as those formed through kinship or between speech communities? What is the role of the 'Latin' and the Jewish Peoples in our Anglo-American-led Western world? Is English today the global language or merely an international one? Is the Chinese thought pattern closely related to its writing system? Is today's world one of (symmetrical) interdependence? Or rather one of hegemony? If the so-called North-South or East-West dialogue fails in constructing a universally accepted world civilisation, then what is the appropriate arrangement for reaching such a consensus within humankind?