Author: Harold L. KahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes
Author: Harold L. KahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes
Author: Harold L. KahnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Monarchy in the Emperors Eye
Author: Harold L. KahnPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674181427
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Of Body and Brush
Author: Angela ZitoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226987286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of eighteenth-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. In Of Body and Brush, Angela Zito offers a stunningly original analysis of the way ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated these prescriptions. Forging a critical cultural historical method that challenges traditional categories of Chinese studies, Zito shows for the first time that in their performance, the ritual texts embodied, literally, the metaphysics upon which imperial power rested. By combining rule through the brush (the production of ritual texts) with rule through the body (mandated performance), the throne both exhibited its power and attempted to control resistance to it. Bridging Chinese history, anthropology, religion, and performance and cultural studies, Zito brings an important new perspective to the human sciences in general.
China Through the Eyes of the West
Author: Gianni GuadalupiPublisher: White Star Publishers
ISBN: 9788854400153
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
China Revealed presents the history of the relationships between Europe and the Celestial Empire of classical antiquity, from the time when the caravans began to bring a divine fabric known as silk to the shores of the Mediterranean from the far-off, mysterious East, up to the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911. Through beautifully illustrated maps, ancient engravings, the first black-and-white pictures and color plates, this book describes the incredible experiences of those who ventured into distant Cathay, crossing the endless deserts of Asia and the treacherous oceans-the Franciscan monks who were the first to penetrate the Mongolian steppes, the merchants such as Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta, the Portuguese sailors and Jesuit missionaries who became counsellors to the Son of the Heavens, and many more.
Monarchy
Author: Rebecca StefoffPublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761426301
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Discusses monarchies as a political system, and details the history of monarchies throughout the world.
Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon
Author: Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las CasesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Confucian Image Politics
Author: Ying ZhangPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295806729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officials—as fathers, sons, husbands, and friends—circulated in a variety of media inside and outside the court. It shows how power negotiations took place through participants’ invocations of Confucian ethical ideals in political attacks, self-expression, self-defense, discussion of politically sensitive issues, and literati community rebuilding after the dynastic change. This first book-length study of early modern Chinese politics from the perspective of critical men’s history shows how images—the Donglin official, the Fushe scholar, the turncoat figure—were created, circulated, and contested to serve political purposes.
The End of the German Monarchy
Author: John Van der KistePublisher: Fonthill Media
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Author: Las Cases