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Monograph Series (Chinese University of Hong Kong. Institute of Chinese Studies).
Author: Monograph Series
Author: Chinese University of Hong Kong. Institute of Chinese studiesPublisher:
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Monograph Series
Author: Monograph series
Author: Institute of Chinese Studies. Hong KongPublisher:
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Research Monograph
Author: Government Education and Examinations in Sung China
Author: Thomas H. C. LeePublisher: Coronet Books
ISBN: 9789622013025
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Monographic Series
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Research Monograph
Author: A Phonological History of Chinese
Author: Zhongwei ShenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107135842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.
Inscribed Landscapes
Author: Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520914864
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. Early examples of the genre describe sites important for their geography, history, and role in cultural mythology, but by the T'ang dynasty in the mid-eighth century certain historiographical and poetic discourses converged to form the "travel account" (yu-chi) and later the "travel diary" (jih-chi) as vehicles of personal expression and autobiography. These first-person narratives provide rich material for understanding the attitudes of Chinese literati toward place, nature, politics, and the self. The anthology is abundantly illustrated with paintings, portraits, maps, and drawings. Each selection is meticulously translated, carefully annotated, and prefaced by a brief description of the writer's life and work. The entire collection is introduced by an in-depth survey of the rise of Chinese travel writing as a cultural phenomenon. Inscribed Landscapes provides a unique resource for travelers as well as for scholars of Chinese literature, art, and history.