Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Papers on Far Eastern History
Author: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: The Far East and Australasia
Author: A History of Far Eastern Art
Author: Sherman E. LeePublisher:
ISBN: 9780500237342
Category : Art, Asian
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This is an account of the visual arts of Asia, from the Indus River to Japan and Java, between the fifth millennium BC and AD 1850. This comprehensive fifth edition includes astonishing recent archaeological discoveries. Each chapter begins with a concise historical introduction providing a political and social setting for artistic process and development. The discussions are chronologically structured and cover various mediums, including sculpture and architecture in India and Southeast Asia, painting and ceramics in China and Korea, painting and decorative arts in Japan, and sculpture in religious art everywhere. A general bibliography lists all major works and periodicals in the field, followed by expanded and specialized bibliographies for each chapter. Revised chronologies, maps, a detailed index and a pronunciation guide for the Indian, Japanese, and Chinese names and terms assist the reader. This is an integrated general introduction to its field, and a basic reference work for students.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949: National security affairs, foreign economic policy
Author: A History of the Far East in Modern Times
Author: Harold Monk VinackePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Far east
Languages : en
Pages : 877
Book Description
The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China
Author: Jinhua JiaPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791481425
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This book provides a wide-ranging examination of the Hongzhou school of Chan Buddhism—the precursor to Zen Buddhism—under Mazu Daoyi (709–788) and his successors in eighth- through tenth-century China, which was credited with creating a Golden Age or classical tradition. Jinhua Jia uses stele inscriptions and other previously ignored texts to explore the school's teachings and history. Defending the school as a full-fledged, significant lineage, Jia reconstructs Mazu's biography and resolves controversies about his disciples. In contrast to the many scholars who either accept or reject the traditional Chan histories and discourse records, she thoroughly examines the Hongzhou literature to differentiate the original, authentic portions from later layers of modification and recreation. The book describes the emergence and maturity of encounter dialogue and analyzes the new doctrines and practices of the school to revise the traditional notion of Mazu and his followers as iconoclasts. It also depicts the strivings of Mazu's disciples for orthodoxy and how the criticisms of and reflections on Hongzhou doctrine led to the schism of this line and the rise of the Shitou line and various houses during the late Tang and Five Dynasties periods. Jia refutes the traditional Chan genealogy of two lines and five houses and calls for new frameworks in the study of Chan history. An annotated translation of datable discourses of Mazu is also included.
The Great Enterprise, Volume 2
Author: Frederic Wakeman Jr.Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520340752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.)
The British in the Far East
Author: George WoodcockA Concise History of Korea
Author: Michael J. SethPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742540057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A Concise History of Korea emphasizes how Korean history can be understood as part of an interactive sphere that includes three basic areas: China, Japan, and the Manchurian/Central Asian region."--Jacket.
Papers Relating to Pacific and Far Eastern Affairs
Author: United States. Department of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description