Author: Gungwu WangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Sino-Asiatica
Author: Gungwu WangTraditional Chinese Stories
Author: Yau-Woon MaPublisher: Cheng & Tsui
ISBN: 9780887270710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
For centuries the Chinese referred to their fiction as xiaoshuo, etymologically meaning roadside gossip or small talk, and held it in relative disregard.
Asiatica
Author: The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature
Author: Mark GamsaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004168443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Focusing on the translation and translators of Boris Savinkov, Mikhail Artsybashev and Leonid Andreev, this book explores the processes of the translation, transmission and interpretation of Russian literature in China during the first half of the 20th century.
Chinese Buddhism and the Scholarship of Erik Zürcher
Author: Jonathan A. SilkPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004522158
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Since Erik Zürcher's landmark Buddhist Conquest of China, the study of earlier phases of Chinese Buddhist history has made great progress with new materials, new interpretations and new problematizations. This volume brings together 12 contributions from the leading scholars in the field offering new perspectives on this old tradition.
The Threshold
Author: Zeb RaftPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684176581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
What happens when historiography—the way historical events are committed to writing—shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly “life-writing,” its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds?
Daoism in History
Author: Benjamin PennyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134275285
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in the study of Daoism especially in Japan, China and the West, with a new generation of scholars broadening our understanding of the religion. Including contributions from the foremost scholars in the field, Daoism in History presents new and important research. These essays honour one of the pioneers of Daoist studies, Emeritus Professor Liu Ts'un-yan. His major essay 'Was Celestial Master Zhang a Historical Figure?' addresses one of the pivotal questions in the entire history of Daoism and is included here as the final essay. In addition, a Chinese character glossary, bibliography and index conclude the book. The first in an exciting new series, this book presents brand new thinking on Daoism - a field now recognized as one of the most vital areas of research in Chinese history and the history of religions.
Wang Gungwu, Educator & Scholar
Author: Gungwu WangPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814436623
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
This book focuses on Wang Gungwu as an educator and scholar, through the use of essays written about Wang, a biographical sketch of his public and private life, and a list of over 50 books written by Wang as well as those written in honor of him.
Poet-Monks
Author: Thomas J. MazanecPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501773844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition, incantation, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation.
Wang Gungwu
Author: Gungwu WangPublisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9814311537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book of interviews with Professor Wang Gungwu, published to felicitate him on his 80th birthday in 2010, seeks to convey to a general audience something of the life, times and thoughts of a leading historian, Southeast Asianist, Sinologist and public intellectual. The interviews flesh out Professor Wangs views on being Chinese in Malaya; his experience of living and working in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia; the Vietnam War; Hong Kong and its return to China; the rise of China; Taiwans, Japans and Indias place in the emerging scheme of things; and on the United States in an age of terrorism and war. The book includes an interview with his wife, Mrs Margaret Wang, on their life together for half a century. Two interviews by scholars on Professor Wangs work are also included, as are his curriculum vitae and a select bibliography of his works. What comes across in this book is how Professor Wang was buffeted by feral times and hostile worlds but responded to them as a left-liberal humanist who refused to cut ideological corners. This book records his response to tumultuous times on hindsight, but with a keen sense of having lived through the times of which he speaks.