Author: Søoren EgerodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Sinological Studies Dedicated to Bernhard Karlgren on His Seventieth Birthday, October 5th, 1959
Author: Søoren EgerodSinological Studies Dedicated to Bernhard Karlgren on His 70. Birthday Oct. 5., 1959
Author: Søren EgerodStudia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata
Author: Else GlahnStudia Serica Bernhard Karlgren dedicata. Sinological studies
Author: Søren EgerodStudia Serica Bernhard Karlgren dediczta
Author: Søren EgerodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese studies (Sinology)
Languages : da
Pages : 282
Book Description
Studia Serica Bernhard Karlgren Dedicata
Author: S©ıren EgerodIn Pursuit of the Great Peace
Author: Zhao LuPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438474911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Examines the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, and its impact on literati lives in Han China. Through an examination of the Great Peace (taiping), one of the first utopian visions in Chinese history, Zhao Lu describes the transformation of literati culture that occurred during the Han Dynasty. Driven by anxiety over losing the mandate of Heaven, the imperial court encouraged classicism in order to establish the Great Peace and follow Heaven’s will. But instead of treating the literati as puppets of competing and imagined lineages, Zhao uses sociological methods to reconstruct their daily lives and to show how they created their own thought by adopting, modifying, and opposing the work of their contemporaries and predecessors. The literati who served as bureaucrats in the first century BCE gradually became classicists who depended on social networking as they traveled to study the classics. By the second century CE, classicism had dissolved in this traveling culture and the literati began to expand the corpus of knowledge beyond the accepted canon. Thus, far from being static, classicism in Han China was full of innovation, and ultimately gave birth to both literary writing and religious Daoism. “Zhao’s study presents a model of intellectual history. Smartly written, it excels in connecting the analysis of specific texts and concepts with broader trends in the social-political realm. His work helps demythologize Chinese thought and makes it legible to scholars around the world.” — Miranda Brown, University of Michigan
A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology
Author: Bent NielsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136602682
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image and number') tradition - which takes as its point of departure the imagery and numerology associated with divination and its hexagrams, trigrams, lines, and related charts and diagrams - has remained relatively unexplored. This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended. A character index as well as an English index is included. The entries are of two kinds: technical terms and various other concepts related to the 'image and number' tradition, and bio-bibliographical information on Chinese Yi jing scholars. Each entry in the former category has a brief explanation that includes references to the origins of the term, cross-references, and a reference to an entry giving a more comprehensive treatment of the subject.
Astrology and Cosmology in Early China
Author: David W. PankenierPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107292247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
The ancient Chinese were profoundly influenced by the Sun, Moon and stars, making persistent efforts to mirror astral phenomena in shaping their civilization. In this pioneering text, David W. Pankenier introduces readers to a seriously understudied field, illustrating how astronomy shaped the culture of China from the very beginning and how it influenced areas as disparate as art, architecture, calendrical science, myth, technology, and political and military decision-making. As elsewhere in the ancient world, there was no positive distinction between astronomy and astrology in ancient China, and so astrology, or more precisely, astral omenology, is a principal focus of the book. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including archaeological discoveries, classical texts, inscriptions and paleography, this thought-provoking book documents the role of astronomical phenomena in the development of the 'Celestial Empire' from the late Neolithic through the late imperial period.
Compounds and Compounding in Old Tibetan. Vol. 1
Author: Joanna BialekPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3923776594
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Old Tibetan documents are the oldest extant monuments of the Tibetan language. Their exploration, although successfully flourishing in the last two decades, has been considerably impeded by often unintelligible and obsolete vocabulary that was bound to the particular cultural and political context of the Tibetan Empire that collapsed in the 840s CE. The present publication aims at clarifying a part of this vocabulary by examining nearly 400 Old Tibetan compounds. In Part I an attempt has been undertaken to define a compound and to provide the first linguistic classification of Old Tibetan compounds. Part II concentrates on a lexicological analysis of the compounds and strives to explain their etymology, word-formation, and usage in Old Tibetan. Contents of Volume 1: Introduction, Indices, References, Part I: Compounding in Old Tibetan, Part II: Old Tibetan Compounds. Lexicological Analysis. Lexemes 1-119