Author: Ruixi ZhuPublisher:
ISBN: 9781316618349
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Social History of Medieval China
Song, Liao, Jin Dynasties 宋辽金 -Story 01-25 V2020
Author: DAVID YAOPublisher: Legoo Mandarin
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Liao dynasty, also known as the Liao Empire, officially the Great Liao, or the Khitan State, was an empire and imperial dynasty in East Asia that ruled from 916 to 1125 over present-day Northern and Northeast China, Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East and North Korea. Jin dynasty (金朝) 1115–1234The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, lasted from 1115 to 1234 as one of the last dynasties in Chinese history to predate the Mongol conquest of China. (Wikipedia)This book is one of the Chinese Culture Story Series. The whole set of Chinese Culture Stories Series, 999 articles, 18 categories. Perfect for HSK 4-6, IGCSE Chinese, IB Chinese & School extra readings. Find the QR code on the first page for the best price for the whole set of books. New launching BEST price at http://edeo.biz/26749 The origins of the Chinese people go far back in time, and Chinese culture is extensive and rich in nature. It is the traditional Chinese high Regard for history that has made this possible Song, Liao, Jin Dynasties 宋辽金 -Story 01-25 V2020 -- HSK Chinese History Story中国历史故事 Volume 10/14 Contents 01 序编 Preface 1 序言 2 Preface 2 02 耶律阿保机 A Khitan chieftain, Yeh-lu Ah-pao-chi, founded the Liao empire. 03 陈桥兵变 Chen Qiao Mutiny 04 烛影斧声 The shadow of Candle and sound axe 05 金匮之盟 Golden chamber alliance 06 杨家将 The Yang clan generals 07 澶渊之盟 Treaty of Chan-yuan 08 萧太后与辽圣宗 The Empress Dowager Hsiao and Emperor Sheng-tsung of the Liao Dynasty 09 西夏建国 Western Xia Empire 10 包青天 Judge Bao 宋陵 11 古文大家欧阳修 A scholar of many talents- Ou Yang Xiu 115 欧阳修努力为学 Ouyang Xiu industrious approach to studying 12 资治通鉴 The Comprehensive Mirror of Good Governing 13 王安石变法 Wang Anshi Reform 14 东坡居士 Recluse of the Eastern Slop 15 一代才女李清照 A talent women poets - Li Qing Zhao 16 清明上河图 A River Scene at Qing-ming 17 瘦金书 Thin gold calligraphic style 116 画家皇帝宋徽宗 Artist Emperor Song Huizong 18 完颜阿骨打 Wan-yen Ah-ku-ta 19 莫须有罪名 It must be so! 20 爱国诗人陆游 A patriotic poet Lu You 21 豪放词人辛弃疾 A vigorous poet Xin Qi Ji 22 鹅湖之会 The Goose Lake Meeting 23 图书印刷 Chinese printing 24 小尧舜金世宗 Little sage king Shi Zong 25 张元素切脉 Two open-minded Doctors 26 西厢记诸宫调 Western Chamber Romance chant fable 27 文天祥正气歌 Wen Tian Xiang's Song of Honor
World History
Author: Eugene BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic book
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
The Age of Confucian Rule
Author: Dieter KuhnPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674244346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed. With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. A new class of scholar-officials—products of a meritocratic examination system—took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precepts of Confucianism to a rapidly changing world. Through fiscal reforms, these elites liberalized the economy, eased the tax burden, and put paper money into circulation. Their redesigned capitals buzzed with traders, while the education system offered advancement to talented men of modest means. Their rationalist approach led to inventions in printing, shipbuilding, weaving, ceramics manufacture, mining, and agriculture. With a realist’s eye, they studied the natural world and applied their observations in art and science. And with the souls of diplomats, they chose peace over war with the aggressors on their borders. Yet persistent military threats from these nomadic tribes—which the Chinese scorned as their cultural inferiors—redefined China’s understanding of its place in the world and solidified a sense of what it meant to be Chinese. The Age of Confucian Rule is an essential introduction to this transformative era. “A scholar should congratulate himself that he has been born in such a time” (Zhao Ruyu, 1194).
Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware
Author: Patricia FrickPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004384383
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware, edited by Patricia Frick and Annette Kieser, focuses on various aspects of East Asian lacquer art ranging from the 2nd century BC to the 17th century. Recent excavations in China, the distribution of lacquer objects throughout the Eurasian region, the significance of lacquer ware in everyday life, technical aspects of lacquer production in Korea, and the appreciation of Japanese lacquer in Asia and Europe are analysed in six chapters by international experts in the field: Patricia Frick; Annette Kieser; Nanhee Lee; Yan Liu; Margarete Prüch and Anton Schweizer. Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects of East Asian Lacquer Ware is published in association with the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology.
Celestial Women
Author: Keith McMahonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442255021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.
The History of Literature in Song, Liao, Jin and Xixia of Dynasty
Author: Li ShiPublisher: DeepLogic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The book is the volume of “The History of Literature in Song, Liao, Jin and Xixia of Dynasty ” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The central Zhou government began to weaken due to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states became independent and warred with one another in the following Warring States period. Much of traditional Chinese culture, literature and philosophy first developed during those troubled times.In 221 BC Qin Shi Huang conquered the various warring states and created for himself the title of Huangdi or "emperor" of the Qin, marking the beginning of imperial China. However, the oppressive government fell soon after his death, and was supplanted by the longer-lived Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. In the 21 centuries from 206 BC until AD 1912, routine administrative tasks were handled by a special elite of scholar-officials. Young men, well-versed in calligraphy, history, literature, and philosophy, were carefully selected through difficult government examinations. China's last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and in the mainland by the People's Republic of China in 1949.Chinese history has alternated between periods of political unity and peace, and periods of war and failed statehood – the most recent being the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population. Between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China; in some eras control stretched as far as Xinjiang and Tibet, as at present. Traditional culture, and influences from other parts of Asia and the Western world (carried by waves of immigration, cultural assimilation, expansion, and foreign contact), form the basis of the modern culture of China.
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics
Author: Suzanne G. ValensteinPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810911701
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A Phonological History of Chinese
Author: Zhongwei ShenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107135842
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
A one-stop, comprehensive account of the key developments in the phonological history of Chinese.
Information, Territory, and Networks
Author: Hilde De WeerdtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684175631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
"The occupation of the northern half of the Chinese territories in the 1120s brought about a transformation in political communication in the south that had lasting implications for imperial Chinese history. By the late eleventh century, the Song court no longer dominated the production of information about itself and its territories. Song literati gradually consolidated their position as producers, users, and discussants of court gazettes, official records, archival compilations, dynastic histories, military geographies, and maps. This development altered the relationship between court and literati in political communication for the remainder of the imperial period. Based on a close reading of reader responses to official records and derivatives and on a mapping of literati networks, the author further proposes that the twelfth-century geopolitical crisis resulted in a lasting literati preference for imperial restoration and unified rule. Hilde De Weerdt makes an important intervention in cultural and intellectual history by examining censorship and publicity together. In addition, she reorients the debate about the social transformation and local turn of imperial Chinese elites by treating the formation of localist strategies and empire-focused political identities as parallel rather than opposite trends."