Author: gary finckePublisher:
ISBN: 9780936481081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of poems
After the Three Moon Era
Author: gary finckePublisher:
ISBN: 9780936481081
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of poems
The Religious History of Remote Antiquity Period and The Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty)
Author: Li ShiPublisher: DeepLogic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The book is the volume of “The Religious History of Remote Antiquity Period and The Three Dynasties (Xia, Shang and Zhou 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.
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
Author: LaneThe New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac
Author: Anglo-American Encyclopedia
Author: Encyclopedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmHeavenly Numbers
Author: Christopher CullenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191047538
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This book is a history of the development of mathematical astronomy in China, from the late third century BCE, to the early 3rd century CE - a period often referred to as 'early imperial China'. It narrates the changes in ways of understanding the movements of the heavens and the heavenly bodies that took place during those four and a half centuries, and tells the stories of the institutions and individuals involved in those changes. It gives clear explanations of technical practice in observation, instrumentation, and calculation, and the steady accumulation of data over many years - but it centres on the activity of the individual human beings who observed the heavens, recorded what they saw, and made calculations to analyse and eventually make predictions about the motions of the celestial bodies. It is these individuals, their observations, their calculations, and the words they left to us that provide the narrative thread that runs through this work. Throughout the book, the author gives clear translations of original material that allow the reader direct access to what the people in this book said about themselves and what they tried to do.
Hannay & Dietrichsen's almanack [afterw.] Dietrichsen and Hannay's royal almanack and nautical and astronomical ephemeris
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Author: Mineralogy of Quartz and Silica Minerals
Author: Jens GötzePublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3038973483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Mineralogy of Quartz and Silica Minerals" that was published in Minerals