Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738193005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
L'empire Chinois
Author: LamairessePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddha (The concept)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria?
Author: Mostafa el- AbbadiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004165452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of "What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria"? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
Sociologie de la Chine et sociologie chinoise
Author: Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600042376
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Arguments
Author: Chine Moderne, Ou Description Historique, Géographique Et Littéraire de Ce Vaste Empire
Author: Guillaume PauthierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A Chinese Bestiary
Author: Richard E. StrassbergPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520922786
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight specialists and general readers alike.
Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 9: Territory and Identity in Tibet and the Himalayas
Author: Katia BuffetrillePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483101
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Which places does Tibet include? Are people Tibetan merely because of living in those places? Territory and Identity are notions that are widely present in academic and popular discourses on Tibet. In 1992 a group of French and Austrian researchers who had studied some of the mountain deities and sacred landscapes of Tibet began meeting to discuss the links between territory and identity in Tibetan culture. Eight years later an interdisciplinary group of scholars met in Leiden in Holland to consider these questions in more detail. This book contains some of their findings, based on case studies carried out across the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. The authors look at the role of local deities, kinship, economy, politics and administration using approaches from across the social sciences to try to work out how a community constructs and reconstructs its idea of itself, and how its members think about and are affected by the land on which they were reared.
T'oung-pao
Author: Writing and Authority in Early China
Author: Mark Edward LewisPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438410743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose mastery generated power and whose graphs became potent objects. Writing and Authority in Early China traces the enterprise of creating a parallel reality within texts that depicted the entire world. These texts provided models for the invention of a world empire, and one version ultimately became the first state canon of imperial China. This canon served to perpetuate the dream and the reality of the imperial system across the centuries.