Author: Henry Clay TrumbullPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Studies in Oriental Social Life
Author: Henry Clay TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Oriental Customs, Traditions & Social Life
Author: Henry Clay TrumbullPublisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Studies in Oriental Social Life and Gleams from the East on the Sacred Page
Author: Henry Clay TrumbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Social Life and Development in Hong Kong
Author: Ambrose Y. C. KingPublisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622013377
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The papers in this volume, prepared by social scientists with different specializations, address selected aspects of Hong Kong's post-War development.
Studies in Chinese Society
Author: Arthur P. WolfPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804710077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Literary News
Author: The Social Life of Opium in China
Author: Zheng YangwenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139446174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In a remarkable and broad-ranging narrative, Yangwen Zheng's book explores the history of opium consumption in China from 1483 to the late twentieth century. The story begins in the mid-Ming dynasty, when opium was sent as a gift by vassal states and used as an aphrodisiac in court. Over time, the Chinese people from different classes and regions began to use it for recreational purposes, so beginning a complex culture of opium consumption. The book traces this transformation over a period of five hundred years, asking who introduced opium to China, how it spread across all sections of society, embraced by rich and poor alike as a culture and an institution. The book, which is accompanied by a fascinating collection of illustrations, will appeal to students and scholars of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and all those with an interest in China.
Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review
Author: The Methodist Review
Author: A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels
Author: James HastingsPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410217868
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The purpose of this dictionary is to give an account of everything that relates to Christ - His Person, Life, Work, and Teaching. It is in a sense complementary to the Dictionary of the Bible, in which, of course, Christ has a great place. But a dictionary of the Bible, being occupied mainly with things biographical, historical, geographical, or antiquarian, does not give attention to the things of Christ sufficient for the needs of the preacher, to whom Christ is everything. This is, first of all, a preacher's dictionary. The authors of the articles have been carefully chosen from among those scholars who are, or have been, themselves preachers. And even when the articles have the same titles as articles in the Dictionary of the Bible, they are written by new men, and from a new standpoint. It is thus a work which is quite distinct from, and altogether independent of, the Dictionary of the Bible. It is called a Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, because it includes everything that the Gospels contain, whether directly related to Christ or not. Its range, however, is far greater than that of the Gospels. It seeks to cover all that relates to Christ throughout the Bible and in the life and literature of the world. There will be articles on the Patristic estimate of Jesus, the Medieval estimate, the Reformation and Modern estimates. There will be articles on Christ in the Jewish writings and in the Muslim literature. Much attention has been given to modern thought, whether Christian or anti-Christian. Every aspect of modern life, in so far as it touches or is touched by Christ, is described under its proper title. James Hastings (1852-1922) was a distinguished scholar and pastor. He was founder and editor of the Expository Times and is also well known for editing the five-volume Dictionary of the Bible, as well as the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, the Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels, and the Dictionary of the Apostolic Church.