Author: Japan. Tetsudōin
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Japan. Dept. of Railways
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: Paul Mooney
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426202315
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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A popular series of guidebooks for the modern-day traveler offering information on cities and countries around the world continues, presenting up-to-date backgrounds and descriptions, detailed maps, hundreds of photographs, and much more, including walking and driving tours, visitor information directories, and cultural sidebars.

Author: Benjamin Broomhall
Publisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Susan Naquin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520923454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 862

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The central character in Susan Naquin's extraordinary new book is the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using the city's temples as her point of entry, Naquin carefully excavates Peking's varied public arenas, the city's transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint. This study shows how modern Beijing's glittering image as China's great and ancient capital came into being and reveals the shifting identities of a much more complex past, one whose rich social and cultural history Naquin splendidly evokes. Temples, by providing a place where diverse groups could gather without the imprimatur of family or state, made possible a surprising assortment of community-building and identity-defining activities. By revealing how religious establishments of all kinds were used for fairs, markets, charity, tourism, politics, and leisured sociability, Naquin shows their decisive impact on Peking and, at the same time, illuminates their little-appreciated role in Chinese cities generally. Lacking most of the conventional sources for urban history, she has relied particularly on a trove of commemorative inscriptions that express ideas about the relationship between human beings and gods, about community service and public responsibility, about remembering and being remembered. The result is a book that will be essential reading in the field of Chinese studies for years to come.

Author: Eduard Kögel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110401347
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Ernst Boerschmann was the most influential foreign architectural researcher in China in the first half of the twentieth century. This book concerns his three-year research expedition through the Chinese Empire (1906–1909). He was the first Westerner to systematically document China’s religious architecture, returning from his travels with thousands of photographs, sketches, and architectural surveys. His six major publications leading up to 1931, described here alongside the reactions they caused, were milestones on the path to formal study of Chinese architectural history, long before Chinese academics themselves began to take interest in the subject in the 1930s.

Author: Fu ren da xue (Beijing, China)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918

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Author: Wenxian Zhang
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9813202270
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 551

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Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process. The period from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century is not only a critical era in modern Chinese history, but also the peak time of illustrated news reporting in the United States. Besides images from newspapers and journals, this collection also contains pictures about China and the Chinese published in books, brochures, commercial advertisements, campaign posters, postcards, etc. Together, they have documented colourful portrayals of the Chinese and their culture by the U.S. print media and their evolution from ethnic curiosity, stereotyping, and racial prejudice to social awareness, reluctant understanding, and eventual acceptance. Since these publications represent different positions in American politics, they can help contemporary readers develop a more comprehensive understanding of major events in modern American and Chinese histories, such as the cause and effect of the Chinese Exclusion Act and the power struggles behind the development of the Open Door Policy at the turn of the twentieth century. This collection of images has essentially formed a rich visual resource that is both diverse and intriguing; and as primary source documents, they carry significant historical and cultural values that could stimulate further academic research.

Author: Ni Hao
Publisher: DeepLogic
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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This book is the volume of Beijing among a series of travel guides ("Travelling in China"). Its content is detailed and vivid.

Author:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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