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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Translation of the Peking Gazette
Author: Triad Societies: Selected writings
Author: Kingsley BoltonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415243933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This set comprises a comprehensive selection of colonial Western scholarly texts on Chinese secret societies from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. It includes a selection of important papers on Chinese secret societies by a variety of scholars, missionaries, and colonial officials.
The Chinese Times
Author: The Chinese Gazette in European Sources
Author: Nicolas StandaertPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004505008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers.
The Century Dictionary Supplement
Author: On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. ElmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Author: William Dwight WhitneyPublisher:
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Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Merit and the Millennium
Author: Anthony R. WalkerPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
With reference to rites and ceremonies of Lahu in various South Asian countries.
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