Download or read book A Tender Voyage written by Ping-chen Hsiung and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary range of sources to analyze both the normative concept of childhoodliterary and philosophicaland the treatment and experience of children in China. The study begins with the history of pediatrics and newborn care and their evolution over time. The author moves on to the social environment of the child, including models of upbringing and expected behavior and the treatment of different kinds of children, including the rebellious and the "gentle" child. She examines the role of the mother, notably her close and complex relations with her sons, and the broader emotional world of children, their relationships with the adults around them, and the destructive power of death. The last section discusses concepts of childhood in China and the West. Throughout, the study keeps in view the issue of representation versus practice, the role of memory, and the importance of listening for what is not said.
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Tim Severin and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 1996-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America as early as 218 B.C., when the great sea captain Hsu Fu set sail in search of the elixir of immortality. Full-color inserts.
Download or read book History of a Voyage to the China Sea written by John White and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book When China Ruled the Seas written by Louise Levathes and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years before Columbus and his fellow Europeans began their voyages of discovery, fleets of giant junks commanded by the eunuch admiral Zheng He and filled with the empire’s finest porcelains, lacquerware, and silk ventured to the world’s “four corners.” Seven epic expeditions brought China’s treasure ships across the China Seas and Indian Ocean, from Japan to the spice island of Indonesia and the Malabar Coast of India, on to the rich ports of the Persian Gulf and down the East African coast, to China’s “El Dorado,” and perhaps even to Australia, three hundred years before Captain Cook’s landing. It was a time of exploration and expansion, but it ended in a retrenchment so complete that less than a century later, it was a crime to go to sea in a multimasted ship. In When China Ruled the Seas, Louise Levathes takes a fascinating and unprecedented look at this dynamic period in China’s enigmatic history, focusing on the country’s rise as a naval power that briefly brought half the world under its nominal authority. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official Ming histories, and African, Arab, and Indian sources, many translated for the first time, Levathes brings readers inside China’s most illustrious scientific and technological era. She sheds new light on the historical and cultural context in which this great civilization thrived, as well as the perception of China by other contemporary cultures. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, When China Ruled the Seas is the fullest picture yet of the early Ming dynasty—the last flowering of Chinese culture before the Manchu invasion.
Download or read book Seven Voyages written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Laurence Bergreen and author Sara Fray comes this immaculately researched history for young readers detailing the life of Zheng He, his complex and enduring friendship with his emperor, and the epic Seven Voyages he led that would establish China as a global power. 1405. The central coast of China. At nearly seven feet tall, Admiral Zheng He looked out at the sea before him. For the next three decades, the oceans would be his home, as he would command over 1,500 ships and thousands of sailors in seven journeys that would predate the heart of the European Age of Exploration. Over his seven epic journeys, Zheng He explored the Northern Pacific and Indian Oceans, traveling as far as the east coast of Africa, expanding Chinese power globally, warring with pirates, and capturing enemies along the way in the name of his emperor, Zhu Di. But this giant figure was not always at the helm of a ship.
Download or read book Zheng He s Voyages Down the Western Seas written by and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zheng He (1371-1433) was a great navigator in the history of China and the world and a pioneer in the great geographical discoveries. During the 28 years (1405-1433) from the third year of the reign of Emperor Yong Le to the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Xuan De of the Ming Dynasty, he successfully made seven voyages down the western seas (today's Indian Ocean).
Download or read book Voyager from Xanadu written by Morris Rossabi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Voyager from Xanadu, a distinguished historian tells the little-known story of the life and travels of the first person from China ever to reach Europe. Portraying one of the most remarkable early encounters between East and West, Morris Rossabi also brings to life the intriguing and turbulent era of the Mongol Empire and the last Crusades. Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo arrived in China, a Christian monk, Rabban Sauma, left it, embarking on a journey that would prove more momentous than he could have dreamed. What began as a religious pilgrimage to the Middle East (supported by the Mongol Emperor, Khubilai Khan) ultimately became an extraordinary diplomatic mission. After several years' eventful stay in Persia, Sauma was dispatched to Europe by Persia's Mongol ruler, the Ilkhan. The monk's task: to persuade the Pope and the Kings of France and England to ally with the Ilkhan and launch a Crusade against their common enemy, the Muslim dynasty that controlled the Holy Land. The mission was a striking early instance of geopolitics on a modern scale. Voyager from Xanadu vividly conjures up the places Sauma visited as he crossed two continents, meeting with monarchs and prelates and seeing everything from a battle to a volcanic eruption to countless grisly relics of long-dead saints. It provides a clear and penetrating analysis of the volatile international situation of the era and its impact on Sauma's embassy. And, of course, Voyager from Xanadu traces the life of an exceptional man, from his comfortable youth, through his unique adventures, to his death far from the land of his birth.
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to China and the East Indies by Peter Osbeck Together with a Voyage to Suratte by Olof Toreen and an Account of the Chinese Husbandry by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg Translated from the German by John Reinhold Forster to which are Added a Faumula and Flora Sinensis written by Pehr Osbeck and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of three voyages along the coast of China in 1831 1832 and 1833 written by Karl Friedrich A. Gützlaff and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of The Brendan Voyage makes a bold Pacific journey to test a scholar's theory that Asian navigators were the first to discover North America as early as 218 B.C., when the great sea captain Hsu Fu set sail in search of the elixir of immortality. Full-color inserts.
Download or read book The China Voyage written by Timothy Severin and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the N W Coast of America written by John Meares and published by London : Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter. This book was released on 1791 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zheng He s Maritime Voyages 1405 1433 and China s Relations with the Indian Ocean World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zheng He’s Maritime Voyages (1405-1433) and China’s Relations with the Indian Ocean World: A Multilingual Bibliography provides a multidisciplinary guide to publications on this great navigator’s activities and their impact on Chinese and world history. Admiral Zheng He commanded the fifteenth-century world’s largest fleet. In the course of seven voyages made between 1405 and 1433, his massive ships visited over thirty present-day countries in Asia and Africa. Those voyages reflected and reinforced the development of complex networks of trade, migration, cultural exchange, and political interactions between China and the Indian Ocean world. This bibliography lists sources in thirteen languages, including both scholarly studies and popular works like Gavin Menzies’s controversial bestsellers claiming the Chinese sailed around the world before Columbus. Relevant translations, transliterations and annotations are provided to aid the reader.
Download or read book Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China written by Clarke Abel and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Picturesque Voyage to India written by Daniell and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of Proceedings on a Voyage to China written by Hugh Hamilton Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
