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Book Liu Ping chung  1216 1274

Download or read book Liu Ping chung 1216 1274 written by John A. Brim and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Service of the Khan

Download or read book In the Service of the Khan written by Igor de Rachewiltz and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge History of China  Volume 6  Alien Regimes and Border States  907 1368

Download or read book The Cambridge History of China Volume 6 Alien Regimes and Border States 907 1368 written by Denis C. Twitchett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; and the Mongolian Yüan dynasty.

Book The Spiritual Expansion of Medieval Latin Christendom  The Asian Missions

Download or read book The Spiritual Expansion of Medieval Latin Christendom The Asian Missions written by James D. Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants’ sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friars to venture far beyond Europe’s cultural frontiers to spread their Christian faith into the farthest reaches of Asia. Their incredible journeys were reminiscent of heroic missionary ventures in earlier eras and far more exotic than evangelization during the tenth through twelfth centuries, when the western church Christianized Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. This new mission effort was stimulated by a variety of factors and facilitated by the establishment of the Mongol Empire, and, as the fourteenth century dawned, missionaries entertained fervent but vain hopes of success within khanates in China, Central Asia, Persia and Kipchak. The reports these missionaries sent back to Europe have fascinated successive generations of historians who analyzed their travels and struggled to understand their motives and aspirations. The essays selected for this volume, drawn from a range of twentieth-century historians and contextualized in the introduction, provide a comprehensive overview of missionary efforts in Asia, and of the developments in the secular world that both made them possible and encouraged the missionaries’ hopes for success. Three of the studies have been translated from French specially for publication in this volume.

Book Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road

Download or read book Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road written by Adam T. Kessler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road disproves received opinion that pre-Ming blue and white dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.) and establishes the proper foundation for 21st century study of ancient Chinese porcelain.

Book Neo Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind and Heart

Download or read book Neo Confucian Orthodoxy and the Learning of the Mind and Heart written by Wm. Theodore De Bary and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major addition to our understanding of the development of Neo-Confucianism--its complexity, diversity, richness, and depth as a major component of the moral and spiritual fiber of the peoples of East Asia.

Book The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar Rebel Advisor Li Yan

Download or read book The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar Rebel Advisor Li Yan written by Roger V. Des Forges and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a genealogical manuscript discovered in 2004 to argue for the historicity of the scholar-rebel-advisor Li Yan who helped overthrow the Ming polity in 1644. It invokes a spiral theory to elucidate his significance in Chinese and world history.

Book China Under Mongol Rule

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  • Author : John D. Langlois Jr.
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-14
  • ISBN : 1400854091
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book China Under Mongol Rule written by John D. Langlois Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing history, politics, religion, and art, this collection of essays on Chinese civilization under the Mongols challenges the previously held views that Mongol rule had only negative consequences. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Huai su and the Beginnings of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy

Download or read book Huai su and the Beginnings of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy written by Adele Schlombs and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der M�nchskalligraph Huai-su (ca. 725-ca. 782) gilt als einer der Begruender der "Wilden Konzeptschrift" (k'uang-ts'ao), die den exzentrischen Stil innerhalb der chinesischen Kalligraphiegeschichte pr�gte und zur Herausbildung einer vom klassischen Ideal der Wang-Schule abweichenden Traditionslinie fuehrte. Die vorliegende Studie gibt erstmals Einblick in die Prim�rquellen: neben Briefen und anderen Zeugnissen des Huai-su zahlreiche Lobgedichte von Beamten und Gelehrten. Alles deutet darauf hin, da� es sich bei seinem Hauptwerk, der sog. Autobiographie, um ein Empfehlungsschreiben in eigener Sache handelt. Neben einer annotierten �bersetzung der Autobiographie und s�mtlicher Kollophone, die einen �berblick ueber das Schicksal der Querrolle im Laufe der Jahrhunderte vermitteln, bietet die Studie eine Untersuchung der �sthetischen Kriterien, welche die chinesische Kunsttheorie zur Beurteilung der "wilden Konzeptschrift" entwickelte, und stellt neue Methoden der formalen Analyse vor. Die Frage der Authentizit�t der im Palastmuseum Taipei befindlichen Querrolle wird eingehend geprueft; der Beweis, da� es sich nicht um ein Original aus der Hand des Huai-su, sondern um eine dem Original sehr nahe gepauste Kopie des 12.-13. Jhs. handelt, wird erbracht. Auch die uebrigen, seinem Oeuvre zugerechneten Werke werden vorgestellt und einer kritischen Analyse unterzogen.

Book Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols

Download or read book Chinese Legal Tradition Under the Mongols written by Paul Heng-chao Ch'en and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of China's legal tradition was one of the most striking aspects of the transformation of Chinese civilization under Mongolian domination. Paul Ch'en's exploration of the legal system of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) and its first substantial legal code (the Chih-yuan hsin-ko, or Chih-yiian New Code) provides a key to our understanding of the impact of the Mongols on traditional Chinese law and society. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book China and the Mongols

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  • Author : Hok-Lam Chan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-12-17
  • ISBN : 0429809093
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book China and the Mongols written by Hok-Lam Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1999. A common theme linking these papers is that of the interaction of élite and popular traditions, as found in the writings and folktales of Yuan and Ming China. The first studies focus on historical writings, not just as topics of intellectual and cultural history, but as foundations for understanding the sources of that time and seeing how earlier periods were viewed - for example, in the composition of the Liao, Chin and Sung histories at the Mongol-Yuan court in the 1340s. A second cluster examines a number of popular legends in which Mongol and Chinese elements can be seen to mix: the use of a bowshot in choosing a site, as in the story of the founding of Peking; the legends of the foundation of the Ming dynasty; or the image and fictionalisation of the great Ming statesman, Liu Chi.

Book Imperial China  900   1800

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  • Author : F. W. Mote
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2003-11-15
  • ISBN : 0674256484
  • Pages : 1132 pages

Download or read book Imperial China 900 1800 written by F. W. Mote and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period.

Book Flowering in the Shadows

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  • Author : Marsha Smith Weidner
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780824811495
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Flowering in the Shadows written by Marsha Smith Weidner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women created, commissioned, collected and used paintings, yet until recently this fact has scarcely been acknowledged in the study of East Asian art by Westerners.

Book New Excursions from the Hall of Harmonious Wind

Download or read book New Excursions from the Hall of Harmonious Wind written by Cunren Liu and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Excursions from the Hall of Harmonious Wind

Download or read book New Excursions from the Hall of Harmonious Wind written by Ts'un-Yan Liu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowledge in Translation

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  • Author : Patrick Manning
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2018-09-19
  • ISBN : 0822986272
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Knowledge in Translation written by Patrick Manning and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science in the twentieth century, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of knowledge—cartography, health and medicine, material construction, astronomy—and a wide geographical range, from Eurasia to Africa and the Americas. Contributors literate in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Minnan, Ottoman, and Persian explore the history of science in the context of world and global history, investigating global patterns and implications in a multilingual and increasingly interconnected world. Chapters reveal cosmopolitan networks of shared practice and knowledge about the natural world from 1000 to 1800 CE, emphasizing both evolving scientific exchange and the emergence of innovative science. By unraveling the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, Knowledge in Translation highlights key moments of transmission, insight, and critical interpretation across linguistic and faith communities.

Book Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India

Download or read book Studies on the Mongol Empire and Early Muslim India written by Peter Jackson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first section of this volume brings together five studies on the Mongol empire. The accent is on the ideology behind Mongol expansion, on the dissolution of the empire into a number of rival khanates, and on the relations between the Mongol regimes and their Christian subjects within and potential allies outside. Three pieces in the second section relate to the early history of the Delhi Sultanate, with particular reference to the role of its Turkish slave (ghulam) officers and guards, while a fourth examines the collapse in 1206-15 of the Ghurid dynasty, whose conquests in northern India had created the preconditions for the Sultanate's emergence. The final three papers are concerned with Mongol pressure on Muslim India and the capacity of the Delhi Sultanate to withstand it.