Download or read book Rebellious Beloved Consort written by Di Meiliuguang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I leaned on a few small, green, green five fingers, slender and delicate. I turned the palm, but because of the excessive calligraphy, it became slightly calluses. The veins intertwined on his palm and shattered into tiny pieces. The judge said, "My life will be difficult."I have never believed in these things, the fate of men, three days preordained, seven by myself.
Download or read book China Reinterpreted written by Leo Shingchi Yip and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China Reinterpreted is the first comprehensive study on the representation of Chinese figures and motifs in Muromachi Japanese noh theater. Given that China had a strong influence on Japanese culture from the sixth to the early seventeenth centuries, research on Japanese reception of Chinese culture abounds.This book examines how noh theater integrated earlier reception of Chinese culture in various disciplines to produce its reinterpretation of China and Chinese culture on stage. Centering on a group of noh plays that features Chinese characters and motifs, China Reinterpreted explores not only the different means and methods of adaptation, but also the intricate (re)construction of diverse and complex images of China. This studysituates the selected Chinese plays in the context of the dramaturgy and artistic conventions of noh, as well as the sociopolitical stances and artistic preferences of the audiences, and thus highlights the aesthetics, cultural, and sociopolitical agendas of noh theater of the time. By analyzing the various images of China (Japan’s cultural Other) staged in Muromachi noh theater, China Reinterpreted offers a case study of the representation of the Other in an intra-Asia context.
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Download or read book A Sacred Memorial of Charlotte Augusta Princess of Wales Being Extracts from Upwards of One Hundred and Twenty Sermons Preached on the Day of Her Interment by the Most Eminent Divines of All Denominations written by Robert Huish and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Cosmopolitan Empire written by Mark Edward Lewis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.
Download or read book University of Hartford Studies in Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immortal Wife Quite Adorable written by Ya FengShiJie and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a pity that she, who was originally a modern woman in Mortal Realm, was pulled into the human realm by a fox dog.In order to repay her gratitude, she searched for his reincarnation.However, one was cold, lazy, and fickle.One had a clear and cold temperament, but was like a peerless fairy.How should she choose? Who was his reincarnation?The other was a love affair that had lasted for thousands of years in Heaven Realm.One is a brief love affair of Mortal Realm VII,How should she choose?Well, I'm going to run away with Teddy.And yet —The world is unpredictable, you can't run away.
Download or read book Select extracts and beauties from sermons on the demise of the princess Charlotte by divines of the Church establishment c by the editor of the Biographical memoir of her royal highness written by Charlotte Augusta (princess of Gt. Britain.) and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan written by Doris G. Bargen and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan’s complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs. Heian courtship, conducted mainly to form secondary marriages, was driven by power struggles of succession among lineages that focused on achieving the highest position possible at court. Thus interpreting courtship in light of genealogies is essential for comprehending the politics of interpersonal behavior in many of these texts. Bargen focuses on the genealogical maze—the literal and figurative space through which several generations of men and women in the Genji moved. She demonstrates that courtship politics sought to control kinship by strengthening genealogical lines, while secret affairs and illicit offspring produced genealogical uncertainty that could be dealt with only by reconnecting dissociated lineages or ignoring or even terminating them. The work examines in detail the literary construction of a courtship practice known as kaimami, or “looking through a gap in the fence,” in pre-Genji tales and diaries, and Sei Shōnagon’s famous Pillow Book. In Murasaki Shikibu’s Genji, courtship takes on multigenerational complexity and is often used as a political strategy to vindicate injustices, counteract sexual transgressions, or resist the pressure of imperial succession. Bargen argues persuasively that a woman observed by a man was not wholly deprived of agency: She could choose how much to reveal or conceal as she peeked through shutters, from behind partitions, fans, and kimono sleeves, or through narrow carriage windows. That mid-Heian authors showed courtship in its innumerable forms as being influenced by the spatial considerations of the Heian capital and its environs and by the architectural details of the residences within which aristocratic women were sequestered adds a fascinating topographical dimension to courtship. In Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan readers both familiar with and new to The Tale of Genji and its predecessors will be introduced to a wholly new interpretive lens through which to view these classic texts. In addition, the book includes charts that trace Genji characters’ lineages, maps and diagrams that plot the movements of courtiers as they make their way through the capital and beyond, and color reproductions of paintings that capture the drama of courtship.
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Download or read book The North Korean Threat and Chinese Foreign Politics with North Korea written by Peking King and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American culture is largely an extension of the old-time European culture whereas the Eastern Asian culture is mostly an extension of the ancient Chinese culture. Is it any wonder, then, that people living on different sides of the world don’t understand each other and sometimes see one other as enemies? Peking King, a native of Hong Kong and a naturalized U.S. citizen who has traveled frequently to China, examines China’s role in the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and its current relationship with North and South Korea in this political analysis and treatise. He explains that North Korea is an absolute monarchy government and that Kim Jong-un doesn’t want to unify with South Korea or denuclearize his country. He also argues that both the Chinese and North Korean governments do not want a war against America. Get updated knowledge about Chinese foreign politics toward North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and America—and glean insights that foreign powers would prefer the world not know in this book.
Download or read book The Devious First Daughter 43 Anthology written by Lian Shuang and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely soul£¬which was placed under the care of the Lord Protector¡¯s Manor, ended up having her lover stolen by the family¡¯s eldest daughter and dying tragically the day before her wedding. Somehow, she was reborn in the family as their 14-year-old first wife¡¯s daughter, Ning Xueyan, with a startlingly familiar face. Step by step, she will ruthlessly scheme to seek revenge as well as uncover the mystery of her tragic death. Her former fiancee, the flirty crown prince and the bloodthirsty prince, will now bear witness to a vengeful Ning Xueyan becoming the peerless lady of her generation...
Download or read book Gateway to Chinese Culture written by Asiapac Editorial and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wonder about the significance of the various vibrant festivals celebrated by the Chinese people every year, or why the Chinese eat with their Chopsticks? Or how did the intricate characters of their written language come to be? Ancient Chinese thinkers like Confucius and Sun-zi have left their mark on the Chinese Culture, but who were they? And with the Chinese cuisine that is available in Chinese restaurants all across the world, there's hardly any needs for introductions! Join us on a tour of the ancient and colourful Chinese culture in this part of this Montage Culture Series! First published in 2003, this book is in its 11th reprint in 2013. ISBN: 9789812293282 Page Count: 166 Year Published: 2003 Language: English
Download or read book The Annals of King T aejo written by and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before translated into English, this official history of the reign of King T’aejo—founder of Korea’s long, illustrious Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910 CE)—is a unique resource for reconstructing life in late-fourteenth-century Korea. Its narrative of a ruler’s rise to power includes a wealth of detail not just about politics and war but also about religion, astronomy, and the arts. The military general Yi Sŏnggye, posthumously named T’aejo, assumed the throne in 1392. During his seven-year reign, T’aejo instituted reforms and established traditions that would carry down through the centuries. These included service to Korea’s overlord, China, and other practices reflecting China’s influence over the peninsula: creation of a bureaucracy based on civil service examinations, a shift from Buddhism to Confucianism, and official records of the deeds of kings, which in the Confucian tradition were an important means of educating succeeding generations. A remarkable compilation process for the sillok, or “veritable records,” was instituted to ensure the authority of the annals. Historiographers were present for every royal audience and wrote down each word that was uttered. They were strictly forbidden to divulge the contents of their daily drafts, however—even the king himself could not view the records with impunity. Choi Byonghyon’s translation of the first of Korea’s dynastic histories, The Annals of King T’aejo, includes an introduction and annotations.
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Download or read book Tudor and Stuart Consorts written by Aidan Norrie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly familiar—especially the six wives of Henry VIII—and exceedingly unfamiliar, such as George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne. These innovative and authoritative biographies recognise the important role consorts played in a period before constitutional monarchy: in addition to correcting popular assumptions that are based on limited historical evidence, the chapters provide a fuller picture of the role of consort that goes beyond discussions of exceptionalism and subversion. This volume and its companions reveal the changing nature of English consortship from the Norman Conquest to today.
Download or read book Personal Narratives of Events in the War of the Rebellion written by Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
