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Book Fang and Baarnhart  The Master of the Lotus Garden   Review

Download or read book Fang and Baarnhart The Master of the Lotus Garden Review written by Craig Clunas and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Master of the Lotus Garden

Download or read book Master of the Lotus Garden written by Fangyu Wang and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book-one of the few works in the field of Chinese painting that focuses on a single artist-is the only comprehensive analysis of the life and art of Bada Shanren ever written. The authors give a historical overview of the period in which Bada Shanren lived, discuss his importance in Chinese art history as the consummate scholar-artist, and provide a comprehensive biography that discusses his genealogy, education, activities, friends, and development as an artist.

Book The Lotus Garden s Play

Download or read book The Lotus Garden s Play written by O-rgyan-ʼjigs-med-chos-kyi-dbaṅ-po (Dpal-sprul) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book                   1600   1900

    Book Details:
  • Author : (美)文以诚(Richard Vinograd)
  • Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
  • Release : 2021-11-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book 1600 1900 written by (美)文以诚(Richard Vinograd) and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书聚焦于多样化的中国肖像画中的一些具体面貌,重点在于17—19世纪末的肖像。在这一时间段中,非正式肖像得到最大程度的关注,这些作品出自业余画家之手——相对于那些绘制祖先像与宫廷肖像的无名职业画师而言,这是他们在现成艺术史中的身份。

Book Master of the Lotus Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fangyu Wang
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780300049336
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Master of the Lotus Garden written by Fangyu Wang and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bada Shanren created one of the most compelling and distinctive bodies of graphic art in the history of Chinese culture. A prince of the Ming imperial family, he became a Buddhist monk after the Manchu invasion of China led to the collapse of the Ming dynasty. Thirty years later, when the turmoil of the conquest had passed, he returned to secular life as a painter, poet, and calligrapher. Although portrayed by his contemporaries as a mad eccentric, his art reveals a rational genius, and evidence suggests that he feigned madness to conceal his inner emotions. Despite his enigmatic character, he has had a profound influence on later generations of Chinese artists, especially those of the 20th century.

Book Harmony Garden

Download or read book Harmony Garden written by J. D. Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) poetry such as narrative, historical, didactic, eccentric, and nature verse. The study is concluded by a generous and representative sampling of Yuan's poetry in translation, the first to do justice to the wide variety and richness of his oeuvre. Although many shorter poems are selected, this is the first translation to include his outstanding longer poetry. Harmony Garden will completely revise current attitudes in the west concerning classical Chines literature during the eighteenth century, a period that was long viewed as one of decline, but now appears to equal the golden ages of antiquity.

Book Vajra Garland and the Lotus Garden

Download or read book Vajra Garland and the Lotus Garden written by Yeshe Gyamtso and published by KTD Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two biographies translated here are treasures revealed by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, who was an emanation of the translator Vairochana, the subject of the second of the two biographies. Vairochana was a disciple of Guru Padmasambhava, the subject of the first biography. The purpose of these biographies is to inspire readers to vividly imagine the deeds of Guru Rinpoche and Vairochana, so they can appreciate those deeds and understand something of what such beings are. These stories are of people utterly unlike us in one sense and identical to us in another. However, because we have as yet not freed our potential from the limitations imposed on it by ignorance, our present state is very different from their present state. At the same time, seeing how extraordinary that achievement is can remind us that we have not yet realized our full potential. Therefore these stories are both uplifting and humbling.

Book Masters of Mahamudra

    Book Details:
  • Author : Abhayadatta
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780887061585
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Masters of Mahamudra written by Abhayadatta and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable union of wisdom and compassion, of emptiness and skillful means. These eighty-four masters, some historical, some archetypal, accomplished this practice in India where they lived between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Leading unconventional lives, the siddhas include some of the greatest Buddhist teachers; Tilopa, Naropa, and Marpa among them. Through many years of study, Keith Dowman has collected and translated their songs of realization and the legends about them. In consultation with contemporary teachers, he gives a commentary on each of the Great Adepts and culls from available resources what we can know of their history. Dowman's extensive Introduction traces the development of tantra and discusses the key concepts of the Mahamudra. In a lively and illuminating style, he unfolds the deeper understandings of mind that the texts encode. His treatment of the many parallels to contemporary psychology and experience makes a valualbe contribution to our understanding of human nature.

Book China into Film

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerome Silbergeld
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2000-03-01
  • ISBN : 1861898401
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book China into Film written by Jerome Silbergeld and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1984, Chinese cinema has been the most dramatic entry onto the international film scene. China into Film is the first book to look at contemporary Chinese cinema as a visual art and to illustrate the ways in which it has been shaped by centuries of Chinese tradition. Jerome Silbergeld looks at the significance of gender roles, the strategies of film-makers in coping with state censorship, the translation of novels into films, the continuing attachment of film-makers to melodrama, and cinematic critiques of Maoism and post-Maoist culture. Abundantly illustrated with Chinese paintings as well as scenes from such internationally acclaimed films as Yellow Earth, Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine, China into Film reveals a cinematic form at once excitingly new and deeply imbedded in traditional Chinese visual culture.

Book Encyclopedia of China

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  • Author : Dorothy Perkins
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 1135935629
  • Pages : 673 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of China written by Dorothy Perkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a representative cross-section of entries on all aspects of the history and culture of China. Alphabetically organized, the entries include* major cities and provinces* historical eras and figures* government and politics* economics* religion* language and the writing system* food and customs* sports and martial arts* crafts and architecture* important Chinese figures outside of mainland China* important Westerners in China.

Book Parting the Mists

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  • Author : Aida Yuen Wong
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2006-02-28
  • ISBN : 0824845366
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Parting the Mists written by Aida Yuen Wong and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Parting the Mists, Aida Yuen Wong makes a convincing argument that the forging of a national tradition in modern China was frequently pursued in association with rather than in rejection of Japan. The focus of her book is on Japan’s integral role in the invention of "national-style painting," or guohua, in early-twentieth-century China. Guohua, referring to brush paintings on traditional formats, is often misconstrued as a residual conservatism from the dynastic age that barricaded itself within classical traditions. Wong places this art form at the forefront of cross-cultural exchange. Notable proponents of guohua (e.g., Chen Hengke, Jin Cheng, Fu Baoshi, and Gao Jianfu) are discussed in connection with Japan, where they discovered stylistic and ideological paradigms consonant with the empowering of "Asian/Oriental" cultural practices against the backdrop of encroaching westernization. Not just a "window on the West," Japan stood as an informant of China modernism in its own right. The first book in English devoted to Sino-Japanese dialogues in modern art, Parting the Mists explores the sensitive phenomenon of Japanism in the practice and theory of Chinese painting. Wong carries out a methodologically agile study that sheds light on multiple spheres: stylistic and iconographic innovations, history writing, art theory, patronage and the market, geopolitics, the creation of artists’ societies, and exhibitions. Without avoiding the dark history of Japanese imperialism, she provides a nuanced reading of Chinese views about Japan and the two countries’ convergent, and often colliding, courses of nationalism.

Book Reborn To Be World s Beauty

Download or read book Reborn To Be World s Beauty written by Xin Yu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first, I thought she was weak and could be bullied, so I decided to end the engagement. But I didn't expect her to be so shrewd that I made a mistake. The Crown Prince sighed, [She is such a seductive monster!] Her body was clearly soft, yet she couldn't fall ... One Emperor lifted her up and carried her into his room. "Then obey me! A black belly with a perverted body, it was a perfect match! ...... She was a beautiful little girl who had been reborn into the chaotic world, and she would bring glory to the world and bring power to the world.

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    Book Details:
  • Author : Diana Lary
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0742567648
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book written by Diana Lary and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This succinct, readable introduction to Chinese migration traces the huge population movements both within China and beyond its borders over thousands of years. Distinguished historian Diana Lary explores these migrations and the key roles they have played in Chinese history. She sees migration as a broad spectrum of movement, from short-term and short-range to permanent and long-range, and as a powerful vehicle for the transfer of commodities, culture, religion, and political influence. Her book will be compelling for all readers who want to understand the context for the present internal and international migrations that have changed the face of China itself and its international relations.

Book Mara  Daughter of the Nile

Download or read book Mara Daughter of the Nile written by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a three-time Newbery Honoree and Edgar Award-winning author comes this compelling story of adventure, romance, and intrigue, set in ancient Egypt.

Book The Lotus Garden

Download or read book The Lotus Garden written by Jeff Kindley and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Daughters of China

Download or read book The Lost Daughters of China written by Karin Evans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 journalist Karin Evans walked into an orphanage in southern China and met her new daughter, a beautiful one-year-old baby girl. In this fateful moment Evans became part of a profound, increasingly common human drama that links abandoned Chinese girls with foreigners who have traveled many miles to complete their families. At once a compelling personal narrative and an evocative portrait of contemporary China, The Lost Daughters of China has also served as an invaluable guide for thousands of readers as they navigated the process of adopting from China. However, much has changed in terms of the Chinese government?s policies on adoption since this book was originally published and in this revised and updated edition Evans addresses these developments. Also new to this edition is a riveting chapter in which she describes her return to China in 2000 to adopt her second daughter who was nearly three at the time. Many of the first girls to be adopted from China are now in the teens (China only opened its doors to adoption in the 1990s), and this edition includes accounts of their experiences growing up in the US and, in some cases, of returning to China in search of their roots. Illuminating the real-life stories behind the statistics, The Lost Daughters of China is an unforgettable account of the red thread that winds form China?s orphanages to loving families around the globe.

Book Legitimate Daughter Never Be Concubine

Download or read book Legitimate Daughter Never Be Concubine written by Miao XingRen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once it was an aerial disaster for the universe, Su Jinyue, as one of the outstanding Businesswoman of the thirty-first century, became the richest man in the Direct Daughter, whose father was not in pain but was also afraid of being forced to jump into the lake to commit suicide.Daddy not in pain? Little Sister Shu's framing? Abandoned Scumbag? Su Jinyue expressed that this was none of his business! Their grandma would make them kneel down one by one and call them 'great king'.However... That prince, you wait!You look like my future husband. Can you marry me? The kind that can give birth!