The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Chan S Great Continent
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Chan S Great Continent written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with China categories.
The vastness of China and the antquity of its culture have both fascinated and troubled the West since their earliest contacts. This text explores Western attitudes as they developed over trade, conflict and sometimes edgy co-existence. The account ranges from the travels of Marco Polo to China's modern place in the literature, diplomacy and daydreams of the West.
The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1999-10-17
The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-17 with History categories.
"Like everything else written by Jonathan Spence, The Chan's Great Continent is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in China. Spence is one of the greatest Sinologists of our time, and his work is both authoritative and highly readable." —Los Angeles Times Book Review China has transfixed the West since the earliest contacts between these civilizations. With his characteristic elegance and insight, Jonathan Spence explores how the West has understood China over seven centuries. Ranging from Marco Polo's own depiction of China and the mighty Khan, Kublai, in the 1270s to the China sightings of three twentieth-century writers of acknowledged genius-Kafka, Borges, and Calvino-Spence conveys Western thought on China through a remarkable array of expression. Peopling Spence's account are Iberian adventurers, Enlightenment thinkers, spinners of the dreamy cult of Chinoiserie, and American observers such as Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ezra Pound, and Eugene O'Neill. Taken together, these China sightings tell us as much about the self-image of the West as about China. "Wonderful. . . . Spence brilliantly demonstrates [how] generation after generation of Westerners [have] asked themselves, 'What is it . . . that held this astonishing, diverse, and immensely populous land together?' "--New York Times Book Review
Ping Jonathan D Spence The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : 陳國棟
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Ping Jonathan D Spence The Chan S Great Continent China In Western Minds written by 陳國棟 and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Return To Dragon Mountain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-09-20
Return To Dragon Mountain written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic) Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of rule, was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Zhang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final forty years recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule before the violent upheaval of its collapse. This absorbing tale of Zhang Dai’s life illuminates the transformation of a culture and reveals how China’s history affects its place in the world today.
Chinese Thought
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Roel Sterckx
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-02-07
Chinese Thought written by Roel Sterckx and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with Social Science categories.
How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? Why are human rights as a concept so controversial in China? What does environmental consciousness stand for in the Chinese tradition? Where does China's obsession with education come from? What gets lost in translation in the Chinese language? We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx takes us through centuries of Chinese history, with evocative examples from philosophy, politics and everyday life. A deeply knowledgeable expert who has been studying the country's culture and language for years, Sterckx is the perfect guide who can show us how the ancient Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.
To Change China
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1980-03-27
To Change China written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980-03-27 with History categories.
From “the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today” (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted “to change China” "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country.
The Civilization Of Angkor
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Charles Higham
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2004-04
The Civilization Of Angkor written by Charles Higham and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04 with History categories.
"The Civilization of Angkor is remarkable and unique in that it delves into the prehistoric roots of the civilization. Higham is THE international authority on southeast Asian archaeology, and presents an up-to-date and provocative synthesis of Angkor."--Brian Fagan, author of Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. "In blending archaeological and documentary data to chronicle the rise of this important Southeast Asian state, Higham's rich history of Angkor effectively refutes traditional models of state development in the Mekong region and offers insights regarding the nature of Angkor and the processes that led to its emergence."--Miriam Stark, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i and editor of The Archaeology of Social Boundaries
Chinese Roundabout
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1992
Chinese Roundabout written by Jonathan D. Spence and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
"If one has the art, then a piece of celery or salted cabbage can be made into a marvelous delicacy; whereas if one has not the art, not all the greatest delicacies and rarities of land, sea, or sky are of any avail." --a Beijing cook, nineteenth century from Chinese Roundabout
Russian Orientalism
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-20
Russian Orientalism written by David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with History categories.
Here, the author examines Russian thinking about the Orient before the Revolution of 1917. He argues that the Russian Empire's bi-continental geography and the complicated nature of its encounter with Asia have all resulted in a variegated understanding of the East among its people.
When China Rules The World
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Martin Jacques
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-11-12
When China Rules The World written by Martin Jacques and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with History categories.
Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.