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Beijing Odyssey
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Author : Tung Au
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-08-01
Beijing Odyssey written by Tung Au and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-01 with categories.
Beijing Odyssey
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Author : Steven T. Au
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Beijing Odyssey written by Steven T. Au and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with China categories.
Beijing Odyssey
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Author : Steven T. Au
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Beijing Odyssey written by Steven T. Au and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with categories.
Beijing
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Author : Don Cohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Beijing written by Don Cohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Beijing (China) categories.
Beijing Shanghai
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Author : Paul Mooney
language : en
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
Release Date : 2013
Beijing Shanghai written by Paul Mooney and has been published by Odyssey Books & Maps this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Travel categories.
colorful and dramatic role with the blessings of heaven and earth. --Book Jacket.
The Odyssey Of China S Imperial Art Treasures
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Author : Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-07-16
The Odyssey Of China S Imperial Art Treasures written by Jeannette Shambaugh Elliot and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Art categories.
The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures traces the three-thousand-year history of the emperor's imperial collection, from the Bronze Age to the present. The tortuous story of these treasures involves a succession of dynasties, invasion and conquest, and civil war, resulting in valiant attempts to rescue and preserve the collection. Throughout history, different Chinese regimes used the imperial collection to bolster their own political legitimacy, domestically and internationally. The narrative follows the gradual formation of the Peking Palace Museum in 1925, then its hasty fragmentation as large parts of the collection were moved perilously over long distances to escape wartime destruction, and finally its formal division into what are today two Palace Museums-one in Beijing, the other in Taipei. Enlivened by the personalities of those who cared for the collection, this textured account of the imperial treasures highlights magnificent artworks and their arduous transit through politics, war, and diplomatic reconciliations. Over the years, control of the collections has been fiercely contested, from early dynasties through Mongol and Japanese invaders to Nationalist and Communist rivals- a saga that continues today. This first book-length investigation of the imperial collections will be of great interest to China scholars, historians, and Chinese art specialists. Its tales of palace intrigue will fascinate a wide variety of readers.
To The Storm
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Author : Daiyun Yue
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1987-03-16
To The Storm written by Daiyun Yue 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 1987-03-16 with Social Science categories.
To the Storm by Yue Daiyun and Carolyn Wakeman is the fascinating story of Yue Daiyun, a faculty member at Beijing University. Yue Daiyun was a revolutionary from her early school days. She had been a child during the anti-Japanese war and hated the Guomundang. Accepted as a student at Beida in 1948, she joined the Communist Party's underground Democratic youth League and became a Party member the following year and helped with the Liberation of Beijing. While a student at Beida, she served as a delegate at the Prague 2nd World Student Congress in 1950 and worked in the countryside on land reform in 1951-52. Then she graduated from Beida and became a faculty member in the literature department. She married her husband, Lao Tang, the day after their graduation. He obtained a faculty position in the philosophy department. Both were loyal to Chairman Mao and the goals of the Revolution. Their lives went smoothly for several years until 1958. Yue Daiyun taught Chinese literature and took part in many activities on campus. She read many Western books and supported the formation of a new literary magazine on campus. This eventually brought her into conflict with the authorities and the beginning of two decades of problems and persecution for her and her family. The Party had encouraged openness and criticism of its mistakes and deficiencies in the system. Yue Daiyun had taken part in the discussions, believing that she was helping to build a better China. Summoned to a meeting at her department one day, she was denounced as a rightist. She did not understand what she did wrong, but she was quickly relieved of her teaching duties and sent to the countryside to work and live with the peasants for two years. This was the first of her suspensions from teaching. Both Yue Daiyun and her husband, Lao Tang, were caught up in the persecution and violence of the Cultural Revolution. They had spent two years at a cadre school in Liyouhoz and when they returned to Beijing, Lao Tang was selected to work on a special task force called Liang Xaio. This brought Lao Tang and the group into close association with Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four. When the Gang of Four was arrested, Lao Tang suffered through a year long investigation before being cleared. Throughout this time their family suffered from the persecution of others. In the end, the authorities admitted that they were wrong in their case against her and reinstated her Party membership. In this interesting autobiography, Yue Daiyun tells her story of the life she and her family lived during these somewhat violent and terror-filled years in China.
Beijing
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Author : William Lindesay
language : en
Publisher: NTC Publishing Group
Release Date : 1997
Beijing written by William Lindesay and has been published by NTC Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Travel categories.
A guide to China's capital city.
The Beijing Lectures Strauss Plato Nietzsche
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Author : Laurence Lampert
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2024-07-02
The Beijing Lectures Strauss Plato Nietzsche written by Laurence Lampert and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-02 with Philosophy categories.
“In this brilliant analysis of the coming to be of Strauss, Plato, and Nietzsche as philosophers and poets, Laurence Lampert reaches new heights and plumbs new depths. An extraordinarily rich and insightful book, thoughtful and beautiful in its execution. A masterful performance by a thinker and author at the height of his power.”—Michael Allen Gillespie, author of Nietzsche’s Final Teaching Six essays from a well-known Nietzsche scholar on Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche, and the history of western philosophy In The Beijing Lectures: Strauss, Plato, Nietzsche, Laurence Lampert presents what he calls the new history of philosophy made possible by Friedrich Nietzsche. This “new” history takes seriously Nietzsche’s claim that “the greatest thoughts are the greatest events.” To put it even more assertively that “genuine philosophers are commanders and legislators.” Beginning with Leo Strauss and how his recovery of the philosophers’ art of writing can change our way of viewing the history of philosophy, Lampert then focuses on six Platonic dialogues—Protagoras, Charmides, Republic, Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium. These, he believes, mark a turning point in Western history and set the pattern for the whole Western philosophic tradition. In the third and final section, Lampert considers Nietzsche in order to show how he revolutionized our understanding of the world, and in particular why it is appropriate to view him as “the first comprehensive ecological philosopher.”
Gu Hongming S Eccentric Chinese Odyssey
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Author : Chunmei Du
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2019-04-02
Gu Hongming S Eccentric Chinese Odyssey written by Chunmei Du and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Known for his ultraconservatism and eccentricity, Gu Hongming (1857-1928) remains one of the most controversial figures in modern Chinese intellectual history. A former member of the colonial elite from Penang who was educated in Europe, Gu, in his late twenties, became a Qing loyalist and Confucian spokesman who also defended concubinage, footbinding, and the queue. Seen as a reactionary by his Chinese contemporaries, Gu nevertheless gained fame as an Eastern prophet following the carnage of World War I, often paired with Rabindranath Tagore and Leo Tolstoy by Western and Japanese intellectuals. Rather than resort to the typical conception of Gu as an inscrutable eccentric, Chunmei Du argues that Gu was a trickster-sage figure who fought modern Western civilization in a time dominated by industrial power, utilitarian values, and imperialist expansion. A shape-shifter, Gu was by turns a lampooning jester, defying modern political and economic systems and, at other times, an avenging cultural hero who denounced colonial ideologies with formidable intellect, symbolic performances, and calculated pranks. A cultural amphibian, Gu transformed from an "imitation Western man" to "a Chinaman again," and reinterpreted, performed, and embodied "authentic Chineseness" in a time when China itself was adopting the new identity of a modern nation-state. Gu Hongming's Eccentric Chinese Odyssey is the first comprehensive study in English of Gu Hongming, both the private individual and the public cultural figure. It examines the controversial scholar's intellectual and psychological journeys across geographical, national, and cultural boundaries in new global contexts. In addition to complicating existing studies of Chinese conservatism and global discussions on civilization around the World War I era, the book sheds new light on the contested notion of authenticity within the Chinese diaspora and the psychological impact of colonialism.