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Cherishing Antiquity
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Author : Olivia Milburn
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Cherishing Antiquity written by Olivia Milburn and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
Cherishing Antiquity describes the commemoration within Chinese literature and culture of the southern kingdom of Wu, which collapsed in 473 BCE. The sudden rise and tragic fall of Wu within the space of just over one century would inspire numerous memorials in and around the city of Suzhou, once the capital of this ancient kingdom. A variety of physical structures, including temples, shrines, steles, and other monuments, were erected in memory of key figures in the kingdom’s history. These sites inspired further literary representations in poetry and prose—musings on the exoticism, glamour, great wealth, and hideous end of the last king of Wu. Through an analysis first of the history of Wu as recorded in ancient Chinese texts and then of its literary legacy, Olivia Milburn illuminates the remarkable cultural endurance of this powerful but short-lived kingdom
Milburn Olivia Cherishing Antiquity The Cultural Construction Of An Ancient Chinese Kingdom
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Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Milburn Olivia Cherishing Antiquity The Cultural Construction Of An Ancient Chinese Kingdom written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Rezension Zu Milburn Olivia Cherishing Antiquity The Cultural Construction Of An Ancient Chinese Kingdom
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Author : Paul Nicholas Vogt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Rezension Zu Milburn Olivia Cherishing Antiquity The Cultural Construction Of An Ancient Chinese Kingdom written by Paul Nicholas Vogt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
The Chinese Dreamscape 300 Bce 800 Ce
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Author : Robert Ford Campany
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-03-07
The Chinese Dreamscape 300 Bce 800 Ce written by Robert Ford Campany and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Social Science categories.
Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape—an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke—that underlies texts of diverse persuasions and genres over several centuries. These writings include manuals of dream interpretation, scriptural instructions, essays, treatises, poems, recovered manuscripts, histories, and anecdotes of successful dream-based predictions. In these many sources, we find culturally distinctive answers to questions peoples the world over have asked for millennia: What happens when we dream? Do dreams foretell future events? If so, how might their imagistic code be unlocked to yield predictions? Could dreams enable direct communication between the living and the dead, or between humans and nonhuman animals? The Chinese Dreamscape, 300 BCE – 800 CE sheds light on how people in a distant age negotiated these mysteries and brings Chinese notions of dreaming into conversation with studies of dreams in other cultures, ancient and contemporary. Taking stock of how Chinese people wrestled with—and celebrated—the strangeness of dreams, Campany asks us to reflect on how we might reconsider our own notions of dreaming.
Nominal Things
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Author : Jeffrey Moser
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Nominal Things written by Jeffrey Moser and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Art categories.
Introduction -- Part I. The lexical picture. Names as implements; Picturing names -- Part II. The empirical impression. The style of antiquity; Agents of change; Nominal empiricism -- Part III. The schematic thing. Substance into schema; Nominal casting -- Conclusion.
The Jiankang Empire In Chinese And World History
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Author : Andrew Chittick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-28
The Jiankang Empire In Chinese And World History written by Andrew Chittick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with History categories.
This work offers a sweeping re-assessment of the Jiankang Empire (3rd-6th centuries CE), known as the Chinese "Southern Dynasties." It shows how, although one of the medieval world's largest empires, Jiankang has been rendered politically invisible by the standard narrative of Chinese nationalist history, and proposes a new framework and terminology for writing about medieval East Asia. The book pays particular attention to the problem of ethnic identification, rejecting the idea of "ethnic Chinese," and delineating several other, more useful ethnographic categories, using case studies in agriculture/foodways and vernacular languages. The most important, the Wuren of the lower Yangzi region, were believed to be inherently different from the peoples of the Central Plains, and the rest of the book addresses the extent of their ethnogenesis in the medieval era. It assesses the political culture of the Jiankang Empire, emphasizing military strategy, institutional cultures, and political economy, showing how it differed from Central Plains-based empires, while having significant similarities to Southeast Asian regimes. It then explores how the Jiankang monarchs deployed three distinct repertoires of political legitimation (vernacular, Sinitic universalist, and Buddhist), arguing that the Sinitic repertoire was largely eclipsed in the sixth century, rendering the regime yet more similar to neighboring South Seas states. The conclusion points out how the research re-orients our understanding of acculturation and ethnic identification in medieval East Asia, generates new insights into the Tang-Song transition period, and offers new avenues of comparison with Southeast Asian and medieval European history.
Travels In Persia 1627 1629
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Author : Thomas Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Travels In Persia 1627 1629 written by Thomas Herbert and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Iran categories.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Receptions Of Antiquity
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Author : Jan Nelis
language : de
Publisher: Academia Press
Release Date : 2011
Receptions Of Antiquity written by Jan Nelis and has been published by Academia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Civilization, Classical categories.
"This volume presents a series of papers which cover the general theme of the reception of antiquity, a topic which has in recent years become a discipline in itself, or what some might call a 'cross-discipline'. Indeed the Nachleben of the (culture of) classical antiquity, and of antiquity as a whole, manifests in a number of diverse domains, opening up the field of reception studies to scholars from disciplines other than Classics. This collection of papers illustrates this diversity, uniting as it does original research by scholars from a variety of disciplines: classicists, historians, theatre historians, architectural historians, psychologists, archaeologists, artists, and more, all of whom have treated some aspect of the so-called 'classical tradition' by means of their own individual approaches, leading to a volume rich and dense in themes and methodologies. 'Receptions of antiquity' has been written by friends of Freddy Decreus, in honour of his career, and in celebration of his thought."--
Performing Antiquity
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Author : Samuel N. Dorf
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019
Performing Antiquity written by Samuel N. Dorf and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Music categories.
Performing Antiquity: Ancient Greek Music and Dance from Paris to Delphi, 1890-1930 investigates collaborations between French and American scholars of Greek antiquity (archaeologists, philologists, classicists, and musicologists), and the performing artists (dancers, composers, choreographers and musicians) who brought their research to life at the birth of Modernism. The book tells the story of performances taking place at academic conferences, the Paris Op ra, ancient amphitheaters in Delphi, and private homes. These musical and dance collaborations are built on reciprocity: the performers gain new insight into their craft while learning new techniques or repertoire and the scholars gain an opportunity to bring theory into experimental practice, that is, they have a chance see/hear/experience what they have studied and imagined. The performers receive the imprimatur of scholarship, the stamp of authenticity, and validation for their creative activities. Drawing from methods and theory from musicology, dance studies, performance studies, queer studies, archaeology, classics and art history the book shows how new scholarly methods and technologies altered the performance, and, ultimately, the reception of music and dance of the past. Acknowledging and critically examining the complex relationships performers and scholars had with the pasts they studied does not undermine their work. Rather, understanding our own limits, biases, dreams, obsessions, desires, loves, and fears enriches the ways we perform the past.
Daily Life In Late Antiquity
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Author : Kristina Sessa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Daily Life In Late Antiquity written by Kristina Sessa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with History categories.
This book introduces readers to lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE.