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Historic China
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Author : Herbert Allen Giles
language : en
Publisher: Bibliotech Press
Release Date : 1882
Historic China written by Herbert Allen Giles and has been published by Bibliotech Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1882 with History categories.
Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 - 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British diplomat in China. He modified a Mandarin Chinese romanisation system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese romanisation system. Among his many works were translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), the Chuang Tzu, and, in 1892, the widely published A Chinese-English Dictionary. Herbert A. Giles was the fourth son of John Allen Giles (1808-1884), an Anglican clergyman. After studying at Charterhouse, Herbert became a British diplomat to Qing China, serving from 1867 to 1892. He also spent several years (1885-1888) at Fort Santo Domingo in Tamsui, northern Taiwan. He was the father of Bertram, Valentine, Lancelot, Edith, Mable, and Lionel Giles. In 1897 Herbert Giles became only the second professor of Chinese language appointed at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Thomas Wade. At the time of his appointment, there were no other sinologists at Cambridge. Giles was therefore free to spend most of his time among the ancient Chinese texts earlier donated by Wade, publishing what he chose to translate from his eclectic reading in Chinese literature. His later works include a history of the Chinese Pictorial Art in 1905 and his 1914 Hibbert Lectures on Confucianism which was published in 1915 by Williams and Norgate. He dedicated the third edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio (1916) to his seven grandchildren, but at the end of his life was on speaking terms with only one of his surviving children. An ardent agnostic, he was also an enthusiastic freemason. He never became a Fellow at one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, despite being a university professor for 35 years. He finally retired in 1932, and died at 89. (wikipedia.org)
Ancient China
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Author : Judith Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Release Date : 1996
Ancient China written by Judith Simpson and has been published by Time Life Medical this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
An informative account of the more than 7,000-year-old civilization of China including insights into the individuals who helped shape this country.
The General History Of China
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Author : Jean Baptiste Du Halde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1736
The General History Of China written by Jean Baptiste Du Halde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1736 with categories.
The World Of Thought In Ancient China
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Author : Benjamin I. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1985
The World Of Thought In Ancient China written by Benjamin I. Schwartz and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.
The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers views which stress the unity of Chinese culture. Attention is accorded to pre-Confucian texts; the evolution of early Confucianism; Mo-Tzu; the “Taoists,”; the legalists; the Ying-Yang school; and the “five classics”; as well as to intellectual issues which cut across the conventional classification of schools. The main focus is on the high cultural texts, but Mr. Schwartz also explores the question of the relationship of these texts to the vast realm of popular culture.
China S Imperial Past
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Author : Charles O. Hucker
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1975
China S Imperial Past written by Charles O. Hucker and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
A panoramic survey of the course of Chinese civilization from prehistory to 1850, when the old China began to give way
The Origins And Character Of The Ancient Chinese City
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Author : Paul Wheatley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
The Origins And Character Of The Ancient Chinese City written by Paul Wheatley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and territorial basis during the second millennium b.c. They describe the way in which, during subsequent centuries, these institutes were diffused through much of the rest of North and Central China. Author Paul Wheatley equates the emergence of the ceremonial center, as evidenced in Shang China, with a functional and developmental stage in urban genesis, and substantiates his argument with comparative evidence from the Americas, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Southeast Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Yoruba territories. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City seeks in small measure to help redress the current imbalance between our knowledge of the contemporary, Western-style city on the one hand, and of the urbanism characteristic of the traditional world on the other. Those aspects of urban theory which have been derived predominantly from the investigation of Western urbanism, are tested against, rather than applied to ancient China. The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City examines the cosmological symbolism of the Chinese city, constructed as a world unto itself. It suggests, with a wealth of argument and evidence, that this cosmo-magical role underpinned the functional unity of the city everywhere, until new bases for urban life began to develop in the Hellenistic world. Whereas the majority of previous investigations into the nature of the Chinese city have been undertaken from the standpoint of elites, The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City has adopted a point of view closer to that of the social scientist than the geographer.
Ancient China
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Author : Jacqueline Ball
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2006-11-14
Ancient China written by Jacqueline Ball and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-14 with Fiction categories.
Through archeology learn the secrets of the past in China by studying mummies, ancient treasures, artifacts, terra-cotta figures, and more.
Memory And Agency In Ancient China
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Author : Francis Allard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-20
Memory And Agency In Ancient China written by Francis Allard 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 2018-12-20 with History categories.
Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.
Art Myth And Ritual P
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Author : Kwang-chih CHANG
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Art Myth And Ritual P written by Kwang-chih CHANG and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.
The Decline Of Ancient Chinese Civilization
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Author : Marty Gitlin
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Decline Of Ancient Chinese Civilization written by Marty Gitlin and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This enlightening book leads readers though the history of ancient China, up to and through its decline, including how power was centralized within the Zhou royal house and aristocratic families that ruled their individual territories. This resource explains the Spring and Autumn periods, as well as Confucius’s influence, and the positive and negative aspects of the Qin Dynasty. Readers will be captivated by the ebb and flow of rulers, the excitement of peasant revolts, and rebellions that ultimately resulted in the fall of ancient China.