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Mapping China And Managing The World
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Author : Richard J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-20
Mapping China And Managing The World written by Richard J. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-20 with History categories.
From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China’s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and comprehensive systems of classifying all natural and supernatural phenomena. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order (zhi) and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world. This book begins by exploring the role of ancient texts and maps as the two prominent symbolic devices that the Chinese used to construct cultural meaning, and looks at how changing conceptions of ‘the world’ shaped Chinese cartography, whilst both shifting and enduring cartographic practices affected how the Chinese regarded the wider world. Richard J. Smith goes on to examine the significance of ritual in overcoming disorder, and by focusing on the importance of divination shows how Chinese at all levels of society sought to manage the future, as well as the past and the present. Finally, the book concludes by emphasizing the enduring relevance of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) in Chinese intellectual and cultural life as well as its place in the history of Sino-foreign interactions. Bringing together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history, this book will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.
Mapping China And Managing The World
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Author : Richard Joseph Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Mapping China And Managing The World written by Richard Joseph Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This book brings together a selection of essays by Richard J. Smith, one of the foremost scholars of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Mapping China and Managing the World focuses on Chinese constructions of order and examines the most important ways in which elites in late imperial China sought to order their vast and variegated world, and will be welcomed by Chinese and East Asian historians, as well as those interested more broadly in the culture of China and East Asia.
Mapping China S One Belt One Road Initiative
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Author : Li Xing
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-08-13
Mapping China S One Belt One Road Initiative written by Li Xing and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-13 with Political Science categories.
This book sets out to analyze how the OBOR initiative will influence the world’s geo-political and geo-economic environment, with specific regard to the ‘Belt and Road’ countries and regions. It evaluates what opportunities the OBOR can offer them in light of the constraints they face, paying particular attention to how security issues may keep some nations from fully participating. Questions are also asked about the tension and conflict along the ‘Belt’ and ‘Road’, which, after all takes in the Middle East’s most tumultuous regions, as well as the much disputed South China Sea. Finally, consideration is given as to how the world’s other economic powers will react when the OBOR inevitably brings about capital and resource competitions.
Sovereignty In China
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Author : Maria Adele Carrai
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08
Sovereignty In China written by Maria Adele Carrai 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 2019-08 with Law categories.
This book provides a comprehensive history of the emergence and the formation of the concept of sovereignty in China from the year 1840 to the present. It contributes to broadening the history of modern China by looking at the way the notion of sovereignty was gradually articulated by key Chinese intellectuals, diplomats and political figures in the unfolding of the history of international law in China, rehabilitates Chinese agency, and shows how China challenged Western Eurocentric assumptions about the progress of international law. It puts the history of international law in a global perspective, interrogating the widely-held belief of international law as universal order and exploring the ways in which its history is closely anchored to a European experience that fails to take into account how the encounter with other non-European realities has influenced its formation.
Remapping The World In East Asia
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Author : Mario Cams
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2024-02-29
Remapping The World In East Asia written by Mario Cams and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with History categories.
When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of new artifacts that mitigated old and new knowledge in creative ways. Simultaneously, missionaries and their collaborators transcribed, replicated, and recombined from East Asian artifacts and informed European audiences about the newly discovered lands known as the “Far East.” All these new artifacts enjoyed long afterlives that ensured the continuous remapping of the world in the following decades and centuries. Focusing on artifacts, this expansively illustrated volume tells the story of a meeting of worldviews. Tracing the connections emanating from each artifact, the authors illuminate how every map, globe, or book was shaped by the intellectual, social, and material cultures of East Asia, while connecting multiple global centers of learning and print culture. Crossing both historical and historiographical boundaries reveals how this series of artifacts embody a continuous and globally connected process of mapping the world, rather than a grand encounter between East and West. As such, this book rewrites the narrative surrounding the so-called “Ricci Maps,” which assumes that one Jesuit missionary brought scientific cartography to East Asia by translating and adapting a Renaissance world map. It argues for a revision of that narrative by emphasizing process and connectivity, displacing the European missionary and “his map” as central actors that supposedly bridged a formidable civilizational divide between Europe and China. Rather than a single map authored by a European missionary, a series of materially different artifacts were created as a result of discussions between the Jesuit Matteo Ricci and his Chinese contacts during the last decades of Ming rule. Each of these gave rise to the production of new artifacts that embodied broader intellectual conversations. By presenting eleven original chapters by Asian, European, and American scholars, this work covers an extensive range of artifacts and crosses boundaries between China, Japan, Korea, and the global pathways that connected them to the other end of the Eurasian landmass.
Contest For The Indo Pacific Why China Won T Map The Future
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Author : Rory Medcalf
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-02
Contest For The Indo Pacific Why China Won T Map The Future written by Rory Medcalf and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02 with categories.
China And The Writing Of English Literary Modernity 1690 1770
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Author : Eun Kyung Min
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-04-19
China And The Writing Of English Literary Modernity 1690 1770 written by Eun Kyung Min 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 2018-04-19 with Literary Collections categories.
Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.
Making The New World Their Own
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Author : Qiong Zhang
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-05-26
Making The New World Their Own written by Qiong Zhang and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-26 with History categories.
In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"
Journal Of Chinese Religions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Journal Of Chinese Religions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with China categories.
Reimagining The Globe And Cultural Exchange
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Author : Laura Hostetler
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Reimagining The Globe And Cultural Exchange written by Laura Hostetler and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with History categories.
How did Asia come to be represented on European World maps? When and how did Asian Countries adopt a continental system for understanding the world? How did countries with disparate mapping traditions come to share a basic understanding and vision of the globe? This series of essays organized into sections on Jesuit Circuits of Communication and Publication; Jesuit World Maps in Chinese; Reverberations of Matteo Ricci's Maps in East Asia; and Reflections on the Curation of Cartographic Knowledge, go a long way toward answering these questions about the shaping of our modern understandings of the world.