The Invention Of China
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The Invention Of China
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Author : Bill Hayton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-04-26
The Invention Of China written by Bill Hayton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with categories.
A provocative account showing that "China"--and its 5,000 years of unified history--is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day
The Invention Of Printing In China And Its Spread Westward
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Author : Thomas Francis Carter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
The Invention Of Printing In China And Its Spread Westward written by Thomas Francis Carter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Art categories.
Studies the history of printing in China from the invention of paper, through block printing, through paper's journey to Europe, to printing with movable type.
China
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Author : Robert K. G. Temple
language : nl
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Release Date : 1986
China written by Robert K. G. Temple and has been published by Conran Octopus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Science categories.
Overzicht van de Chinese uitvindingen waar het Westen pas eeuwen later mee in aanraking kwam.
The Chinese Typewriter
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Author : Thomas S. Mullaney
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-10-09
The Chinese Typewriter written by Thomas S. Mullaney and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Technology & Engineering categories.
How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China's information technology successes today. Chinese writing is character based, the one major world script that is neither alphabetic nor syllabic. Through the years, the Chinese written language encountered presumed alphabetic universalism in the form of Morse Code, Braille, stenography, Linotype, punch cards, word processing, and other systems developed with the Latin alphabet in mind. This book is about those encounters—in particular thousands of Chinese characters versus the typewriter and its QWERTY keyboard. Thomas Mullaney describes a fascinating series of experiments, prototypes, failures, and successes in the century-long quest for a workable Chinese typewriter. The earliest Chinese typewriters, Mullaney tells us, were figments of popular imagination, sensational accounts of twelve-foot keyboards with 5,000 keys. One of the first Chinese typewriters actually constructed was invented by a Christian missionary, who organized characters by common usage (but promoted the less-common characters for “Jesus" to the common usage level). Later came typewriters manufactured for use in Chinese offices, and typewriting schools that turned out trained “typewriter girls” and “typewriter boys.” Still later was the “Double Pigeon” typewriter produced by the Shanghai Calculator and Typewriter Factory, the typewriter of choice under Mao. Clerks and secretaries in this era experimented with alternative ways of organizing characters on their tray beds, inventing an input method that was the first instance of “predictive text.” Today, after more than a century of resistance against the alphabetic, not only have Chinese characters prevailed, they form the linguistic substrate of the vibrant world of Chinese information technology. The Chinese Typewriter, not just an “object history” but grappling with broad questions of technological change and global communication, shows how this happened. A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Science In Traditional China
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1981
Science In Traditional China written by Joseph Needham 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 1981 with History categories.
The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry.
The Clash Of Empires
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Author : Lydia He. LIU
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Clash Of Empires written by Lydia He. LIU 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 History categories.
What is lost in translation may be a war, a world, a way of life. A unique look into the nineteenth-century clash of empires from both sides of the earthshaking encounter, this book reveals the connections between international law, modern warfare, and comparative grammar--and their influence on the shaping of the modern world in Eastern and Western terms. The Clash of Empires brings to light the cultural legacy of sovereign thinking that emerged in the course of the violent meetings between the British Empire and the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Lydia Liu demonstrates how the collision of imperial will and competing interests, rather than the civilizational attributes of existing nations and cultures, led to the invention of China, the East, the West, and the modern notion of the world in recent history. Drawing on her archival research and comparative analyses of English--and Chinese--language texts, as well as their respective translations, she explores how the rhetoric of barbarity and civilization, friend and enemy, and discourses on sovereign rights, injury, and dignity were a central part of British imperial warfare. Exposing the military and philological--and almost always translingual--nature of the clash of empires, this book provides a startlingly new interpretation of modern imperial history.
The Early Chinese Empires
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Author : Mark Edward Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-30
The Early Chinese Empires written by Mark Edward Lewis 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 2010-10-30 with History categories.
In 221 BC the First Emperor of Qin unified what would become the heart of a Chinese empire whose major features would endure for two millennia. In the first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, Lewis highlights the key challenges facing court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity.
Ts Ao Yin And The K Ang Hsi Emperor
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Author : Jonathan D. Spence
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1966-01-01
Ts Ao Yin And The K Ang Hsi Emperor written by Jonathan D. Spence 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 1966-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Traditional Chinese edition of China scholar and Yale Professor Jonathan Spence's Ts'ao Yin and the K'ang-hsi Emperor: Bondservant and Master. Spence recounts the relationship between Cao Yin, the author of the Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, and the imperial Qing court under Emperor Kangxi. It's a fascinating look at the social and political structure and events of the late 17 and early 18th century China. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
The South China Sea
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Author : Bill Hayton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The South China Sea written by Bill Hayton 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 2014-10-28 with History categories.
China’s rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing’s back yard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smoldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpowers grows ever more likely. This important book is the first to make clear sense of the South Sea disputes. Bill Hayton, a journalist with extensive experience in the region, examines the high stakes involved for rival nations that include Vietnam, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and China, as well as the United States, Russia, and others. Hayton also lays out the daunting obstacles that stand in the way of peaceful resolution. Through lively stories of individuals who have shaped current conflicts—businessmen, scientists, shippers, archaeologists, soldiers, diplomats, and more—Hayton makes understandable the complex history and contemporary reality of the South China Sea. He underscores its crucial importance as the passageway for half the world’s merchant shipping and one-third of its oil and gas. Whoever controls these waters controls the access between Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Pacific. The author critiques various claims and positions (that China has historic claim to the Sea, for example), overturns conventional wisdoms (such as America’s overblown fears of China’s nationalism and military resurgence), and outlines what the future may hold for this clamorous region of international rivalry.
The Invention Of China
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Author : Bill Hayton
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-02
The Invention Of China written by Bill Hayton 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 2020-10-02 with History categories.
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that "China"--and its 5,000 years of unified history--is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this day China's current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but "China" as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far more recently by a small group of intellectuals. In this compelling account, Hayton shows how China's present-day geopolitical problems--the fates of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, and the South China Sea--were born in the struggle to create a modern nation-state. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reformers and revolutionaries adopted foreign ideas to "invent' a new vision of China. By asserting a particular, politicized version of the past the government bolstered its claim to a vast territory stretching from the Pacific to Central Asia. Ranging across history, nationhood, language, and territory, Hayton shows how the Republic's reworking of its past not only helped it to justify its right to rule a century ago--but continues to motivate and direct policy today.