The Xiangqi Master From The Cave
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The Xiangqi Master From The Cave
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Author : Ping Loong Wong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-20
The Xiangqi Master From The Cave written by Ping Loong Wong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-20 with categories.
Xiangqi, or Chinese Chess which more Westerners may be acquainted with, is an ancient game with strategy that has been played for at least a thousand years. Through the ages, there have been many classics that were written about it, with the earliest publication on the form of Xiangqi that we know today in the late Song dynasty. Many have been lost through the ages, but a handful few have made are still present today. One of theses ancient classics is The Xiangqi Master from the Cave which was estimated to have existed at least over two hundred years ago. There are several unique features to this ancient manual. The Chinese name is made up seven Chinese characters, with each character representing a particular opening system being discussed. There are five games per character. The Chinese name of the book, if translated directly would be Invincible after coming out of the Caves. There are not many variations but there are many tactics, strategies and brilliant kills that are demonstrated. Although the level of play may seem simple by today's standards, it is nevertheless an ideal book for the beginner, amateur or even club level Xiangqi player to learn, for the ideas demonstrated form the basics of Xiangqi theory today. Detailed explanations have been provided to assist the reader in understanding the game. Ample diagrams have also been placed such that it would be easy to cross reference the moves and the actual situation on the board. The reader will be guaranteed to be amazed at the contents of the board, but more importantly, the reader will be able to appreciate the Chinese culture way back in the ancient times."
The Adventures Of Master Alfie London
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Author : Hamish McTavish
language : en
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Release Date : 2023-04-28
The Adventures Of Master Alfie London written by Hamish McTavish and has been published by Austin Macauley Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
London 1842 - Unwilling to be shackled by his orphan tag and the Mile End Poorhouse, 10-year-old Alfie London is desperate to break out and explore the world by way of a naval career. Following a chance encounter, Alfie meets the well-to-do Alexandria Scott. Together with their stray Jack Russel, Rocket, they fearlessly stowaway into the unknown in search of adventure. And adventure is what they soon find! The kind that will test their mettle to the limits and take them on a magical journey to save their imprisoned shipmates. Tackling puzzles, villains, and mythical creatures at every turn, they must find a way to ensure that the history of the world as we know it comes to pass! Where their only hope is finding the long-lost Scrolls of Shangri-La and, in turn, the enchanting and miraculous kingdom itself!
Eminent Nuns
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Author : Beata Grant
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
Eminent Nuns written by Beata Grant 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 2008-07-01 with Religion categories.
The seventeenth century is generally acknowledged as one of the most politically tumultuous but culturally creative periods of late imperial Chinese history. Scholars have noted the profound effect on, and literary responses to, the fall of the Ming on the male literati elite. Also of great interest is the remarkable emergence beginning in the late Ming of educated women as readers and, more importantly, writers. Only recently beginning to be explored, however, are such seventeenth-century religious phenomena as "the reinvention" of Chan Buddhism—a concerted effort to revive what were believed to be the traditional teachings, texts, and practices of "classical" Chan. And, until now, the role played by women in these religious developments has hardly been noted at all. Eminent Nuns is an innovative interdisciplinary work that brings together several of these important seventeenth-century trends. Although Buddhist nuns have been a continuous presence in Chinese culture since early medieval times and the subject of numerous scholarly studies, this book is one of the first not only to provide a detailed view of their activities at one particular moment in time, but also to be based largely on the writings and self-representations of Buddhist nuns themselves. This perspective is made possible by the preservation of collections of "discourse records" (yulu) of seven officially designated female Chan masters in a seventeenth-century printing of the Chinese Buddhist Canon rarely used in English-language scholarship. The collections contain records of religious sermons and exchanges, letters, prose pieces, and poems, as well as biographical and autobiographical accounts of various kinds. Supplemental sources by Chan monks and male literati from the same region and period make a detailed re-creation of the lives of these eminent nuns possible. Beata Grant brings to her study background in Chinese literature, Chinese Buddhism, and Chinese women’s studies. She is able to place the seven women, all of whom were active in Jiangnan, in their historical, religious, and cultural contexts, while allowing them, through her skillful translations, to speak in their own voices. Together these women offer an important, but until now virtually unexplored, perspective on seventeenth-century China, the history of female monasticism in China, and the contributionof Buddhist nuns to the history of Chinese women’s writing.
History Of Chess
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Author : H. J. R. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-12-16
History Of Chess written by H. J. R. Murray and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-16 with Games & Activities categories.
History of Chess by H. J. R. Murray is widely regarded as the most authoritative and most comprehensive history of the game. Murray's aim is threefold: to present as complete a record as is possible of the varieties of chess that exist or have existed in different parts of the world; to investigate the ultimate origin of these games and the circumstances of the invention of chess; and to trace the development of the modern European game from the first appearance of its ancestor, the Indian chaturanga, in the beginning of the 7th century. The first part of the book describes the history of the Asiatic varieties of chess, the Arabic and Persian literature on chess, and the theory and practice of the game of shatranj. The second part is concerned with chess in Europe in the Middle Ages, its role in literature and in the moralities, and with medieval chess problems, leading up to the beginning of modern chess and the history of the modern game through to the 19th century.
Rational Zen
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Author : Thomas Cleary
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2001-05-01
Rational Zen written by Thomas Cleary and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-01 with Religion categories.
Zen has often been portrayed as being illogical and mystifying, even aimed at the destruction of the rational intellect. These new translations of the thirteenth-century Zen master Dogen—one of most original and important Zen writers—illustrate the rational side of Zen, which has been obscured through the centuries, tainting people's understanding of it. Rational Zen consists of enlightening selections from Dogen's two masterworks, "Treasury of Eyes of True Teaching" (the famed Shobogenzo, Japan's most sophisticated philosophical work) and "Universal Book of Eternal Peace," which until now has been unavailable in English. The translator also provides explanations of the inner meanings of Dogen's writings and sayings—the first commentaries of their kind of English. A compendium of authentic source materials further enhances the reader's insight into Dogen's methods, linking them to the great classical traditions of Buddhism that ultimately flowered in Zen.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Art categories.
Encyclopaedia Of Asian Civilizations
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Author : Louis Frédéric
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Encyclopaedia Of Asian Civilizations written by Louis Frédéric and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
A Concise History Of Chinese Literature
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Author : Yuming Luo
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011
A Concise History Of Chinese Literature written by Yuming Luo and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics.
Arts Of Asia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Arts Of Asia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art, Asian categories.
Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes
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Author : Chiew-Siah Tei
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-07
Little Hut Of Leaping Fishes written by Chiew-Siah Tei and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with China categories.