Wujing Sishu Shuo Lue
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Wujing Sishu Shuo Lue
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Author : Sijing Li
language : zh-CN
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Wujing Sishu Shuo Lue written by Sijing Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
On Their Own Terms
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
On Their Own Terms written by Benjamin A. Elman 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 2009-07-01 with History categories.
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Major Aspects Of Chinese Religion And Philosophy
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Author : Chun Shan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-26
Major Aspects Of Chinese Religion And Philosophy written by Chun Shan and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Philosophy categories.
The book addresses academically the major aspects of Chinese religion and philosophy, designated as the doctrine of being internal sage and external king. The perspective applied is the integration between western and Chinese scholarship and English readers may gain an easy and interesting access to Chinese intellectual tradition, distinctive itself in a harmony between being holy and secular in any mundane human being to the western tradition of “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s”. By this contrast the intellectual charms and spiritual merits of Chinese tradition will be better appreciated, hence conducive to the much anticipated dialogues between western and eastern civilizations at this globalized yet conflicted world.
An Introduction To Confucianism
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Author : Xinzhong Yao
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-02-13
An Introduction To Confucianism written by Xinzhong Yao 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 2000-02-13 with Religion categories.
Introduces the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students and general readers.
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.
Becoming Chinese
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Author : Wen-hsin Yeh
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Becoming Chinese written by Wen-hsin Yeh and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with History categories.
This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, they show that modernity in material culture and changes in intellectual consciousness should serve as twin foci of a new wave of scholarly analysis. Examining in particular the rise of modern Chinese cities and the making of the Chinese nation-state, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume of cultural history provide new ways of thinking about China's modern transformation up to the 1950s. Taken together, the essays demonstrate that the combined effect of a modernizing state and an industrializing economy weakened the Chinese bourgeoisie and undercut the individual's quest for autonomy. Drawing upon new archival sources, these theoretically informed, thoroughly revisionist essays focus on topics such as Western-inspired modernity, urban cosmopolitanism, consumer culture, gender relationships, interchanges between city and countryside, and the growing impact of the state on the lives of individuals. The volume makes an important contribution toward a postsocialist understanding of twentieth-century China.
The Indiana Companion To Traditional Chinese Literature
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Author : William H. Nienhauser
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1986
The Indiana Companion To Traditional Chinese Literature written by William H. Nienhauser and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Literary Criticism categories.
""A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published."" --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.
The Taoist Canon
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Author : Kristofer Schipper
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-09-01
The Taoist Canon written by Kristofer Schipper 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 2019-09-01 with Religion categories.
Taoism remains the only major religion whose canonical texts have not been systematically arranged and made available for study. This long-awaited work, a milestone in Chinese studies, catalogs and describes all existing texts within the Taoist canon. The result will not only make the entire range of existing Taoist texts accessible to scholars of religion, it will open up a crucial resource in the study of the history of China. The vast literature of the Taoist canon, or Daozang, survives in a Ming Dynasty edition of some fifteen hundred different texts. Compiled under imperial auspices and completed in 1445—with a supplement added in 1607—many of the books in the Daozang concern the history, organization, and liturgy of China's indigenous religion. A large number of works deal with medicine, alchemy, and divination. If scholars have long neglected this unique storehouse of China's religious traditions, it is largely because it was so difficult to find one's way within it. Not only was the rationale of its medieval classification system inoperable for the many new texts that later entered the Daozang, but the system itself was no longer understood by the Ming editors; hence the haphazard arrangement of the canon as it has come down to us. This new work sets out the contents of the Daozang chronologically, allowing the reader to follow the long evolution of Taoist literature. Lavishly illustrated, the first volume ranges from antiquity through the Middle Ages, while the second spans the modern period. Within this frame, texts are grouped by theme and subject. Each one is the subject of a historical abstract that identifies the text's contents, date of origin, and author. Throughout the first two volumes, introductions outline the evolution of Taoism and its spiritual heritage. A third volume offering biographical sketches of frequently mentioned Taoists, multiple indexes, and an extensive bibliography provides critical tools for navigating this guide to one of the fundamental aspects of Chinese culture.
Poetry And Personality
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Author : Steven Jay Van Zoeren
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991
Poetry And Personality written by Steven Jay Van Zoeren 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 1991 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is a history of the hermeneutics of China's earliest classic, the Book of Odes, which was probably compiled about the 6th century BC. Neither a reading of the Odes as such, nor yet a history of their interpretation, this study attempts rather to trace the principles that guided the interpretation of the Odes over some two thousand years of Chinese history. The book begins by tracing the rise and development in China of the disposition to treat certain 'classical' texts as the ultimate repositories of the culture's values and norms, a disposition that was to shape the political, social, and cultural institutions of traditional China. A notable example was the examination system, which tested candidates for state office on their knowledge of the canon, in the process making questions concerning the interpretation of the canon prominent in public as well as in private life. The author then describes the emergence of the distinctive and influential hermeneutic associated with the Odes.
Early Chinese Work In Natural Science
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Author : Joseph C.Y. Chen
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1996-03-01
Early Chinese Work In Natural Science written by Joseph C.Y. Chen and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Science categories.
This book re-examines the nature of early Chinese work in natural science, on the basis of original records analysis and artifacts discovered in recent decades by archaeological explorations of China's past. It presents a concise account of early scientific ideas and thoughts of nature, and their effect on the development of natural science. It is suggested that the traditional characterization of early Chinese work in natural science requires substantial modification. The absence of early Chinese participation in the development of 'modern' science is not, as commonly assumed, a consequence of lacking early scientific tradition in ancient China. It is argued that the concept of 'inhibitive' factors is dubious without taking their dynamical relationships into account, and that socio-economical and political influence has to be considered when seeking answers to the major setbacks in science and technology in China. The book also shows that there is no basis for the claims saying that acoustics and astronomy in China have their roots in Babylon.