Shanghai Press, 2022. — 160 p. There are many books published in English on Chinese gardens, but the majority are primarily picture books with little informative content. With a large number of illustrations of Chinese gardens, ancient paintings, block prints, and other artefacts, this book is a social history of Chinese gardens and focuses on how gardens have functioned and...
Brill, 2021. — xx, 415 p. — (Numen Book Series 165). Chán Buddhism in Dūnhuáng and Beyond: A Study of Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts in Memory of John R. McRae is dedicated to the memory of the eminent Chán scholar John McRae and investigates the spread of early Chán in a historical, multi-lingual, and interreligious context. Combining the expertise of scholars of Chinese,...
Preprint ed. — University of Washington Press, 2021. — 400 p. Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by...
Preprint ed. — University of Washington Press, 2021. — 400 p. Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by...
Preprint ed. — University of Washington Press, 2021. — 400 p. Early China is best known for the dazzling material artifacts it has left behind. These terracotta figures, gilt-bronze lamps, and other material remnants of the Chinese past unearthed by archaeological excavations are often viewed without regard to the social context of their creation, yet they were made by...
Assisted by Thomas A. Skwerski. — University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 354 p. At the entrance of The Field Museum’s Cyrus Tang Hall of China, two Chinese stone guardian lions stand tall, gazing down intently at approaching visitors. One lion’s paw rests upon a decorated ball symbolizing power, while the other lion cradles a cub. Traditionally believed to possess attributes of...
Brill, 2017. — xii, 450 p. — (Studies on East Asian Religions 1). Bringing together leading authorities in the fields of Chinese and Tibetan Studies alike, Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism engages cutting-edge research on the fertile tradition of Esoteric Buddhism (also known as Tantric Buddhism). This state of the art volume unfolds the sweeping impact of esoteric...
State University of New York Press, 2012. — 221 p. This is the first book-length treatment in English of Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi), often regarded as China’s first great classical novel. Set in the historical period of the disunion (220–280 CE), Three Kingdoms fuses history and popular tradition to create a sweeping epic of heroism and political ambition. The essays in this...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 356 p. Today the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land , Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles - especially legal ones - played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial...
Three Pines Press, 2014. — 226 p. Empowered Writing explores the inherent powers of Chinese talismans, petitions, registers, and holy scriptures, presenting a systematic study of their exorcistic and apotropaic properties. The book divides into three parts: tallies, petitions, and scriptures - all inherently empowered since they originate from the very same primordial energy as...
Brill, 2013. — xii, 224 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 109). In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli examines a set of poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts about Mount Wutai, the most sacred mountain in Chinese Buddhism. Dating from the Tang and Five Dynasties periods, they reflect the mountain’s transformation into the home of the bodhisattva...
London, New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. — 245 p. The chapters in this volume display the variety and richness of the Chinese tradition in the understanding and practice of filial piety. The concept is important not only in Confucianism, but also in Daoism and Buddhism, and its evolution over time reveals how these adapt to changing circumstances, how they in turn modified the...
Brill, 2012. — xii, 240 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 107). This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in early medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through the contextual and intertextual analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective. Through this...
Brill, 2021. — 236 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 152). Ritual Learning is a key driver in the cultural dominance of Confucianism. In early China, Confucian officials derive political influence from the sub-discipline of ritual. Imperial regimes establish legitimacy through their state religion, headed by sacrifices to ancestors and to deities of Heaven and Earth. Ritual Learning...
Anthem Press, 2023. — 214 p. In ancient China, the tradition of observing nature is combined with Yin-Yang and the Five-Phase theories, which were later incorporated into the ancient arts of divination, including the technique of predicting weather changes by observing the behavior and health of animals. The observation of the close connection between animals and weather...
Brill, 2007. — xviii, 542 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 75). The Buddhist monk Fazang (643-712), regarded today mainly as a scholastic monk, was in fact one of the greatest metaphysicians in Asia. This biographical - and hagiographical - study of Fazang seeks to explore his other contributions and in so doing to correct some major mis-presentations and misinterpretations existing in...
Brill, 2011. — 446 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 100). The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology. By exploring the social and political relations that shaped the production and reproduction of printed texts, the impact of...
Brill, 2020. — xvi, 224 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 148). Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Arranged as an investigation of the artist Hua Yan’s work at a pivotal moment in eighteenth-century society, this book considers his...
London: Reaktion Books; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. — x, 223 p.: ill. — ISBN: 9780824827724. This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as one of the great “scholar painters” of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his...
Монография — Durham: Duke University Press, 1996 — 240 p. — ISBN: 0822318008. Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644)...
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 232 p. Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently...
University of Colorado, 2013. — 166 p. Despite containing some of the most fascinating tales within the anomaly account genre, scholarship on the Xuanshi zhi remains very limited. Attributed to the Tang dynasty official Zhang Du, the work has survived in several editions for a total of 205 stories that address a wide variety of issues. However, only a handful of the longest and...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. — 348 p. Ancestors, Kings, and the Dao outlines the evolution of musical performance in early China, first within and then ultimately away from the socio-religious context of ancestor worship. Examining newly discovered bamboo texts from the Warring States period, Constance A. Cook compares the rhetoric of Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE) and...
Brill, 2004 — 402 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 66). — ISBN 10 9004141960 / ISBN 13 9789004141964 This book reconstructs a neglected episode in the development of Confucianism, one that considerably influenced later Chinese religious thought. Material Virtue examines a set of four through first century B.C.E. Chinese texts that argue virtue has a physical correlate in the body. Based...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 430 p. This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao (155–220) became the most...
Brill, 2006. — xxxvi, 1312 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 19). — ISBN10 9004156054. — ISBN13 978-9004156050. This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 290 p. In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings and busy harbors. Their purpose in writing the city was ideological. On the written page, they tried to...
University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. — 362 p. — ISBN 978-0-8248-3687-0 During the Mao era, China's museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function, underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation building and socialist construction. With the implementation of the post-Mao modernization program in the late 1970s and 1980s...
Brill, 2021. — 352 p. — (Prognostication in History, Volume 7). What do dice and gods have in common? What is the relationship between dice divination and dice gambling? This interdisciplinary collaboration situates the tenth-century Chinese Buddhist "Divination of Maheśvara" within a deep Chinese backstory of divination with dice and numbers going back to at least the 4th...
University of Washington Press, 2020. — 248 p. Lovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China’s east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese...
Routledge, 2011. — 180 p. Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental issues on death and the afterlife in one of the...
Routledge, 2011. — 187 p. Intellectually and visually stimulating, this important landmark book looks at the religious, political, social and artistic significance of the Imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). It traces the evolutionary development of the most elaborately beautiful imperial tombs to examine fundamental issues on death and the afterlife in one of the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 243 p. Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true voice of Li Qingzhao is very...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 243 p. Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true voice of Li Qingzhao is very...
Brill, 1976. — xvii, 262 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4. China. Volume 4. Religions and Customs 1). Vorwort Zeittafel zur Allgemeinen Orientierung Liste der Hauptsächlich Benutzten Werke Totemismus Religion der Shāng-Dynastie Der Wuismus Ch’in Shih-Huang-Ti Religion der Han-Zeit Das Staatskultwesen Schluss Index
Brill, 2016. — xvi, 422 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 127). Through a detailed analysis of epistolary writing, A Late Sixteenth-Century Chinese Buddhist Fellowship: Spiritual Ambitions, Intellectual Debates, and Epistolary Connections brings to life the Buddhist discourse of a network of lay disciples who debated the value of Chan versus Pure Land, sudden versus gradual enlightenment,...
Brill, 1998. — 502 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 40). As part of the Jesuits' programme of introduction to European culture, in 1607 the Elements of Euclid (± 300 BC) were translated for the first time into Chinese. The translation of this epoch-making ancient Greek textbook on deductive geometry meant a confrontation of contemporary Chinese and European cultures. Part I of Peter...
Hong Kong University Press, 2018. — 308 p. — ISBN 978-988-8455-81-2 Staging Revolution refutes the deep-rooted notion that art overtly in the service of politics is by definition devoid of artistic merits. As a prominent component shaping the culture of the Cultural Revolution, model Beijing Opera (jingju) is the epitome of art used for political ends. Arguing against commonly...
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. — viii, 289 p. — (Studies in Manuscript Cultures; 22). “Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist...
Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015. — viii, 318 p. — (Studies in manuscript cultures, Vol. 6). — ISBN 9783110453959. Since the beginning of the 20th century, northwest China has been the source of important archaeological finds of manuscripts and printed books. In 1900, a crack in the wall in one of the Buddhist cave temples led to the discovery of the Dunhuang...
Springer, 2019. — 289 p. This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing...
Springer, 2019. — 289 p. This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by absorbing...
Tuttle, 2008. — 240 c.
Skillfully weaving together everything from court and formal costumes through to the working attire of the lower classes and the latest fashions of New China, Chinese Dress tells the story of the evolution of Chinese clothing. The first section details attire worn during the Qing dynasty by the emperors and their consorts, as well as the mandarins,...
Brill, 2018. — 380 p. — (Brill's Humanities in China Library 12). A history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief from the seventh through the nineteenth centuries with a new approach that offers a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts....
Brill, 2015. — x, 354 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 123). Literary Forms of Argument in Early China explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical reasoning have gone unrecognised within scholarship in China and the West....
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 354 p. We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African coasts, the Americas and Europe, consumers desired Chinese porcelains. Many of these were made in the kilns in and surrounding Jingdezhen. Found in almost every part of the world,...
New York: The Columbia University Press; The Macmillan Company. 1902.
Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy.
This series of lectures, published as China and the Chinese, was given...
University of California Press, 2004. — 401 p. — ISBN 052023408I, ISBN 13 9781417525553. The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent...
Hong Kong University Press, 2015. — 252 p. Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing...
Hong Kong University Press, 2015. — 252 p. Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing...
Brill, 2020. — viii, 134 p. Lu Jia's New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty is a readable yet accurate translation by Paul R. Goldin and Elisa Levi Sabattini. Celebrated as “a man-of-service with a mouth [skilled] at persuasion”, Lu Jia (c. 228-140 BCE) became one of the leading figures of the early Han dynasty, serving as a statesman and diplomat from...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 207 p. In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-emerged. Red Classics, a historic-revolutionary themed genre created in the high socialist era were widely taken up again in television drama adaptations. They have since remained a...
E. P. Dutton, 1932. — 290 p. Granet’s original work delves deep into the religious and spiritual customs of ancient China by analysing their festivals and songs from the Book of Odes including the original Chinese script. This translation, originally published in 1932, aimed to present Granet’s observations to a wider English readership by omitting the Chinese characters and...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 365 p. Scholarship on early China has traditionally focused on a core group of canonical texts. However, understudied sources have the potential to shift perspectives on fundamental aspects of Chinese intellectual, religious, and political history. Yegor Grebnev examines crucial non-canonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 365 p. Scholarship on early China has traditionally focused on a core group of canonical texts. However, understudied sources have the potential to shift perspectives on fundamental aspects of Chinese intellectual, religious, and political history. Yegor Grebnev examines crucial non-canonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou...
University of Oxford, 2016. — 287 p. In this thesis, I discuss a group of compositionally related 'core' chapters within the Yi Zhou shu, a collection of 59 texts from ancient China that has received very limited attention in scholarship. The texts in this collection are difficult to read and interpret because of their poor preservation and the lack of concise commentaries. I...
Duke University, 2016. — 400 p. This dissertation explores how the Buddhist texts carved on the cliffs of mountains served their patrons’ religious and cultural goals. During the Northern Qi period (550-577 CE), these carved Buddhist sutra texts and Buddha names were prevalent, and were carved directly onto the surfaces of numerous mountains in southwestern Shandong Province....
Brill, 2025. — xiv, 474 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 170). In historical surveys of witches and witchcraft, the Chinese case is surprisingly absent. This book intends to fill that gap. Traditional China had at least two different strands of fear, directed at women and sometimes also men. The fear of witches harming people through figurines remained limited to individual social and...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 312 p. Xiang Kairan (1889-1957), who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China’s globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John Christopher Hamm...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 312 p. Xiang Kairan (1889-1957), who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-century Chinese culture and the inspiration for China’s globally popular martial arts cinema. In this book, John Christopher Hamm...
Cornell University Press, 2022. — 324 р. In Developing Mission, Joseph W. Ho offers a transnational cultural history of US and Chinese communities framed by missionary lenses through time and space―tracing the lives and afterlives of images, cameras, and visual imaginations from before the Second Sino-Japanese War through the first years of the People's Republic of China. When...
Brill, 2022. — 693 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies 29). Commissioned by the Qianlong emperor in 1751, the Qing Imperial Illustrations of Tributary Peoples (Huang Qing zhigong tu 皇清職貢圖), is a captivating work of art and an ideological statement of universal rule best understood as a cultural cartography of empire. This translation of...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021. — 309 p. Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Prof. Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. Apart from focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, Prof. Hsu pays more attention to the everyday people’s cultural idea. By examining their daily practices...
Brill, 2023. — 241 p. — (Women and Gender in China Studies 13). The image and voice of abandoned women are a familiar topic to students of classical Chinese poetry. This book explores the formation of the conventional, male-constructed voice of women, characterized by the expression of loneliness and resentment by a lady longing for an absent lover.
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 352 p. Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent sanctuaries hold deep cultural and political significance. This book brings together studies from Chin-shing Huang’s decades-long research into Confucius temples that individually and...
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. — 254 p. The book presents Chinese historical thinking by four articles by addressing its ancient origin and its development to modernity. This presentation is commented by seven international experts. Presentation and comments find “second thoughts” by three other international scholars, and at the end the whole discussion is reflected...
Brill, 1995. — 408 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 33). All cultures and times have their own notions of time and space. Being one of the fundamental ideas in every society they influence virtually every aspect of society. In this book the authors explain the notions of time and space in China, how culturally concrete and particularly Chinese they are and how significant such Chinese...
State University of New York Press, 2023. — 160 p. At the heart of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), an ancient Chinese manuscript recently salvaged from the black market, is a concern with the process of self-cultivation, particularly the advancement through the incremental stages and the outcome that awaits one in the end: enlightenment, transparency, and...
State University of New York Press, 2023. — 160 p. At the heart of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), an ancient Chinese manuscript recently salvaged from the black market, is a concern with the process of self-cultivation, particularly the advancement through the incremental stages and the outcome that awaits one in the end: enlightenment, transparency, and...
University of New York Press, 2018. — 234 p. Sheds new light on pre-modern Chinese gender relationships in the context of marriage, male Confucian literati self-presentation, and social networks. In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 275 p. — (China Studies 6). In December 1941, the fifth year in an all-scale cataclysmic Sino-Japanese war that devoured much of Eastern China, the city of Shanghai entered into an era of full occupation. This was the moment when a group of young women authors began writing and soon took over the cultural scene of the besieged metropolis....
Brill, 2024. — 1070 p. — (Crossroads - History of Interactions across the Silk Routes 7). This book examines a vast selection of Buddhist printed images and texts, not merely as static cultural relics, but holistically within multicultural contexts, and as objects on the move, transmitted across a sprawling web of transnational networks, "Buddhist Book Roads". This...
Brill, 2018. — 314 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 11). Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia...
Brill, 2017. — x, 348 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 7). In Confucius Beyond the Analects, Michael Hunter challenges the standard view of the Analects as the earliest and most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius. Arguing from a comprehensive survey of the thousands of extant sayings and stories from the early period, Hunter situates the compilation...
Brill, 1985. — ix, 283 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 16). The aim of this study is to provide an introduction to the dramatic works of Chu Yu-tun (1379-1439). Chu Yu-tun was probably China's most important playwright of the fifteenth century. He certainly was the most prolific as he wrote no less than thirty-one tsa-chil. As a member of the Ming imperial family, Chu Yu-tun was in a...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. — xxvi, 254 p. — ISBN: 9780195314960; 9780194314977. Hong Kong is situated slightly south of the Tropic of Cancer on the south-east coast of China. It is the generic name used to refer to an archipelago of 235 islands and the small slice of the China mainland on the peninsula, around which these islands are clustered. Contemporary Hong...
Brill, 2002. — x, 374 p., 92 ills. — (Sinica Leidensia 53). The 14th century dragon king temple in Southern Shanxi is the only known intact survivor of this ancient Water God institution once existing in every Chinese agricultural community. After describing the history, lay-out and mural paintings of the building, its original Yuan time mural paintings enable the author to...
Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2023. — 668 p. Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music offers a detailed survey of Chinese traditional music in five chapters, each dealing with a different genre. The five genres are folk songs, dance music, narrative singing, music from Chinese opera, and instrumental music. The book begins with an introduction providing an...
Brill, 2016. — x, 420 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 129). In Roaming into the Beyond Zornica Kirkova provides the first detailed study in a Western language of Daoism-inspired themes in early medieval Chinese poetry. She examines representations of Daoist xian immortality in a broad range of versified literature from the Han until the end of the Six Dynasties, focusing on the...
Brill, 2018. — 452 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 10). In Father of Chinese History , Esther Klein explores the life and work of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian as seen by readers from the Han to the Song dynasties. Today Sima Qian is viewed as both a tragic hero and a literary genius. Premodern responses to him were more equivocal: the complex personal...
Brill, 2010. — x, 792 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 25/1). At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and...
Brill, 2014. — vi, 674 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 25/2). At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and...
Brill, 2014. — 1036 p. (vol. 3: vi, 652 p.; vol. 4: vi, 372 p.) — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 4 China 25/3-4). At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor...
University of Washington Press, 2004. — 288 p. The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of Tibetan cultural life. Ashild...
Brill, 2015. — viii, 310 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 117). Nine renowned sinologists present a range of studies that display the riches of medieval Chinese verse in varied guises. All major verse-forms, including shi, fu, and ci, are examined, with a special focus on poetry’s negotiation with tradition and historical context. Dozens of previously untranslated works are here rendered...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 534 p. Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry. Includes original Chinese texts and...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 534 p. Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry. Includes original Chinese texts and...
Brill, 2018. — xvi, 586 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 138). Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the...
Brill, 2020. — 232 p. — (Prognostication in History 4). The essays collected in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. Viewed in...
Tuttle Publishing, 2008. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8048-4011-8. The Chinese Mind pinpoints areas of China's traditional values and behaviors that play a significant role in the business and social relationships of the Chinese. It also identifies key areas of Chinese culture that have changed as a result of the adoption of a market-based economy and other elements of Western...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. — xvii, 211 p.: ill., maps. — ISBN: 9780691002903. 東周楚文化討論會 . Perhaps no aspect of early Chinese history and culture has prompted more controversy than that associated with the ancient State of Chu. This major new volume of essays offers the most comprehensive and current analysis of Chu culture during the Eastern Zhou period...
Lexington Books, 2020. — 174 p. It is widely accepted that moral education is quintessential to facilitating and maintaining prosocial attitudes. What moral education should entail and how it can be effectively pursued remain hotly disputed questions. In Confucian Ritual and Moral Education, Colin J. Lewis examines these issues by appealing to two traditions that have until now...
Springer, 2016. — 301 p. — ISBN10: 9811002770 / ISBN13: 978-9811002779. This book is divided into three main parts: an introduction to theories of culture, a section on Chinese culture, and one on cultural construction. The first part can be interpreted as an attempt to explore the meta-theoretical system of culture at the philosophical level. Based on the concept of “culture...
University of Washington Press, 2011. — 494 p. The emergence and spread of literacy in ancient human society an important topic for all who study the ancient world, and the development of written Chinese is of particular interest, as modern Chinese orthography preserves logographic principles shared by its most ancient forms, making it unique among all present-day writing...
University of California Press, 2021. — 906 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 2). Volume II in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 5 through 11, devoted to waters, fires, soils, metals, jades, stones, minerals, and salts. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia...
University of California Press, 2022. — 764 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 3). Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural...
University of California Press, 2022. — 949 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 4). Volume IV in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 15 through 17, devoted to marshland herbs and poisonous herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and...
University of California Press, 2021. — 1086 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 9). Volume IX in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 47 through 52, devoted to fowls, domestic and wild animals, and human substances. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of...
University of California Press, 2022. — 1003 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 5). Volume V in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 18 through 25, devoted to creeping herbs, water herbs, herbs growing on stones, mosses, and cereals. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese...
University of California Press, 2021. — 969 p. — (Ben cao gang mu. 16th Century Chinese Encyclopedia of Materia Medica and Natural History 8). Volume VIII in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 38 through 46, devoted to clothes, utensils, worms, insects, amphibians, animals with scales, and animals with shells. The Ben cao gang mu is a...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. — 468 p. Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 280 p. The site of Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1200 to 1000 BCE, is one of the most important sources of knowledge about craft production in Bronze Age China. Excavations and research of the settlement over the past ninety years demonstrate both the advanced level of Shang craft workers and the scale and...
Columbia University Press, 2022. — 280 p. The site of Anyang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, dated to around 1200 to 1000 BCE, is one of the most important sources of knowledge about craft production in Bronze Age China. Excavations and research of the settlement over the past ninety years demonstrate both the advanced level of Shang craft workers and the scale and...
Translated and edited by Lothar von Falkenhausen. — The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020. — 252 p. The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan) are the only pre-imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to date. Dating to the turn from the fourth to the third centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several short texts concerning basic...
Brill Academic Pub, 2000. — 861 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies). — ISBN: 9004103643. This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the...
World Scientific Publishing Company, 2020. — 1320 p. This book set covers the last 3000 years of Chinese Medicine, as a broadly flowing river, from its source to its mouth. It takes the story from the very beginnings in proto-scientific China to the modern age, with a wealth of historical and cultural detail. It is unique in presenting many anecdotes, sayings, and excerpts from...
Springer, 2020. — 192 p. This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects. The power of the Chinese emperors was based on the so-called Mandate of Heaven: the...
Springer, 2020. — 192 p. This book analyses the magnificent imperial necropolises of ancient China from the perspective of Archaeoastronomy, a science which takes into account the landscape in which ancient monuments are placed, focusing especially but not exclusively on the celestial aspects. The power of the Chinese emperors was based on the so-called Mandate of Heaven: the...
University of Hawaii Press, 2005. — 756 p. The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources - all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume - of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including...
University of Hawaii Press, 2005. — 756 p. The Hawai‘i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources - all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume - of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century. They take into account virtually every aspect of traditional culture, including...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 235 p. Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, writers, parents, doctors, and ordinary people of all descriptions have left reams of historical evidence on the subject. Moreover, China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and...
London: W.Miller: 1800. — 264 с. Язык: Французский / английский Книга по костюмам, быту и нравам китайцев конца XVIII века. 60 цветных рисунков с комментариями французском и на английском языках. Книга состоит из цветных рисунков и комментариев (2, редко 4 страницы) к ним на двух языках - французском и английском. Комментарии содержат пояснения, касающиеся быта и нравов...
Brill, 2013. — 296 p. (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, VOLUME 5) — ISBN 978-90-04-21901-4 In the last decades, the scholarship on issues of national and cultural identity of China has been constantly on the rise. This edited volume aims at addressing these issues by applying Pierre Noras approach of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) to the Chinese context. The...
Brill, 1998. — 324 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 41). In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses...
Brill, 2011. — xii, 282 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 101). The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West. This study focuses on the concept of “the theatrical” to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with performances, playacting,...
Brill, 2022. — xii, 234 p. — (Ancient Languages and Civilizations 2). The songs of the Royal Zhōu (“Zhōu Nán” 周南) and of the Royal Shào (“Shào Nán” 召南) have formed a conceptual unit since at least the late Spring and Autumn period (771–453 BC). With this book Meyer and Schwartz provide a first complete reading of their earliest, Warring States (453–221 BC), iteration as...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2021. — 293 S. — (Library of Sinology [LOS] 5). This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It is the first to establish these traditions—“Shū” (Documents)—as a historically evolving practice of thought-production. By focusing on the literary form of the argument, it interprets the “Shū” as...
University of Washington Press, 2021. — 234 p. Zhao Feiyan (45–1 BCE), the second empress appointed by Emperor Cheng of the Han dynasty (207 BCE–220 CE), was born in slavery and trained in the performing arts, a background that made her appointment as empress highly controversial. Subsequent persecution by her political enemies eventually led to her being forced to commit...
Brill, 2016. — xxx, 485 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 128). The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan is the biography of the most important statesmen and political thinkers of the Eastern Zhou dynasty China: Yan Ying (d. 500 BCE). Living through an exceptionally troubled period, he served three rulers and two dictators of the state of Qi, in Shandong Province. His experiences...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 360 p. The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE–9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era’s funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain tombs; fancifully ornate wall paintings; and armies of miniature terracotta warriors...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 360 p. The Western Han dynasty (202 BCE–9 CE) was a foundational period for the artistic culture of ancient China, a fact particularly visible in the era’s funerary art. Iconic forms of Chinese art such as dazzling suits of jade; cavernous, rock-cut mountain tombs; fancifully ornate wall paintings; and armies of miniature terracotta warriors...
Brill, 2007. — 254 p. Built around three sacred springs, the Jin Shrines complex (Jinci), near Taiyuan in Shanxi province, contains a wealth of ancient art and architecture dating back to the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). The complex's 1,500-year-long textual record allows us to compare physical and written evidence to understand how the built environment was manipulated to...
Dunod, 2015. — 176 p.
Comprendre l’importance culturelle de la notion de face en Chine est indispensable pour entretenir de bonnes relations avec les Chinois. Cet ouvrage, s’appuyant sur de nombreux témoignages, anecdotes et expériences vécues, puisés dans le monde du travail comme dans le quotidien, analyse huit thématiques clés du comportement social en Chine : l’importance...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 320 p. Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture - "Shih", "Li", and "Tao". "Shih" theory bases strategy on enemy intent, in contrast to Euro-American "Li" strategies based on forces. The work uses "Shih" theory to explain the anomalies that continue to perplex...
Routledge, 2022. — 310 p. This ground-breaking handbook provides multi-disciplinary insight into Chinese cultural morality, cognition and emotion by collecting in one place a comprehensive collection of essays focused on Chinese morality by world-leading experts from more than a dozen different academic fields of study.
Harvard University Press, 1976. — 312 p. Introduction: Issues and Perspectives. A Case in Point: The Ch'ang-sheng chiao. History of Interpretation: Rebels, Evangelists, or Both? Cross-Cultural Perspectives. An Outline History of the White Lotus Tradition. Other Groups: An Introduction to the White Cloud and Lo Sects. Patterns of Folk Buddhist Religion: Beliefs and Myths....
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 412 p. The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works....
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2017. — 412 p. The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works....
Brill, 2007. — xxiv, 438 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 77). Despite Li Gonglin’s (ca. 1049-1106) deep faith in Buddhism and the large number of recorded and extant Buddhist paintings associated with or ascribed to this great painter, twentieth century scholarship on Li Gonglin has focused primarily on his literatus identity and Confucian art oeuvres. This book departs from this...
Brill, 2020. — xii, 323 p. — (Jesuit Studies 26). The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi’s Art of War, which was translated from Chinese by Joseph Amiot, a French missionary in Beijing, and published in Paris in 1772. His work is presented in English for the first time. Amiot undertook this project following the suppression of the Society of Jesus in...
Brill, 2013. — xx, 424 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 110). In Five Classics of Fengshui Michael Paton traces the theoretical development of this form of spiritual geography through full translations of major texts: the Burial Classic of Qing Wu, Book of Burial, Yellow Emperor’s Classic of House Siting, Twenty Four Difficult Problems, and Water Dragon Classic. This theoretical...
Brill, 2023. — 405 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 17). Zuozhuan (Zuo Tradition) is the foundational text of Chinese historiography and the largest text from preimperial China. For two millennia, its immense complexity has given rise to countless controversies, with scholars debating its nature, time of composition, and historical reliability. In the present...
The Chinese University Press, 2014. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 9629966018, ISBN13: 978-9629966010 Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experiences,...
Brill, 2024. — 351 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 165). This multi-contributor volume examines the evolving relationship between fear, heterodoxy and crime in traditional China. It throws light on how these three variously interwoven elements shaped local policies and people’s perceptions of the religious, ethnic, and cultural “other.” Authors depart from the assumption that...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020. — 152 p. Sources of Han Décor: Foreign Influence on the Han Dynasty Chinese Iconography of Paradise (206 BC-AD 220) uses archaeological data to examine the development of Han dynasty Chinese art (206 BC-AD 220), focussing on three major iconographies (the animal master, the tree of life, and animal predation), together with a series of minor...
Brill, 2015. — 375 p. Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World, A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Longxi collects twelve essays by eminent scholars across several disciplines in Chinese and cross-cultural studies to celebrate Zhang Longxi’s scholarly achievements. As a leading scholar from post-Cultural Revolution China, Zhang Longxi’s academic career has set a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 194 p. Examining early Chinese ritual discourse during the Warring States and early Western Han Periods, this book reveals how performance became a fundamental feature of ritual and politics in early China. Through a dramaturgical lens, Thomas Radice explores the extent to which performer/spectator relationships influenced all aspects of early...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 256 p.
The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan.
Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 280 p. - Distinguishes mind from spirit, avoiding reductive binary of mind/spirit-body - Provides detailed discussions of important texts excavated from Guodian - Reproduces a text from Guodian, translated for the first time Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 280 p. - Distinguishes mind from spirit, avoiding reductive binary of mind/spirit-body - Provides detailed discussions of important texts excavated from Guodian - Reproduces a text from Guodian, translated for the first time Chinese philosophy has long recognized the importance of the body and emotions in extensive and diverse self-cultivation...
Allen Lane, 2023. — 544 p. An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs. The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, formidable infrastructure,...
Allen Lane, 2023. — 544 p. An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs. The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of Chinese civilisation still in place today: an extraordinarily challenging geography and environment, formidable infrastructure,...
Brill, 2015. — x, 264 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 125). China’s Literary Cosmopolitans offers a comprehensive introduction to the literary oeuvres of Qian Zhongshu (1910-98) and Yang Jiang (b. 1911). It assesses their novels, essays, stories, poetry, plays, translations, and criticism, and discusses their reception as two of the most important Chinese scholar-writers of the...
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The International Council of Museums (ICOM), 2011. — 8 p.
This Red List has been designed as a tool to assist museums, dealers in art and antiquities, collectors, and customs and law enforcement officials in the Identification of objects that may have been looted and illicitly exported from China. To...
Harvard University Press, 2010 - 232 p. ISBN10: 0674047877 ISBN13: 9780674047877 (eng) Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 423 p. Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of the originals. This new...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 442 p. Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 442 p. Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 362 p. Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 362 p. Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in...
Springer, 1991. — 217 p. China today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexual topics, and the sexual implications of the Ym and Yang theories common in ancient China continue to influence Tantric and esoteric sexual practices today...
Springer, 1991. — 217 p. China today is sexually (and in many other ways) a very repressive so ciety, yet ancient China was very different. Some of the earliest surviving literature of China is devoted to discussions of sexual topics, and the sexual implications of the Ym and Yang theories common in ancient China continue to influence Tantric and esoteric sexual practices today...
Brill, 2005. — xxviii, 296 p. 64 p. ills. — (Brill's Inner Asian Library, Volume: 14). This volume is about the long-neglected, but decisive influence of Uygur patrons on Dunhuang art in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Through an insightful introduction to the hitherto little-known early history and art of the Uygurs, the author explains the social and political forces that...
New York: State University of New York, 2000. — 264 p. Сачико М. Китайские лучи суфийского света (на англ. яз.) Chinese-Language Islam. The Works of Wang Tai-yu. Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning. The Great Learning of the Pure and Real. Liu Chih's Translation of Lawa'ih. Gleams. Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm. Tags: china, sufism, poetry, islam, chinese language,...
Brill, 2012. — 403 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 103). Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts. Each has a theoretical...
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977. — 351 p. Pacing the Void attempts to create, for the twentieth century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of the T’ang dynasty – that is to suggest what the medieval Chinese of various interests and preoccupations, whether scientific,...
Leiden University Press, 2019. — 331 p. — ISBN: 978-90-8728-324-7 In this volume Florian Schneider shows how mass media events fit into the political, economic, and cultural developments in China. Through expert interviews and empirical studies of production backgrounds and media contents, Schneider explores the communication strategies that informed the Beijing Olympics, the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 300 p. The Huayuanzhuang East Oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book offers the first complete English annotation of these fascinating epigraphic texts and introduces the reader to key aspects of...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 300 p. The Huayuanzhuang East Oracle bone inscriptions form a corpus of more than 2500 individual divination accounts, which were engraved on turtle shells and bovine scapulae in the late Shang dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.). The book offers the first complete English annotation of these fascinating epigraphic texts and introduces the reader to key aspects of...
Association for Asian Studies, 2012. — 130 p. Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how - from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia - the Chinese were constantly interacting with their neighbors,...
Association for Asian Studies, 2012. — 130 p. Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how - from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia - the Chinese were constantly interacting with their neighbors,...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 240 p. Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960–1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 240 p. Despite China's long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960–1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, "the study of bronze and...
State University of New York Press, 2006. — 296 p. Rewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise--indeed "rewrite"--Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of...
Brill, 2022. — 552 p. — (Prognostication in History 9). The Zhou Changes , better known in the West as I Ching , is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the Oracle-bone and milfoil divinations of Bronze Age China and how it transformed over the course of the...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent...
Columbia University Press, 2020. — 368 p. Among hundreds of thousands of ancient graves and tombs excavated to date in China, the Mancheng site stands out for its unparalleled complexity and richness. It features juxtaposed burials of the first king and queen of the Zhongshan kingdom (dated late second century BCE). The male tomb occupant, King Liu Sheng (d. 113 BCE), was sent...
Cengage Learning Asia, 2010. — 174 p.
China's Culture gives a brief insight into Chinese culture covering topics such as China's ideology, ethics, morality, political and religious ideas, economic thought, ideas on obtaining material wealth, customs, science and technology, education, and literature and arts. China has a glorious history of civilization that spans thousands of...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 416 p. Chinese culture, to readers of English, is somewhat veiled in mystery. Fundamentals of Chinese Culture (in pinyin, Zhongguo wenhua yaoyi), a classic of great insight and profundity by noted Chinese thinker, educator and social reformist Liang Shuming, takes readers on an intellectual journey into the five-thousand-year-old culture of...
CRC Press, 1991. — 606 p. — ISBN 0-8493-8804-X This volume is a study of Chinese food from a cultural and historical perspective. Its focus is on traditional China before establishment of the People's Republic. It identifies and provides comprehensive information on a broad range of Chinese food plants and animals for general readers, as well as for specialists whose interests...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 366 p. This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei - literally "no doing", but better rendered as "effortless action" - in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 366 p. This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei - literally "no doing", but better rendered as "effortless action" - in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 400 p. Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative textual evidence. New digital humanities...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 400 p. Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, "holistic" other. The idea that the early Chinese held the "strong" holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted by traditional archeological and qualitative textual evidence. New digital humanities...
China Intercontinental Press, 2009. — 156 p. The emergence of bronze ware is an important chapter in the civilization history of human being. Though China is not the first country to make bronze ware in the world, it has enjoyed a unique position in the world history relying on the great variety of bronze ware, plenty of shapes, fine casting techniques and profound historical...
Brill, 2016. — x, 368 p. — (Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography 9). The European view on history was shaken to its foundations when missionaries in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries discovered that Chinese history was older than European and Biblical history. With an analysis of the Chinese, Manchu and European sources on ancient Chinese history, this essay...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 232 p. Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China by Jemimah Steinfeld shows a China that is full of contradictions. We are shown a land where there are thriving gay clubs, including a four story club, but children are afraid to come out to their parents due to family pressure. This is a land where cross-dressing has been part of the...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 232 p. Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China by Jemimah Steinfeld shows a China that is full of contradictions. We are shown a land where there are thriving gay clubs, including a four story club, but children are afraid to come out to their parents due to family pressure. This is a land where cross-dressing has been part of the...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 232 p. Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China by Jemimah Steinfeld shows a China that is full of contradictions. We are shown a land where there are thriving gay clubs, including a four story club, but children are afraid to come out to their parents due to family pressure. This is a land where cross-dressing has been part of the...
I.B.Tauris, 2015. — 232 p. Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China by Jemimah Steinfeld shows a China that is full of contradictions. We are shown a land where there are thriving gay clubs, including a four story club, but children are afraid to come out to their parents due to family pressure. This is a land where cross-dressing has been part of the...
University of Hawaii Press;, 2014. — 496 p. Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples,...
University of Hawaii Press;, 2014. — 496 p. Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of those polities represented the spectrum of peoples in North, East, and Central Asia. Nearly all of them built palaces, altars, temples,...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 256 p. The aim of this book is to explore Chinese food culture not so much by examining the material history of food and eating but by exploring ideas about food, cooking, banqueting, and diet within the social and religious context of the communities in which certain foods were consumed or eschewed. In broad terms, the authors in this volume...
Welcome Books, 2008. 240 p. — ISBN10: 1599620308; — ISBN13: 978-1599620305 A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, China: A Celebration in Art and Literature reveals the glorious 5,000-year-old history of this ancient and fascination culture. In 240 pages and more than 100 full-color images, this volume traces China through its tales and stories, plays and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2021. — 536 p. Covering wide-ranging topics from the arts and entertainment to customs and traditions from the ancient imperial and modern eras, Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture provides more than 300 separate entries along with a comprehensive chronology, glossary of Chinese cultural terms, and an extensive bibliography of Western and...
Brill, 2010. — 272 p. — (Ideas, History, and Modern China 3). Chinese modernity discourses have been dominated by nationalism and revolutionary radicalism in much of the 20th century, but liberal cosmopolitanism has always been an important force in modern Chinese intellectuality, though a much neglected topic in modern Chinese studies. This book is a cross-cultural critique on...
Brill, 2023. — x, 169 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 158). After the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity ( qing) in the chuanqi genre? This book presents a group of creative dramatists who confronted this challenge by giving the romantic theme of chuanqi their unique comic twists. This book demonstrates how their...
Springer, 2020. — 406 p. This book places Li Ji (the Book of Rites ) back in the overall context of "books", "rites" and its research history, drawing on the interrelations between myth, ritual and "materialized" symbols to do so. Further, it employs the double perspectives of "books" and "rites" to explore the sources and symbols of the capping ceremony (rites of passage),...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. — 391 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 71). This book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Successive chapters deal with the implications of Chinese versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story; the use of parts of the adult human body, children and foetuses, to draw out their life-force; attacks by mysterious creatures, causing open...
Brill, 1998. — xiv, 520 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 43). The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of this new paperback in Brill’s Scholar’s List. In it the reader will find a critical evaluation of the extant sources together with a true wealth of context. The core of the book is formed by a close reading of the initiation ritual, including...
Dorling Kindersley, 2022. — 42 р. — ISBN 9780241509173. Embark on an unforgettable time-travelling journey along one of the world's greatest landmarks: the Great Wall of China. Spanning 2,700 years and over 21,000km (13,000 miles), this beautifully illustrated children's book reveals the fascinating story of the Great Wall and the individuals that helped build it. What started...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 500 p. Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken captive to the north after the Liang capital fell, and served several northern dynasties....
North Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing, 2008. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-0889-9. In this remarkable volume, Felicitas Titus has assembled a stunning array of postcards that she has collected over many years of dedicated searching. Ephemeral, small, and unassuming, postcards are often overlooked for the major role they played in influencing public opinion. Filled with primary information on...
Brill, 2020. — x, 210 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 145). In The City of Ye in the Chinese Literary Landscape, Joanne Tsao demonstrates how the city of Ye changed from an iconic space that represented Cao Cao’s heroic enterprise to a symbol of the fruitlessness of human endeavour, and then finally to a literary landmark, a synecdoche for the vicissitudes of human life caught in the...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 352 p. The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722–479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Chinese state of Lu. A long neglected part of the Chinese canon, it is traditionally ascribed to Confucius, who is said to have embedded his evaluations of events within the text. However, the...
Columbia University Press, 2023. — 352 p. — (Tang Center Series in Early China). The Spring and Autumn is an annals text composed of brief records covering the period 722–479 BCE and written from the perspective of the ancient Chinese state of Lu. A long neglected part of the Chinese canon, it is traditionally ascribed to Confucius, who is said to have embedded his evaluations...
Brill, 2018. — 248 p. — (Studies in the History of Chinese Texts 9). The Wenzi is a Chinese philosophical text that enjoyed considerable prestige in the centuries following its creation, over two-thousand years ago. When questions regarding its authenticity arose, the text was branded a forgery and consigned to near oblivion. The discovery of an age-old Wenzi manuscript, inked...
With introductions by James Cahill, Wilt L. Idema and Soren Edgren. — Brill, 2004. — vol.1: lxxxviii, 240 p.; vol. 2: iv, 276 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 62). Volume 1 has standard page numbers – i through lxxxviii and 1 through 240. Volume 2 has its own unique page numbering scheme, consisting of the volume number and page number, separated by a colon. In 1949 the sinologist Robert...
Brill, 2004. — 329 p. — (Sinica Leidensia, LXII). — ISBN: 90-04-13664-9, 90-04-13665-7, 90-04-13160-4. In 1949 the sinologist Robert van Gulik (also known now for his Judge Dee mysteries) purchased in a Tokyo curio-shop a set of printing blocks of a Ming Erotic Album. Two years later the album, with an extensive treatise, was published by Van Gulik himself in a 50 copies print...
Brill, 2010. — 579 p. This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 452 p. With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics, economics and society. It reflects on the major schools of Chinese thought including Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, providing a historical...
Brill, 2018. — xviii, 318 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 139). The first scholarly monograph on Buddhist maṇḍalas in China, this book examines the Maṇḍala of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. This iconographic template, in which a central Buddha is flanked by eight attendants, flourished during the Tibetan (786–848) and post-Tibetan Guiyijun (848–1036) periods at Dunhuang. A rare motif that...
Brill, 2012. — 319 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 106). Scholarship on Xiao Tong in both China and the West has paid little attention to his own writings beyond the influential anthology compiled by the Liang Crown Prince. Adopting a philological approach, this book thorougly examines a multitude of texts written by Xiao Tong and his entourage, many of whom were powerful writers in...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 352 p. The first comprehensive study of the lifework of Guo Moruo (1892-1978) in English, this book explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer who eventually became Mao Zedong's last poetic interlocutor; a Marxist historian who evolved into the...
City University of Hong Kong Press, 2013. — 240 p. More than any other treasure, Shijing 詩經 contains the historical roots of China, from which much of modern culture grew. From a lovelorn young man to an aging woman spurned by her wedded husband, from an elder statesman admonishing a young sovereign, to foot-soldiers facing the unspeakable fate of sacrificial burial, the love...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 226 p. In Writing Pirates , Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 226 p. In Writing Pirates , Yuanfei Wang connects Chinese literary production to emerging discourses of pirates and the sea. In the late Ming dynasty, so-called “Japanese pirates” raided southeast coastal China. Hideyoshi invaded Korea. Europeans sailed for overseas territories, and Chinese maritime merchants and emigrants founded diaspora...
Columbia University Press, 2012. — 311 p. — ISBN 978-0-231-14890-0 How could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese citizens after the Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989? Why has popular sentiment turned toward anti-Western nationalism despite the anti-dictatorship democratic movements of the 1980s? And why has...
Brill, 2014. — xii, 226 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 113). Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating...
Harvard University Press, 2006. — 400 p. Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late sixteenth century, when it became acceptable for women from "good families" to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semi-professional novelists emerged. This study begins...
Brill, 2015. — x, 302 p. — (Sinica Leidensia, Volume: 118). Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444–505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of “imitation poetry,” the popular genre of the Six Dynasties era, Jiang’s work can be seen as the culmination of...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. – 403 p. This book reflects and makes use of the Chinese fascination with famous people. It is intended for people who never have paid much attention to China and now want a quick and graspable introduction to some main themes in its stirring history.
Shanghai Press, 2023. — 465 p. — ISBN: 978-1-93836-889-9 As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the historical trace of 50 national treasures of the museums through the time...
Shanghai Press, 2023. — 465 p. As one of the few ancient civilizations in the world, China features a multidimensional cultural deposit in consistency and unification, endowing her history with a sense of perplexity and enchantment. Together in this book, we shall follow the historical trace of 50 national treasures of the museums through the time tunnel, and enjoy their...
Brill, 2021. — 375 p. Combining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging social and cultural trends in contemporary China, and find the truth content of Chinese society and culture in the age of global capitalism. Through...
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2018. — xviii, 249 p. — eBook ISBN: 9789811081620. Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in further developing their understanding of Chinese society and culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this book provides a survey of Chinese...
Chatto & Windus, 2002. — 230 p. The Good Women of China is a book published in 2002. The author, Xue Xinran, is a British-Chinese journalist who currently resides in London and writes for The Guardian. Esther Tyldesley translated this book from Chinese. The Good Women of China is primarily composed of interviews Xinran conducted during her time as a radio broadcaster in China in...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 295 p. China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through a careful study of the literature,...
Brill, 2015. — xii, 236 p. — (Sinica Leidensia 122). In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines Su Shi’s poetry on art and connoisseurship, his emulation of Tao Qian in exile poetry, and his inner alchemical practice. She argues that the concept of absolute spontaneity is defined negatively, and artistic and ethical spontaneity which can be actualized must be provisional...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 379 p. — (Cambridge World Archaeology). The Han Dynasty, which ruled from 202 BCE to 212 CE, is often taken as a reference point and model for Chinese identity and tradition. Covering a geographical expanse comparable to that of the People's Republic of China, it is foundational to understanding Chinese culture and politics, past and present....
Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008. — 2, 5, 266 p. — ISBN: 9787560076355. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2008年. — 叶郎、朱良志 中国文化读本（英文版）. For readers both at home and abroad who have some basic knowledge of the Chinese language and are interested in Chinese culture. Detailed and vivid introduction to certain unique features and highlights of Chinese culture, enclosing 37...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 443 p. Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and...
Routledge, 2017. — 222 p. This book addresses psychological studies of humour in Chinese societies. It starts by reviewing how the concept of humour evolves in Chinese history, and how it is perceived by Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism respectively. It then compares differences in the Western and the Chinese perceptions of humor and discusses empirical studies that were...
Harvard University Asia Center, 2003. — 672 p. Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprints, traces, or ruins, writing is more than textuality. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the...
Brill, 2019. — 238 p. — (Technology and Change in History 17). In Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies , Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies used at the time....
University of Hawaii Press, 2020. — 238 p. Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their...
Honolulu; Hong Kong; Beijing; Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2016. — 220 p. Art is always a product of cultural evolution, and The History and Spirit of Chinese Art looks at this universal process as it unfolded in ancient China. With mountain-water landscape paintings, works of classical Chinese calligraphy, and blue and white porcelain widely displayed in museums...
Honolulu; Hong Kong; Beijing; Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2015. — 200 p. Art is always a product of cultural evolution, and The History and Spirit of Chinese Art looks at this universal process as it unfolded in ancient China. With "mountain-water" landscape paintings, works of classical Chinese calligraphy, and blue and white porcelain widely displayed in...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0521608562; ISBN13: 978-0521608565. This is the first book to consider the social and cultural implications of opium consumption. Collectively, the Chinese people redefined a foreign way of recreation and developed a complex culture of consumption around its use. The book traces this transformation over a period of five...
University of Hawaii Press, 2003. — 337 p. The frequent appearance of androgyny in Ming and Qing literature has long interested scholars of late imperial Chinese culture. A flourishing economy, widespread education, rising individualism, a prevailing hedonism--all of these had contributed to the gradual disintegration of traditional gender roles in late Ming and early Qing...
Routledge, 2020. — 304 p. Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of...
Routledge, 2020. — 304 p. Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of...
Translated by Luo Na. — Oxford: Routledge, Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), 2024. — 288 p. — (China Perspectives). This book explores the aesthetic consciousness of the Shang Dynasty and its influence on Chinese aesthetic development and contemporary aesthetic creation. The Shang Dynasty is the first era in China with authentic historical documentation. Its artifacts and...
Routledge, 2024. — 288 p. This book explores the aesthetic consciousness of the Shang Dynasty and its influence on Chinese aesthetic development and contemporary aesthetic creation. The Shang Dynasty is the first era in China with authentic historical documentation. Its artifacts and inscriptions have great aesthetic value and serve as vivid and rich records of aesthetic...
М.: ИД "Муравей", 1998. — 288 с., с илл.
В книге в краткой и доступной форме излагаются базовые сведения о традиционной культуре Китая, рассматриваются концепции политического устройства общества в различные исторические периоды, основные учения, религии и культы, наиболее значительные литературные памятники. Прослеживается преемственность традиций в китайском обществе,...
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В методических рекомендациях рассматриваются антропологические идеи и концепции мыслителей Древнего Китая с I тысячелетия до н.э. Особое внимание уделяется учению Конфуция и даосизму, философским, этическим и общественно-политическим теориям, в которых представлено понимание человека. Дается интерпретация образов человека в...
Монография. — М.: Форум, 2010. — 480 с. Монография представляет собой многогранное и оригинальное произведение. В массиве китайской культуры авторы выбрали несколько структурообразующих аспектов (философичность; тема инобытия; проблема героя; художественного средства — речь и беззвучие, семантика цвета, хронотоп прозы и фильма, психологизм повествовательной структуры),...
М.: Государственное изд-во детской литературы, 1959. — 312 с. Книга, написанная коллективом специалистов-китаеведов, состоит из очерков, посвященных различным сторонам духовной и материальной культуры старого Китая: истории, философии, фольклору, литературе, искусству, ремеслам, науке. Очерки ставят своей целью осветить ряд основных особенностей культуры нашего великого соседа...
СПб.: БАН; Альфарет. — 2012. — 332 с.: ил. ISBN: 00 Монография является результатом комплексного исследования традиционной китайской ксилографической гравюры – иллюстрации к произведениям художественной литературы различных жанров и стилей. История развития литературной иллюстрации поставлена в контекст истории китайского книгопечатания, литературы и драматического искусства....
М.: Эксмо, 2016. — 352 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-81480-0 Новая книга известного эксперта по Китаю, писателя, художника и переводчика Бронислава Виногродского посвящена одному из базовых инструментов управления миром - управлению смыслами. Каждый из читателей обладает и постоянно использует необходимые для этого орудия - части своей личности, своего сознания, свою творческую энергию....
М.: Эксмо, 2016. — 352 c. — ISBN: 978-5-699-81480-0 Новая книга известного эксперта по Китаю, писателя, художника и переводчика Бронислава Виногродского посвящена одному из базовых инструментов управления миром - управлению смыслами. Каждый из читателей обладает и постоянно использует необходимые для этого орудия - части своей личности, своего сознания, свою творческую энергию....
М.: Эксмо, 2013. — 352 c. — (Искусство управления миром ). — ISBN: 978-5-699-57041-6 Книги серии «Искусство управления миром» всесторонне и на лучших образцах знакомят читателей с вершинами китайской мудрости. Практическое применение этих знаний позволит последовательно развить в себе способность управлять собой, своим разумом, а затем и всем осознаваемым миром вокруг. Первая...
М.: Эксмо, 2013. — 352 c. — (Искусство управления миром ). — ISBN: 978-5-699-57041-6 Книги серии «Искусство управления миром» всесторонне и на лучших образцах знакомят читателей с вершинами китайской мудрости. Практическое применение этих знаний позволит последовательно развить в себе способность управлять собой, своим разумом, а затем и всем осознаваемым миром вокруг. Первая...
М.: Республика, 2004. — 526 с. — (Библиотека: Религия. Культура. Наука). — ISBN: 5-250-01862-9. Книга «Китайская мысль» известного французского синолога Марселя Гране (1884—1940) впервые вышла в 1934 г. и сразу же привлекла внимание оригинальностью и тонкостью анализа китайской мысли и культуры в целом. Она неоднократно переиздавалась, была переведена на ряд европейских языков....
М.: Республика, 2004. — 526 с. — (Библиотека: Религия. Культура. Наука). — ISBN: 5-250-01862-9. Книга «Китайская мысль» известного французского синолога Марселя Гране (1884—1940) впервые вышла в 1934 г. и сразу же привлекла внимание оригинальностью и тонкостью анализа китайской мысли и культуры в целом. Она неоднократно переиздавалась, была переведена на ряд европейских языков....
Пер. с фр. В.Б. Иорданского. М.: Республика, Алгоритм, 2008. — 528 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9265-0539-6. Марсель Гране (1884–1940) – французский социолог и востоковед, ученик Эмиля Дюркгейма, впервые применил социологические методы к изучению культуры и религии Китая. В книге Марселя Гране дан тонкий анализ китайской философии и культуры в целом. Автор рассматривает китайскую мысль в...
Пер. с фр. В.Б. Иорданского. — М.: Республика, Алгоритм, 2008. — 528 с. — (Философский бестселлер). — ISBN: 978-5-9265-0539-6. Марсель Гране (1884–1940) – французский социолог и востоковед, ученик Эмиля Дюркгейма, впервые применил социологические методы к изучению культуры и религии Китая. В книге Марселя Гране дан тонкий анализ китайской философии и культуры в целом. Автор...
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В издании рассматриваются особенности использования мифологических существ, зооморфных и антропоморфных изображений, символика в их применении при использовании в росписи культуры Яншао.
Новосибирск: Наука. Сибирское отделение, 1988. — 128 с. — (История и культура востока Азии). В монографии выявляются и интерпретируются мифологические сюжеты, зафиксированные в орнаменте расписной керамики неолитической культуры яншао, существовавшей с V по III тыс. до н. э. на территории Центрального и Северо-Западного Китая, Значительное внимание уделено космогоническим и...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 209 с. В сборнике освещаются некоторые вопросы истории традиционных тайных обществ, в частности идеология и программные установки тайных обществ, их социальный состав, взаимоотношении с буржуазно-революционными организациями в конце XIX — начале XX в., их деятельность в период буржуазно-демократической революции 1924—1927 гг. и их эволюция ко времени создания...
М.: Диалог культур, 2006. — 320 с., илл. — (Моя китайская коллекция). — ISBN 1-902-69004-8. В первой книге научно-популярной серим «Моя китайская коллекция» китаист Людмила Исаева, прожившая в Поднебесной более 10 лет и собравшая уникальную коллекцию фарфоровых статуэток, жанровой миниатюры, образцов каллиграфии, аппликации, живописи, интересно и увлекательно описывает феномен...
М.: ИПЦ «МАСКА», 2018. — 68 с. ил. — (Курс лекций для слушателей Институтов Конфуция) — ISBN 978-5-907051-29-4 У китайцев существует богатейшая символика, культура благопожелательных знаков, причем, культуре этой — более трех тысяч лет. Символическое значение многих предметов, используемых в быту, а также птиц, животных (реальных и мифических), растений, минералов, природных...
Новосибирск: Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1977. — 168 с. — (История и культура востока Азии). Монография посвящена гончарному производству неолита крашеной керамики бассейна Хуанхэ (IV—II тысячелетий до и. э.). В книге разработана детальная типология керамики яншао, реконструируются способы ее изготовления, дана классификация орнамента. На обширном материале прослеживается...
Новосибирск: Наука, Сибирское отделение, 1977. — 168 с. — (Серия: История и культура востока Азии). Монография посвящена гончарному производству неолита крашеной керамики бассейна Хуанхэ (IV—II тысячелетий до и. э.). В книге разработана детальная типология керамики яншао, реконструируются способы ее изготовления, дана классификация орнамента. На обширном материале...
СПб.: Лань, 1999. — 416 с. — ISBN 5—8114—0063—2. Предлагаемое учебное пособие — первая на русском языке книга, в которой дается полная картина истории развития и состояния культуры Китая от глубокой древности до наших дней и во всех образующих ее традициях и духовных ценностях. На страницах згой книги рассматриваются и объясняются возникновение, сущность и главные отличительные...
СПб.: Лань, 1999. — 416 с. ISBN: 5811400632. Первая на русском языке книга, в которой дается полная история развития и состояния культуры Китая от глубокой древности и до наших дней и во всех образующих ее традициях и духовных ценностях. На странницах этой книги рассматриваются и объясняются возникновение, сущность и главные отличительные особенности китайских представлений о...
СПб.: Лань, 1999. — 416 с.
Первая на русском языке книга, в которой дается полная история развития и состояния культуры Китая от глубокой древности и до наших дней и во всех образующих ее традициях и духовных ценностях. На странницах этой книги рассматриваются и объясняются возникновение, сущность и главные отличительные особенности китайских представлений о мире и человеке,...
М.: Памятники исторической мысли, 2012. — 399 с. Крюков В.М. досконально изучил надписи на ритуальных бронзовых сосудах эпохи Чжоу (XI—VIII вв. до н. э.) ( рассмотрел более четырёхсот эпиграфических памятников эпохи Шан-Инь и Чжоу), пришёл к выводу, что в древней истории Китая действительно был период, когда органической основой общества служила система наследственных рангов, а...
М.: Памятники исторической мысли, 2000. — 464 с.: илл. — ISBN: 5-88451-093-4. Текст и ритуал являются наиболее фундаментальными категориями культурной традиции Китая. Самое понятие "культура" выражается в Китае иероглифом "вэнь", среди значений которого, с одной стороны, - "обряд" и "этикет", а с другой - "письменность", "иероглифическая надпись". Содержание: Источники...
М.: Памятники исторической мысли, 2000. — 464 с.: илл. — ISBN: 5-88451-093-4. Текст и ритуал являются наиболее фундаментальными категориями культурной традиции Китая. Самое понятие "культура" выражается в Китае иероглифом "вэнь", среди значений которого, с одной стороны, - "обряд" и "этикет", а с другой - "письменность", "иероглифическая надпись". Содержание: Источники...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1983. — 128 с. — (История и культура Востока Азии). В монографии, основанной на исчерпывающем использовании китайских источников, исследованы действия цинского Китая в Восточном Туркестане. Книга является первым в советской и зарубежной литературе фундаментальным исследованием по данной проблеме и представляет интерес не только для специалистов-востоковедов,...
Б.м.: Самиздат, 2019. — 218 с. — ISBN 978-5-532-10369-6 Стратегический анализ применялся уже в Древнем Китае. Книга Перемен рассматривает три ряда критериев, и выдает 64 варианта взаимодействий. Это четкая система, применимая к взаимодействию сложных структур с тремя рядами качественных характеристик. Древние афоризмы отражают реалии раннего феодального общества, содержат...
Б.м.: Самиздат, 2019. — 218 с. — ISBN 978-5-532-10369-6 Стратегический анализ применялся уже в Древнем Китае. Книга Перемен рассматривает три ряда критериев, и выдает 64 варианта взаимодействий. Это четкая система, применимая к взаимодействию сложных структур с тремя рядами качественных характеристик. Древние афоризмы отражают реалии раннего феодального общества, содержат...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1985. — 120 c. — (История и культура Востока Азии). В сборнике публикуются материалы исследований по археологии Восточной Азии, полученных главным образом в 70-е гг. В статьях рассматриваются результаты изучения нижнепалеолитических памятников Китая, неолита Восточного Китая, а также ряд памятников и находок, датированных эпохами Инь, Чжоу и Хань. Книга...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1985. — 120 c. — (История и культура Востока Азии). В сборнике публикуются материалы исследований по археологии Восточной Азии, полученных главным образом в 70-е гг. В статьях рассматриваются результаты изучения нижнепалеолитических памятников Китая, неолита Восточного Китая, а также ряд памятников и находок, датированных эпохами Инь, Чжоу и Хань. Книга...
Монография. — Москва: Шанс, 2022. — 301 с. Основа китайской культуры — гуманитарный дух. В чем он выражается? Что лежит в основе гуманитарной религии Китая? Чем китайское познание мира и традиционное мышление отличается от западного? Профессор Лоу Юйле ищет ответы на эти вопросы, рассуждает о человеке, его месте в мире, о сохранении самобытности и культурной идентичности....
М.: ИДВ РАН, 2014. — с.: ил. ISBN: 978-5-8199-0512-8 Статья представляет собой краткий обзор истории изучения годяньских рукописей в КНР и России. Кроме того, автор стремится продемонстрировать связь годяньских рукописей с конфуцианскими канонами: «Лунь юй», «Чжун юн», «Мэн-цзы», «Сюнь-цзы» и др. Известные во всем мире годяньские рукописи были найдены китайскими учеными в...
М.: Феория, 2014. — 372 с.
Китайское понимание пространства отличается большим своеобразием и таит в себе много удивительного для европейцев. Оно обнаруживает поразительную преемственность в самых разных областях культурной практики и вместе с тем обладает особой, загадочной глубиной. В этой книге собраны работы известного отечественного китаеведа В.В. Малявина, так или иначе...
М.: Феория, 2014. — 372 с. Китайское понимание пространства отличается большим своеобразием и таит в себе много удивительного для европейцев. Оно обнаруживает поразительную преемственность в самых разных областях культурной практики и вместе с тем обладает особой, загадочной глубиной. В этой книге собраны работы известного отечественного китаеведа В.В. Малявина, так или иначе...
М.: Дизайн. Информация. Картография: Астрель: АСТ, 2003. — 436 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-17-004167-5, 5-287-00092-8, 5-271-01100-3. В своей новой книге известный отечественный китаевед В. В. Малявин предлагает оригинальный взгляд не только на традиционную культуру Китая, но и — в известной мере — на китайскую историю. Автор рассказывает о художественной культуре, миропонимании и быте...
Москва: Центрполиграф, 2013. — 222 с. — (Элементарно об элитарном). — ISBN: 978-5-227-04056-5. Китай является родиной одной из самых старых и самых сложных цивилизаций мира. Китайская традиционная культура формировалась тысячелетиями практически в изоляции. Она открылась миру только в конце XX столетия и стала стремительно проникать в культуры других стран и материков. Сегодня...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. – 224 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-04056-5 Китай является родиной одной из самых старых и самых сложных цивилизаций мира. Китайская традиционная культура формировалась тысячелетиями практически в изоляции. Она открылась миру только в конце XX столетия и стала стремительно проникать в культуры других стран и материков. Сегодня вы имеете возможность в краткой...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2013. — ISBN: 978-5-227-04056-5. Китай является родиной одной из самых старых и самых сложных цивилизаций мира. Китайская традиционная культура формировалась тысячелетиями практически в изоляции. Она открылась миру только в конце XX столетия и стала стремительно проникать в культуры других стран и материков. Сегодня вы имеете возможность в краткой форме...
Пер. с кит. — СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 1999. — 272 с. — (Памятники культуры Востока. Выпуск XII).
Качество: сканированные страницы, текстовый слой, оглавление.
Древнекитайский философ Мэн Кэ (372—289 гг. до н. э.), известный чаще как Мэн-цзы (Учитель Мэн) , считается самым блестящим представителем конфуцианского учения после его основателя Конфуция (551—479 гг....
СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского института истории РАН "Нестор-История", 2005. — 324 с.
В издание включены три статьи，посвященные истории китайской книги от изобретения бумаги (105 н. э.) до широкого распространения книгопечатания в Китае (до XIII в. включительно). Исследование этой истории основано на личном опыте автора, несколько десятилетий изучавшего уникальные...
СПб.: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского института истории РАН "Нестор-История", 2005. — 324 с.
В издание включены три статьи，посвященные истории китайской книги от изобретения бумаги (105 н. э.) до широкого распространения книгопечатания в Китае (до XIII в. включительно). Исследование этой истории основано на личном опыте автора, несколько десятилетий изучавшего уникальные...
中国文化常识／国家汉语国际推广领导小组办公室，中华人民共和国国务院侨务办公室编．—北京：华语教学出版社，2006. — 252 с. Сборник «Общие знания по культуре Китая» составлен Пекинским университетом культуры, Нанькинским педагогическим университетом и Аньхойским педагогическим университетом под руководством Отдела эммигрантов при Госсовете КНР. Цель сборника – создать материал для чтения на китайском языке для китайских детей и...
М.: Шанс, 2018. — 140 с. — ISBN 978-5-906892-58-4. Когда вы впервые приедете в Китай, многое может вас удивить. Чтобы понять, почему китайцы ведут себя так или иначе, нужно познакомиться с их традициями. Книга «Китайские традиции и обычаи» расскажет вам, как китайцы отмечают традиционные праздники, встречают весну и осень, провожают старый год и вступают в новый. Вы узнаете,...
Учебное пособие. Томск: Изд-во Томского политехнического университета, 2010. – 156 с. Учебное пособие включает в себя авторский курс лекций, посвященных основным направлениям и этапам развития культуры Китая от глубокой древности до наших дней. В работе отражено многообразие китайского культурного наследия, показано его место и роль в мировом историко-культурном процессе....
Учебно-методическое пособие. — Ульяновск: УлГТУ, 2023. — 169 с. Пособие предназначено для студентов 4-го курса направления «Лингвистика» профиля «Межкультурная коммуникация. Китайский язык и культура», изучающих дисциплину «История культуры Китая», а также для преподавателей, аспирантов и студентов гуманитарных специальностей и всех, интересующихся историей китайской культуры....
Петрозаводск: Петрозаводский государственный университет, 2018. — 49 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8021-3206-7. В пособии рассматриваются особенности даосского мировоззрения в художественной литературе императорского Китая в переводах и с комментариями отечественных востоковедов. Основное внимание уделяется образу даоса, даосским идеям, культам, храмам и монастырям. Учебное пособие будет...
Петрозаводск: Петрозаводский государственный университет, 2018. — 52 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8021-3205-0. В пособии рассматриваются особенности учения Конфуция и буддийские идеи, культы в художественной литературе императорского Китая в переводах и с комментариями отечественных востоковедов. Основное внимание уделяется экзаменационной системе формирования материала: корпус чиновников,...
М.: Альпина нон-фикшн, 2023. — 530 с. Китайское влияние на материальную и духовную жизнь современного мира становится все более ощутимым, но жители других стран по-прежнему почти ничего не знают о Китае и его культуре. Отталкиваясь от этого неоспоримого факта, кембриджский синолог Рул Стеркс предлагает всем нам, живущим за пределами ойкумены Поднебесной, сжатый, но...
Сиань: Компания издания книг мира, 2007. — 205 с. — ISBN: 9787506275231. Чтобы сосредоточить внимание на показе богатого содержания традиционных праздников Китая, данная книга специально выбрала 7 традиционных праздников Китая, отмеченных в опубликованном Министерством культуры КНР списке нематериального культурного наследия на государственном уровне. Книга построена на основе...
М.: Шанс, 2020. — 200 с. — (Исторические беседы). — ISBN 978-5-906892-66-9. Китай славится фарфором: необычной посудой, вазами, статуэтками. Каждое такое изделие – настоящее произведение искусства. Из этой книги вы узнаете, как в Поднебесной научились производить и изящно украшать фарфор, прочтете о разных типах обжигов, о мастерских и конкуренции между ними. Судьба фарфоровых...
М.: Шанс, 2020. — 200 с. — (Исторические беседы). — ISBN 978-5-906892-66-9. Китай славится фарфором: необычной посудой, вазами, статуэтками. Каждое такое изделие – настоящее произведение искусства. Из этой книги вы узнаете, как в Поднебесной научились производить и изящно украшать фарфор, прочтете о разных типах обжигов, о мастерских и конкуренции между ними. Судьба фарфоровых...
М.: ООО Международная издательская компания «Шанс», 2021. — 119 с. — (Самое прекрасное в Китае). — ISBN 978-5-907277-46-5. Воздушные змеи были изобретены в Поднебесной более двух тысяч лет назад, и с тех пор стали неотъемлемой частью китайской культуры. Секреты их создания передаются из поколения в поколение, а разнообразие видов, форм, художественных образов и символов,...
Москва: Международная издательская компания «Шанс», 2021. — 119 с. — (Самое прекрасное в Китае). — ISBN 978-5-907277-46-5. Воздушные змеи были изобретены в Поднебесной более двух тысяч лет назад, и с тех пор стали неотъемлемой частью китайской культуры. Секреты их создания передаются из поколения в поколение, а разнообразие видов, форм, художественных образов и символов,...
Пер. с англ. И.М. Павловой. — М.: АСТ, Астрель, 2004. — 185 с. Предисловие Китайский язык Краткие сведения о Китае Древний Хэтао Избранные судьбой Великая китайская стена Воины императора Китайская живопись Палочки для еды Китайская литература Пекин (Бэйшин) Китайская мудрость Праздники Обычаи Древняя мудрость Китайские достижения Искусство жизни Китайские слова Четыре времени...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 478 с. Исследование Чарлза Уильямса посвящено китайской символике. В расположенных в алфавитном порядке статьях известного ученого даны сведения об исторических лицах, о музыке, мифических персонажах, многоступенчатой иерархии главных и второстепенных божеств и духов, населяющих воды, землю и небеса, и многих других явлениях культурной жизни Китая....
Пер. с англ. Р. Котенко. — М.: Евразия, 1998. — 1046 с. — (Пилигрим). — ISBN 5-8071-0010-7. Книга английского профессора Чарльза Патрика Фицджеральда (Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 1902–1992) – это обширный и глубокий очерк истории Китая от неолита до конца XIX века, в котором достойное внимание уделено духовной культуре, искусству и литературе традиционного Китая. Выдержав более...
М.: Евразия, 1998. — 456 с. — (Пилигрим) — ISBN: 5-8071-0010-7 Пер. с англ. Р. Котенко Charles Patrick Fitzgerald. China: Short Cultural History Книга английского профессора Чарльза Патрика Фицджеральда (Charles Patrick Fitzgerald, 1902–1992) – это обширный и глубокий очерк истории Китая от неолита до конца XIX века, в котором достойное внимание уделено духовной культуре,...
СПб.: Петербургское востоковедение, 2003. — 546 с. — (Orientalia). Книга адресована специалистам, интересующимся взаимоотношениями и взаимовлиянием Китая и Европы, Востока и Запада. Часть первая содержит две главы, посвященные сведениям о Китае, поступившим в Европу от предшественников. В третьей главе второй части исследуется то обстоятельство, как идеализированная...
Москва: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2024. — 360 с. — (Анатомия цвета). Как выглядит мягкий синий, неготовый красный или официальный зеленый цвет? В этой книге исследователь Го Хао предлагает читателю познакомиться с необыкновенно поэтичным и художественным восприятием цвета в китайской культуре. Разбирая 100 знаковых для традиционной китайской палитры оттенков, автор рассказывает о...
Москва: Манн, Иванов и Фербер, 2024. — 360 с. — (Анатомия цвета). Как выглядит мягкий синий, неготовый красный или официальный зеленый цвет? В этой книге исследователь Го Хао предлагает читателю познакомиться с необыкновенно поэтичным и художественным восприятием цвета в китайской культуре. Разбирая 100 знаковых для традиционной китайской палитры оттенков, автор рассказывает о...
3-е изд., эл. — Монография. — М.: ВКН, 2020. — 189 с. — ISBN 978-5-7873-1668-1. В монографии рассматриваются различные аспекты культуры вина в Китае: зарождение и развитие китайской культуры вина, этапы формирования винных ритуалов, формы реализации алкогольной традиции в этой стране. Автором применяется комплексный подход, в частности изучение обрядовой стороны культуры...
2-е издание. — М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1975. — 135 с. Краткие и афористичные произведения в жанре цзацзуань принадлежат к литературе малоизвестной и почти забытой даже в самом Китае. В книге, выходящей вторым изданием, собраны изречения писателей разных эпох (с IX по XIX век). Вступительная статья знакомит с авторами изречений, характеризует литературный...
Монография. — Улан-Удэ: Издательско-полиграфический комплекс ФГБОУ ВПО ВСГАКИ, 2013. — 223 с. — ISBN: 978-5-89610-210-6. Ответственный редактор Л.Е. Янгутов. В монографии на основе авторских переводов рассматриваются основные философские, исторические и экономические концепции малоизученного древнекитайского трактата «Гуаньцзы» (ок. VI—III вв. до н. э.), а также их влияние на...
Отв. ред. В.Б. Виногродская. — М.: ИКСА РАН, 2023. — 304 с. — ISBN 987-5-8381-0463-2. Читателю предлагается одиннадцатый выпуск ежегодного издания Центра изучения культуры Китая ИКСА РАН. Журнал публикует исследования на стыке гуманитарных дисциплин, в основном в рамках классической синологии, философии, филологии, лингвистики, истории культуры, межкультурной коммуникации, и...
Новосибирск: Наука, 1984. — 108 с. — (История и культура востока Азии). Работа посвящена типологическому анализу керамических комплексов неолитических культур бассейна нижнего Янцзы (провинции Цзянсу и Чжэцзян, а также юг Шаньдуна). Рассматриваются закономерности эволюции форм посуды, прослеживается взаимосвязь между культурами Восточного Китая, определяется отношение их к...
М.: Шанс, 2021. — 423 с. Монография посвящена вопросам образования и воспитания в Китае с доциньской эпохи до периода правления династии Цин. В центре внимания автора – идеи, методики и принципы преподавания, характерные для разных философских школ и эпох. В исследовании также анализируются важнейшие методологические труды и учебные пособия, рассказывается о ключевых учебных...
М.: Шанс, 2019. — 319 с. Книга адресована всем читателям, которые хотят познакомиться с культурой Китая. «Очерк китайской культуры» расскажет о философии и религии, литературе и письменности, искусстве и науке, обычаях и традициях Поднебесной. Автор – Шэнь Чжэньхуэй – преподаватель Фуданьского университета, член департамента по работе с иностранными студентами. Переводчик -...
М.: Наука, 1969.
В сборнике объединены изречения китайских писателей разных веков, написанные в жанре цзацзуань. Отражая быт народа, его обычаи и культурные традиции, цзацзуань представляют собой своеобразное явление в китайской литературе. В этой книге впервые собраны и переведены на русский язык цзацзуань разных авторов.
Исследование, перевод с китайского, комментарии и указатели Г. С. Поповой. — М.; СПб.: Нестор-История, 2020. — 408 с. — (Учёные записки Отдела Китая; вып. 37). — ISSN 2227-3816; ISBN 978-5-4469-1715-0. Шу-цзин («Канон записей») — один из важнейших письменных памятников Древнего Китая, неотъемлемая часть традиционной конфуцианской культуры, а также древнейшая модель китайского...
Сборник статей к 100-летию со дня рождения академия Василия Михайловича Алексеева. — М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1983. — 208 с. В книге освещаются различные стороны многогранной научной, преподавательской и популяризаторской деятельности крупнейшего советского синолога академика В. М. Алексеева (1881—1961), исследуется его вклад в разные области китаеведения —...
Сборник статей к 100-летию со дня рождения академия Василия Михайловича Алексеева. — М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1983. — 208 с. В книге освещаются различные стороны многогранной научной, преподавательской и популяризаторской деятельности крупнейшего советского синолога академика В. М. Алексеева (1881—1961), исследуется его вклад в разные области китаеведения —...
Shíshì, 2007. — 348 页. — ISBN: 978-7-80232-108-3. Книга о китайских боевых искусствах не только как о спорте, но и как о части культуры Китая. История создания, развития, техника. 商品描述 内容简介 武术以实战为直接目的，以传统文化为最终藩点。它不仅是一项运动，更是一种文化。本书翔实地讲述了源远流长的中华武术和多彩缤纷的世界武术，既有各种武术的起源与发展，又有各自的内容特征，使读者在了解武术之余，也了解了武术与传统文化之问的传承关系。在大力创建和谐社会的今天，武术文化需要深入挖掘，武术精神更需要大力弘扬。 媒体推荐 书评...
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