Encounters With Ancient Beijing

Author : Virginia S. Anami
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
ISBN 13 : 9787508503813
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encounters with Ancient Beijing written by Virginia S. Anami and published by 五洲传播出版社. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully-produced book in 330 pages of color, which examines Beijing through its trees, stone and water as a way of unlocking the city's past and appreciating its heritage in the relationship of man to nature. Author Virginia Stibbs Anami has been exploring Beijing for over 20 years, and has researched, written about and photographed the city for numerous publications and exhibitions.

Author : Hu Wenzhong
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 098424719X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Chinese written by Hu Wenzhong and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is in the midst of unprecedented economic and cultural growth. In the last decade alone, China joined the World Trade Organization, hosted the 2008 Olympics and experienced a remarkable, record-high increase in its foreign currency reserves. As these changes unfold, frequency of contact between the Chinese and Westerners is dramatically increasing in the office, the classroom and the home. With thought-provoking glimpses into history and tradition, Encountering the Chinese provides fundamental information on Chinese cultural norms and values, giving clear context for contemporary social standards. Readers will learn the etiquette necessary to build successful personal and professional relationships with the Chinese both inside and outside the People's Republic of China. This revised edition of Encountering the Chinese also explains how Chinese values are changing rapidly-and why it is more important than ever to keep up. For instance, compliments, once declined out of modesty, are now widely accepted in coastal cities; and some terms of address that were proper to use only a decade ago have grown offensive. Encountering the Chinese provides invaluable insight into the diverse and changing Chinese culture.

Author : Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606064576
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qing Encounters written by Petra ten-Doesschate Chu and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures’ visions of novelty and pleasure, battle and power, and ways of seeing and representing. Artists and craftspeople on both continents borrowed and adapted forms, techniques, and modes of representation, producing deliberate, meaningful, and complex new creations. By considering this reciprocity from both Eastern and Western perspectives, Qing Encounters offers a new and nuanced understanding of this critical period.

Author : Inge Morath
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140057812
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Encounters written by Inge Morath and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1981 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976142
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encountering China written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Michael Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by their swift embrace of a market economy—one whose communitarian ideas resonate with China’s own rich, ancient philosophical traditions. This volume explores the connections and tensions revealed in this unlikely episode of Chinese engagement with the West.

Author : David Emil Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442219750
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 written by David Emil Mungello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Chinese, the drive toward growing political and economic power is part of an ongoing effort to restore China's past greatness and remove the lingering memories of history's humiliations. This widely praised book explores the 1500-1800 period before China's decline, when the country was viewed as a leading world culture and power. D. E. Mungello argues that this earlier era, ironically, may contain more relevance for today than the more recent past. This fully revised fourth edition retains the clear and concise quality of its predecessors, while drawing on a wealth of new research on Sino-Western history and the increasing contributions of Chinese historians. Building on the author's decades of research and teaching, this compelling book illustrates the vital importance of history to readers trying to understand China's renewed rise.

Author : David E. Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742538153
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800 written by David E. Mungello and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world.

Author : Kathryn Hellerstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311068411X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters written by Kathryn Hellerstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.

Author : Judith Farquhar
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1935408186
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Thousand Things written by Judith Farquhar and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.

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Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Close Encounters in an Ancient World written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: