Guihai Yuheng Zhi

Author : Fan Chengda
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802065
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea written by Fan Chengda and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a high-ranking Chinese government official in Guangxi, an experienced traveler, a keen observer, and a gifted writer. His observations on a wide range of subjects are always interesting and revealing, and constitute an important contribution to the literature on Song dynasty China’s frontier peoples. Originally written in direct, unadorned, and allusion-free classical Chinese prose, the complete and annotated English translation of Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea (Guihai yuheng zhi) captures its charm and significance.

Author : Jennifer Took
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904741571X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Native Chieftaincy in Southwest China written by Jennifer Took and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a Zhuang native chieftaincy enfranchised under the Chinese tusi system, and its relationship with the Chinese imperial state. It sheds critical light on the social and political organization of the strategic Chinese-Vietnamese border area over 600 years.

Author : Victor H Mair
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9814620556
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial China and Its Southern Neighbours written by Victor H Mair and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when China-Southeast Asia relationships are undergoing profound changes, it is pleasing to have a volume which examines the interactions between China and the polities and societies to the south through time. With multiple aims of exploring the relations between northern Chinese cultures and those of the south, examining the cultural plurality of areas which are today parts of Southern China, and illuminating the relations between Sinitic and non-Sinitic societies, the volume is broad in concept and content. Within these extensive rubrics, this edited collection further interrogates the nature of Asian polities and their historiography, the constitution of Chineseness, imperial China's southern expansions, cultural hybridity, economic relations, regional systems and ethnic interactions across East Asia. The editors Victor H. Mair and Liam C. Kelley are to be congratulated for bringing together such a wealth of contributions offering nascent interpretations and broad overviews, set within the overarching historical and contemporary contexts provided through Wang Gungwu's introduction.- Dr Geoffrey Wade, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University

Author : Dilnoza Duturaeva
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510338
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Qarakhanid Roads to China written by Dilnoza Duturaeva and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China’s relations with neighboring regions.

Author : Megan Bryson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503600459
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goddess on the Frontier written by Megan Bryson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia. Its main deity, Baijie, has assumed several gendered forms throughout the area's history: Buddhist goddess, the mother of Dali's founder, a widowed martyr, and a village divinity. What accounts for so many different incarnations of a local deity? Goddess on the Frontier argues that Dali's encounters with forces beyond region and nation have influenced the goddess's transformations. Dali sits at the cultural crossroads of Southeast Asia, India, and Tibet; it has been claimed by different countries but is currently part of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. Megan Bryson incorporates historical-textual studies, art history, and ethnography in her book to argue that Baijie provided a regional identity that enabled Dali to position itself geopolitically and historically. In doing so, Bryson provides a case study of how people craft local identities out of disparate cultural elements and how these local identities transform over time in relation to larger historical changes—including the increasing presence of the Chinese state.

Author : Yuan Jingfang
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 399094097X
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comprehensive Introduction to Chinese Traditional Music written by Yuan Jingfang and published by Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 overview of Chinese traditional music history, its connotations and main musical features, an indispensable context for readers unfamiliar with the subject. Within the main text, the authors discuss not only the local music genres, focusing on instruments, music analysis, and tonal theories, but also the historical evolution, performance, and social contexts associated with the music. A glossary of Chinese musical terms is listed in the appendix.

Author : Anders Hansson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487964
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Outcasts written by Anders Hansson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outcasts and pariahs are known to exist in several Asian countries but have usually not been associated with traditional Chinese society. Chinese Outcasts shows that some Chinese were in fact treated as outcasts or semi-outcasts. They include the boat people of South China and certain less well-known groups in different regions, including the "musicians' households" and the "fallen people". The reasons for their inferior status and perceived impurity is examined, as well as the intent behind a series of imperial emancipation edicts in the 1720s and 30s. The edict provided an escape route from inferior legal status but failed to put a quick end to customary social discrimination.

Author : Tana Li
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009237667
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Maritime Vietnam written by Tana Li and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. Here Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically restructures how we understand the role of the maritime and trans-regional in Vietnam's early history. Drawing on exhaustive research of Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese sources, Li reveals that it is only when viewed against the background of the sea that Vietnam's past can be properly understood. In contrast to traditional perceptions of an inward-looking society dominated by Chinese cultural influence, Vietnam was shaped by dynamic littoral economic and cultural contact.

Author : Rui Peng
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266050
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pivotal Constructions in Chinese written by Rui Peng and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed analysis of the Chinese pivotal constructions (PVCs) and their diachronic developments from a constructionalist perspective, with the focus on the growth of the constructional hierarchies of these constructions and the changes with respect to both the form and meaning properties over time. The most important enabling factor behind the diachronic developments of the PVCs has been the sanction of the new instances conflicting with the constructions’ specifications. Throughout history the PVCs have grown along the two dimensions, i.e., inclusiveness and multileveledness, leading to a steady increase in the sizes of their constructional hierarchies. The two-dimensional expansion of the PVCs’ constructional hierarchies has been accompanied by the gradual relaxation of the conditions constraining the earliest instances, on multiple schematicity levels. This book will be valuable to scholars working on diachronic construction grammar and language change as well as to those interested in the history of Chinese language.

Author : 潘冰冰
Publisher : 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司
ISBN 13 : 7568934934
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 桂林地方文化 written by 潘冰冰 and published by 重庆大学电子音像出版社有限公司. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书主要讲解桂林地方文化，共十一个章节，涵盖历史概况、人物事件、民间艺术等。每个章节 包含导入、正文（Text A, Text B）、课后练习和词汇四部分。各章节以历史发展为脉络进行知识点介绍， 形成纵轴的深度；拓展部分则围绕正文的知识点展开，形成横轴的宽度。全书从讲好桂林故事所需掌 握的知识、能力为出发点来规划教材内容，对历史人物、桂林戏曲、桂林方言、地方特色美食等进行 深度挖掘，旨在培养学生对桂林地域的文化理解和文化认同。