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Author : Jen-der Lee
Release : 2003
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Book Synopsis Review of Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng(eds.), Under Confucian Eyes by : Jen-der Lee
Download or read book Review of Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng(eds.), Under Confucian Eyes written by Jen-der Lee. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marte Kjær Galtung
Release : 2014-11-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis 49 Myths about China by : Marte Kjær Galtung
Download or read book 49 Myths about China written by Marte Kjær Galtung. This book was released on 2014-11-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism is dead in China. “China Inc.” is buying up the world. China has the United States over a barrel. The Chinese are just copycats. China is an environmental baddie, China is colonizing Africa. Mao was a monster. The end of the Communist regime is near. The 21st century belongs to China. Or does it? Marte Kjær Galtung and Stig Stenslie highlight 49 prevalent myths about China’s past, present, and future and weigh their truth or fiction. Leading an enlightening and entertaining tour, the authors debunk widespread “knowledge” about Chinese culture, society, politics, and economy. In some cases, Chinese themselves encourage mistaken impressions. But many of these myths are really about how we Westerners see ourselves, inasmuch as China or the Chinese people are depicted as what we are not. Western perceptions of the empire in the East have for centuries oscillated between sinophilia and sinophobia, influenced by historical changes in the West as much as by events in China. This timely and provocative book offers an engaging and compelling window on a rising power we often misunderstand.
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Release : 2006
Genre : Chinese literature
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Book Synopsis Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews by :
Download or read book Chinese Literature, Essays, Articles, Reviews written by . This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard J. Smith
Release : 2015-10-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture by : Richard J. Smith
Download or read book The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture written by Richard J. Smith. This book was released on 2015-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted historian Richard J. Smith argues that the pragmatic Qing emperors presented a “Chinese” face to their subjects who lived south of the Great Wall and other ethnic faces (particularly Manchu, Mongolian, Central Asian, and Tibetan) to subjects in other parts of their vast multicultural empire. They were attracted by many aspects of Chinese culture, but far from being completely “sinicized” as many scholars argue, they were also proud of their own cultural traditions and interested in other cultures as well. Setting Qing dynasty culture in historical and global perspective, Smith shows how the Chinese of the era viewed the world; how their outlook was expressed in their institutions, material culture, and customs; and how China’s preoccupation with order, unity, and harmony contributed to the civilization’s remarkable cohesiveness and continuity. Nuanced and wide-ranging, his authoritative book provides an essential introduction to late imperial Chinese culture and society.
Author : Robin Yates
Release : 2009-07-31
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present by : Robin Yates
Download or read book Women in China from Earliest Times to the Present written by Robin Yates. This book was released on 2009-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
