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Author : Stuart Legg
Release : 1990
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Barbarians of Asia by : Stuart Legg
Download or read book The Barbarians of Asia written by Stuart Legg. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pericles Georges
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience by : Pericles Georges
Download or read book Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience written by Pericles Georges. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges (history, Lake Forest College, Illinois) explores the ways ancient Greeks viewed and interacted with non-Greeks from the archaic period to the 4th century B.C. Through the works of Aeschylus, Herodotus, and Xenophon, Georges examines critical episodes in the formation of Greek ideas and attitudes concerning foreigners from Asia with whom they came into close historical contact and against whom they defined themselves especially the "barbarians" of Persia and Lydia. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author : Henri Michaux
Release : 2016-03-21
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis A Barbarian in Asia by : Henri Michaux
Download or read book A Barbarian in Asia written by Henri Michaux. This book was released on 2016-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is “without equal in the literature of our time” (Jorge Luis Borges) Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.
Author : Shao-yun Yang
Release : 2019-10-14
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Way of the Barbarians by : Shao-yun Yang
Download or read book The Way of the Barbarians written by Shao-yun Yang. This book was released on 2019-10-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had their own developmental logic based in two interrelated intellectual shifts among the literati elite: the emergence of Confucian ideological and intellectual orthodoxy and the rise of neo-Confucian (daoxue) philosophy. New discourses emphasized the fluidity of the Chinese-barbarian dichotomy, subverting the centrality of cultural or ritual practices to Chinese identity and redefining the essence of Chinese civilization and its purported superiority. The key issues at stake concerned the acceptability of intellectual pluralism in a Chinese society and the importance of Confucian moral values to the integrity and continuity of the Chinese state. Through close reading of the contexts and changing geopolitical realities in which new interpretations of identity emerged, this intellectual history engages with ongoing debates over relevance of the concepts of culture, nation, and ethnicity to premodern China.
Author : Haun Saussy
Release : 2022-05-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Making of Barbarians by : Haun Saussy
Download or read book The Making of Barbarians written by Haun Saussy. This book was released on 2022-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West. When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900. In contrast, Saussy focuses on the period before 1850, when the translation of foreign works into Chinese was rare because Chinese literary tradition overshadowed those around it. The Making of Barbarians looks closely at literary works that were translated into Chinese from foreign languages or resulted from contact with alien peoples. The book explores why translation was such an undervalued practice in premodern China, and how this vast and prestigious culture dealt with those outside it before a new group of foreigners—Europeans—appeared on the horizon.
