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Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-25
Collection :
Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
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Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-19
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88,84€
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Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Vernacular in East Asia is a wide-ranging study of vernacularization in East Asia - not only China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, but also societies that no longer exist, such as the Tangut and Khitan empires. Peter Kornicki takes the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-11
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98,58€
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This book examines the socio-political conflicts which have arisen since Hong Kong’s return to China and confronts the fundamental problems in the design of the One Country, Two Systems (OCTS) Model. It considers not only the issue of democratization, but also the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-10
Collection :
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-10-06
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Guan Yu was a minor general in the early third century CE, who supported one of numerous claimants to the throne. He was captured and executed by enemy forces in 219. He eventually became one the most popular and influential deities of imperial China under the name Lord...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-29
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102,23€
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During the early modern period, Muslims in China began to embrace the Chinese characteristics of their heritage. Several scholar-teachers incorporated tenets from traditional Chinese education into their promotion of Islamic knowledge. As a result, some Sino-Muslims...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-01
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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-31
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This book illustrates how the one-dot theory, which is a dialectical study, is well suited to describing, explaining and inferring contemporary China’s past, present and future. It argues that since October 1949, the field of contemporary China studies has been...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-07-03
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This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-20
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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE LEWIS TRILOGY ANDTHE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE CWA DAGGER INTHE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written...
Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2017-03-31
Collection :
China Thrillers
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Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-25
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-25
Collection :
China Academic Library
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"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This cutting edge study examines the career of Chinese politician and diplomat Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) and assesses his leadership role in the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) strategy against the Japanese invasion of China which established the foundation for post-World...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-03
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The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad.The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-01
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-16
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29,20€
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Among Chinese religious sites, Mount Putuo, the "Island of Guanyin," stands out as a fascinating embodiment of China's vibrant Buddhist tradition. A small island in the East China Sea, it has been the single most important pilgrimage site for the worship of Guanyin, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-04-15
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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-02-25
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