Know Your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture in Early Modern China, Bian He

Автор: Hung Chang-Tai
Название: Mao`s New World: Political Culture in the Early People`s Republic
ISBN: 1501713531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501713538
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built up nationalistic fervor in the people and affirmed its legitimacy. These projects came under strong Soviet influence, but the nationalistic Chinese Communists sought an independent road of nation building; for example, they decided that the reconstructed Tiananmen Square should surpass Red Square in size and significance, against the advice of Soviet experts sent from Moscow.

Combining historical, cultural, and anthropological inquiries, Mao's New World examines how Mao Zedong and senior Party leaders transformed the PRC into a propaganda state in the first decade of their rule (1949–1959). Using archival sources only recently made available, previously untapped government documents, visual materials, memoirs, and interviews with surviving participants in the Party's plans, Hung argues that the exploitation of new cultural forms for political ends was one of the most significant achievements of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The book features sixty-six images of architecture, monuments, and artwork to document how the CCP invented the heroic tales of the Communist Revolution.

Автор: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh
Название: Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China: Kaleidoscopic Histories
ISBN: 0472053728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472053728
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Описание: This volume features new work on cinema in early twentieth-century Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. Looking beyond relatively well-studied cities like Shanghai, these essays foreground cinema’s relationship with imperialism and colonialism and emphasize the rapid development of cinema as a sociocultural institution. These essays examine where films were screened; how cinema-going as a social activity adapted from and integrated with existing social norms and practices; the extent to which Cantonese opera and other regional performance traditions were models for the development of cinematic conventions; the role foreign films played in the development of cinema as an industry in the Republican era; and much more.

Автор: Craig Clunas
Название: Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China
ISBN: 0824859014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824859015
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Описание: This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes “superfluous things”—the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China—and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.

Автор: Galambos Imre
Название: Dunhuang Manuscript Culture
ISBN: 3110723492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110723496
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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“Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting—alongside obvious Chinese elements—the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.

Автор: Barbieri-Low Anthony J.
Название: Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture
ISBN: 0295748893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748894
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Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers—the Nile and the Yellow River—and established complex hydraulic systems to manage their power. Both spread their territories across vast empires that were controlled through warfare and diplomacy and underwent periods of radical reform led by charismatic rulers—the “heretic king” Akhenaten and the vilified reformer Wang Mang. Universal justice was dispensed through courts, and each empire was administered by bureaucracies staffed by highly trained scribes who held special status. Egypt and China each developed elaborate conceptions of an afterlife world and created games of fate that facilitated access to these realms.

This groundbreaking volume offers an innovative comparison of these two civilizations. Through a combination of textual, art historical, and archaeological analyses, Ancient Egypt and Early China reveals shared structural traits of each civilization as well as distinctive features.

Автор: Tyerman Edward
Название: Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture
ISBN: 023119918X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231199186
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.

Автор: Tyerman Edward
Название: Internationalist Aesthetics: China and Early Soviet Culture
ISBN: 0231199198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231199193
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Описание: Internationalist Aesthetics offers a groundbreaking account of the crucial role that China played in the early Soviet cultural imagination. Reading across genres and media from reportage and biography to ballet and documentary film, Edward Tyerman shows how Soviet culture sought an aesthetics that could foster a sense of internationalist community.

Автор: Wang Aihe
Название: Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China
ISBN: 0521624207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521624206
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This radical reinterpretation of the formative stages of Chinese culture and history traces the central role played by cosmology in the formation of China`s early empires. It crosses the disciplines of history, social anthropology, archaeology and philosophy to illustrate how cosmological systems shaped political culture.

Автор: Kane
Название: The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541–1641
ISBN: 1107630533 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107630536
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Exploring `honour politics` in the early modern period, Brendan Kane reveals that honour played a powerful role in determining the character of Anglo-Irish society, politics and cultural contact, and brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of English imperialism in Ireland and of the Irish responses to it.

Автор: De Vos Paula S.
Название: Compound Remedies: Galenic Pharmacy from the Ancient Mediterranean to New Spain
ISBN: 0822946491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822946496
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Описание: Traces the evolution of the Galenic pharmaceutical tradition through one pharmacy`s books and remedies.

Автор: Neelesh Malviya, Sapna Malviya
Название: Handbook of Herbal Formulations
ISBN: 9390046173 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789390046171
Издательство: CBS India
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Описание: The book comprises many units exploring relevant topics of herbal formulations, definitions, classification, traditional vs modern herbal formulation and herbal dosage forms. Based on the latest syllabus prescribed by PCI.

Автор: Guth Christine M. E.
Название: Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery
ISBN: 0520379810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520379817
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Описание: Articles crafted from lacquer, silk, cotton, paper, ceramics, and iron were central to daily life in early modern Japan. They were powerful carriers of knowledge, sociality, and identity, and their facture was a matter of serious concern among makers and consumers alike. In this innovative study, Christine M. E. Guth offers a holistic framework for appreciating the crafts produced in the city and countryside, by celebrity and unknown makers, between the late sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Her study throws into relief the confluence of often overlooked forces that contributed to Japan's diverse, dynamic, and aesthetically sophisticated artifactual culture. By bringing into dialogue key issues such as natural resources and their management, media representations, gender and workshop organization, embodied knowledge, and innovation, she invites readers to think about Japanese crafts as emerging from cooperative yet competitive expressive environments involving both human and nonhuman forces. A focus on the material, sociological, physiological, and technical aspects of making practices adds to our understanding of early modern crafts by revealing underlying patterns of thought and action within the wider culture of the times.