China Unbound, Cohen, Paul A.

Автор: BuYun Chen
Название: Empire of Style: Silk and Fashion in Tang China
ISBN: 0295745304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295745305
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Tang dynasty (618-907) China hummed with cosmopolitan trends. Its capital at Chang'an was the most populous city in the world and was connected via the Silk Road with the critical markets and thriving cultures of Central Asia and the Middle East. In Empire of Style, BuYun Chen reveals a vibrant fashion system that emerged through the efforts of Tang artisans, wearers, and critics of clothing. Across the empire, elite men and women subverted regulations on dress to acquire majestic silks and au courant designs, as shifts in economic and social structures gave rise to what we now recognize as precursors of a modern fashion system: a new consciousness of time, a game of imitation and emulation, and a shift in modes of production.

This first book on fashion in premodern China is informed by archaeological sources--paintings, figurines, and silk artifacts--and textual records such as dynastic annals, poetry, tax documents, economic treatises, and sumptuary laws. Tang fashion is shown to have flourished in response to a confluence of social, economic, and political changes that brought innovative weavers and chic court elites to the forefront of history.

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Автор: Adshead
Название: T`ang China
ISBN: 1403934576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403934574
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: China`s role in world history is again controversial thanks to Andre Gunder Frank`s Re Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. By contrast, this book presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on the T`ang period, one of China`s acknowledged golden ages.

Автор: Kerr, Philip
Название: Inside out upper intermediate
ISBN: 1405029145 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405029148
Издательство: Macmillan ELT
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Описание: Многоуровневый курс английского языка нового поколения для изучающих английский язык на курсах или в высших учебных заведениях. Каждый уровень курса рассчитан на 100-120 часов аудиторных занятий.

Автор: Smith, Norman, ed.
Название: Empire and environment in the making of manchuria
ISBN: 0774832908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774832908
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For centuries, some of the world’s largest empires fought for sovereignty over the resources of Northeast Asia. This compelling analysis of the region’s environmental history examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in a vibrant – and violent – cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiving and hotly contested landscape. As China’s strength as a world leader continues to grow, this volume invites exploration of the indelible links between empire and environment – and shows how the geopolitical future of this global economic powerhouse is rooted in its past.

Автор: Tang Zongli
Название: Local Clan Communities in Rural China: Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty
ISBN: 036777108X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367771089
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, Tang examines China`s clan (zongzu) system and local clan communities in rural Anhui.

Автор: Cheng, Hsiao-wen
Название: Divine, demonic, and disordered
ISBN: 029574832X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295748320
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female sexuality defined in relation to men. As elite male authors attempted to make sense of these women whose sexual bodies were unavailable to them, they were forced to contemplate the purpose of women’s bodies and lives apart from wifehood and motherhood. This raised troubling new questions about normalcy, desire, sexuality, and identity.

In Divine, Demonic, and Disordered, Hsiao-wen Cheng considers accounts of “manless women,” many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Cheng questions conventional binary gender analyses and shifts attention away from women’s reproductive bodies and familial roles. Her innovative study offers historians of China and readers interested in women, gender, sexuality, medicine, and religion a fresh look at the unstable meanings attached to women’s behaviors and lives even in a time of codified patriarchy.

Автор: David M. Robinson
Название: In the Shadow of the Mongol Empire: Ming China and Eurasia
ISBN: 1108729339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108729338
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In 1368, at the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all Eurasia knew of the Mongol empire. The Ming used this to tell a story that `proved` that their dynasty was the Mongols` inevitable, legitimate successor. This study is for anyone interested in the Mongols, Chinese history, and the uses of historical memory.

Автор: Morga
Название: The Philippine Islands, Moluccas, Siam, Cambodia, Japan, and China, at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 1108010733 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108010733
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This 1868 volume is the first English translation of a book originally published in Mexico in 1609, describing the Spanish `discovery, conquest and conversion` of the Philippines in the sixteenth century.

Автор: Edwards
Название: Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China
ISBN: 1316509346 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316509340
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book explores the lives of some of China`s most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. It sheds new light on the relationship between gender and militarisation to show how women warriors and spies have been exploited to glamorise war and promote militarisation in China.

Автор: Felix Wemheuer
Название: A Social History of Maoist China: Conflict and Change, 1949–1976
ISBN: 1107565502 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107565500
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This new social history of Maoist China provides a compelling account of the tumultuous period when China came under Communist rule. A multi-faceted approach traces the PRC`s efforts at modernization and social change, while not losing sight of the human suffering and political terror that remain for many the period`s abiding memory.

Автор: Yunchiahn C. Sena
Название: Bronze and Stone: The Cult of Antiquity in Song Dynasty China
ISBN: 029574457X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295744575
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Despite China’s long tradition of venerating the past as the ultimate source of cultural authority, the discourse of antiquity prior to the Song period (960–1279) demonstrated little concern for ancient objects. With a focus on physical artifacts of the past, Song intellectuals began a new discipline, “the study of bronze and stone” (jinshixue), that generated collections of items such as bronze vessels and bells, stone steles, and ink rubbings of inscriptions carved or cast on objects. This first comprehensive study in English of the Song antiquarian movement and how it refashioned the distant past uses textual and material evidence to examine this development, which has had long-lasting influence on Chinese intellectual history and on the preservation of material objects. In addition to collecting and comparing artifacts, Song antiquaries compiled extensive catalogs that included drawings, measurements, and meticulous descriptions. Their studies have contributed to the way history has been documented since the eleventh century and serve as a basis for archaeology of the modern period. Bronze and Stone contextualizes the Song antiquarian movement among previous Chinese engagements with antiquity, subsequent popular interest in ancient objects, and world antiquarianism.

Автор: Stephen Turnbull
Название: Fighting Ships of the Far East (1)
ISBN: 1841763861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781841763866
Издательство: Osprey
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Описание: Using detailed descriptions, accurate cutaway plates and reliable historical examples, this text covers the history of Chinese ship design and naval warfare from the beginning of the Han dynasty to the first few years of the Ming dynasty, when a Ming naval force countered Sichuanese rebels.