London, New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004. — 245 p. The chapters in this volume display the variety and richness of the Chinese tradition in the understanding and practice of filial piety. The concept is important not only in Confucianism, but also in Daoism and Buddhism, and its evolution over time reveals how these adapt to changing circumstances, how they in turn modified the...
London: Reaktion Books; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. — x, 223 p.: ill. — ISBN: 9780824827724. This book takes an innovative approach to one of the great figures of Chinese culture, the writer and painter Wen Zhengming (1470–1559). Renowned as one of the great “scholar painters” of the Ming dynasty, Wen was enmeshed in a complex web of social obligations, his...
Monograph - Durham: Duke University Press, 1996 - 240 p. — ISBN: 0822318008. Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644)...
University of Hawaii Press, 2013. — 232 p. Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy – relatives of the emperors – in Ming dynasty China (1368–1644). Through an analysis of their patronage of architecture, calligraphy, painting and other art forms, and through a study of the contents of their splendid and recently...
BRILL, 2006. — 1349 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section). — ISBN10: 9004156054. — ISBN13: 978-9004156050. This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the comprehensive Biographical...
Berlin / Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015. — viii, 318 p. (Studies in manuscript cultures, Vol. 6) — e-ISBN: 9783110453959 (PDF). Manuscripts and printed books from Khara-khoto. Since the beginning of the 20th century, northwest China has been the source of important archaeological finds of manuscripts and printed books. In 1900, a crack in the wall in one of the Buddhist...
Springer, 2019. — 289 p. This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by...
Springer, 2019. — 289 p. This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic. This book also analyzes utensil culture, constitution culture and ideology culture, which were perfected by...
Tuttle, 2008. — 240 c. Skillfully weaving together everything from court and formal costumes through to the working attire of the lower classes and the latest fashions of New China, Chinese Dress tells the story of the evolution of Chinese clothing. The first section details attire worn during the Qing dynasty by the emperors and their consorts, as well as the mandarins,...
New York: The Columbia University Press; The Macmillan Company. 1902. Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature, history and philosophy. This series of lectures, published as China and the Chinese, was given at...
New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. — xxvi, 254 p. — ISBN: 9780195314960; 9780194314977. Hong Kong is situated slightly south of the Tropic of Cancer on the south-east coast of China. It is the generic name used to refer to an archipelago of 235 islands and the small slice of the China mainland on the peninsula, around which these islands are clustered. Contemporary Hong...
Tuttle Publishing, 2008. — 193 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8048-4011-8. The Chinese Mind pinpoints areas of China's traditional values and behaviors that play a significant role in the business and social relationships of the Chinese. It also identifies key areas of Chinese culture that have changed as a result of the adoption of a market-based economy and other elements of Western...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. — xvii, 211 p.: ill., maps. — ISBN: 9780691002903. 東周楚文化討論會 . Perhaps no aspect of early Chinese history and culture has prompted more controversy than that associated with the ancient State of Chu. This major new volume of essays offers the most comprehensive and current analysis of Chu culture during the Eastern Zhou period...
Brill Academic Pub, 2000. — 861 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies). — ISBN: 9004103643. This is a unique and conclusive reference work about the 6,000 individual men and women known to us from China s formative first empires. Over decennia Michael Loewe (Cambridge, UK) has painstakingly collected all biographical information available. Not only those are dealt with who set the...
Dunod, 2015. — 176 p. Comprendre l’importance culturelle de la notion de face en Chine est indispensable pour entretenir de bonnes relations avec les Chinois. Cet ouvrage, s’appuyant sur de nombreux témoignages, anecdotes et expériences vécues, puisés dans le monde du travail comme dans le quotidien, analyze huit thématiques clés du comportement social en Chine : l’importance...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 320 p. Drawing on ancient texts and modern interpretations, this work explores the foundations for war in China's strategic culture - "Shih", "Li", and "Tao". "Shih" theory bases strategy on enemy intent, in contrast to Euro-American "Li" strategies based on forces. The work uses "Shih" theory to explain the anomalies that continue to perplex...
The Chinese University Press, 2014. — 376 p. — ISBN10: 9629966018, ISBN13: 978-9629966010 Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experiences,...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 256 p. The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history of cultural and political radicals based in China's most important hinterland city at this pivotal time, Wuhan. Current narratives of May Fourth focus on the ideological development of intellectuals in the...
Red List of Chinese Cultural Properties in Danger The International Council of Museums (ICOM), 2011. - 8 p. This Red List has been designed as a tool to assist museums, dealers in art and antiquities, collectors, and customs and law enforcement officials in the Identification of objects that may have been looted and illicitly exported from China. To facilitate identification,...
Harvard University Press, 2010 - 232 p. ISBN10: 0674047877 ISBN13: 9780674047877 (eng) Carlos Rojas presents a sweeping survey of the historical and political significance of one of the world’s most recognizable monuments. Although the splendor of the Great Wall has become virtually synonymous with its vast size, the structure’s conceptual coherence is actually grounded on the...
New York: State University of New York, 2000. — 264 p. Sachiko M. Chinese rays of Sufi light (In English) Chinese-Language Islam. The Works of Wang Tai-yu. Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning. The Great Learning of the Pure and Real. Liu Chih's Translation of Lawa'ih. Gleams. Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm. Tags: china, sufism, poetry, islam, chinese language, mystic,...
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1977. — 351 p. Pacing the Void attempts to create, for the twentieth century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of the T’ang dynasty – that is to suggest what the medieval Chinese of various interests and preoccupations, whether...
State University of New York Press, 2006. — 296 p. Rewriting Early Chinese Texts examines the problems of reconstituting and editing ancient manuscripts that will revise--indeed "rewrite"--Chinese history. It is now generally recognized that the extensive archaeological discoveries made in China over the last three decades necessitate such a rewriting and will keep an army of...
Cengage Learning Asia, 2010. — 174 p. China's Culture gives a brief insight into Chinese culture covering topics such as China's ideology, ethics, morality, political and religious ideas, economic thought, ideas on obtaining material wealth, customs, science and technology, education, and literature and arts. China has a glorious history of civilization that spans thousands of...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 256 p. The aim of this book is to explore Chinese food culture not so much by examining the material history of food and eating but by exploring ideas about food, cooking, banqueting, and diet within the social and religious context of the communities in which certain foods were consumed or eschewed. In broad terms, the authors in this...
Welcome Books, 2008. 240 p. — ISBN10: 1599620308; — ISBN13: 978-1599620305 A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, China: A Celebration in Art and Literature reveals the glorious 5,000-year-old history of this ancient and fascination culture. In 240 p. and more than 100 full-color images, this volume traces China through its tales and stories, plays and...
North Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing, 2008. — ISBN: 978-1-4629-0889-9. In this remarkable volume, Felicitas Titus has assembled a stunning array of postcards that she has collected over many years of dedicated searching. Ephemeral, small, and unassuming, postcards are often overlooked for the major role they played in influencing public opinion. Filled with primary information on...
Cambridge University Press, 2012, English, 264 p., ISBN-10: 052116513X, ISBN-13: 978-0521165136. The concept of yin-yang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. – 403 p. This book reflects and makes use of the Chinese fascination with famous people. It is intended for people who never have paid much attention to China and now want a quick and graspable introduction to some main themes in its stirring history.
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2018. — xviii, 249 p. — eBook ISBN: 9789811081620. Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in further developing their understanding of Chinese society and culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this book provides a survey of Chinese...
Chatto & Windus, 2002. — 230 p. The Good Women of China is a book published in 2002. The author, Xue Xinran, is a British-Chinese journalist who currently resides in London and writes for The Guardian. Esther Tyldesley translated this book from Chinese. The Good Women of China is primarily composed of interviews Xinran conducted during her time as a radio broadcaster in China...
Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2008. — 2, 5, 266 p. — ISBN: 9787560076355. 北京：外语教学与研究出版社，2008年。— 叶郎、朱良志 中国文化读本（英文版）。 For readers both at home and abroad who have some basic knowledge of the Chinese language and are interested in Chinese culture. Detailed and vivid introduction to certain unique features and highlights of Chinese culture, enclosing 37...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 443 p. Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and...
Routledge, 2017. — 222 p. This book addresses psychological studies of humour in Chinese societies. It starts by reviewing how the concept of humour evolves in Chinese history, and how it is perceived by Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism respectively. It then compares differences in the Western and the Chinese perceptions of humor and discusses empirical studies that were...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0521608562; ISBN13: 978-0521608565. This is the first book to consider the social and cultural implications of opium consumption. Collectively, the Chinese people redefined a foreign way of recreation and developed a complex culture of consumption around its use. The book traces this transformation over a period of five...
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