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  • Women Writers of Huizhou

    Imaginaries of Space and Place in Qing China

    by Binbin Yang ...
    Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural and social landscapes in ways that have not been explored in depth: the Huizhou mercantile diaspora and the literary ascent of women. Women Writers of Huizhou approaches these converging forces by examining the work and spatial imaginaries of ... Read more

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  • Heroines of the Qing

    Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories

    by Binbin Yang ...
    Series series Modern Language Initiative Books
    Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, “exemplary women” (lienu)—heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for example—were written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting ... Read more

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  • Finite and Instantaneous Screw Theory in Robotic Mechanism

    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    This book presents a finite and instantaneous screw theory for the development of robotic mechanisms. It addresses the analytical description and algebraic computation of finite motion, resulting in a generalized type synthesis approach. It then discusses the direct connection between topology and performance models, leading to an integrated performance analysis and design framework. The book then ... Read more

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    "To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"--ConfuciusConfucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember ... Read more

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  • Lives of Confucius

    Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages

    Confucius—“Master Kung” (551–479 BCE), the Chinese thinker and social philosopher—originated teachings that have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese thought and life over many centuries. His philosophy emphasized personal and governmental morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships. In time these values gained prominence in China over other doctrines, ... Read more

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  • Return to Dragon Mountain

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    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... Read more

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  • The Quest for Gentility in China

    Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class

    Edited by Daria Berg, Chloe Starr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late imperial times until the modern day. Gentility denotes the way of the gentleman and gentlewoman. The ... Read more

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  • Epistolary Korea

    Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosôn, 1392-1910

    Edited by JaHyun Kim Haboush ...
    By expanding the definition of "epistle" to include any writing that addresses the intended receiver directly, JaHyun Kim Haboush introduces readers to the rich epistolary practice of Chos?n Korea. The Chos?n dynasty (1392-1910) produced an abundance of epistles, writings that mirror the genres of neighboring countries (especially China) while retaining their own specific historical trajectory. ... Read more

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  • What Remains

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    The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western ... Read more

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  • The Dao of the Military

    Liu An's Art of War

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Master Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century BCE, synthesizes the entire corpus of military literature inherited from the Chinese classical era. Drawing on all major, existing military writings, as well as other lost sources, it ... Read more

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  • The Cult of the Fox

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    by Xiaofei Kang ...
    For more than five centuries, the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population across social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive and flourish in individual homes and community shrines throughout northern China.Xiaofei Kang examines this cult as a vibrant ... Read more

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    After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated, and women's lives gradually altered to conform to them. And under the new political system, the ... Read more

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