China and Its People in Early Photographs
Author: John Thomson
Publisher:
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
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Cultural Realism
Author: Alastair Iain Johnston
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-05-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0691213143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural Realism is an in-depth study of premodern Chinese strategic thought that has important implications for contemporary international relations theory. In applying a Western theoretical debate to China, Iain Johnston advances rigorous procedures for testing for the existence and influence of "strategic culture." Johnston sets out to answer two empirical questions. Is there a substantively consistent and temporally persistent Chinese strategic culture? If so, to what extent has it influenced China's approaches to security? The focus of his study is the Ming dynasty's grand strategy against the Mongols (1368-1644). First Johnston examines ancient military texts as sources of Chinese strategic culture, using cognitive mapping, symbolic analysis and congruence tests to determine whether there is a consistent grand strategic preference ranking across texts that constitutes a single strategic culture. Then he applies similar techniques to determine the effect of the strategic culture on the strategic preferences of the Ming decision makers. Finally, he assesses the effect of these preferences on Ming policies towards the Mongol "threat." The findings of this book challenge dominant interpretations of traditional Chinese strategic thought. They suggest also that the roots of realpolitik are ideational and not predominantly structural. The results lead to the surprising conclusion that there may be, in fact, fewer cross-national differences in strategic culture than proponents of the "strategic culture" approach think.
Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives
Author: Charles Alfred Speed Williams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780486233727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes historical, legendary, and supernatural persons, animals, and objects that recur as symbols in Oriental art and literature
The Chinese Art Book
Author: Colin Mackenzie
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2013-09-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780714865751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chinese Art Book is a beautifully packaged, authoritative, and unprecedented overview of Chinese art from its earliest dynasties to the contemporary generation of artists enlivening today's art world. 300 works represent every form of Chinese visual art, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, ceramics, figurines, jade, bronze, gold and silver, photography, video, installation, and performance art. Full of surprises for readers of all levels, The Chinese Art Book breaks new ground by pairing works that speak to one another in unexpected ways, enlightening historical, stylistic and cultural connections. Concise descriptive essays place each work in context, while cross-references lead the reader on a fascinating journey through Chinese art history. The Chinese Art Book features an introductory essay by Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, along with an accessible summary of Chinese political and cultural history, a comprehensive glossary defining technical terms, and an illustrated timeline.
Art in China
Author: Craig Clunas
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780192842077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina can boast a history of art lasting 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of images and objects - jade tablets, painted silk handscrolls and fans, ink and lacquer painting, porcelain-ware, sculptures, and calligraphy. They range in scale from the vast 'terracotta army' with its 7,000or so life-size figures, to the exquisitely delicate writing of fourth-century masters such as Wang Xizhin and his teacher, 'Lady Wei'. But this rich tradition has not, until now, been fully appreciated in the West where scholars have focused their attention on sculpture, downplaying art more highlyprized by the Chinese themselves such as calligraphy. Art in China marks a breakthrough in the study of the subject. Drawing on recent innovative scholarship and on newly-accessible studies in China itself Craig Clunas surveys the full spectrum of the visual arts in China. He ranges from the Neolithic period to the art scene of the 1980s and 1990s,examining art in a variety of contexts as it has been designed for tombs, commissioned by rulers, displayed in temples, created for the men and women of the educated ilite, and bought and sold in the marketplace. Many of the objects illustrated in this book have previously been known only to a fewspecialists, and will be totally new to a general audience.
Written on Bamboo and Silk
Author: Tsuen-hsuin Tsien
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780226814162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this now-classic paleographic study of China, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, with specific attention to the tools and media used. This edition includes material that treats the many major documents and ancient Chinese artifacts uncovered over the forty years since the book's first publication, as well as an afterword by Edward L. Shaughnessy. Written on Bamboo and Silk has long been considered a landmark in its field. Critical in this regard is the excavation of numerous sites throughout China, where hundreds of thousands of documents written on bamboo and silk--as well as other media--were found, including some of the earliest copies of historical, medical, astronomical, military, and religious texts that are now essential to the study of early Chinese literature, history, and philosophy. Discoveries such as these have made the amount of material evidence on the origins and evolution of communication throughout Chinese history exceedingly broad and rich, and yet Tsien succeeds in tackling it all and building on the earlier classic work that changed the course of study and understanding of Chinese paleography.
The Shi King, the Old "Poetry Classic" of the Chinese
Author: William Jennings
Publisher:
Published: 1891
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese Domestic Furniture in Photographs and Measured Drawings
Author: Gustav Ecke
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-07-24
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 0486141225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of rare volume offers detailed review of hardwood furniture from early Shang to late Ming. For collector, craftsman. 161 illustrations.
Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou
Author: Dunzhen Liu
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 472
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Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting
Author: Richard M. Barnhart
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0300094477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a team of eminent international scholars, this book is the first to recount the history of Chinese painting over a span of some 3000 years.
