Chinese Seals
Author: Weizu Sun
Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781592650132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical guide to Chinese seals, or "chops," and their various uses in business, art, and government.
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Author: Weizu Sun
Publisher: LONG RIVER PRESS
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781592650132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical guide to Chinese seals, or "chops," and their various uses in business, art, and government.
Author: Jason C. Kuo
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA catalogue and accompaniment to an exhibition at the China House Gallery, New York City, October to December 1992, which focused on Chinese seal as works of art related to calligraphy, rather than to their role in authenticating paintings. The pieces range from the 3rd (at least) century B.C. to the 1950s. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Port
Author: T. C. Lai
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Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780295955179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Getty
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Getty
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 90
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robin Tzannes
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2003-02
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780811835831
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChinese chops are an age-old name-signing method for art, official documents, and letters. This kit brings together everything you need to personalize your own creations in this traditional style. The high-quality wooden box holds eight beautifully carved chops for words such as "harmony", "wisdom", and "longevity", and an ink pad. Also inlcuded is an 80-page book that traces the history and significance behind Chinese chops.
Author: Kecheng Niu
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn ancient China, Emperors used seals to proclaim their decrees to their people, officials used seals to exercise their power, merchants used seals to demonstrate their credibility, land-lords used seals to protect their small properties. Gradually, seals became the representative and evidence of personal identity, and even today Chinese are still using seals.
Author: Mark McNicholas
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0295806230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcross eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
Author: Nai'an Shi
Publisher: Chinese University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9789622016026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after another, brave men fall out with officialdom and are obliged to join the brotherhood of the rivers and lakes-the mixed company of heroes and vagabonds who live by their wits and their fighting skills. The story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, following first one hero, then another, as their paths converge and part, until finally 108 brave-but not entirely admirable-men are united at the outlaws' stronghold in the Marshes of Mount Liang. The story takes us through the vast landscape of imperial China. We hear of epic duels, gargantuan feasts, and cunning ambushes, and we witness injustice, betrayal, murder and revenge. We are told also of the beauty of the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival or of the snow, crisp underfoot on a stormy night in the country. This volume consists of the first twenty-two chapters of the full 120-chapter version of the classic Chinese novel by Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong. It is the first English translation based on this version and including much of the verse. It offers the English reader something of the liveliness and humour of a work which has delighted generations of Chinese readers.
Author: Byung-Chul Han
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-10-06
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0262534363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll, in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed—deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or “decreation,” in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism—“a kind a shanzhai Marxism,” Han writes. Han discusses the Chinese concepts of quan, or law, which literally means the weight that slides back and forth on a scale, radically different from Western notions of absoluteness; zhen ji, or original, determined not by an act of creation but by unending process; xian zhan, or seals of leisure, affixed by collectors and part of the picture's composition; fuzhi, or copy, a replica of equal value to the original; and shanzhai. The Far East, Han writes, is not familiar with such “pre-deconstructive” factors as original or identity. Far Eastern thought begins with deconstruction.