Discourses on Salt and Iron: A Debate on State Control of Commerce and Industry in Ancient China
Author: Esson McDowell Gale
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9004500804
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Author: Esson McDowell Gale
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-06-20
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9004500804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul R. Goldin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1317492501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Confucianism" presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. Despite most of the major Confucian texts having been translated into English, there remains a surprising lack of straightforward textbooks on Confucian philosophy in any Western language. Those that do exist are often oriented from the point of view of Western philosophy - or, worse, a peculiar school of thought within Western philosophy - and advance correspondingly skewed interpretations of Confucianism. This book seeks to rectify this situation. It guides readers through the philosophies of the three major classical Confucians: Confucius (551-479 BCE), Mencius (372-289 BCE?) and Xunzi (fl. 3rd cent. BCE), and concludes with an overview of later Confucian revivals and the standing of Confucianism today.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-09-10
Total Pages: 801
ISBN-13: 9047444663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part One contains A to R.
Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 113657476X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems. The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests that the events of the twentieth century were a natural development of Chinese history, not a deviation from it.
Author: Michael David Kaulana Ing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190679115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is about the necessity, and even value, of vulnerability in human experience. In it, Michael Ing brings early Chinese texts into dialogue with questions about the ways in which meaningful things are vulnerable to powers beyond our control; and more specifically, how relationships with meaningful others might compel tragic actions.
Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780521327275
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Francesco Freddolini
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 100007837X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan. The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional—rather, it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition, by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets,this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards.
Author: Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 1220
ISBN-13: 9780674002494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEndymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. In this latest edition, now in a bigger format, its scope has been dramatically enlarged by the addition of one million words of new text. Twelve years in the making, the new manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twentieth century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, preserved, and received, the problems of research and interpretation associated with them, and the best, most up-to-date secondary works. Because the writing of history has always played a central role in Chinese politics and culture, special attention is devoted to the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese historiography.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages: 79
ISBN-13: 0521875668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Qiyang Liu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-03-16
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9811902364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the public acceptability of congestion pricing in the Chinese context. Successful in western cities, notably London, congestion pricing has overcome vested interests to revitalize city centers and reduce pollution. Given the radically different nature of China's culture and political system, the author articulates why public acceptability should be an issue and how it will look in an authoritarian context. Based on stakeholder interviews, focus groups and an attitudinal survey, this book will interest policymakers, planners, and scholars of transport governance.