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Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0307823067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Author: R. W. L. Guisso
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780773723702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Wood
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas The First Emperor of China a Unifier or destroyer, law-maker or tyrant?
Author: Peter Schwieger
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-03-31
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 023153860X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku institution, Schwieger shapes a broader history of the relationship between the Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China, as well as a richer understanding of the Qing Dynasty as an Inner Asian empire, the modern fate of the Mongols, and current Sino-Tibetan relations. Unlike other pre-twentieth-century Tibetan histories, this volume rejects hagiographic texts in favor of diplomatic, legal, and social sources held in the private, monastic, and bureaucratic archives of old Tibet. This approach draws a unique portrait of Tibet's rule by reincarnation while shading in peripheral tensions in the Himalayas, eastern Tibet, and China. Its perspective fully captures the extent to which the emperors of China controlled the institution of the Dalai Lamas, making a groundbreaking contribution to the past and present history of East Asia.
Author: Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2022-08-09
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0295750235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYing Zheng, founder of the Qin empire, is recognized as a pivotal figure in world history, alongside other notable conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius Caesar. His accomplishments include conquest of the warring states of ancient China, creation of an imperial system that endured for two millennia, and unification of Chinese culture through the promotion of a single writing system. Only one biased historical account, written a century after his death in 210 BCE, narrates his biography. Recently, however, archaeologists have revealed the lavish pits associated with his tomb and documents that demonstrate how his dynasty functioned. Debates about the First Emperor have raged since shortly after his demise, making him an ideological slate upon which politicians, revolutionaries, poets, painters, archaeologists, and movie directors have written their own biases, fears, and fantasies. This book is neither a standard biography nor a dynastic history. Rather, it looks historically at interpretations of the First Emperor in history, literature, archaeology, and popular culture as a way to understand the interpreters as much as the subject of their interpretation.
Author: Jonathan Clements
Publisher:
Published: 2015-05-12
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781909771116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Ying Zheng was born to rule the world, claiming descent from gods, crowned king while still a child. He was the product of a heartless, brutal regime devoted to domination, groomed from an early age to become the First emperor of China after a century of scheming by his ancestors. He faked a foreign threat to justify an invasion. He ruled a nation under 24-hour surveillance. He ordered his interrogators to torture suspects. He boiled his critics alive. He buried dissenting scholars. He declared war on death itself."--Back of book.
Author: David Eimer
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 140881322X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFar from the glittering cities of Beijing and Shanghai, China's borderlands are populated by around one hundred million people who are not Han Chinese. For many of these restive minorities, the old Chinese adage 'the mountains are high and the Emperor far away', meaning Beijing's grip on power is tenuous and its influence unwelcome, continues to resonate. Travelling through China's most distant and unknown reaches, David Eimer explores the increasingly tense relationship between the Han Chinese and the ethnic minorities. Deconstructing the myths represented by Beijing, Eimer reveals a shocking and fascinating picture of a China that is more of an empire than a country.
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674021273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuizong was an exceptional emperor who lived through momentous times. A man of many talents, he wrote poetry and created his own distinctive calligraphy style; collected paintings, calligraphies, and antiquities on a large scale; promoted Daoism; and involved himself in the training of court artists, the layout of gardens, and reforms of music and medicine. The quarter century when Huizong ruled is just as fascinating. The greatly enlarged scholar-official class had come into its own but was deeply divided by factional strife. The long struggle between the Chinese state and its northern neighbors entered a new phase when Song proved unable to defend itself against the newly emergent Jurchen state of Jin. Huizong and thousands of members of his family and court were taken captive, and the Song dynasty had to recreate itself in the South.
Author: N. Harry Rothschild
Publisher: Pearson
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story chronicles Wu Zhao's humble beginnings as the daughter of a provincial official and follows her path to the inner palace, where she improbably rose from a fifth-ranked concubine to emperor. Using Buddhist rhetoric, architecture, court rituals, and a network of "cruel officials" to cow her many opponents in court, Wu Zhao inaugurated a new dynasty in 690, the Zhou. She ruled as emperor for fifteen years, proving eminently competent in the art of governance, balancing factions in court, staving off the encroachment of Turks and Tibetans, and fostering the state's economic growth.
Author: Peggy Pancella
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Published: 2003-08
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781403437044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents an overview of Qin Shi Huangdi's life, as well as his influence on history and the world.
