The Book of the Lion
Author: Sir Alfred Edward Pease
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 358
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Author: Sir Alfred Edward Pease
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Published: 1913
Total Pages: 358
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leonard Bacon
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Streynsham Master
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 540
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 800
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel M.A. Couling
Publisher: Global Oriental
Published: 2007-04-05
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13: 9004213465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the tumultuous events in China in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there was an urgent need for a reliable reference work surveying all aspects of contemporary China, given that existing reference works and scholarly monographs became rapidly obsolete. Couling’s work, published in 1917, covered so much ground with such accuracy and consistency that it has become established as an essential tool for scholars wishing to understand how the new China was seen and interpreted at the time.
Author: Helen Rees
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-04-13
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0195351622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive fieldwork and documentary research in China, this book is a chronicle of the musical history of Lijiang County in China's southern Yunnan Province. It focuses on Dongjing music, a repertoire borrowed from China's Han ethnic majority by the indigenous Naxi inhabitants of Lijiang County. Used in Confucian worship as well as in secular entertainment, Dongjing music played a key role the Naxi minority's assimilation of Han culture over the last 200 years. Prized for its complexity and elegance, which set it apart from "rough" or "simpler" indigenous Naxi music, Dongjing played an important role in defining social relationships, since proficiency in the music and membership in the Dongjing associations signified high social status and cultural refinement. In addition, there is a strong political component in its examination of the role of indigenous music in the relation of a socialist state to its ethnic minorities. The first in English on this rich musical tradition, this book is also unique in providing a complete history of the music in a single region in China over the twentieth century. It integrates individual, local, and national histories with musical experience and musical change. Ethnic music in China provides a vivid example of the tremendous cultural changes over the past century, and the tradition continues to evolve as China encourages ethnic diversity within a unified socialist nation. The book includes a case study of China's tourist trade and its policies toward minorities.
Author: Philip Denwood
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9027238030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tibetan language comprises a wide range of spoken and written varieties whose known history dates from the 7th century AD to the present day. Its speakers inhabit a vast area in Central Asia and the Himalayas extending into seven modern nation states, while its abundant literature includes much of vital importance to the study of Buddhism. After surveying all the known varieties of Tibetan, including their geographical and historical background, this book concentrates on a phonological and grammatical description of the modern spoken Lhasa dialect, the standard spoken variety. The grammatical framework which has been specially devised to describe this variety is then applied to the written varieties of Preclassical and Classical Tibetan, demonstrating the fundamental unity of the language. The writing system is outlined, though all examples and texts are given in roman script and where appropriate, the International Phonetic Alphabet. The volume includes a comprehensive bibliography.
Author: Thomas Mullaney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0520262786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies China's "Ethnic classification project" (minzu shibie) of 1954, conducted in Yunnan province.