Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 2
Rooted in Hope: China – Religion – Christianity Vol 2

Author: Barbara Hoster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1351672592

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This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by his academic colleagues, companions in faith, confreres, as well as by the staff of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum e.V. (China Center). The contributions in English, German and Chinese pay homage to the jubilarian’s diverse research interests, covering the fields of Chinese Intellectual History, History of Christianity in China, Christianity in China Today, Other Religions in China, Chinese Language and Literature as well as the Encounter of Cultures.

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought

Author: Joseph Needham

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1956-01-03

Total Pages: 746

ISBN-13: 9780521058001

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The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines of the Two Forces and the Five Elements. Subsequently he writes of the important sceptical tradition, the effects of Buddhist thought, and the Neo-Confucian climax of Chinese naturalism. Last comes a discussion of the conception of Laws of Nature in China and the West.

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

Author: Victor H. Mair

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 1369

ISBN-13: 0231528515

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The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the role of women, and China's relationship with non-Sinitic languages and peoples. Opening with a major section on the linguistic and intellectual foundations of Chinese literature, the anthology traces the development of forms and movements over time, along with critical trends, and pays particular attention to the premodern canon.

From China to Paris
From China to Paris

Author: Yvonne Dold-Samplonius

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9783515082235

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The reports of a conference of 11 scholars who began the task of examing together primary sources that might shed som elight on exactly how and in what fomrs mathematical problems, concepts, and techniques may have been transmitted between various civilizations, from antiquity down to the European Renaissance following more or less the legendary silk routes between China and Western Europe.

China: A History
China: A History

Author: Harold Miles Tanner

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2009-03-13

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 0872209156

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A deep and rigorous, yet eminently accessible introduction to the political, social, and cultural development of imperial Chinese civilisation, this volume develops a number of important themes -- such as the ethnic diversity of the early empires -- that other editions omit entirely or discuss only minimally. Includes a general introduction, chronology, bibliography, illustrations, maps, and an index.

Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire
Tang China and the Collapse of the Uighur Empire

Author: Michael Drompp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-29

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9047414780

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This book considers the Tang response to the collapse of the Uighur steppe empire in 840 C.E. and the large number of refugees who fled to China's northern frontier. It examines the workings of late Tang bureaucracy through translations of some seventy relevant Chinese documents.

The Historical Roots of Technical Communication in the Chinese Tradition
The Historical Roots of Technical Communication in the Chinese Tradition

Author: Daniel Dingxiong Ding

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1527559890

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This book traces Chinese technical communication from its beginnings, investigating how it began and the major factors that shaped its practice. It also looks at the major philosophical and historical traditions in Chinese technical communication, and how historical and philosophical threads play out in contemporary Chinese technical communication practice. In considering such issues, the book gives attention to some of the major classical Chinese texts, but treats them as artefacts of technical communication. It explores the roots of Chinese technical communication, reviews traditional philosophy that has shaped such practice, discusses the key links in the history of Chinese technical communication, and recounts historical roots and contemporary practice side by side. It provides the reader with compelling perspectives on the historical roots of Chinese technical communication.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas
The Classic of Mountains and Seas

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Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780140447194

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This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, medicine, natural history, and ethnic peoples of the ancient world. The Classic of Mountains and Seas explores 204 mythical figures such as the gods Foremost, Fond Care, and Yellow, and goddesses Queen Mother of the West and Girl Lovely, as well as many other figures unknown outside this text. This eclectic Classic also contains crucial information on early medicine (with cures for impotence and infertility), omens to avert catastrophe, and rites of sacrifice, and familiar and unidentified plants and animals. It offers a guided tour of the known world in antiquity, moving outwards from the famous mountains of central China to the lands “beyond the seas.” Translated with an introduction and notes by Anne Birrell.