The Seven Sorrows of China
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Publisher: Mark I. Miravalle, S.T.D.
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 1579183492
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Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty
Author: John Minford
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 1252
ISBN-13: 9780231096775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and early works of philosophy and history; arranged chronologically and by genre, with introductory quotes and comments.
The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
Author: Henrietta Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-06-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0520954726
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Missionary’s Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic rituals and teachings for their own purposes, only to find themselves in conflict with the orthodoxy of Franciscan missionaries arriving from Italy. The village’s long religious history, combined with the similarities between Chinese folk religion and Italian Catholicism, forces us to rethink the extreme violence committed in the area during the Boxer Uprising. The author also follows nineteenth century Chinese priests who campaigned against missionary control, up through the founding of the official church by the Communist Party in the 1950s. Harrison’s in-depth study provides a rare insight into villager experiences during the Socialist Education Movement and Cultural Revolution, as well as the growth of Christianity in China in recent years. She makes the compelling argument that Catholic practice in the village, rather than adopting Chinese forms in a gradual process of acculturation, has in fact become increasingly similar to those of Catholics in other parts of the world.
Categories of Chinese Literary Theories in the Middle Ancient Age
Author: Furui Zhan
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2019-02-15
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1504316665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book highlights the categories of Chinese literary theories in the Middle Ancient period, such as the mind and feeling theories, literary endowment, literary style, literary change, and trueness to the spirit, shedding new light on the ancient Chinese literature research.
A Concise History of Chinese Literature
Author: Yuming Luo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 9004203664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics.
A Concise History of Chinese Literature (2 vols.)
Author: Yuming Luo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-06-09
Total Pages: 1024
ISBN-13: 9004203672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of Chinese literature from its early beginnings through the end of the Qing dynasty, this recent work from Professor Luo Yuming of China’s Fudan University seeks to provide, by adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, a coherent, panoramic description of the development of Chinese literature and its major characteristics. As one of the very few English translations of such works by Chinese authors it seeks to inform the Western audience of the recent viewpoints and scholarship on the topic from a leading Chinese scholar. It may also provide some grounds of comparison and contrast with equivalent works in the West.
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Author: John T. P. Lai
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9004394486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.
Tambora
Author: Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0691168628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruption When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide endured famine, disease, and civil unrest on a catastrophic scale. Here, Gillen D’Arcy Wood traces Tambora’s global and historical reach: how the volcano’s three-year climate change regime initiated the first worldwide cholera pandemic, expanded opium markets in China, and plunged the United States into its first economic depression. Bringing the history of this planetary emergency to life, Tambora sheds light on the fragile interdependence of climate and human societies to offer a cautionary tale about the potential tragic impacts of drastic climate change in our own century.
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Author: Victor H. Mair
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1380
ISBN-13: 9780231074292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrings together fiction, poetry, drama, folk stories, elegies, letters, travelogues, criticism and theory. It emphasizes the distinctive features of Chinese literature through the ages by means of its topical arrangement.
China's Christianity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9004345604
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as “Chinese” when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own theological framework. In other words, can theological uniqueness also function as a legitimate Chinese Christian cultural expression in the formation of its own ecclesial identity? Also central to what is explored in this book is how missionary influences, consciously or unconsciously, introduced seeds of independence into the cultural ethos of China’s Christian community. Chinese girls who pushed “the limits of proper behaviour,” for example, added to the larger sense of confidence as China’s Christians began to resist the model of Christianity they had inherited from foreign missionaries. Contributors are: Robert E. Carbonneau, CP, Christie Chui-Shan Chow, Amanda C. R. Clark, Lydia Gerber, Joseph W. Ho, Joseph Tse-hei Lee, Audrey Seah, Jean-Paul Wiest, and Xiaoxin Wu.
