Yao Ceremonial Paintings
Author: Jacques Lemoine
Publisher: White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 180
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Author: Jacques Lemoine
Publisher: White Lotus Company, Limited (Thailand)
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 180
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1621969975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jason C. Kuo
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9789811171802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Holm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-07-14
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 3111382745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien (South Fujian dialect), those of non-Han peoples in China and Southeast Asia such as the Zhuang and Yao, and a vernacular character manuscript in Vietnamese. Across this wide range, the focus is on manuscripts written in regional and vernacular adaptations of the Chinese script. Three chapters on Yao manuscripts each focus on a different aspect of their use in local society or on collections of Yao manuscripts in overseas collections; there are three chapters on Zhuang and related Tai languages; two studies on Hokkien; one on the Cantonese script in contemporary Hong Kong; and one on a Buddhist manuscript with Vietnamese chữ nôm commentary from a temple in Bangkok. Detailed descriptions of traditional paper manufacture in the villages are given for both the Yao and the Zhuang, as well as paper analysis used to date a Vietnamese manuscript. Coverage includes information about the physicality of the manuscripts investigated and the vernacular Chinese scripts in which they are written, but also a wealth of information about their use and significance in local society. This collection will be of interest to scholars and students interested in the philological analysis of East and Southeast Asian character scripts and manuscript traditions, but also the broader social contexts of manuscript use in traditional and modern society.
Author: Lennert Gesterkamp
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-03-21
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9004190236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most magnificent and enduring themes in Chinese painting history can be found depicted in Daoist temples from the local village up to the very capital, viz., the paintings of the Heavenly Court (chaoyuan tu). Surprisingly, its images have remained largely unstudied in Western scholarship. Drawing on a comparative study of four complete sets of wall paintings dating back to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (the oldest examples), and their related images, painting criticism, stele inscriptions, and Daoist ritual manuals, the author offers the first comprehensive study of the historical development, iconography, ritual context, methods of mural design, and the personalisations made by patrons of the four Heavenly Court paintings.
Author: Jess G. Pourret
Publisher: River books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Yao, a non-Han minority moved many centuries ago from the Yang Tse basin to southern China, Northern Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Their strong Taoist beliefs, seen in their magnificent paintings, helped them survive as a society with strong traditions, despite having no country of their own. Distinctive dress and silver jewellery also help to define their various sub-groups. This magnificently illustrated book, based on 12 years of fieldwork, covers all aspects of Yao culture. 750 colour illustrations
Author: Hjorleifur Jonsson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-07-05
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1501731351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThailand's hill tribes have been the object of anthropological research, cultural tourism, and government intervention for a century, in large part because these groups are held to have preserved distinctive ethnic traditions despite their contacts with "modern" culture. Hjorleifur Jonsson rejects the conventional notion that the worlds of traditional peoples are being transformed or undone by the forces of modernity. Among the Mien people of northern Thailand he finds a complex highlander identity that has been shaped by a thousand years of interaction in a multiethnic contact zone. In Mien Relations, Jonsson suggests that as early as the thirteenth century, the growing influence of Chinese and Thai state authority had led to a peculiarly urban understanding of the hinterlands—the forests and the mountains—as an area beyond state control and the rhetoric of civilization. Mountain peoples became understood as a distinct social type, an idea elaborated by government classification systems in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their "discovery" by Western anthropologists is, he suggests, merely one more episode influencing Mien identity. Jonsson questions traditional ethnography's focus on fieldwork and personal observation—and its concomitant blindness to political manipulation and to historical formation. Throughout Mien Relations, he revisits long-neglected connections between China and Southeast Asia, combines ancient history and contemporary ethnography, engages with the serious politics of representation without abandoning the quest to write ethnographically about particular communities, and keeps state control in view without assuming its success or coherence.
Author: Ralph A. Litzinger
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780822325499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn ethnographic study of how ethnic minorities negotiate Chinese nationalism in post-Mao China.
Author: Terry F. Kleeman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780824818005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of the fierce Ba people, converted to Daoism towards the end of the 2nd century CE, their exile to Northwestern China and their collaboration with the Li family in establishing a Daoist state in Sichuan that was to last for half a century.
Author: Barend ter Haar
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9047417232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes the role of oral stories in Chinese witch-hunts. Of interest to historians of oral traditions, folklore and witch-hunts, but also to those working on anti-Christian movements and the intersection of popular fears and political history in China.