Toward the Study of the Sword as Dynastic Talisman
Author: Helen Burwell Chapin
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 624
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Author: Helen Burwell Chapin
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward H. Schafer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0520341147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but they have the glamour of mystery, and they symbolize all the exotic things longed for, and unknown things hoped for, by the people of the T'ang empire. This book examines the exotics imported into China during the T'ang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), and depicts their influence on Chinese life. Into the land during the three centuries of T'ang came the natives of almost every nation of Asia, all bringing exotic wares either as gifts or as goods to be sold. Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girls—the author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry. This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject matter."
Author: Qian Sima
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780253340221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi(The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 BC to ca. 100 BC) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In The Grand Scribe's Records, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalised the style of the annals he had written for previous rulers. Here are accounts of the peasant who founded the dynasty, Liu Pang, a man noted as much for his licentiousness as he was his ruthless political instinct, and of his cruel wife, Empress Lÿ, who murdered her chief rival for Liu Pang's affections in the most gruesome manner. The annals of two relatively undistinguished emperors follow. The volume concludes with Ssu-ma's depiction of perhaps the greatest ruler of the Han, Emperor Wu, told within the context of his delusive attempts to find a means to achieve immortality. When completed this translation will bring all 130 chapters of the Shih chi into English. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.
Author: Suzanne Elizabeth Cahill
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780804721127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on medieval Chinese poetry, fiction, and religious scriptures, this book illuminates the greatest goddess of Taoism and her place in Chinese society.
Author: James Morris Hargett
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of California (1868-1952)
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 726
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Publisher: Rutland, Vt. : Published for the Harvard-Yenching Institute [by] C.E. Tuttle Company,$c1954.
Published: 1954
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jue Chen
Publisher: Harrassowitz
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJue Chen's "Record of an Ancient Mirror" is a study on the "Gujing ji", one of the few extant texts of the early Tang dynasty (618-907) "chuanqi" fiction. It presents concrete research on the textual history and close reading of the work, against the background of detailed informational material regarding the historical careers of Wang Du and Wang Ji, as well as the intellectual context of Sui-Tang politics, philosophy, and religion. Based on that, Chen's analysis illuminates a broad range of fields: art history and the lore of medieval Buddhism and Daoism; the spiritual geography of China's "sacred mountains"; ancient Chinese medicine and occult arts; and other related topics. Like the text on which it is based, this study deals with a wide variety of seemingly disjointed elements. Yet they all come together in a comprehensive view of the workings of Tang "tales of the strange", and traditional Chinese fictional and historical narrative in general, with their frequent adumbration of historical and religious implications beyond the specific episodes presented.
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 864
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 864
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