Author: Ban MoCanYue
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649205740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
It is said that a white-robed youth appeared in the Jianghu not long ago. He has an elegant demeanor and is gentle like jade. He is handsome and elegant. If he swung his sword with snow or his Pear Blossom Dance, it would be extremely beautiful. However, within a year, he had mercilessly annihilated five sects in the martial arts world. At that moment, everyone in the martial arts world felt respect and fear for him. It was a tribute to his integrity, as all the people he killed were later found out. They were all once villains to Li Shu, committing evil in many ways. Ju was cruel, and the sects he killed were all slaughtered. Not a single one of them survived. After every incident, he would always leave his name in the word 'blood'. He called himself the "White Robe Sword" Yang Muyun. Close]
Muyun, The Sword Sovereign
Author: Ban MoCanYue
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649205740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
It is said that a white-robed youth appeared in the Jianghu not long ago. He has an elegant demeanor and is gentle like jade. He is handsome and elegant. If he swung his sword with snow or his Pear Blossom Dance, it would be extremely beautiful. However, within a year, he had mercilessly annihilated five sects in the martial arts world. At that moment, everyone in the martial arts world felt respect and fear for him. It was a tribute to his integrity, as all the people he killed were later found out. They were all once villains to Li Shu, committing evil in many ways. Ju was cruel, and the sects he killed were all slaughtered. Not a single one of them survived. After every incident, he would always leave his name in the word 'blood'. He called himself the "White Robe Sword" Yang Muyun. Close]
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649205740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
It is said that a white-robed youth appeared in the Jianghu not long ago. He has an elegant demeanor and is gentle like jade. He is handsome and elegant. If he swung his sword with snow or his Pear Blossom Dance, it would be extremely beautiful. However, within a year, he had mercilessly annihilated five sects in the martial arts world. At that moment, everyone in the martial arts world felt respect and fear for him. It was a tribute to his integrity, as all the people he killed were later found out. They were all once villains to Li Shu, committing evil in many ways. Ju was cruel, and the sects he killed were all slaughtered. Not a single one of them survived. After every incident, he would always leave his name in the word 'blood'. He called himself the "White Robe Sword" Yang Muyun. Close]
Imperial Saint Sovereign
Author: Ye YueYuMeng
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 164736678X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Emperor Hegemony, Emperor Might, Saint Sage, Supreme Realm cultivators too! A youth who was determined to become a peerless powerhouse had his dantian destroyed due to an accident. Was that a disappointment, or a desire to become stronger? The youth, Ling Xiao, had unintentionally obtained a cauldron, a sword, and watched as Ling Xiao completed the legends that no one had broken since ancient times. He had done everything he could to surpass the heavens and reach the supreme peak! Holy Emperor's fans 423840230! Close]
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 164736678X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Emperor Hegemony, Emperor Might, Saint Sage, Supreme Realm cultivators too! A youth who was determined to become a peerless powerhouse had his dantian destroyed due to an accident. Was that a disappointment, or a desire to become stronger? The youth, Ling Xiao, had unintentionally obtained a cauldron, a sword, and watched as Ling Xiao completed the legends that no one had broken since ancient times. He had done everything he could to surpass the heavens and reach the supreme peak! Holy Emperor's fans 423840230! Close]
Enlightenment in Dispute
Author: Jiang Wu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199895562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment of the time. He investigates the development of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century, focusing on controversies involving issues such as correct practice and lines of lineage. In this way, he shows how the Chan revival reshaped Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China. Situating these controversies alongside major events of the fateful Ming-Qing transition, Wu shows how the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism was conditioned by social changes in the seventeenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199895562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Enlightenment in Dispute is the first comprehensive study of the revival of Chan Buddhism in seventeenth-century China. Focusing on the evolution of a series of controversies about Chan enlightenment, Jiang Wu describes the process by which Chan reemerged as the most prominent Buddhist establishment of the time. He investigates the development of Chan Buddhism in the seventeenth century, focusing on controversies involving issues such as correct practice and lines of lineage. In this way, he shows how the Chan revival reshaped Chinese Buddhism in late imperial China. Situating these controversies alongside major events of the fateful Ming-Qing transition, Wu shows how the rise and fall of Chan Buddhism was conditioned by social changes in the seventeenth century.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas
Author:
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140447194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140447194
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
Governing Locally
Author: Babu Jacob
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832342
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108832342
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Author: Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.
Structures and Patterns of Religion
Author: Gustav Mensching (théologien).)
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120827776
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120827776
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Peony Pavilion Onstage
Author: Catherine Swatek
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book explores responses to Tang Xianzu's classic play The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) from three distinct segments of its public-literati playwrights; professional performers of Kun opera; and quite recently, directors and audiences outside China. Catherine Swatek first examines two adaptations of the play by Tang's contemporaries, which point to the unconventionality of the original work. She goes on to explore how the play has been changed in later adaptations, up to its most recent productions by Peter Sellars and Chen Shi-Zheng in the United States and Europe. Catherine Swatek is Associate Professor, University of British Columbia. She has published several articles on premodern Chinese drama and on female representation in Chinese opera.
Publisher: U OF M CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This book explores responses to Tang Xianzu's classic play The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting) from three distinct segments of its public-literati playwrights; professional performers of Kun opera; and quite recently, directors and audiences outside China. Catherine Swatek first examines two adaptations of the play by Tang's contemporaries, which point to the unconventionality of the original work. She goes on to explore how the play has been changed in later adaptations, up to its most recent productions by Peter Sellars and Chen Shi-Zheng in the United States and Europe. Catherine Swatek is Associate Professor, University of British Columbia. She has published several articles on premodern Chinese drama and on female representation in Chinese opera.
The Renaissance of Islam
Author: Adam Mez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The Adventures of Satan Hall
Author: Carroll John Daly
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 9780892969388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Four stories describe Detective Frank "Satan" Hall's efforts to bring gang leaders, crooked politicians, influence peddlers, and corrupt policemen to justice
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN: 9780892969388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Four stories describe Detective Frank "Satan" Hall's efforts to bring gang leaders, crooked politicians, influence peddlers, and corrupt policemen to justice