Author: Sŏul Taehakkyo
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1580

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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Languages : en
Pages : 1402

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Author: Mark Elvin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804708760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others.

Author: Ping-Ti Ho
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ISBN: 9781597405911
Category : Social mobility
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Arthur F. Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804705547
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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"Papers ... presented at the 1957 and 1958 conferences sponsored by the Committee on Chinese Thought ... of the Association for Asian Studies." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [335]-373).

Author: Etienne Balazs
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300094565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Born in Hungary, trained in Chinese studies in Germany, Etienne Balazs was, until his sudden and premature death in 1963, a professor at the Sorbonne and an intellectual leader among European specialists on China. In this book, a selection of Dr. Balazs’ essays are presented for the first time in English. Arthur F. Wright, professor of history at Yale, and John K. Fairbank, professor of history at Harvard, have written a joint Preface and Mr. Wright has written an Introduction. Scholars and interested laymen will find a rich feast here in essays ranging over two thousand years of China’s social, economic, political, and intellectual history. A wealth of data supports the various theories Dr. Balazs develops, in a graceful translation by Hope N. Wright. Because Etienne Balazs regarded the Chinese past not as a curiosity but as a repository of relevant human experience, his essays are significant for anyone interested in the past and future of civilization. "If a reader should disagree with some of the brilliant points, he would still find them challenging and refreshing."—Journal of Asian Studies.

Author: Lien-Sheng Yang
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Languages : en
Pages : 229

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