Author: Richard J. Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442221941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
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The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted historian Richard J. Smith argues that the pragmatic Qing emperors presented a “Chinese” face to their subjects who lived south of the Great Wall and other ethnic faces (particularly Manchu, Mongolian, Central Asian, and Tibetan) to subjects in other parts of their vast multicultural empire. They were attracted by many aspects of Chinese culture, but far from being completely “sinicized” as many scholars argue, they were also proud of their own cultural traditions and interested in other cultures as well. Setting Qing dynasty culture in historical and global perspective, Smith shows how the Chinese of the era viewed the world; how their outlook was expressed in their institutions, material culture, and customs; and how China’s preoccupation with order, unity, and harmony contributed to the civilization’s remarkable cohesiveness and continuity. Nuanced and wide-ranging, his authoritative book provides an essential introduction to late imperial Chinese culture and society.
Author: Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781442221932
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This engaging and insightful history of the Qing dynasty (1636-1912) offers a systematic discussion of topics such as language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs. Nuanced and wide-ranging, noted historian Richard J. Smith's authoritative book provides a...
Author: Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781442221925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
This engaging and insightful history of the Qing dynasty (1636-1912) offers a systematic discussion of topics such as language, philosophy, religion, art, literature, and social customs. Nuanced and wide-ranging, noted historian Richard J. Smith's authoritative book provides an essential introduction to late imperial Chinese culture and society.
Author: Richard J Smith
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN: 9780813313474
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Qing Dynasty (1644–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was a period remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. In this extensively revised and expanded edition of his highly regarded book, Richard J. Smith shows how the Chinese of the Qing Dynasty viewed the world; how their outlook was expressed in their institutions, material culture, and customs; and how China's preoccupation with order, unity, and harmony contributed to the remarkable cohesiveness and continuity of traditional Chinese civilization. In addition to offering a new and challenging interpretation of Chinese culture as a whole, he provides a fresh perspective on a wide variety of topics, from gender issues, philosophy, religion, and mythology, to language, aesthetics, and symbolism. He also examines a number of important but too-often neglected aspects of traditional Chinese daily life, including divination, food, music, sexual practices, festivals, child-rearing, and games.Based on the author's careful rethinking of certain themes and arguments presented in the first edition, this revised version of China's Cultural Heritage also draws heavily upon the enormous body of new scholarship on Chinese history and culture that has appeared in the last decade. Although focused primarily on the Qing Dynasty, the book not only sheds valuable light on the distant past but it helps us to understand China's contemporary problems of modernization. A concluding chapter systematically explores the legacy of traditional Chinese culture to the twentieth century.
Author: Richard J Smith
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Based on the author's careful rethinking of certain themes and arguments presented in the first edition, this revised version of China's Cultural Heritage also draws heavily upon the enormous body of new scholarship on Chinese history and culture that has appeared in the last decade. Although focused primarily on the Qing Dynasty, the book not only sheds valuable light on the distant past but it also helps us to understand China's contemporary problems of modernization.
Author: Richard J Smith
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Concentrating on the literature, customs, ideas, and the arts, this is almost exclusively a cultural history of China during the Ching dynasty.
Author: Richard Joseph Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Concentrating on the literature, customs, ideas, and the arts, this is almost exclusively a cultural history of China during the Ching dynasty.
Author: Paula M. Varsano
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438463030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Considers the role of hiddenness in the history of cultural production in premodern China. This volume brings together fourteen essays that explore the role of hiddennessas both an object and a mode of representationin the history of cultural production in China from the Warring States Period (403221 BCE) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and beyond. The rhetorical use of various forms of hiddenness makes its appearance in literary, political, philosophical, and religious writings, as well as in the visual arts. Working in fields as disparate as traditional Chinese literature, religion, philosophy, history, medicine, and art, the contributors attempt to characterize one of the fundamental signifying practices in traditional Chinese cultural production. In the process, they not only reveal otherwise obscure patterns connecting longstanding social, political, aesthetic, and epistemological practices, but also contribute to ongoing discussionswell beyond the field of China studiesregarding the representation and communicability of knowledge, as well as the practices controlling its dissemination.
Author: Andrew Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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In pre-publication, book had the subtitle Diversity and its discontents.
Author: Keekok Lee
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1606932470
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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This book attempts to deconstruct certain key clusters of Chinese characters and words to make them yield fascinating tales about the country's culture and history.
