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Download this eBook Aesthetics and Art
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Aesthetics and Art


Jianping Gao


This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of...

Publication date: 2018-05-12
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Download this eBook The Philosophy of Ch'eng I
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The Philosophy of Ch'eng I


Yung-Ch'un Ts'ai


This book offers a comprehensive account of the great Neo-Confucian Master Cheng I (1033-1107), showing his philosophical ideas in a modern light. It systematically examines Cheng’s extensive literature and provides an ingenious interpretation of Cheng’s social and...

Publication date: 2018-04-09
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Download this eBook A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated Tang Poetry
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A History of Western Appreciation of English-translated Tang Poetry


Lan Jiang


This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further...

Publication date: 2018-03-08
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Download this eBook An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography
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An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography


Huaiqi Wu


This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern...

Publication date: 2018-01-09
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China's Hong Kong


Shigong Jiang


This book differs from most others of its kind, by looking at the Hong Kong issue from China’s perspective, which in turn mirrors China’s own situation. Through a legal lens, the author conducts a political and cultural examination of the past and the present, and...

Publication date: 2017-05-09
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Download this eBook The Ecological Era and Classical Chinese Naturalism
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The Ecological Era and Classical Chinese Naturalism


Shuyuan Lu


Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of “dwelling poetically on earth.” Drawing on Derrida’s...

Publication date: 2016-11-25
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A Paradise Lost


Young-Tsu Wong


This book is aimed at readers and researchers who are interested in Chinese garden architecture, the rise and fall of Yuanming Yuan and the history of the Qing dynasty. It is the first comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex in a Western language, and is...

Publication date: 2016-11-25
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Download this eBook History of Zen
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History of Zen


Yu-Hsiu Ku


This book tells about the "History of Zen" in China and Japan. It has altogether 16 chapters. The first eight chapters are about Zen in China and the later eight chapters about Zen in Japan. It is mainly concerned with a detailed account of inheriting lineage and...

Publication date: 2016-11-23
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Download this eBook Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues
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Anthology of Philosophical and Cultural Issues


Yijie Tang


This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved by a concise elaboration of its truth, goodness and beauty; that goodness and beauty in Chinese philosophy, combined with the integration of man and heaven, knowledge...

Publication date: 2016-08-02
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Download this eBook China and the West at the Crossroads
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China and the West at the Crossroads


Daiyun Yue


Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a...

Publication date: 2016-06-23
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Download this eBook Sending Law to the Countryside
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Sending Law to the Countryside


Suli Zhu


Based on empirical investigation and an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers a crucial theoretical work on China’s basic-level judicial system and a masterpiece by Professor Suli Zhu, a prominent jurist on modern China. Its primary goal is to identify issues –...

Publication date: 2016-06-18
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Download this eBook Contemporary Chinese Rural Reform
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Contemporary Chinese Rural Reform


Xiang Wu


This book offers an eyewitness account of China’s twenty years of rural reform. It records the successive changes in different types of China’s rural economic systems, from rural cooperatives to the people’s communes to the household responsibility system. It...

Publication date: 2015-12-30
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Download this eBook Non-institutional Political Participation
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Non-institutional Political Participation


Jiangshan Fang


By examining social transformation and political participation theories, this book focuses on the core concept of non-institutional political participation, which is classified into two types: induced participation and imposed participation. This classification has...

Publication date: 2015-11-30
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Download this eBook How the Communist Party of China Manages the Issue of Nationality
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How the Communist Party of China Manages the Issue of Nationality


Shiyuan Hao


This book introduces the background of China’s issue of nationality from the very beginning. Throughout the country’s history, all the nationalities that lived and prospered on Chinese land created a pattern of cultural diversity within national unity through their...

Publication date: 2015-11-30
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Download this eBook The “States” in Villages
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The “States” in Villages


Li Shulei


This book presents a study in educational sociology, exploring the function of rural schools, which are a symbol of the state in rural society, in a time characterized by local cultural transition. The book begins with an investigation of the status quo, background and...

Publication date: 2015-11-27
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Download this eBook Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action
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Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action


Guy Alitto


??This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as...

Publication date: 2015-10-02
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Download this eBook Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness
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Globalization and Cultural Self-Awareness


Xiaotong Fei


This volume comprises some twenty articles, speeches and conversations of Fei Xiaotong from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Their central connecting theme is how civilizations could co-exist against a backdrop of rapid globalization. Fei proposes his concept of...

Publication date: 2015-04-30
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Download this eBook An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture
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An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture


Qizhi Zhang


This book breaks with convention and provides an overview of Chinese history in the form of special topics. These topics include the major issues of “A Scientific Approach to the Origins of Chinese Civilization,” “Ancient Chinese Society and the Change of Dynasties,”...

Publication date: 2015-04-15
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Download this eBook Degrees of Affinity
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Degrees of Affinity


Zuoliang Wang


This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and...

Publication date: 2015-02-15
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Download this eBook Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese Culture
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Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese Culture


Yijie Tang


This book collects the 25 most important articles written by Professor Tang since the 1980s, dealing extensively with issues of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity and Chinese culture. In these articles, Professor Tang proves his value as a worthy successor to...

Publication date: 2015-02-06
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