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Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-century China

Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin

By: Robert E. Harrist,Gonglin Li

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Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-century China

Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin

By: Robert E. Harrist,Gonglin Li

In the eleventh century, the focus of Chinese painting shifted dramatically. The subject matter of most earlier works of art was drawn from a broadly shared heritage of political, religious, and literary themes. Late in the century, however, a group of scholar-artists began to make paintings that reflected the private experiences of their own lives. Robert Harrist argues here that no work illuminates this development more vividly than Mountain Villa, a handscroll by the renowned artist Li Gonglin (ca. 1041-1106). Through a detailed reading of the painting and an analysis of its place in the visual culture of Li's time, the author offers a new explanation for the emergence of autobiographic content in Chinese art. Harrist proposes that the subject of Li's painting--his garden in the Longmian Mountains--was itself a form of self-representation, since a garden was then considered a reflection of its owner's character and values. He demonstrates also that Li's turn toward the imagery of private life was inspired by the conventions of Chinese lyric poetry, in which poets recorded and responded to the experiences of their lives. The book draws the reader into the artistic, scholarly, and political world of Li Gonglin and shows the profound influence of Buddhism on Chinese painting and poetry. It offers important insights not just into Chinese art, but also into Chinese literature and intellectual history.

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Princeton University Press

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0691016097

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9780691016092

Rebirth: Pamper Ruthless Girl

Volume 2

By: Zong Li

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Rebirth: Pamper Ruthless Girl

Volume 2

By: Zong Li

In his previous life, Su Xing was so stupid that he would burn himself to illuminate his enemy. In her second life, she only had one goal, and that was to make her family unhappy. She made use of everything she could take advantage of and did not give her heart to anyone. She got everything she wanted, but in the end, she still discovered that no matter how vicious she was, there would always be someone more vicious than her. "Wei Yan, you really are my ... So you never loved me? " "Wei Yan, everything you did, was just to make up for it?" "Wei Yan, I will never trust you again.

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888

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Funstory

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1649910592

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9781649910592

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III

Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

By: Li Shizhen

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Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III

Mountain Herbs, Fragrant Herbs

By: Li Shizhen

Volume III in the Ben cao gang mu series offers a complete translation of chapters 12 through 14, devoted to mountain herbs and fragrant herbs. The Ben cao gang mu is a sixteenth-century Chinese encyclopedia of medical matter and natural history by Li Shizhen (1518–1593). The culmination of a sixteen-hundred-year history of Chinese medical and pharmaceutical literature, it is considered the most important and comprehensive book ever written in the history of Chinese medicine and remains an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners. This nine-volume series reveals an almost two-millennia-long panorama of wide-ranging observations and sophisticated interpretations, ingenious manipulations, and practical applications of natural substances for the benefit of human health. Paul U. Unschuld's annotated translation of the Ben cao gang mu, presented here with the original Chinese text, opens a rare window into viewing the people and culture of China's past.

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755

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Univ of California Press

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0520385012

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9780520385016

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

By: Stephen Durrant,Wai-yee Li,Michael Nylan,Hans van Ess

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The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

By: Stephen Durrant,Wai-yee Li,Michael Nylan,Hans van Ess

Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive history of China, instead of honorably committing suicide following his castration for “deceiving the emperor.” In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, some scholars have queried the authenticity of the letter. Is it a genuine piece of writing by Sima Qian or an early work of literary impersonation? The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy provides a full translation of the letter and uses different methods to explore issues in textual history. It also shows how ideas about friendship, loyalty, factionalism, and authorship encoded in the letter have far-reaching implications for the study of China.

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193

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University of Washington Press

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0295806389

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9780295806389

#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China

Gendered Violence and Scripts of Power

By: Li Ma

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#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China

Gendered Violence and Scripts of Power

By: Li Ma

This book focusses on the #MeToo movement in China, critically examining how three competing ideologies have worked in co-opting #MeToo activism: China’s official communism, Western neoliberalism, and an emerging Chinese cyber-feminism. In 2018, China’s #MeToo cyber activism initially maintained its momentum despite strict censorship, presenting women’s voices against gendered violence and revealing scripts of power in different sectors of society. Eventually though it lost impetus with sloganization and stigmatization under a trio forces of pressures: corporate corruption, over-politicization by Western media and continued state censorship. The book documents the social events and gendered norms in higher education, NGOs, business and religious circles that preceded and followed high-profile cases of alleged sexual abuses in mainland China, engaging with sociological scholarship relating to demoralization and power, media studies and gender studies. Through these entwined theories the author seeks to give both scholars and the general audience in gender studies a window into the ongoing tension in the power spheres of state, market and gendered hierarchy in contemporary Chinese society. This book will be of interest to students of gender studies, China studies, media studies, and cultural Studies

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Routledge

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1000442438

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9781000442434

Actress Becomes Brothel Master

Volume 6

By: Li You

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Actress Becomes Brothel Master

Volume 6

By: Li You

As a formidable figure in the 21st century, she had actually transmigrated into the body of such a good-for-nothing? Aiyo, aiyo, this was truly taking her life. With her character, how could she possibly endure this humiliation? If anyone dared to bully her, they would definitely slap them in the face one by one! In addition to her cool acting, who would believe that she was merciless? She was secretly laughing in her heart, but was bewitched by this handsome prince. So there was actually such a good-looking person in ancient times!

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770

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Funstory

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1649917082

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9781649917089

Crossing the Border

On the Quadruple-evidence Method

By: Li Yang,Shuxian Ye

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Crossing the Border

On the Quadruple-evidence Method

By: Li Yang,Shuxian Ye

This book is the first monograph of its kind in the academic world which comprehensively expounds the new methodology of humanities. The quadruple-evidence method is one which integrates quadruple-evidences to open up new horizon for interpretation of ancient culture in the three-dimensional manner. The first layer of evidence refers to documents passed down from the past; the second layer of evidence refers to local written materials; the third layer of evidence includes oral legends of anthropology and folklore and etiquette in the living folk customs; the fourth layer of evidence refers to those ancient objects and images either unearthed in archaeological excavations or handed down from the past. The book consists of theoretical explorations and their applications in individual cases. While the first part studies the academic evolution, theory and methodological value of the quadruple-evidence method, the second part, in using the method in different cases, explores different historical and cultural phenomena in the history of China, attempting to extend the frontier of the origin of civilization from the approach of mythological study.

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240

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Springer Nature

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9819977509

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9789819977505

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

By: Li-hua Ying

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.

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825

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130068

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9781538130063

The Eternal Present of the Past

Illustration, Theatre, and Reading in the Wanli Period, 1573-1619

By: Li-Ling Xiao

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The Eternal Present of the Past

Illustration, Theatre, and Reading in the Wanli Period, 1573-1619

By: Li-Ling Xiao

Drawing together illustration, theater, and literature, this study examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space for temporal conflation that allowed the past to be reborn in the present and to uphold the continuity of the cultural tradition

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370

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BRILL

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9004156437

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9789004156432

Chinese Sculpture

By: Angela Falco Howard,Wu Hung,Li Song,Yang Hong

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Chinese Sculpture

By: Angela Falco Howard,Wu Hung,Li Song,Yang Hong

Spanning some 7000 years, 'Chinese Sculpture' explores a beautiful and diverse world of objects, many of which have only come to light in the later half of the 20th century. The authors analyse and present, mostly in colour, some 500 examples of Chinese sculpture.

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464

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Yale University Press

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0300100655

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9780300100655

International Conference on Intelligent Computing: Intelligent computing

By: De-Shuang Huang,Kang Li

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International Conference on Intelligent Computing: Intelligent computing

By: De-Shuang Huang,Kang Li

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2006, held in Kunming, China, August 2006. The book collects 161 carefully chosen and revised full papers. Topical sections include neural networks, evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms, kernel methods, combinatorial and numerical optimization, multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, neural optimization and dynamic programming, as well as case-based reasoning and probabilistic reasoning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540372717

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9783540372714

Chinese Kunqu Opera

By: Xiao Li

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Chinese Kunqu Opera

By: Xiao Li

Even before Beijing Opera there was Kunqu, an opera form with 600 years of history. This highly distinctive form of Chinese theatre art is comprised of various elements-music, singing, dancing, recitation, and movement. As China's oldest and most influential theatrical tradition, Kunqu combines poetic librettos from the cream of classic Chinese literature (The Peony Pavilion, The Story of the Lute, The Peach Blossom Fan, etc.) with soft and refined music. A vivid, fully-illustrated picture of the origins and development of this grand performing art.

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316

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LONG RIVER PRESS

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1592650627

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9781592650620

Chinese Materia Medica

Combinations and Applications

By: Xu Li

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Chinese Materia Medica

Combinations and Applications

By: Xu Li

This clearly written, comprehensively indexed, and reader-friendly manual contains more than 350 monographs -- each describing the functions, indications, combinations, and applications of commonly used Chinese Materia Medica. Comprehensive monographs contain: details of main ingredients, taste and nature, channels entered, functions and indications, common dosage, precautions and contraindications. Unique tabular format lists provide "at-a-glance" accessibility. Summary tables in each chapter help you obtain quick overviews of the material covered. Unique coverage on toxicity and legal status. Comprehensive list of appendices and indices -- listings are by pinyin, pharmaceutical, and English names for easy reference.

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902

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1901149021

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9781901149029

Book's by Li Wei

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-century China

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-century China

Rebirth: Pamper Ruthless Girl

Rebirth: Pamper Ruthless Girl

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III

Ben Cao Gang Mu, Volume III

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy

#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China

#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China

Actress Becomes Brothel Master

Actress Becomes Brothel Master

Crossing the Border

Crossing the Border

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature

The Eternal Present of the Past

The Eternal Present of the Past

Chinese Sculpture

Chinese Sculpture

International Conference on Intelligent Computing: Intelligent computing

International Conference on Intelligent Computing: Intelligent computing

Chinese Kunqu Opera

Chinese Kunqu Opera

Chinese Materia Medica

Chinese Materia Medica

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