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Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches

By: Zhongjiang Wang

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Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Natural, Supernatural, and Legal Approaches

By: Zhongjiang Wang

Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have transformed our understanding of classical Chinese thought. In this book, Wang Zhongjiang closely examines these texts and, by parsing the complex divergence between ancient and modern Chinese records, reveals early Chinese philosophy to be much richer and more complex than we ever imagined. As numerous and varied cosmologies sprang up in this cradle of civilization, beliefs in the predictable movements of nature merged with faith in gods and their divine punishments. Slowly, powerful spirits and gods were stripped of their potency as nature's constant order awakened people to the possibility of universal laws, and those laws finally gave birth to an ideally conceived community, objectively managed and rationally ordered.

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Springer

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1137540842

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9781137540843

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

Combining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging social and cultural trends in contemporary China, and find the truth content of Chinese society and culture in the age of global capitalism. Through in-depth textual analyses covering a variety of media, ranging from fiction, poetry, film to theoretical works as well as cultural phenomena which mirror social and cultural occurrences and reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese society, this study offers timely interpretations of China in the age of globalization, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies, and provides thought-provoking messages of China’s socio-economic and political reality.

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388

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BRILL

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9004461191

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9789004461192

Remaking the Chinese Empire

Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911

By: Yuanchong Wang

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Remaking the Chinese Empire

Manchu-Korean Relations, 1616–1911

By: Yuanchong Wang

Remaking the Chinese Empire examines China's development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Chosŏn Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of the world, as a cosmopolitan empire, and as a modern sovereign state. For the Manchu regime and for the Chosŏn Dynasty, the relationship was one of mutual dependence, central to building and maintaining political legitimacy. Yuanchong Wang illuminates how this relationship served as the very model for China's foreign relations. Ultimately, this precipitated contests, conflicts, and compromises among empires and states in East Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia – in particular, in the nineteenth century when international law reached the Chinese world. By adopting a long-term and cross-border perspective on high politics at the empire's core and periphery, Wang revises our understanding of the rise and transformation of the last imperial dynasty of China. His work reveals new insights on the clashes between China's foreign relations system and its Western counterpart, imperialism and colonialism in the Chinese world, and the formation of modern sovereign states in East Asia. Most significantly, Remaking the Chinese Empire breaks free of the established, national history-oriented paradigm, establishing a new paradigm through which to observe and analyze the Korean impact on the Qing Dynasty.

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376

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Cornell University Press

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1501730525

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9781501730528

Studies on China’s High-Speed Rail New Town Planning and Development

By: Lan Wang,Hao Gu

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Studies on China’s High-Speed Rail New Town Planning and Development

By: Lan Wang,Hao Gu

This book focuses on high-speed rail (HSR) and new town planning and development related to HSR, approaching the issue from three different perspectives: economic cooperation at a regional level; HSR-based economic growth point at a city level; and mixed land use and building environment in the periphery area of HSR stations. On the basis of simulations and case studies, it proposes practical planning principles and suggestions for area development, providing planners with a theoretical framework to incorporate the transportation system into new town planning. It also serves as a valuable reference source for the authorities, enabling them to make evidence-based and rational decisions.

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330

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Springer

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981136916X

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9789811369162

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

By: WANG Zhongjiang

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Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

By: WANG Zhongjiang

Hengxian: stages of cosmic unfolding -- Taiyi shengshui: textual structure and conceptual layers -- Fanwu liuxing: from oneness to multiplicity -- Huangdi sijing: governing through oneness -- Laozi: "Dao models itself" -- Laozi: "a great vessel" -- Han Laozi: variants and new readings

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222

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Lulu.com

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1931483620

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9781931483629

China and the Taiwan Issue

Impending War at Taiwan Strait

By: Gabe T. Wang

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China and the Taiwan Issue

Impending War at Taiwan Strait

By: Gabe T. Wang

With comprehensive historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural data, this book offers a timely examination of the developments in mainland China, Taiwan, and U.S. involvement in the region as they relate to the ongoing Taiwan Strait dilemma. While many books approach this issue primarily from the viewpoint of Taiwan, this book gives considerable attention to China and its development and role in the issue. In an approachable style, this intriguing work identifies the realities that mainland China and Taiwan, as well as the United States, face and presents various options in an effort to develop mutual understanding and peaceful solutions for each party involved in the Taiwan issue.

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262

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University Press of America

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0761834346

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9780761834342

The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

By: Youru Wang

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The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting

By: Youru Wang

This book investigates the various meanings of forgetting and their ethical dimension in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi. It responds to recent scholarship in the study of the ethics of forgetting, which has only emerged within the past two decades in the wake of the widespread memory-studies of the late 20th century. This book accomplishes two goals: First, it assimilates insights from contemporary scholarship, and specifically applies Ricoeur’s three areas of ethical examinations of forgetting, to the study of the Zhuangzi. It addresses a wide range of ethical themes related to acts of forgetting, such as the meaning of well-being and healing, the issue of personal identity and relational autonomy, the norm of spontaneity, naturalness and suitability, the capacities for being empathic, altruistic and responsive to others, and the values of accommodation, receptivity and all-inclusive friendliness. Second, it places forgetfulness in the wider context of the Zhuangzi’s ethical inquiry, and offers a novel understanding of this age-old notion and its exegetic tradition, bringing them into dialogue with Western philosophy and contributing to contemporary discourse on the ethics of forgetting. The first book to present a comprehensive examination on the ethical dimension and meanings of forgetting or forgetfulness in the Daoist philosophy of the Zhuangzi, this monograph will be of interest to researchers in Asian philosophy, religion and culture, moral philosophy or ethics, the study of memory and forgetting, and comparative or cross-cultural philosophy and ethics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040109276

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9781040109274

Phoenix Kingdoms

Last Splendor of China's Bronze Age

By: Lai Guolong,Colin Mackenzie,Haicheng Wang

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Phoenix Kingdoms

Last Splendor of China's Bronze Age

By: Lai Guolong,Colin Mackenzie,Haicheng Wang

Featuring about 150 loans from China's Hubei Provincial Museum, this exhibition, set to open at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco under the name Lost Kingdoms of Ancient China, examines the new finds of Zeng and Chu tombs together to explore the cultural landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty. It also reveals the legendary rising story of the phoenix kingdom erased by the Qin, highlighting the importance of the middle Yangtze River region in forming a southern style in Chinese art. For a better understanding of the Zeng and Chu material, the exhibition catalogue consists of seven essays to elaborate the introduction to the remarkable art and culture of this region, with entries of about 150 works in six categories (jade, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and artefacts with designs). Seven contributors have written for this catalogue, including five outside scholars with expertise on different subjects"--

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Univ of California Press

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0520341643

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9780520341647

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

By: WANG Zhongjiang

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Book's by WANG Zhongjiang

Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Order in Early Chinese Excavated Texts

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Remaking the Chinese Empire

Remaking the Chinese Empire

Studies on China’s High-Speed Rail New Town Planning and Development

Studies on China’s High-Speed Rail New Town Planning and Development

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

China and the Taiwan Issue

China and the Taiwan Issue

The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness

Phoenix Kingdoms

Phoenix Kingdoms

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

Daoism Excavated: Cosmos and Humanity in Early Manuscripts

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