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Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

By: Zhang Dainian,Dainian Zhang

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Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

By: Zhang Dainian,Dainian Zhang

An introduction to Chinese philosophy and a reference tool for sinologists. Comments by important Chinese thinkers are arranged around 64 key concepts to illustrate their meaning and use through 25 centuries of Chinese philosophy. The book includes comments on each section by the translator.

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0300092105

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Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

By: Zhang Dainian,Dainian Zhang

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By: Zhang Dainian,Dainian Zhang

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A Practical Chinese Grammar

By: Hongnian Zhang,Sze-yun Liu

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A Practical Chinese Grammar

By: Hongnian Zhang,Sze-yun Liu

Fifty lessons examining both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. The book describes cultural idiosyncrasies in language use as well as gives discoursal strategies for forming sustained conversations.

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Chinese University Press

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9622015956

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The Soul of Creation (Shensi)

By: Jing Zhang

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The Soul of Creation (Shensi)

By: Jing Zhang

This Key Concepts pivot explores the aesthetic concept of ‘imaginative contemplation.’ Drawing on key literature to provide a comprehensive and systematic study of the term, the book offers a unique analysis and definition of the connotations of the term, describing its aesthetic mentality and examining the issue of imaginative contemplation versus imagination in artistic creative thinking, especially as regards the characteristics of contingent thinking in aesthetics. It focuses on drawing parallels between imaginative contemplation and aesthetic emotions, aesthetic rationality, and artistic expression as well as aesthetic form. Examining the relationship between imaginative contemplation and the aesthetic configuration, the book provides a valuable introduction to aesthetic theory in Chinese philosophy and art.

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Springer Nature

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9811604967

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The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy

By: Shiwei Zhang

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The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy

By: Shiwei Zhang

This book presents a panoramic and extensive exploration of Chinese political philosophy, examining key political problems of the past, and the thinkers who addressed them. As the reader will discover, China’s traditional political philosophy is one with distinctive national characteristics and ideals. Therefore, the book helps to clarify the evolution of Chinese political thought, while also investigating fundamental political issues throughout the country’s history. The book offers a unique resource for researchers and graduate students in the fields of political science, philosophy, and history, as well as ordinary readers who are interested in China’s traditional and political culture.

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Springer Nature

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9811643768

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9789811643767

Contemporary Value Systems in China

By: Zhen Han,Weiwen Zhang

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Contemporary Value Systems in China

By: Zhen Han,Weiwen Zhang

This work illustrates China’s values and how they are practiced. After introducing readers to the theories, systematical structure, historical status, and influence of traditional Chinese values, it points out major developmental trends in connection with modernization. Further, it explores the significance of the contemporary reconstruction of Chinese values and argues that these values can be divided into three layers: values-based goals of national development, Chinese values concepts, and norms of values in a civil society. On this basis, it subsequently interprets the core socialist values “Prosperity, Democracy, Civility and Harmony,” the value concepts “Freedom, Equality, Justice and Rule of Law” and values-based norms “Patriotism, Dedication, Integrity and Friendship.”

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9811323933

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Making the New World Their Own

Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery

By: Qiong Zhang

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Making the New World Their Own

Chinese Encounters with Jesuit Science in the Age of Discovery

By: Qiong Zhang

In Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award

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BRILL

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9004284389

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9789004284388

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

By: Zhang Zhen

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An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

By: Zhang Zhen

Shanghai in the early twentieth century was alive with art and culture. With the proliferation of popular genres such as the martial arts film, the contest among various modernist filmmakers, and the advent of sound, Chinese cinema was transforming urban life. But with the Japanese invasion in 1937, all of this came to a screeching halt. Until recently, the political establishment has discouraged comprehensive studies of the cultural phenomenon of early Chinese film, and this momentous chapter in China's history has remained largely unexamined. The first sustained historical study of the emergence of cinema in China, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen is a fascinating narrative that illustrates the immense cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. Named after a major feature film on the making of Chinese cinema, only part of which survives, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen reveals the intricacies of this cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, architecture, drama, and literature. In light of original archival research, Zhang Zhen examines previously unstudied films and expands the important discussion of how they modeled modern social structures and gender roles in early twentieth-century China. The first volume in the new and groundbreaking series Cinema and Modernity, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen is an innovative—and well illustrated—look at the cultural history of Chinese modernity through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226982386

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9780226982380

The Formation of Chinese Civilization

An Archaeological Perspective

By: Kwang-chih Chang,Pingfang Xu,Liancheng Lu,Xu Pingfang,Shao Wangping,Zhang Zhongpei,Wang Renxiang

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The Formation of Chinese Civilization

An Archaeological Perspective

By: Kwang-chih Chang,Pingfang Xu,Liancheng Lu,Xu Pingfang,Shao Wangping,Zhang Zhongpei,Wang Renxiang

Paleolithic sites from one million years ago, Neolithic sites with extraordinary jade and ceramic artifacts, excavated tombs and palaces of the Shang and Zhou dynasties--all these are part of the archaeological riches of China. This magnificent book surveys China's archaeological remains and in the process rewrites the early history of the world's most enduring civilization. Eminent scholars from China and America show how archaeological evidence establishes that Chinese culture did not spread from a single central area, as was long assumed, but emerged out of geographically diverse, interacting Neolithic cultures. Taking us to the great archaeological finds of the past hundred years--tombs, temples, palaces, cities--they shed new light on many aspects of Chinese life. With a wealth of fascinating detail and hundreds of reproductions of archaeological discoveries, including very recent ones, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Chinese antiquity and Chinese views on the formation of their own civilization.

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Yale University Press

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0300093829

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9780300093827

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms

Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema

By: Xudong Zhang

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Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms

Cultural Fever, Avant-garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema

By: Xudong Zhang

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Duke University Press

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0822318466

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9780822318460

Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism

By: Qianfan Zhang

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Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism

By: Qianfan Zhang

This book reinterprets classical Chinese philosophical tradition along the conceptual line of human dignity. Through extensive textual evidence, it illustrates that classical Confucianism, Mohism and Daoism contained rich notions of dignity, which laid the foundation for human rights and political liberty in China, even though, historically, liberal democracy failed to grow out of the authoritarian soil in China. The book critically examines the causes that might have prevented the classical schools from developing a liberal tradition, while affirming their positive contributions to the human dignity concept. Analysing the inadequacies of the western concept of human dignity, the text covers relevant teachings of Kongzi, Mengzi, Xunzi, Mozi, Laozi and Zhuangzi (in comparison with Rousseau). While the Confucian notions of humanity (Ren), righteousness (Yi), and gentleman (Junzi) bear most directly on the conception of dignity, Mohism and Daoism provide salutary corrections to the ossification of the orthodox Confucian practice (Li).

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Springer

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1349709204

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9781349709205

Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China

By: Zhang Jiong

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Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China

By: Zhang Jiong

Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxism. This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary China whose development is closely related to the popularization of Marxism and the unavoidable collisions between Marxism and other theories. It also introduces some relevant critical debates, such as the debate on the criticism of Yu Pingbo, a representative and one of the authoritative scholars studying The Dream of the Red Chamber. In the second part, the author expounds the history of Chinese literature from a macro-level perspective, involving works, genres, ideologies, schools, etc. He also discusses the challenges facing Chinese literature under the background of economic globalization. Will politics, cultures, including literature and arts, be globalized? In addition, the author puts forward that a dynamic concept is needed for a better understanding of Chinese culture and gives his suggestions about the "adjustments" Chinese people should make for the present. This book will attract scholars and students of literary criticism studies and Chinese literary studies. People who are interested in Chinese literature and thought will also benefit from this book.

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Routledge

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1317482689

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9781317482680

International Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Natural Computation (FSKD 2014)

By: Defu Zhang, Xiamen University, China

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International Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Natural Computation (FSKD 2014)

By: Defu Zhang, Xiamen University, China

ICNC-FSKD is a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of data mining and intelligent methods inspired from nature, particularly biological, linguistic, and physical systems, with applications to computers, circuits, systems, control, communications, and more. This is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary area in which a wide range of theory and methodologies are being investigated and developed to tackle complex and challenging problems.

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DEStech Publications, Inc

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1605951986

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9781605951980

Book's by Zhang Dainian

Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

Key Concepts in Chinese Philosophy

A Practical Chinese Grammar

A Practical Chinese Grammar

The Soul of Creation (Shensi)

The Soul of Creation (Shensi)

The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy

The Logical Deduction of Chinese Traditional Political Philosophy

Contemporary Value Systems in China

Contemporary Value Systems in China

Making the New World Their Own

Making the New World Their Own

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen

The Formation of Chinese Civilization

The Formation of Chinese Civilization

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms

Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Human Dignity in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China

Literature and Literary Criticism in Contemporary China

International Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Natural Computation (FSKD 2014)

International Symposium on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Discovery and Natural Computation (FSKD 2014)

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