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Author | : Seunghyun Han |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684170850 |
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Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of “state activism” when the state sought to strengthen its control on various social and cultural sectors. The Taiping Rebellion and the postbellum restoration efforts of the mid-nineteenth century have frequently been associated with the origins of elite activism. However, drawing upon a wide array of sources, including previously untapped Qing government documents, After the Prosperous Age argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century, and that the Taiping Rebellion served as a second catalyst for the expansion of elite public roles rather than initiating such an expansion. The first four decades of the nineteenth century in China remain almost uncharted territory. By analyzing the social and cultural interplay between state power and local elites of Suzhou, a city renowned for its economic prosperity and strong sense of local pride, from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, Seunghyun Han illuminates the significance of this period in terms of the reformulation of state–elite relations marked by the unfolding of elite public activism and the dissolution of a centralized cultural order.
Author | : Liao Yiwu |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2009-05-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307388379 |
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The Corpse Walker introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called “The New Journalism.” The Corpse Walker reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.
Author | : Joseph Richmond Levenson |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Confucian China and Its Modern Fate Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Chan Koonchung |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-01-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385534353 |
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Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn—not only about their leaders, but also about their own people—stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world. A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future.
Author | : An An |
Publisher | : Funstory |
Total Pages | : 854 |
Release | : 2020-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1648840574 |
Download Princess In Prosperous Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Seventh Prince, do you see the smoky makeup I drew for you today?""Hongliang, Miss Qiao has an eyesight ailment. Take her back to the residence. I request that you accompany me to treat Miss Qiao.""Hey, Seventh Prince, don't go away yet. There's nothing wrong with my eyes, and I haven't slept for the whole night. I wrote a few poems for you, you can listen to them.""The seventh prince is the sky, the seventh prince is the earth, and the seventh prince is the radish and vegetables." Small cool is a flower, small cool is a treasure, small cool is that day fairy. "Ah — the flower and the radish with the fairy, a natural pair!"Just as she finished speaking, the purple-clothed servant girl stood beside the pink-clothed lady with big strides and also held up the cloth in her hand. She recited: "You are the number one marshal in the world, I am the prettiest in the world, you and I love each other and have a fat child to kiss!"
Author | : Gregg Easterbrook |
Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541742559 |
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The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world’s waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades, the Navy has stood sentinel over crucial waterways, ensuring safe passage of goods from nearly all nations. The result is the longest phase of peace on the waters since the Phoenicians, with rising living standards, more (total) jobs, and the dramatic decline of poverty in Asia. But these prosperous times could be at an end. Today China is building warships at an extraordinary pace. India, Japan, Vietnam, and Europe are responding with more fighting ships. What will result from China’s rising naval might, particularly in the South China Sea? As ocean resources are shaped by climate change and new discoveries, will the world share them or fight over them? What will happen if America turns against free trade? Without American investment, the world could see a rise of supply shortages and seagoing conflict that would dwarf the impact of the container ship stuck in the Suez Canal. Surveying naval history, economics, environmental threats, and great-power politics, The Blue Age makes an urgent argument about our oceans’ vital importance to the peace and prosperity of our global community.
Author | : Julia K. Murray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2021-11-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316516326 |
Download The Aura of Confucius Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This groundbreaking study highlights the importance of images within Confucianism and to a shrine-tomb for Confucius's buried robe and cap.
Author | : Erik Brynjolfsson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0393239357 |
Download The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Author | : Zheng Huashu |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2021-12-21 |
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ISBN | : |
Download Warning in a Prosperous Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a translation of the work "Warning in a Prosperous Age", also called "Words of Warning in a Prosperous Age", by Zheng Guanying, an intellectual thinker, entrepreneur, writer and proponent of economic nationalism and women's rights, and thought leader who made substantial contributions to China's reform and modernization philosophy. The book was well-known, and revolutionary figures such as Sun Yat-Sen and Mao Zedong were influenced by it. It was first published in 1894, then Zheng Guanying modified it in 1900. However, because this book was written in traditional Chinese and never fully translated into a foreign language, most Westerners only know the title and not the content. Despite the addition of ideas from the book by certain scholars recently, these partial translations still fail to reflect the entire depth of the book's contents. As a result, Mr. Zheng Huashu decided that a full translation was needed despite the formidable difficulties. The result is the remarkable book that you have in hand.
Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2023-10-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 338709275X |
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.