Imperial China 900 1800

Author : Frederick W. Mote
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674012127
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial China, 900-1800 written by Frederick W. Mote and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this history of China for the 900-year span of the late imperial period, Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. Generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization.

Author : Frederick W. Mote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674256514
Total Pages : 1106 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial China, 900-1800 written by Frederick W. Mote and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule.

Author : Frederick W. Mote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial China, 900–1800 written by Frederick W. Mote and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynasties and probes the cultural theme of Chinese adaptations to recurrent alien rule. No other work provides a similar synthesis: generational events, personalities, and the spirit of the age combine to yield a comprehensive history of the civilization, not isolated but shaped by its relation to outsiders. This vast panorama of the civilization of the largest society in human history reveals much about Chinese high and low culture, and the influential role of Confucian philosophical and social ideals. Throughout the Liao Empire, the world of the Song, the Mongol rule, and the early Qing through the Kangxi and Qianlong reigns, culture, ideas, and personalities are richly woven into the fabric of the political order and institutions. This is a monumental work that will stand among the classic accounts of the nature and vibrancy of Chinese civilization before the modern period.

Author : Joseph P. McDermott
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622097812
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Social History of the Chinese Book written by Joseph P. McDermott and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this learned, yet readable, book, Joseph McDermott introduces the history of the book in China in the late imperial period from 1000 to 1800. He assumes little knowledge of Chinese history or culture and compares the Chinese experience with books with that of other civilizations, particularly the European. Yet he deals with a wide range of issues in the history of the book in China and presents novel analyses of the changes in Chinese woodblock bookmaking over these centuries. He presents a new view of when the printed book replaced the manuscript and what drove that substitution. He explores the distribution and marketing structure of books, and writes fascinatingly on the history of book collecting and about access to private and government book collections. In drawing on a great deal of Chinese, Japanese, and Western research this book provides a broad account of the way Chinese books were printed, distributed, and consumed by literati and scholars, mainly in the lower Yangzi delta, the cultural center of China during these centuries. It introduces interesting personalities, ranging from wily book collectors to an indigent shoe-repairman collector. And, it discusses the obstacles to the formation of a truly national printed culture for both the well-educated and the struggling reader in recent times. This broad and comprehensive account of the development of printed Chinese culture from 1000 to 1800 is written for anyone interested in the history of the book. It also offers important new insights into book culture and its place in society for the student of Chinese history and culture. 'A brilliant piece of synthetic research as well as a delightful read, it offers a history of the Chinese book to the eighteenth century that is without equal.' - Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia 'Writers, scribes, engravers, printers, binders, publishers, distributors, dealers, literati, scholars, librarians, collectors, voracious readers — the full gamut of a vibrant book culture in China over one thousand years — are examined with eloquence and perception by Joseph McDermott in The Social History of the Book. His lively exploration will be of consuming interest to bibliophiles of every persuasion.' - Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A Gentle Madness, Patience and Fortitude, A Splendor of Letters, and Every Book Its Reader Joseph McDermott is presently Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Chinese at Cambridge University. He has published widely on Chinese social and economic history, most recently on the economy of the Song (or, Sung) dynasty for the Cambridge History of China. He has edited State and Court Ritual in China and Art and Power in East Asia.

Author : Perry Link
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629968797
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scholar's Mind written by Perry Link and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Frederick W. Mote (1922–2006) has been widely recognized as a key figure in the field of Sinology. He taught at Princeton University for thirty-one years and was a founder of both Princeton's Department of East Asian Studies and its re-markable Gest (East Asian) Library. His distinguished record of scholarly publication includes the co-editing, with Professor Denis C. Twitchett, of volumes seven and eight of the Cambridge History of China. Although he is perhaps best known for his studies of the Ming dynasty, his special erudition, as demonstrated in his final book, Imperial China, 900-1800, spans the Song through Qing periods. Generations of his students and colleagues have admired him not only for his learning but for his generosity in sharing his broad understanding of China. This wide-ranging collection includes papers by David A. Sensabaugh, Geoff Wade, Hok-lam Chan, Tai-loi Ma, Martin Hei-jdra, Chen-main Wang, Thomas Bartlett, Paul R. Katz, Alfreda Murck and Perry Link. Its publication stands not only as a tribute to Professor Mote but as a major contribution to the field of Sinology.

Author : Mark Elvin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804708760
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pattern of the Chinese Past written by Mark Elvin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity of the middle ages, ultimately collapsed? What were the causes of the medieval revolution which made the Chinese economy after about 1100 the most advanced in the world? And why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically? The three sections of the book deal with these problems in turn but the division of a subject matter is to some extent only one of convenience. These topics are so interrelated that, in the last analysis, none of them can be considered in isolation from the others.

Author : Bruce A. Elleman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538103877
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern China written by Bruce A. Elleman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. The authors focus especially on China’s culture, warfare, and immediate neighbors and provide a unique comparative approach to bridge the cultural divide separating Chinese history from Western readers trying to understand it.

Author : Charles D. Benn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195176650
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Golden Age written by Charles D. Benn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and detailed profile, Benn paints a vivid picture of life in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China. 40 line illustrations.

Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393938777
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Empire written by Valerie Hansen and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to early Chinese history, now updated and expanded up to 1800.

Author : Charles O. Hucker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789576382857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China written by Charles O. Hucker and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of bureaucratic terminology from Chou to Ch'ing dynasties, 11 22 B.C. to A.D. 1912.