Understanding Canton
Title | Understanding Canton PDF eBook |
Author | Virgil Ho |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2005-12-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0191536091 |
By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this period indulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impact on the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that the common people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city life and popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.
Shang-hai po wu kuan, Chung-kuo ku-tai tiao-su kuan
Title | Shang-hai po wu kuan, Chung-kuo ku-tai tiao-su kuan PDF eBook |
Author | Shanghai bo wu guan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1996* |
Genre | Sculpture, Chinese |
ISBN |
Chung-kuo Li Shih Po Wu Kuan
Title | Chung-kuo Li Shih Po Wu Kuan PDF eBook |
Author | Zhongguo li shi bo wu guan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Frontier, immigration, and empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D. 157
Title | The Rise of the Chinese Empire: Frontier, immigration, and empire in Han China, 130 B.C.-A.D. 157 PDF eBook |
Author | Chun-shu Chang |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780472115341 |
A comprehensive reconstruction of ancient and early Imperial Chinese history based on literary and archaeological texts, and over 60,000 Han-time documents on bamboo, wood, and silk
Huai-su and the Beginnings of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy
Title | Huai-su and the Beginnings of Wild Cursive Script in Chinese Calligraphy PDF eBook |
Author | Adele Schlombs |
Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9783515071727 |
Der M�nchskalligraph Huai-su (ca. 725-ca. 782) gilt als einer der Begruender der "Wilden Konzeptschrift" (k'uang-ts'ao), die den exzentrischen Stil innerhalb der chinesischen Kalligraphiegeschichte pr�gte und zur Herausbildung einer vom klassischen Ideal der Wang-Schule abweichenden Traditionslinie fuehrte. Die vorliegende Studie gibt erstmals Einblick in die Prim�rquellen: neben Briefen und anderen Zeugnissen des Huai-su zahlreiche Lobgedichte von Beamten und Gelehrten. Alles deutet darauf hin, da� es sich bei seinem Hauptwerk, der sog. Autobiographie, um ein Empfehlungsschreiben in eigener Sache handelt. Neben einer annotierten �bersetzung der Autobiographie und s�mtlicher Kollophone, die einen �berblick ueber das Schicksal der Querrolle im Laufe der Jahrhunderte vermitteln, bietet die Studie eine Untersuchung der �sthetischen Kriterien, welche die chinesische Kunsttheorie zur Beurteilung der "wilden Konzeptschrift" entwickelte, und stellt neue Methoden der formalen Analyse vor. Die Frage der Authentizit�t der im Palastmuseum Taipei befindlichen Querrolle wird eingehend geprueft; der Beweis, da� es sich nicht um ein Original aus der Hand des Huai-su, sondern um eine dem Original sehr nahe gepauste Kopie des 12.-13. Jhs. handelt, wird erbracht. Auch die uebrigen, seinem Oeuvre zugerechneten Werke werden vorgestellt und einer kritischen Analyse unterzogen.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Title | National Library of Medicine Current Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
The Birth of Landscape Painting in China: The Sui and Tʻang dynasties
Title | The Birth of Landscape Painting in China: The Sui and Tʻang dynasties PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Sullivan |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1962-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520035584 |
Vol. 2 has title: Chinese landscape painting.