Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 Bce-800 CE

Robert Ford Campany

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies a... Lees meer

Beacon Fire and Shooting Star

Xiaofei Tian

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 63
• The Liang dynasty (502-557) is one of the most brilliant and creative periods in Chinese history and one of the most underestimated and misunderstood.... Lees meer

Localizing Learning

Peter K Bol

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• As the first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning shows how literati learning in W... Lees meer

Celestial Masters

Terry F Kleeman

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 102
• In 142 CE, the divine Lord Lao descended to Mount Cranecall (Sichuan province) to establish a new covenant with humanity through a man named Zhang Lin... Lees meer

Empire of Texts in Motion

Karen Laura Thornber

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands o... Lees meer

In the Wake of the Mongols

Jinping Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 116
• The Mongol conquest of north China between 1211 and 1234 inflicted terrible wartime destruction, wiping out more than one-third of the population and ... Lees meer

Ancestors, Virgins, & Friars

Eugenio Menegon

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Christianity is often praised as an agent of Chinese modernization or damned as a form of cultural and religious imperialism. In both cases, Christian... Lees meer

Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks

Richard G Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating bet... Lees meer

Writing and Materiality in China

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 58
• Speaking about Chinese writing entails thinking about how writing speaks through various media. In the guises of the written character and its imprint... Lees meer

Building for Oil

Li Hou

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People's... Lees meer

Testing the Literary

Alexander Des Forges

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 125
• The civil service examination essay known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure was the ... Lees meer

Shen Gua's Empiricism

Ya Zuo

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 113
• Shen Gua (1031-1095) is a household name in China, known as a distinguished renaissance man and the author of Brush Talks from Dream Brook , an old te... Lees meer

Chinese History

Endymion Wilkinson

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinctio... Lees meer

Saying All That Can Be Said

Keith McMahon

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• In Saying All That Can Be Said , Keith McMahon presents the first full analysis of the sexually explicit portrayals in the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei 金瓶梅... Lees meer

Du Fu Transforms

Lucas Rambo Bender

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumul... Lees meer

Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos

Sarah Schneewind

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 115
• Shrines to Living Men in the Ming Political Cosmos , the first book focusing on premortem shrines in any era of Chinese history, places the institutio... Lees meer

Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 Bce-800 CE

Robert Ford Campany

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies a... Lees meer

Rival Partners

Jieh-Min Wu

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Taiwan has been depicted as an island facing the incessant threat of forcible unification with the People's Republic of China. Why, then, has Taiwan s... Lees meer

Speaking of Profit

William T Rowe

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 109
• In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the "p... Lees meer

Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance

Jack W Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph | nr. 124
• Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance is a study of the Shishuo xinyu, the most important anecdotal collection of medieval China--and arguably of the... Lees meer

Chinese History

Endymion Wilkinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling Chinese History: A New Manual has been continuously in print for fifty years. It has achieved this unusual distinctio... Lees meer

The Painting Master's Shame

Amy McNair

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• Overturning the long-held assumption that the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was the work of the Northern Song emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1126), Amy McNa... Lees meer

Genealogy and Status

Tomoyasu Iiyama

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Genealogy... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Masters Literature

Wiebke Denecke

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph
• The importance of the rich corpus of "Masters Literature" that developed in early China since the fifth century BCE has long been recognized. But just... Lees meer