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  • How to Land a Top-Paying Soft shoe dancers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More

    by Shields Anna ...
    For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Soft shoe dancers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and Poetry in Medieval China

    The Way and the Words

    Edited by Gil Raz, Anna Shields ...
    Series series Global Chinese Histories, 250-1650
    This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the 3rd-11th centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians

    Stories of Taoist Mystics

    Here is an introduction to the magical and mystical realm of Taoism through biographical and historical sketches of Taoist adepts over two thousand years. This panoramic view of the many faces of Taoism and its intimate connection with Chinese culture and society includes intriguing accounts of the Taoist secret societies that carried out mystical exercises and powerful consciousness-altering ... Read more

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  • The I Ching

    A Biography

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Daoism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by James Miller ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From T’ai Chi to the Ming Dynasty, this is an engrossing guide to the elusive Chinese tradition of Daoism.Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st century T’ai Chi and meditation. Complete with a timeline of Daoist history and a full glossary, Daoism: A Beginner's Guide will prove invaluable not ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers

    by N. Harry Rothschild ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars for centuries, this multifaceted history suggests that China's rich pantheon of female divinities and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Daoist Tradition

    An Introduction

    by Professor Louis Komjathy ...
    Using a historical, textual and ethnographic approach, this is the most comprehensive presentation of Daoism to date. In addition to revealing the historical contours and primary concerns of Chinese Daoists and Daoist communities, The Daoist Tradition provides an account of key themes and defining characteristics of Daoist religiosity, revealing Daoism to be a living and lived religion. Exploring ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Chan Before Chan

    Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism

    by Eric M. Greene, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    Series Book 39 - Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
    What is Buddhist meditation? What is going on—and what should be going on—behind the closed or lowered eyelids of the Buddha or Buddhist adept seated in meditation? And in what ways and to what ends have the answers to these questions mattered for Buddhists themselves? Focusing on early medieval China, this book takes up these questions through a cultural history of the earliest traditions of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Becoming Guanyin

    Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China

    by Yuhang Li ...
    Series series Premodern East Asia: New Horizons
    Winner, 2024 Geiss-Hsu Book Prize for Best First Book, Society for Ming StudiesThe goddess Guanyin began in India as the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara, originally a male deity. He gradually became indigenized as a female deity in China over the span of nearly a millennium. By the Ming (1358–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods, Guanyin had become the most popular female deity in China. In Becoming ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century, Volume 1

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Confucius

    The Man and the Way of Gongfu

    by Peimin Ni ...
    Through a systematic introduction of Confucius as a historical figure, a spiritual leader, a philosopher, a political reformer, an educator, and a person, this book offers a comprehensive, lucid, and in-depth articulation of Confucius and his teachings for Western students. It explains how his ideas are different from their Western counterparts as well as challenging the orthodox Western ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Culture of China

    by Kathleen Kuiper ...
    Series series Understanding China
    Reverberations of China’s diversity and multiethnic heritage are visible in everything from the cuisine and languages to the beliefs and arts of the vast nation. In addition to linking the Chinese to their rich past, a number of these traditions have been absorbed by cultures around the world and have granted many entrée into a nation otherwise far-removed from their own. This volume treats ... Read more

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