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  • Time and Language

    New Sinology and Chinese History

    by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Joshua A. Fogel, Peter C. Perdue, Pingyi Chu, Theodore Huters, Peter Zarrow, Joan Judge0, Janet Y. Chen1, Marten Saarela2, Kang Xiaofei3 ...
    China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • China's Philological Turn

    Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century

    by Ori Sela ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • China's Philological Turn

    Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century

    by Ori Sela ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts and meanings and with the centrality of facts and truth to their scholarship and identity. With the power to construct the textual past, philology has the potential to ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    by Sanping Chen ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • What Remains

    Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China

    by Tobie Meyer-Fong ...
    The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western ... Read more

    $26.99 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

  • Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China

    by Benjamin A. Elman ...
    During China's late imperial period (roughly 1400-1900 CE), men would gather by the millions every two or three years outside official examination compounds sprinkled across China. Only one percent of candidates would complete the academic regimen that would earn them a post in the administrative bureaucracy. Civil Examinations assesses the role of education, examination, and China's civil service ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • On Ethics and History

    Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng

    by Philip J. Ivanhoe ...
    Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhang's essays and letters should challenge our current understanding of this Qing dynasty philosopher. On ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    The Qing dynasty (1636–1912)—a crucial bridge between “traditional” and “modern” China—was remarkable for its expansiveness and cultural sophistication. This engaging and insightful history of Qing political, social, and cultural life traces the complex interaction between the Inner Asian traditions of the Manchus, who conquered China in 1644, and indigenous Chinese cultural traditions. Noted ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Antonio S. Cua ...
    Featuring contributions from the world's most highly esteemed Asian philosophy scholars, this important new encyclopedia covers the complex and increasingly influential field of Chinese thought, from earliest recorded times to the present day.Including coverage on the subject previously unavailable to English speakers, the Encyclopedia sheds light on the extensive range of concepts, movements, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Neo-Confucianism

    A Philosophical Introduction

    by Stephen C. Angle, Justin Tiwald ...
    Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and Daoism. It began in China around the eleventh century CE, played a leading role in East Asian cultures over the last millennium, and has had a profound influence on modern Chinese society.Based on the latest scholarship but presented in accessible language, Neo ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • The Scripture on Great Peace

    The Taiping jing and the Beginnings of Daoism

    by Barbara Hendrischke ...
    Series Book 3 - Daoist Classics
    This first Western-language translation of one of the great books of the Daoist religious tradition, the Taiping jing, or "Scripture on Great Peace," documents early Chinese medieval thought and lays the groundwork for a more complete understanding of Daoism’s origins. Barbara Hendrischke, a leading expert on the Taiping jing in the West, has spent twenty-five years on this magisterial translation ... Read more

    $35.99 USD