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  • Sustaining Landscapes

    Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 9601368 CE

    de Gerui Wang ...
    Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 9601368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersections with infrastructure governance, natural resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It traces the pre-industrial notion of “sustainability” in policy debates, legal regulations, and arts. Landscape ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Retreat of the Elephants

    An Environmental History of China

    de Mark Elvin ...
    The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history.Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Water Kingdom

    A Secret History of China

    de Philip Ball ...
    "A rewarding read" this political, social and cultural history of water management in China "puts water beautifully back at the heart of China's story" ( Economist).From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. In The Water Kingdom, renowned writer Philip Ball opens that window to offer an epic and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Record of Cambodia

    The Land and Its People

    de Zhou Daguan, Peter Harris (Translator) ...
    Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Peter HarrisOnly one person has given us a first-hand account of the civilization of Angkor. This is the Chinese envoy, Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor in 1296–97 and wrote A Record of Cambodia: The Land and Its People after his return to China. To this day, Zhou’s description of the royal palace, sacred buildings, women, traders, slaves, hill people, ... Leer más

    $19.98 USD

  • Laws of the Land

    Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China

    de Tristan G. Brown ...
    A groundbreaking history of fengshui’s roles in public life and law during China’s last imperial dynastyToday the term fengshui, which literally means “wind and water,” is recognized around the world. Yet few know exactly what it means, let alone its fascinating history. In Laws of the Land, Tristan Brown tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • The Rise of Tea Culture in China

    The Invention of the Individual

    de Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth. He argues that although Chinese ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The King's Harvest

    A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire

    de Brian Lander ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological dataThis book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Masculinities in Chinese History

    de Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History

    Edición de Paul R. Goldin ...
    The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while previously unknown documents have shown that most received histories were written retrospectively by ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Ancient China and the Yue

    Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c.400 BCE–50 CE

    de Erica Fox Brindley ...
    In this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along its southern frontier. Brindley provides an overview of current theories in archaeology and linguistics concerning the peoples of the ancient southern frontier of China, the closest relations on the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Women in Ancient China

    de Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each period—Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou—Bret Hinsch explores central aspects of female life: marriage, family life, politics, ritual, and religious roles. Deeply researched, the book draws on a wide ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

    de Kathlene Baldanza, Peter K. Bol, Andrew Chittick, Luke Hambleton, Laura Hostetler, Huei-Ying Kuo, Yajun Mo, Gregory Rohlf, Karl Ryavec, Daoqin Tong, Stephen Whiteman, Jiang Wu, Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang ...
    The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD