K. E. Brashier, "Public Memory in Early China"
English | 2014 | pages: 527 | ISBN: 067449203X | PDF | 14,3 mb
In early imperial China, the dead were remembered by stereotyping them, by relating them to the existing public memory and not by vaunting what made each person individually distinct and extraordinary in his or her lifetime. Their posthumous names were chosen from a limited predetermined pool; their descriptors were derived from set phrases in the classical tradition; and their identities were explicitly categorized as being like this cultural hero or that sage official in antiquity. In other words, postmortem remembrance was a process of pouring new ancestors into prefabricated molds or stamping them with rigid cookie cutters. Public Memory in Early China is an examination of this pouring and stamping process. After surveying ways in which learning in the early imperial period relied upon memorization and recitation, K. E. Brashier treats three definitive parameters of identity-name, age, and kinship-as ways of negotiating a person's relative position within the collective consciousness. He then examines both the tangible and intangible media responsible for keeping that defined identity welded into the infrastructure of Han public memory.
Lillian Lan-ying Tseng, "Picturing Heaven in Early China"
English | 2011 | pages: 469 | ISBN: 0674060695 | PDF | 30,1 mb
Tian, or Heaven, had multiple meanings in early China. It had been used since the Western Zhou to indicate both the sky and the highest god, and later came to be regarded as a force driving the movement of the cosmos and as a home to deities and imaginary animals. By the Han dynasty, which saw an outpouring of visual materials depicting Heaven, the concept of Heaven encompassed an immortal realm to which humans could ascend after death.
Gal Gvili, "Imagining India in Modern China: Literary Decolonization and the Imperial Unconscious, 1895-1962"
English | ISBN: 0231205716 | 2022 | 264 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism―a Pan-Asian ideal that could help chart an escape route from colonialism and its brutal grasp on body and mind by ushering in a new kind of modernity in Asian terms.
Economic Agglomeration And The Development Of Cities In China
by Gao, Hong;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981125155X | 237 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.64 MB
Nanlai Cao, "Constructing China's Jerusalem: Christians, Power, and Place in Contemporary Wenzhou"
English | 2010 | pages: 231 | ISBN: 0804773602, 0804770808 | PDF | 1,7 mb
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth life history interviews, this illuminating book provides an intimate portrait of contemporary Chinese Christianity in the context of a modern, commercialized economy. In vivid detail, anthropologist Nanlai Cao explores the massive resurgence of Protestant Christianity in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou―popularly referred to by its residents as "China's Jerusalem"―a nationwide model for economic development and the largest urban Christian center in China.
China's Railway Transformation: History, Culture Changes and Urban Development
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367076942 | 209 Pages | PDF (True) | 25 MB
This book investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development. The book begins by looking at the background of China and the history and growth of railway development in China through five key phases, followed by assessing the cultural changes in the railway carriage and exploring how these are linked to social equality and national provisions.
China's Economic Challenge: Unconventional Success
by Keidel, Albert;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981123048X | 475 pages | True PDF EPUB | 26.68 MB
China's City Cluster Development in the Race to Carbon Neutrality
by Ali Cheshmehzangi, Tian Tang
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811976724 | 222 pages | True PDF EPUB | 20.28 MB
Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, "China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0190923466 | PDF | pages: 409 | 34.9 mb
In 1917, the Beijing silk merchant Wei Enbo's vision of Jesus sparked a religious revival, characterized by healings, exorcisms, tongues-speaking, and, most provocatively, a call for a return to authentic Christianity that challenged the Western missionary establishment in China. This revival gave rise to the True Jesus Church, China's first major native denomination. The church was one of the earliest Chinese expressions of the twentieth century charismatic and Pentecostal tradition which is now the dominant mode of twenty-first century Chinese Christianity. To understand the faith of millions of Chinese Christians today, we must understand how this particular form of Chinese community took root and flourished even throughout the wrenching changes and dislocations of the past century.
Certifying China: The Rise and Limits of Transnational Sustainability Governance in Emerging Economies (Earth System Governance) by Yixian Sun
English | February 22, 2022 | ISBN: 0262543699 | 276 pages | PDF | 4.11 Mb
A comprehensive study of the growth, potential, and limits of transnational eco-certification in China and the implications for other emerging economies.