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Early Chinese Manuscript Collections Sayings, Memory, Verse, and Knowledge
As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on …
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- 978-90-04-54084-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Studies in the History of Chinese Texts, Volume: 14
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Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java Colonial Relationships in Trade…
Trading enterprise figures prominently in Indonesian history. Commercial activities penetrated deep into the economy, politics and society of the former Netherlands Indies. Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes this, largely forgotten, world of commerce. During the period 1800-1942 this vanished world was, however, bustling. Merchants of very different background and stature co…
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- 978-90-04-26323-9
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 291
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Becoming Human: Li Zehou's Ethics
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, believes that ethics is the most important philosophical discipline. He aims to revive, modernize, develop, and complement Chinese traditional ethics through what he calls â€â€¦
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- Volume: 20
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- 978-90-04-42366-4
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A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Associ…
A Chinese Reformer in Exile is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a constitutional monarchy. Chinese in Canada, the United States, and Mexico formed at least 160 Chinese Empire Reform Associatio…
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- Volume: 23
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- 978-90-04-71338-3
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China's global political economy: managerial perspectives
Introduction and overview / Robert Taylor -- Political economy -- China's "new normal" growth trajectory : regional and global implications / Lucia Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- Origins and dimensions of the 21st century maritime silk road : experimental patch-work or grand strategy? / Robert Pauls and Joern-Carsten Gottwald -- Urban- rural differences in social policies : the…
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- 9781315102566
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The philosophical challenge from China
Rigorously argued and meticulously researched, an investigation of current topics in philosophy that is informed by the Chinese philosophical tradition.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262323628
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 393 pages)
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Voice and v: Lessons from Acehnese
'Voice and V' investigates the syntactic structure of voice, using Acehnese as the empirical starting point. A central claim is that voice is encoded in a functional projection, VoiceP, which is distinct from, and higher than, vP. The book further claims that VoiceP may be associated with phi-features that semantically restrict the external argument position but do not saturate it. Through mino…
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- 9780262320559
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 193 pages) :illustrations.
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Dissidence :the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West
How the valorization of artistic and political dissidence has contributed to the rise of Chinese contemporary art in the West. Interest in Chinese contemporary art increased dramatically in the West shortly after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Sparked by political sympathy and the mediatized response to the event, Western curators, critics, and art historians were quick to view the new art…
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- 9780262348232
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive…
This book applies linguistic analysis to the poetry of Emeritus Professor Edwin Thumboo, a Singaporean poet and leading figure in Commonwealth literature. The work explores how the poet combines grammar and metaphor to create meaning, making the reader aware of the linguistic resources developed by Thumboo as the basis for his unique technique. The author approaches the poems from a function…
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- 978-3-662-44556-3
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller
This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer’s work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve articles, and epilogue aim to deepen and widen critical discussions of both a specific literary author and the globalization of Chinese literature more generally.The book takes the â…
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- 9781612493435
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- Comparative Cultural Studies
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- 800 DUR m
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