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Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
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Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
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Covering wide-ranging topics including the arts and entertainment
along with customs and traditions from the ancient imperial and
modern eras, the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture provides
more than 300 separate entries along with a comprehensive
Chronology, Glossary of Chinese cultural terms, and extensive
Bibliography of Western and Chinese language sources. Entries of
decorative and fine arts include ceramics and porcelains,
handicrafts, jade and seal carving, jewelry, and painting with
literary subjects including fiction and non-fiction and especially
poetry. Also covered are major customary practices from childbirth
and childrearing to marriage and weddings to funerals and burial
practices along with critical areas of education and major
entertainment venues of cinema and film, classical puppetry, and
theater, ancient and modern. Unsavory aspects of the culture are
also examined, including crime, foot-binding, pornography, and
prostitution, and the government policies aimed at their
eradication along with major events affecting the trajectory of
Chinese cultural development, especially the New Culture-May Fourth
Movement (1917-1921) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
Throughout the text, Chinese language translations of key terms are
presented in italics and parenthesis along with biographies of
figures central to the creation of China's magnificent cultural
heritage.
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