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Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion
demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to
ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the
late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou
dynasty. Central to the authors' argument is the ubiquitous motif
in early Chinese figurative art, the metamorphic power mask. While
the motif underwent stylistic variation over time, its formal
properties remained stable, underscoring the image's ongoing
religious centrality. It symbolized the metamorphosis, through the
phenomenon of death, of royal personages from living humans to
deceased ancestors who required worship and sacrificial offerings.
Treated with deference and respect, the royal ancestors lent
support to their living descendants, ratifying, and upholding their
rule; neglected, they became dangerous, even malevolent. Employing
a multidisciplinary approach that integrates archaeologically
recovered objects with literary evidence from oracle bone and
bronze inscriptions to canonical texts, all situated in the
appropriate historical context, the study presents detailed
analyses of form and style, and of change over time, observing the
importance of relationality and the dynamic between imagery,
materials and affects. This book is a significant publication in
the field of early China studies, presenting an integrated
conception of ancient art and religion that surpasses any other
work now available.
China Briefing, 1987 reviews the events and trends of the year 1987
in foreign relations, domestic politics, the economy, foreign
investment and technology transfer, defense, and culture. It is
essential reading for travelers bound for China, business
executives, and journalists.
This book presents a broad selection of the papers presented at
IDENTA '85 on various topics, including counter-terrorism; Israel's
experience with terrorism; police and terrorism; and psychological
methods, forensic science and voice identification in criminal
investigation. The conference on International Congress on
Technologies for Police Identification & Counter-Terrorism, was
held in 1985 in Jerusalem.
China Briefing, 1985 approaches the events of the previous year
providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of
spring and summer 1984. Senior China specialists examine the
student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger context of
the 40-year history of the People's Republic of China and also
reflect on future directions
A Huguenot on the Hackensack is the first full-length study of
David Demarest, an early European settler of northeastern New
Jersey and progenitor of a large and locally influential family.
The book examines Demarest's life, the legacy of his family, and
the wider "Jersey Dutch" community in which the family played a
prominent part. The book looks beneath accumulated layers of legend
and older historical interpretations to formulate a new and more
realistic (and more interesting) account of Demarest's life and
legacy. Demarest, a Huguenot (French Protestant), was born about
1620 in the French province of Picardy. He first appears in history
with the record of his marriage to Marie Sohier in Middleburg, the
Netherlands, in 1643. After marriage and the start of a family, his
life unfolded in four sojourns of about a decade or a bit more:
Middleburg, 1643 to about 1651; Mannheim, Germany, from about 1651
to 1663; Staten Island and New Harlem, 1663-78, and finally the
French Patent along the Hackensack River in New Jersey, 1678 to his
death in 1693. New evidence and new interpretations provide a
picture of Demarest as an ambitious and upwardly mobile
entrepreneur with an unusual talent for balancing risk and
opportunity, and a dedicated churchman and community leader under
both Dutch and English rule. The book next considers the Demarests
in the eighteenth century, when the family rose to prominence in
Bergen County, played important roles in the Reformed Church in
Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, and began to spread out to other
parts of the country. Recapitulating Demarest's own career as an
entrepreneur and land developer, some of his descendants settled
parts of central Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and Kentucky. Many
of those who remained in New Jersey were active in public affairs
and the Revolutionary War. By the end of the nineteenth century,
enormous changes in Bergen County, including the spread of
railroads and the transition from a farming economy to a suburban
one, spelled the beginning of the end for the cohesiveness and
influence of old, locally prominent Jersey Dutch families such as
the Demarests. With further economic and demographic changes
following World War II, such families were subsumed into the
general population. The book concludes with an assessment of the
Demarest family's American experience, looks at how pioneer
students of Demarest family history shaped and interpreted his life
and legacy against the background of changes in American society in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and suggests
what might yet be learned about Demarest through genetic evidence
and the increasing availability of digitized records. Demarest's
life and legacy are of interest not just to the large number of his
descendants and the numerous descendants of other Jersey Dutch
families, but more broadly to those interested in regional history,
New Netherland, and American social history.
This book presents a broad selection of the papers presented at
IDENTA '85 on various topics, including counter-terrorism; Israel's
experience with terrorism; police and terrorism; and psychological
methods, forensic science and voice identification in criminal
investigation. The conference on International Congress on
Technologies for Police Identification & Counter-Terrorism, was
held in 1985 in Jerusalem.
The year 1986 marked the tenth anniversary of the death of Mao
Zedong and the fall of the Gang of Four. A decade after the end of
the Cultural Revolution, China experienced the consolidation of
rural economic reform, continued progress in urban reform, a
widening of the "open door" to the west, and, perhaps most
important, the seemingly irreversible impact on Chinese society and
culture of Deng Xiaoping's new policies. The political consequences
of reform continued to create problems, as was seen at year's end
in a dramatic series of student demonstrations and the disciplining
of several high party officials and intellectuals. This annual
volume reviews the events and trends of the year in foreign
relations, domestic politics, the economy, foreign investment and
technology transfer, defense, and culture. A separate chapter
provides an overview of events in Taiwan. Complementing these
essays by distinguished China scholars is a chronology of
significant events and a selection of important documents published
during 1986. The book is ideal for course use and is essential
reading for travelers bound for China, business executives,
journalists, and China watchers in general.
China Briefing, 1985 approaches the events of the previous year
providing a long-term perspective on the dramatic developments of
spring and summer 1984. Senior China specialists examine the
student demonstrations and their aftermath in the larger context of
the 40-year history of the People's Republic of China and also
reflect on future directions for the nation. The authors assess the
impact of the events of 1984 on politics, the economy, foreign
relations, social issues, and culture, as well as on Taiwan, Tibet,
and Hong Kong.
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region -
the geographical area that eventually became known as China - from
the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial
era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in
the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was
no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the
Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly
coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the
first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China
Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of
archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw
on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary
scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and
its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and
illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for
further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource
for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and
those studuing Chinese Culture and Society more generally.
This stunning exhibition unveils the remarkable art and historical
legacy of two mysterious kingdoms of ancient China. Phoenix
Kingdoms brings to life the distinctive Bronze Age cultures that
flourished along the middle course of the Yangzi River in South
Central China about 2,500 years ago. With over 150 objects on loan
from five major Chinese museums, Phoenix Kingdoms explores the
artistic and spiritual landscape of the southern borderland of the
Zhou dynasty, featuring remarkable archaeological finds unearthed
from aristocratic tombs of the phoenix-worshipping Zeng and Chu
kingdoms. By revealing the splendid material cultures of these
legendary states, whose history has only recently been recovered,
Phoenix Kingdoms highlights the importance of this region in
forming a southern style that influenced centuries of Chinese art.
This exhibition catalogue includes six essays that contextualize
the stylistically rich material-mythical creatures, elaborate
patterns, and elegant forms-and introduces readers to the
technologically and artistically sophisticated cultures that
thrived before China's first empire. Lavishly illustrated with over
240 images, Phoenix Kingdoms showcases works from the exhibition
across six categories-jades, bronze ritual vessels, musical
instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony,
funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and unique objects
featuring distinctive designs-many of which are considered national
treasures. Published in association with the Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco.
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region -
the geographical area that eventually became known as China - from
the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial
era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in
the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was
no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the
Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures that only slowly
coalesced, culturally, linguistically, and politically, to form the
first recognizably Chinese empires. The field of Early China
Studies is being revolutionized in our time by a wealth of
archaeologically recovered texts and artefacts. Major and Cook draw
on this exciting new evidence and a rich harvest of contemporary
scholarship to present a leading-edge account of ancient China and
its antecedents. With handy pedagogical features such as maps and
illustrations, as well as an extensive list of recommendations for
further reading, Ancient China: A History is an important resource
for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Chinese History, and
those studuing Chinese Culture and Society more generally.
This stunning exhibition unveils the remarkable art and historical
legacy of two mysterious kingdoms of ancient China. Phoenix
Kingdoms brings to life the distinctive Bronze Age cultures that
flourished along the middle course of the Yangzi River in South
Central China about 2,500 years ago. With over 150 objects on loan
from five major Chinese museums, Phoenix Kingdoms explores the
artistic and spiritual landscape of the southern borderland of the
Zhou dynasty, featuring remarkable archaeological finds unearthed
from aristocratic tombs of the phoenix-worshipping Zeng and Chu
kingdoms. By revealing the splendid material cultures of these
legendary states, whose history has only recently been recovered,
Phoenix Kingdoms highlights the importance of this region in
forming a southern style that influenced centuries of Chinese art.
This exhibition catalogue includes six essays that contextualize
the stylistically rich material-mythical creatures, elaborate
patterns, and elegant forms-and introduces readers to the
technologically and artistically sophisticated cultures that
thrived before China's first empire. Lavishly illustrated with over
240 images, Phoenix Kingdoms showcases works from the exhibition
across six categories-jades, bronze ritual vessels, musical
instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony,
funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and unique objects
featuring distinctive designs-many of which are considered national
treasures. Published in association with the Asian Art Museum of
San Francisco.
Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, there was
created under the Yi Dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of
astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks. The present
volume is the result of close collaboration between four
distinguished historians of Asian science to demonstrate the
context, purpose, nature and specific workings of these early
scientific instruments. Specially commissioned drawings and other
illustrations demonstrate their complexities of design and
operation. A brief introduction is given to the Chinese background
of Korean astronomy and astronomical instrument-making and to the
renaissance of Korean astronomy in the early fifteenth century. In
a detailed examination of the instruments made under the
supervision of King Sejong in the 1430s, there is documentation of
the re-equipping of the Royal Observatory, with identification of
the individual instruments involved. A survey of the succeeding two
centuries gives the background to Song Iyong's instrument,
identified as a demonstrational armillary sphere in the Koryo
University Museum.
Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Bront%, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.
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