Emperor Of China Self Portrait Of Kang Hsi
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Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2012-07-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307823067 |
Download Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A remarkable re-creation of the life of K'ang-hsi, emperor of the Manchu dynasty from 1661-1772, assembled from documents that survived his reign. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index.
Author | : Kangxi (Emperor of China) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Emperor of China K'ANG HSI |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 1054 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393307801 |
Download The Search for Modern China Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The Search for Modern China offers a matchless introduction to China's history.
Author | : Jonathan Spence |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241959144 |
Download Treason By The Book Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.
Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1996-12-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393285863 |
Download God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"A magnificent tapestry . . . a story that reaches beyond China into our world and time: a story of faith, hope, passion, and a fatal grandiosity."--Washington Post Book World Whether read for its powerful account of the largest uprising in human history, or for its foreshadowing of the terrible convulsions suffered by twentieth-century China, or for the narrative power of a great historian at his best, God's Chinese Son must be read. At the center of this history of China's Taiping rebellion (1845-64) stands Hong Xiuquan, a failed student of Confucian doctrine who ascends to heaven in a dream and meets his heavenly family: God, Mary, and his older brother, Jesus. He returns to earth charged to eradicate the "demon-devils," the alien Manchu rulers of China. His success carries him and his followers to the heavenly capital at Nanjing, where they rule a large part of south China for more than a decade. Their decline and fall, wrought by internal division and the unrelenting military pressures of the Manchus and the Western powers, carry them to a hell on earth. Twenty million Chinese are left dead.
Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1979-03-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 014005121X |
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“Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl.” (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth century. Life in the northeastern county of T’an-ch’eng emerges here as an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry, and heavy taxation. Against this turbulent background a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands. Magnificently evoking the China of long ago, The Death of Woman Wang also deepens our understanding of the China we know today.
Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300042788 |
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In this highly praised book, Jonathan D. Spence recounts the story of Ts'ao Yin, hereditary bond-servant to the Manchu emperors. Ts'ao Yin, whose great-grandfather was captured and enslaved by the Manchus and whose descendant wrote Dream of the Red Chamber, China's most famous novel, becomes the focal point of a fascinating study that shed important light on the social and political life of the early Manchu period.
Author | : Hung Wu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684174031 |
Download Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve contributors to this volume adopt a middle position. They agree that Chinese images are conditioned by indigenous traditions and dynamics of social interaction, but they seek to explain a general Chinese body and face by charting multiple, specific bodies and faces. All of the chapters are historical case studies and investigate particular images, such as Han dynasty tomb figurines; Buddhist texts and illustrations; pictures of deprivation, illness, deformity, and ghosts; clothing; formal portraiture; and modern photographs and films. From the diversity of art forms and historical periods studied, there emerges a more complex picture of ways that the visual culture of the body and face in China has served to depict the living, memorialize the dead, and present the unrepresentable in art.
Author | : Jonathan D. Spence |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 1980-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0140055282 |
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From “the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today” (Los Angeles Times), an examination of a diverse collection of Western foreigners who attempted “to change China” "To change China" was the goal of foreign missionaries, soldiers, doctors, teachers, engineers, and revolutionaries for more than three hundred years. But the Chinese, while eagerly accepting Western technical advice, clung steadfastly to their own religious and cultural traditions. As a new era of relations between China and the United States begins, the tales in this volume will serve as cautionary histories for businessmen, diplomats, students, or any other foreigners who foolishly believe that they can transform this vast, enigmatic country.