16 results for 'han china wu'

This volume examines the role of dynastic rulers, the imperial system, and the ruling literati in the promotion and shaping of Chinese thought and culture. It includes ten papers chosen for...

Madame Wu's Handbook on Home-Cooking: The Song Dynasty Classic on Domestic Cuisine is the first Western language edition of the Wushi Zhongkuilu 吳氏中饋錄, one of the earliest Chinese works on home...

The 3rd Century has started badly for Han Dynasty China: the chaos of nationwide rebellion has been replaced by a series of power struggles between a small group of ‘super-warlords’, and...

Stepping into the river of history, sometimes it feels like we're standing on the shoulders of giants, getting a rare glimpse into the world of the Three Kingdoms-distant, yet somehow familiar. Back...

In this first critical study of Zheng Guanying's career, cultural milieu, political and economic thoughts, as well as his spirituality, Guo Wu steers us into examining Zheng Guanying as a hybrid...

Romance of The Three Kingdoms (三国演义), originally written about 600 years ago by Luo Guanzhong (罗贯中, 1330 AD - 1400 AD), a pioneering work of historical romance novels, is one of the four classic...

This report provides an account of a legal case that took place in China in the early 20th century between directors of a local temple and a representative of the Church of England Missionary Society...

High on the tippy top of the Glorious Purple Mountains of China's, the Golden Monks were summoned by Emperor Wu of Han. Emperor Wu wanted to know when untruths or lies were told him by people...

Sima Qian's writings have influenced the Chinese for over 2,000 years and still serve as a fiscal source of historical information about China.Sima Qian's vast Records of the Historian is the first...

Syllabary Of The Shanghai Vernacular (1891) is a book published by the Shanghai Christian Vernacular Society. The book is a comprehensive guide to the Shanghai dialect, which is a variant of the Wu...

This volume examines the various patterns of trans-regional exchanges in Buddhist art within East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan) in the medieval period, from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. A...

"A travel writer with a cult following."-The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in China, but Porter pulls it off. Finding Them Gone uniquely...

The Xing Yi Quan of Master Li Gui Chang details the key fundamentals of the art of Xing Yi Quan: The Five Elements (Five Fists) and the Five Element Linking form (Wu Xing Jin Tui Lian Huan). These...