Author: Kim Karlsson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9783039102235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Zeurich, 2003.
Author: Tobie Sarah Meyer-Fong
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780804744850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The book focuses on the previously overlooked period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence - a moment in which Yangzhou functioned as an important center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic. With rich detail and extensive use of literary sources, the author documents the complex social and cultural interactions through which the community reconstituted itself."--Jacket.
Author: Katharine P Burnett
Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Published: 2013-03-13
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9629964562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was "qi", literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of "qi" as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes, and explains how the value lost its luster at the end of the seventeenth century.
Author: Christopher Queen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1136830332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first scholarly treatment of the emergence of American Buddhist Studies as a significant research field. Until now, few investigators have turned their attention to the interpretive challenge posed by the presence of all the traditional lineages of Asian Buddhism in a consciously multicultural society. Nor have scholars considered the place of their own contributions as writers, teachers, and practising Buddhists in this unfolding saga. In thirteen chapters and a critical introduction to the field, the book treats issues such as Asian American Buddhist identity, the new Buddhism, Buddhism and American culture, and the scholar's place in American Buddhist Studies. The volume offers complete lists of dissertations and theses on American Buddhism and North American dissertations and theses on topics related to Buddhism since 1892.
Author: Patricia Ann Berger
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780824816629
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vito Giacalone
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 96
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