Author: John Robert Shepherd
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780804720663
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Stanford University Press classic.
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 1054
ISBN-13: 9780393307801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Willard J. Peterson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-07
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316445046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 9, Part 2 of The Cambridge History of China is the second of two volumes which together explore the political, social and economic developments of the Ch'ing Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prior to the arrival of Western military power. Across fifteen chapters, a team of leading historians explore how the eighteenth century's greatest contiguous empire in terms of geographical size, population, wealth, cultural production, political order and military domination peaked and then began to unravel. The book sheds new light on the changing systems deployed under the Ch'ing dynasty to govern its large, multi-ethnic Empire and surveys the dynasty's complex relations with neighbouring states and Europe. In this compelling and authoritative account of a significant era of early modern Chinese history, the volume illustrates the ever-changing nature of the Ch'ing Empire, and provides context for the unforeseeable challenges that the nineteenth century would bring.
Author: Susan Naquin
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780835782241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ronald M. Davidson
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9788120832787
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars? Ronald M. Davidson explores how the translation and spread of esoteric Buddhist texts dramatically shaped Tibetan society and led to its rise as the center of Buddhist culture throughout Asia, replacing India as the perceived source of religious ideology and tradition. During the Tibetan Renaissance (950-1200 C.E.), monks and yogins translated an enormous number of Indian Buddhist texts. They employed the evolving literature and practices of esoteric Buddhism as the basis to reconstruct Tibetan religious, cultural, and political institutions. Many translators achieved the de facto status of feudal lords and while not always loyal to their Buddhist vows, these figures helped solidify political power in the hands of religious authorities and began a process that led to the Dalai Lama's theocracy. Davidson's vivid portraits of the monks, priests, popular preachers, yogins, and aristocratic clans who changed Tibetan society and culture further enhance his perspectives on the tensions and transformations that characterized medieval Tibet.
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0307823067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.