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Reworking the World System Paradigm
Reading the statements, reviews and rejoinders generated by those three big questions, it does not take long to realize that no-one changes sides in this debate. Taking one position or another is a matter of defining terms to establish a comfort zone, then causing history to unfold in response to those terms. But all the positions have a common background in historical materialism.
Journal Article
The Legend Of Miaoshan Revised Edition
In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to the death, but returned to life to be his saviour and the saviour of all mankind. The story is inseparable from the female bodhisattva Guanyin, whose cult dominated religious life at all levels in traditional China and is still powerful in rural China today. Miaoshan herself became a lasting symbol of the tension in women’s lives between individual spiritual fulfilment and the imperatives of family duty. The previous edition of this book was the first full monograph on the subject. It deals with the story’s background, early history, and more developed later versions, bringing much of this material to the attention of modern readers for the first time. It analyses the basic sources, many of them in Buddhist scripture, and the overall pattern of development. It finally offers a range of interpretations which discover here myths of religious celibacy, of filial piety, and of ritual salvation of the dead. The legend of Miaoshan spans the uncertain boundaries between Chinese popular literature, theatre, and religion, and this book directly addresses students of those fields. But it holds a larger significance for those interested in the position of women in traditional society, and students of comparative literature and folklore will find here a version of the ‘King Lear’ story. This new edition takes account of epigraphical evidence, discovered and accessed since the time of first publication, which enriches and refines the discussion. This and other additional evidence, introduced for the sake of a more complete picture, leave the argument and conclusions of the original study still essentially intact.
eBook
Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series
In Visual Political Communication in Popular Chinese Television Series, Florian Schneider analyses political discourses in Chinese TV dramas, the most popular entertainment format in China today.
eBook
Ji'an Literati and the Local in Song-Yuan-Ming China
Drawing on largely local sources, including local gazetteers and literati inscriptions for religious sites, this book offers a comprehensive examination of what it means to be 'local' during the Southern Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties in Ji'an prefecture (Jiangxi).
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Reading China : fiction, history and the dynamics of discourse : essays in honour of professor Glen Dudbridge
This volume develops a new style of reading Chinese sources, as pioneered in Chinese Studies by Professor Glen Dudbridge, providing fascinating new insights into Chinese literature, history and popular culture. The analysis of self-fashioning, representation and political propaganda sheds new light on Chinese perceptions of the world.
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A Springboard to Victory
Based on documents published in China, this book examines the reasons behind the Chinese Communists' success during the Sino-Japanese War demythologizing Maoist guerrilla warfare by revealing the links between the Communists' military and financial might during the Japanese occupation.
eBook
China on the sea : how the maritime world shaped modern China
This volume challenges the \"Walled Kingdom\" perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.
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