Chinese Culture

Material Culture in Europe and China

Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800

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This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800.

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Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art

Studies in Chinese and Islamic Art: Chinese art

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Basil Gray’s publications on Chinese and Islamic art have done much to introduce these subjects to a European public. This first volume deals with Chinese painting and luxury art.

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Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture

Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture

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This rich collection of writings–many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time–provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings spanning more than two thousand years.

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Postmodernism and China

Postmodernism and China

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Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization.

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China

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Diversity is the spice of life, and the highly regarded Cultures of the World series celebrates just that in fully updated, and expanded editions.

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China

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An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture.

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Horæ sinicæ: translations from the popular literature of the Chinese-robert-morrison

“Horæ sinicæ” by Robert Morrison, 1812

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