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“The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygie……続きを見る

Gli scienziati affermano che il battito d’ali di una farfalla può generare un tornado in un altro continente. Le migliaia di ali che hanno battuto l’aria insieme il 4 giugno del 1989 in Piazza Tien ……続きを見る

In questa versione arricchita da note e illustrazioni viene reso disponibile al grande pubblico uno dei libri più diffusi nella storia, escludendo quelli cosiddetti "sacri". Milioni di copie sono st……続きを見る

If you know how to come up with the right questions, you may or may not be able to find the correct answer. But if you insist on refusing to ask real questions and instead put forward some false que……続きを見る

Originating in the 1820s and used for 150 years thereafter, qiaopi is the name given in Chinese to letters written home by Chinese emigrants to accompany remittances. Their key function was to prese……続きを見る

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. Its approach connects material culture with art history, curation, technol……続きを見る

This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through a contemporary's eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the ti……続きを見る

Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remark……続きを見る

This book critically examines the Confucian political imagination and its influence on the contemporary Chinese dream of a powerful China. It views Confucianism as the ideological supplement to a po……続きを見る

Jacob Abbott was a prolific American author best known for his makers of history series, a collection of biographies on some of the most important figures in history such as Julius Caesar, Cleopatra……続きを見る

As the world watched the crumbling away of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the pro-democracy movement in China was dealt a severe blow in June of 1989. Also referred to as the June 4th Incident……続きを見る

As Maoism recedes, and especially after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing has increasingly turned to patriotic nationalism for its ideological inspiration and legitimation. Return of the D……続きを見る

Dialogues Across Civilizations sets the histories of China and Europe alongside one another. Each chapter stands as an essay that imaginatively places historical individuals and events in proximity ……続きを見る

The Punishments of China is an interesting book which discusses methods of punishment in 19th century China. 続きを見る

孫中山逝世後留給國民黨什麼樣的遺產？蔣介石怎樣從與汪精衛和胡漢民的領導權之爭中出線？國民政府如何在共產蘇聯與日本軍閥的進逼下，透過北伐與中原大戰鞏固勢力？國民黨又怎麼會從容共、限共、清共、分共、反共……続きを見る

凡朝廷、社會、京師、外省事無大小，皆據所聞所見錄之，不為鑿空之談，不作理想之語……此記中近三十年事，所聞所見，當時有所忌諱而不敢記者，今皆一一追憶而錄之……──張祖翼《清代野記》　　作者張祖翼，署名「梁溪……続きを見る

★ 晚清經典歷史書籍《悔逸齋筆乘》、《名人軼事》，重新點校出版。★ 光緒皇帝自費幫明朝皇帝修陵墓，為何不敢讓慈禧知道？清末的抗爭名將馮子材為何沒有歸順清朝？慈禧皇后有公主病？年羹堯軍令嚴格且性情殘酷？街……続きを見る

《夢蕉亭雜記》是作者陳夔龍在1924年所寫的自述回憶錄。歷任光、宣兩朝的晚清重臣，身處政治中心的陳夔龍善於記事，許多重要事件如：戊戌政變、庚子拳亂、慈禧西逃、八國聯軍入京、簽訂辛丑條約，到辛亥革命等皆見……続きを見る

This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women’s history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China’s unification in 221 BCE. For each periodーNeolit……続きを見る

China’s westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensi……続きを見る

Das alte China ist der Schlüssel, um die Dynamik des heutigen China zu verstehen. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer schildert die Geschichte des Landes von den frühesten Kulturen über die Entstehung eines Ein……続きを見る

This edited collection provides a synthetic analysis of the rise of contemporary China and its impact on the current global system from a range of Asian and Western perspectives. Highlighting Taiwan……続きを見る

Shanghai, a dynamic world metropolis, is home to a multitude of religions, from Buddhism and Islam, to Christianity and Baha’ism, to Hinduism and Daoism, and many more. In this city of 24 million in……続きを見る

Colonel John Hart Caughey, a US Army war plans officer stationed in the Chinese Nationalist capital of Chungking, was an eyewitness to the battle for China in the final months of the war (1944–45) a……続きを見る

Il testo di padre De Ascaniis, curato dal padre Sergio Ticozzi suo confratello e autore di numerosi saggi storici sulla storia del PIME, ci rende edotti sulle difficoltà che questi missionari dovett……続きを見る

法書漢墨為國立故宮博物院典藏重要文物之一，如同其他院藏文物，主要源自歷代宮廷收藏外，亦含近數十年之捐贈與購藏。此套《故宮法書》經多次再版複印，圖版已漸失真；再者，學術研究推陳出新，原書內容說明需另増……続きを見る

Written in the 6th century BC, THE ART OF WAR is composed of thirteen chapters devoted to a particular aspect of warfare. THE ART OF WAR is recommended reading for officers in the U.S. Army and Mari……続きを見る

The Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China’s long history. In the last year of the Ming, ……続きを見る

This book analyzes the benefits of and legal concerns in connection with the delegated legislation of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as a prime example of experimental legislation in Chinese law……続きを見る

The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory l……続きを見る