Author: DreamingBear Baraka Kanaan
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: living, revolution, literati
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2003-11-27
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0595303811
ISBN-13: 9780595303816

...I wrote these books in a style I call "Purposeful Imperfection" because I believe in making mistakes that matter...and because I hate following some one else’s rules...more importantly I wrote them because I want to tell you something that I’ve never told another soul, I want it to be something no one has ever told you either...something you never expected to hear from another human being as long as you lived...I want it to change your life like only truth can, in a way that is profound and forever...I want you to weep when you hear it...tears of complete and utter enlightenment

Author: Bell Yung
Publisher: Hong Kong University Pre
Keywords: tsar, teh, yun, life, poetry, china, literati, music, last
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2008-11-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 9622099165
ISBN-13: 9789622099166

In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher and qin master, Bell Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, this book recounts the experiences of an individual who lived through war, displacement, exile, and unrequited longing for home and for a style of living lost forever. Yet Mme Tsar sustained, as one of its last exemplars, much of that style of living despite being a woman in the largely male world of the refined arts. The author weaves a picture

Author: Albert Welter
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: chan, buddhism, ascendancy, political, rulers, literati, monks
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 2006-02-09
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0195175212
ISBN-13: 9780195175219

The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school of Chinese Buddhism began when, in the seventh century, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. In this book Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the stor

Author: Martin Huang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: century, chinese, novel, eighteenth, sensibility, presentation, autobiographical, literati
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0804724628
ISBN-13: 9780804724623

This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan).

Author: Stephen Roddy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: imperial, china, representations, fictional, identity, literati
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0804731314
ISBN-13: 9780804731317

This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular fiction—Rulin waishi (ca. 1750), Yesou puyan (ca. 1780), and Jinghua yuan (1821/1828)—for their articulation of new perceptions of the literati, or Confucian scholar-gentry. He places the reevaluation of literati roles and privilege found in these novels within the context of scholarly and cultural developments, notably the ascendance of the philo

Author: Tze-Ki Hon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: activism, northern, song, period, literati, commentary, chinese, politics, classical, yijing
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-12-06
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0791463117
ISBN-13: 9780791463116

This book is the first comprehensive study of Yijing (Book of Changes) commentary during the Northern Song period, showing how it reflects a coming to terms with major political and social changes. Seen as a transitional period in China’s history, the Northern Song (960–1127) is often described as the midpoint in the Tang-Song transition or as the beginning of Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism. Challenging this traditional view, Tze-ki Hon demonstrates the complexity of the Northern Song by breaking it into three periods characterized by, alternately, the reestablishment of civil governance,

Authors:Gerritsen, A.T.,
Publisher: BRILL
Keywords: china, studies, ming, yuan, local, song, literati
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $154.00
ISBN-10: 9004156038
ISBN-13: 9789004156036

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). It argues that ’belonging locally’ was important to Ji’an literati throughout this period. How they achieved that, however, changed significantly. Southern Song and Yuan literati wrote about religious sites from within their local communities, but their early Ming counterparts wrote about local tem