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This book offers a cultural history of modern China by looking at the tension between memory and history. Mainstream books on China tend to focus on the hard aspects of economics, government, politics, or international relations. This book takes a humanistic look at modern changes and examines how Chinese intellectuals and artists experienced trauma, social upheavals, and transformations. Drawing on a wide array of sources in political and aesthetic writings, literature, film, and public discourse, the author has portrayed the unique ways the Chinese imagine and portray their own historical destiny in the midst of trauma, catastrophe, and runaway globalization.
Ban Wang traces the shifting concept of the Chinese state from the late nineteenth century to the present, showing how the Confucian notion of tianxia--"all under heaven"--influences China's dedication to contributing to and exchanging with a common world.
"Excavations at the Ban Wang Hai archaeological site at Muang district, Lamphun province, northern Thailand, revealed numerous graves of adults, infants and newborns, dating back more than 2000 years. Many graves were accompanied by items such as iron tools, bronze ornaments, glass beads, and clay pots, providing fascinating new insights into a little-known period of prehistory in this part of Southeast Asia." "The rarity of such finds within this region, and the quality of their condition, mark this site as one of great archaeological interest." "The Ban Wang Hai site was studied between 1996 and 1998 as the second part of a cooperative undertaking between the Fine Arts Department of Thaila...
The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic, and political divides. For contemporary scholars, it has held myriad meanings, from the articulation of a cultural imaginary and political strategy to a moralistic commitment and a cosmological vision. The contributors to Chinese Visions of World Order examine the evolution of tianxia's meaning and practice in the Han dynasty and its mutations in modern times. They attend to its varied interpretations, its relation to realpolitik, and its revival in twenty-first-century China. They also investigate tianxia's birth in antiquity and its role in empi...
"In this supplement to volume 19 of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature, author Ban Wang brings together two perspectives, ecosocialism and the critiques of the Frankfurt School, to consider how Chinese scholars and literati such as Kang Youwei, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Chen Quifan have responded to the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene and the rise of a global technocratic elite. Reckless development, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and other varieties of technoscientific hubris have caused rifts in human-human and human-nature relationships. In essays, speculative fiction, films, documentaries, Chinese artists pursue various strategies to critique eco-destructive tendencies. Ban Wang likewise seeks to recover the utopian dream of the reconciliation of humans and nature"--
"Excavations at the Ban Wang Hai archaeological site at Muang district, Lamphun province, northern Thailand, revealed numerous graves of adults, infants and newborns, dating back more than 2000 years. Many graves were accompanied by items such as iron tools, bronze ornaments, glass beads, and clay pots, providing fascinating new insights into a little-known period of prehistory in this part of Southeast Asia." "The rarity of such finds within this region, and the quality of their condition, mark this site as one of great archaeological interest." "The Ban Wang Hai site was studied between 1996 and 1998 as the second part of a cooperative undertaking between the Fine Arts Department of Thaila...
Volume 1 of The Caves of Thailand covers the eastern and north-eastern provinces of Amnat Charoen, Bueng Kan, Buriram, Chachoengsao, Chaiyaphum, Chanthaburi, Chonburi, Kalasin, Khon Kaen, Loei, Mahasarakham, Mukdahan, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Phanom, Nakhon Ratchasima, Nong Bua LamPhu, Nong Khai, Prachinburi, Rayong, Roi Et, Sa Kaeo, Sakon Nakhon, Sisaket, Surin, Trat, Ubon Ratchathani, Udon Thani and Yasothon. Over 1,100 caves, rock shelters, stream sinks, resurgences and other sites of speleological interest are fully detailed, supported by 78 surveys and a bibliography with over 200 references.