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Illuminations from the Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Illuminations from the Past

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.

Looking at Chinese Painting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Looking at Chinese Painting

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Beautifully illustrated by paintings from the National Palace Museum, this volume is the very first English guidebook written by a Chinese scholar, covering the history, philosophy, and techniques of traditional Chinese painting. Mr. Wang, curator of painting at the National Palace Museum, discusses pigments and colors, ink, inscriptions, seals and mounting, relationship between painting and calligraphy, and copies and forgeries.

Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 357

Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II

In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chi...

Joining the Modern World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Joining the Modern World

For the past century, all kinds of Chinese people seemed to have tried to be ?modern?. At the same time, the standards of modernity have been set elsewhere and they seem always to be higher than what has been achieved. That makes most Chinese work harder, but some may well wonder if standards rise so that China will always get a poor report card at the end of each year.The ongoing drama of Chinese people seeking to be modern has been enacted in different parts of the world. There are interesting differences among these Chinese, depending on where they have been living. The general trend, however, is unmistakable. The striving for betterment is supported by a strong capacity to adapt and change, and this is reflected in the way the Chinese seize new opportunities when they occur. The essays here describe some of these efforts both inside and outside China, and form a small mosaic of Chinese practising the art of modernising.

The Lyrical in Epic Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

The Lyrical in Epic Time

In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to soli...

The First Islamic Classic in Chinese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

The First Islamic Classic in Chinese

A translation of Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary on the True Teaching, the first and most influential work written in the Chinese language on Islam. Published in 1642, Wang Daiyu’s Real Commentary on the True Teaching was the first significant presentation of Islam in the Chinese language by a Muslim scholar. It set the standard for the expression of Islamic theology, Sufism, and ethics in Chinese, and became the literary foundation of a school of thought that has been called “Muslim Confucianism.” In contrast to Muslim scholars writing in every other language, Wang avoided Arabic words, opting instead to reconfigure the religion in terms of Chinese concepts and categories. Employing th...

Wang An Shih
  • Language: en

Wang An Shih

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1937
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Computer Vision – ECCV 2020
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 836

Computer Vision – ECCV 2020

The 30-volume set, comprising the LNCS books 12346 until 12375, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020, which was planned to be held in Glasgow, UK, during August 23-28, 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 1360 revised papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 5025 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image classification; image processing; object detection; semantic segmentation; human pose estimation; 3d reconstruction; stereo vision; computational photography; neural networks; image coding; image reconstruction; object recognition; motion estimation.

Mao Zedong Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Mao Zedong Thought

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

With its clear and provoking thesis, this classic study of Mao has stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone

Modernity with a Cold War Face
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Modernity with a Cold War Face

"Bridging the 1949 divide in both literary historical periodization and political demarcation, Xiaojue Wang proposes a new framework to consider Chinese literature beyond national boundaries, as something arising out of the larger global geopolitical and cultural conflict of the Cold War."--Provided by publisher.