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Secrets of the Chinese Palace (2010 Edition - EPUB)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Secrets of the Chinese Palace (2010 Edition - EPUB)

For 5,000 years, kings and emperors had ruled China with the palace as their power hub. Yet the common people knew little of the goings-on there, even though court affairs greatly affected their lives. In this book, we unveil the secrets of the Chinese palace. You will learn about the physical palaces of the various dynasties of China although most of them no longer exist. Meet the occupants of the palace: the emperors, empresses, imperial concubines and siblings, eunuchs and many others, and find out how the notable ones altered the course of history. You will be surprised to know that although authority was vested in the emperor, there were numerous occasions when others, such as the empress, concubines, eunuchs and even imperial siblings around him, supplanted his power. Renowned cartoonist Tian Hengyu now relives these stirring tales with the deft strokes of his pen to shed new insights into Chinese history.

Creation and Separation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Creation and Separation

  • Categories: Art

Tang Taizong (Li Shimin), 2nd emperor of the Tang dynasty, commissioned six statues of his favorite warhorses to be carved in stone and serve as part of his political legacy at his mausoleum, Zhao Ling. This book traces the history and significance of these statues, from their creation in 7th-century China, through their removal from the mausoleum in the early 20th c., when two made their way to the United States antiquities market through the dealer C.T. Loo, and ultimately to the Penn Museum. Their time on the art market and subsequent stewardship by the Penn Museum are also explored. Contemporaneous sources and archival records reconstruct the roles of different people, Chinese and Westerners, in the sale of and competition for these stone horses. While underlining their exceptional significance and reconstructing the historical path they traversed, this work serves to bridge the gaps in the shared knowledge of the historical facts pertaining to these horse reliefs and build a common foundation for intercultural dialogue and cooperation surrounding cultural heritage preservation and changing museum practice.

Selected Biographies of Famous Ministers and Officials in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 547

Selected Biographies of Famous Ministers and Officials in China

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: DeepLogic

The book is the volume of "Selected Biographies of Famous Ministers and Officials in China" among a series of books for "100 Biographies on Chinese Historical Figures".

Transmitting Authority
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Transmitting Authority

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-15
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Transmitting Authority investigates the rise and fall of the cultural currency of the Confucian teacher Wang Tong (ca. 584–617), a.k.a. Master Wenzhong, in the five centuries following his death, by examining the textual and social history of the Zhongshuo, which purports to record Wang Tong’s teachings. Incorporating theories and methodologies from textual criticism, the history of the book, and cultural studies, Warner reveals evidence of the Zhongshuo’s textual fluidity during the Tang and early Song dynasties, and argues that this fluidity attended the shifting terms of the Zhongshuo’s cultural value for medieval China’s literati culture. In doing so, Warner offers scholars a model for the study of other works whose textual problems and historical significance have hitherto seemed inscrutable.

Records of Later Liang Dynasty 后梁纪
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 4259

Records of Later Liang Dynasty 后梁纪

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: DeepLogic

Zi Zhi Tong Jian (Chinese: 资治通鉴;English: "Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance") is a pioneering reference work in Chinese historiography, published in 1084 in the form of a chronicle. In 1065 AD, Emperor Yingzong of Songordered the great historian Sima Guang (1019–1086 AD) to lead with other scholars such as his chief assistants Liu Shu, Liu Ban and Fan Zuyu, the compilation of a universal history of China. The task took 19 years to be completed,and, in 1084 AD, it was presented to his successor Emperor Shenzong of Song. The Zi Zhi Tong Jian records Chinese history from 403 BC to 959 AD, covering 16 dynasties and spanning across almost 1,400 years,and contains 294 volumes (...

Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Architectural, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (ICACHE 2023)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 871

Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Architectural, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (ICACHE 2023)

This is an open access book. As an annual conference held successfully in the past 8 years, 2023 9th International Conference on Architectural, Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (ICACHE 2023) will be held by China University of Petroleum(East China)on October 13-15, 2023 in Qingdao, China. ICACHE 2023 is hosted by China University of Petroleum(East China)and organized by College of Pipeline and Civil Engineering, China University of Petroleum(East China)and supported by China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Central South University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Southeast University, Eshragh Instit...

Global Design and Local Materialization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 390

Global Design and Local Materialization

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-03
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2013, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2013. The 35 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital aids to design creativity, concepts, and strategies; digital fabrication and local materialization; human-computer interaction, user participation, and collaborative design; modeling and simulation; shape and form studies.

Pattern Recognition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 628

Pattern Recognition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-11-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

The two-volume set CCIS 483 and CCIS 484 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CCPR 2014, held in Changsha, China, in November 2014. The 112 revised full papers presented in two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 225 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamentals of pattern recognition; feature extraction and classification; computer vision; image processing and analysis; video processing and analysis; biometric and action recognition; biomedical image analysis; document and speech analysis; pattern recognition applications.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2017 Proceedings: Volume III
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2017 Proceedings: Volume III

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

These proceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2017, held during 23th-25th May in Shanghai, China. The theme of CSNC2017 is Positioning, Connecting All. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou System (BDS) especially. They are divided into 12 topics to match the corresponding sessions in CSNC2017, which broadly covered key topics in GNSS. Readers can learn about the BDS and keep abreast of the latest advances in GNSS techniques and applications.