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Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China (2 vols)
The 1,165 entries of Handbooks and Anthologies for Officials in Imperial China by Pierre-Étienne Will and collaborators provide a descriptive list of extant manuscript and printed works—mainly from the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties—created with the aim to instruct officials and other administrators of imperial China about the technical and ethical aspects of government, and to provide tools and guides to help with the relevant procedures. Both generalist and specialized texts are considered. Among the latter, such disciplines as the administration of justice, famine relief, and the military receive particular attention. Each entry includes the publishing history of the work considered (including modern editions), an analysis of contents, and a biographical sketch of the author.
Sources for the History of Bhutan
The four works included in this collection have enjoyed a rather chequered career. They originally formed the second volume of the doctoral thesis Michael Aris submitted in 1978 to the University of London. They have been included because of their value as crucial source material on the formative era of Bhutanese history, as they cover the entire period leading to the full emergence of the Bhutanese theocracy. Their relative brevity as compared with the other major works relevant to this period further suggested the convenience of including them as a group of inter-related 'minor' texts. While the first two works in this collection have never before been available to modern scholars, and are indeed hardly known even in Bhutan, the next two (which include a text translated from Portuguese) have been partially known from the works of John Claude White (Sikkim and Bhutan-Twenty-one years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908, London) and C. Wessels (Early Jesuit Travelers in Central Asia, The Hague 1924.
Sinologia Hoje
Sinologia Hoje é um esforço inédito em trazer, ao público universitário brasileiro, uma atualização necessária sobre o campo dos estudos chineses. Nesse sentido, pensamos a produção de um trabalho que discutisse algumas visões sobre os estudos da China. Até mesmo o uso dos termos ‘Sinologia’ ou ‘Estudos Chineses’ tem implicações específicas, como veremos adiante. Fato é que esse livro pretende trazer alguns subsídios para essa nova área de pesquisa a se desenvolver no país – e desejamos que, dessa vez, o empreendimento dê certo. Para a realização desse livro, convidamos especialistas de diversas áreas, que trazem suas visões sobre os estudos da China, e os cuidados teóricos e metodológicos que devem ser levados em conta no desenvolvimento desse campo de pesquisa. Alguns desses ensaios foram traduzidos, outros são originais; todos, porém, são estudos atualizados e calcados em amplas experiências sobre os mais diversos aspectos culturais, históricos e literários dessa civilização multifacetada.
A Great Undertaking
Explores the social disruption resulting from industrialization in a Chinese coalmining community at the turn of the twentieth century. Jeff Hornibrook provides a unique, microcosmic look at the process of industrialization in one Chinese community at the turn of the twentieth century. Industrialization came late to China, but was ultimately embraced and hastened to aid the states strategic and military interests. In Pingxiang County in the highlands of Jiangxi Province, coalmining was seasonal work; peasants rented mines from lineage leaders to work after the harvest. These traditions changed in 1896 when the court decided that the countys mines were essential for industrialization. For...
Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Homepage for the publications of the CECC. Titles cover various topics related to China. The Congressional-Executive Commission on China was created by Congress in October, 2000, with the legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to submit an annual report to the President and the Congress.
The Dharma's Gatekeepers
A study of the seminal Tibetan Buddhist work, Gateway to Learning.
Ming China and its Allies
Explores the Ming Dynasty's foreign relations with neighboring sovereigns, placing China in a wider global context.
