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This book traces the evolving uses of writing to command assent and obedience in early China, an evolution that culminated in the establishment of a textual canon as the foundation of imperial authority. Its central theme is the emergence of this body of writings as the textual double of the state, and of the text-based sage as the double of the ruler. The book examines the full range of writings employed in early China, such as divinatory records, written communications with ancestors, government documents, the collective writings of philosophical and textual traditions, speeches attributed to historical figures, chronicles, verse anthologies, commentaries, and encyclopedic compendia. Lewis shows how these writings served to administer populations, control officials, form new social groups, invent new models of authority, and create an artificial language whose master generated power and whose graphs became potent objects.
Mingxia and Chun Hua two best friends separated because family and trials. Lost in a dangerous bamboo forest will they fulfil the legend or will they perish.
This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues. Topics covered include: labour and environmental disputes rural and ethnic conflict migration legal challenges intellectual and religious dissidence opposition to family planning. The newly revised, third edition adds two new chapters on gender and the family, and the reform of the Hukou system thus providing a comprehensive text for both undergraduates and specialists in the field, encouraging the reader to challenge conventional images of contemporary Chinese society.
In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century. (This book was originally published as a boxed two-volume set. It is now available as separate volumes with plain hardcover. The page numbering continues from the first volume to the second.) In classical Chinese, The Great Enterprise means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on The Great Enterprise of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any lang
The top quality little Daoist gained unparalleled inheritance went down the mountain to help the world, cured the sick and saved the world, and obtained the hearts of all kinds of beauties. He played the pig to eat the tiger, and finally reached immortality.
"Even if you fall on a mountain and rely on the water to dry up and heaven and earth to test your parents, it's still not as safe as relying on your own abilities."Du Jinsi thought he wasn't very smart, but he was still just barely self-reliant.The only thing was that the heavens were unfair. It was unfair to let a little girl like her survive in the midst of a great struggle for power.There was no use complaining, she could just sit there and complain.It was a pity that complaining could not solve the problem.See how she twists and turns among the princes with their own ulterior motives, play with imperial power, despise imperial power, and step on all those who look down on her."
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"Daddy, Mommy will kiss you!" "Daddy, Mommy will hold you high!" "Daddy, Mommy will give you a second child!" Su Wen, who had returned from her amnesia, felt a headache coming on. She was an obedient and twin child, yet he actually gave her to Huo Yanming! What about this mysterious, aloof man in the North City who said that he didn't like women? Stealing a kiss on the wall and helping her abuse the scum was one thing, but she also had an account book to keep every day, so she had to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau! "Mr. Huo, we are really not very familiar with each other!" "It's alright, after marriage, you can slowly mature it!"
It was enough for him to meet an emperor like this. He was clearly her brother-in-law, yet he actually borrowed the wine to forcefully take her, and directly promoted her to the emperor's concubine."If you don't love her, why don't you let her go? You should be raised in the palace to let her sisters make a ruckus ..."