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The Importance of Having a Good Date This is the first book of its kind to unify all the information from various important classical Date Selection tomes, the most important being Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu (The Book of Unifying Times and Discerning Dimensions). The highlight of this vast and comprehensive compendium includes the Monthly Purple White Stars, Qi Men Three Noble Stars, The Annual Positive and Negative Stars for every Jia Zi - all of which yield many hours of pleasurable study and reference for masters, teachers and students alike.
The book is the volume of “The History of Thoughts in the Yuan Dynasty” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the...
An Improved Must-Have Reference for Everything Qi Men Joey Yap's Qi Men Dun Jia Compendium is the most comprehensive reference book to the Qi Men Dun Jia in the Chinese Metaphysics world. This book contains all the detailed references to the components, methodologies and attributes pertaining to the Qi Men Dun Jia system. Joey Yap has extracted, transliterated and tabulated the essential information from the ancient classics of Qi Men Dun Jia and presented them in simple English. Designed for the purpose of facilitating studies and further research, this book aims to bridge the gap for students and further research, this book aims to bridge the gap for students who want to learn, and the teachers who want to teach Qi Men Dun Jia. It is also designed to enable the genuine enthusiasts who want to dig deeper into the knowledge, but don't have the time to do extensive research and prefer to find all the sources of information in ONE single volume.
Containing over 33,000 terms, the Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine is the largest, fully searchable list of Chinese medical terms ever published. It is the only sufficiently comprehensive list of Chinese medical terms to be an ultimate go-to for any translator, student, or clinician. It contains a vast array of general terms, including the 5,000 or more of Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine (Paradigm Publications, 1997). It also contains the 1,500 standard and alternate acupoint names from Grasping the Wind (Paradigm Publications, 1989) and over 10,000 standard and alternate names of medicinals described in the Comprehensive Chinese Materia Medica (Paradigm Publications, ...
The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the institutional and cultural history of pre-imperial China.
In the currency culture of human history, there are two wonderful works that are immortal. One is that of China, an ancient Oriental civilization, which has influenced the currency culture of many Asian countries for more than a thousand years. The other is the monetary culture of ancient Greece, the birthplace of western monetary culture, which later gave rise to the Arab and Indian coin systems. This book presents survey on Chinese ancient currency of all ages, before moving on to elaborate upon the history of currency culture exchange between China and other countries, such as ancient Greece and Rome, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southern Asia, Western and central Asia. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on the currency development of the neighboring Asian regions and countries, as well as the interaction between ancient Chinese coins and European and American coins in different periods.
In the past, the hedonistic young master had returned to the First Prefecture of Qingzhou eight hundred years ago and was determined to forge a legend for the clan; to obtain the inheritance to help him rise in power, to break the conspiracy, to trample on the weak, to single-handedly fend off millions of enemies, and finally to turn the tide and advance with the momentum of the wind and clouds!
Presents a vivid and systematic survey of the evolution of Chinese currency right from its very beginning.
The analysis of original documents is a means for economists to focus on the primary text, to analyze and interpret the object and to move to interpretation and understanding of its relationship to modern financial instruments and markets. The result is a collection of interdisciplinary studies of the key innovations in finance from the Old Babylonian loan tablets, to the 1953 London Debt Agreement that span regions in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.
As the most individualized civil architecture, buildings for cultural events are the best stage for architects to practise their dreams, to express their perceptions to architectural art and ambitions. When culture meets architecture, some memories, some scenes or an attitude will find its medium to exist as a real and touchable thing. Besides those architectures that record a history or provide information, such as museum, library, memorial, archives centre and the like, more and more multi-functions cultural centres were built in cities, where people gather together for social event, entertainment, or sports, and they are also the new plaza where people can impress their sense of the city s identification deeper. Selected buildings for culture around the world are included in this book, with an invitation to witness the meeting between culture and architecture."