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Feuergeburten
This catalogue introduces a total of 419 early Chinese ceramics, described in 374 catalogue entries, covering a time span of more than 6,000 years.
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Chinese Shadow Theatre
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly religious function during the Qing dynasty and that the appeal of women warrior characters reflected the lower classes' high tolerance for the unorthodox and subversive. Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the eighteen levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters. Chen examines the relationship between historical and fictional women warriors and those in military romances and shadow plays to demonstrate the significance of both printed works and oral transmission in the diffusion of popular culture. She also shows that traditional folk theatre is a subject for serious academic study by linking it to recent scholarship on drama, popular religion, and popular culture.
Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music
Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another, and to make the riches of Chinese literature accessible to a wide range of readers. In honor of his work, this collection brings together new research by twenty-two prominent scholars in a field of tremendous scope and diversity, on topics including genre characteristics, literary representations of social and political history, gender and cultural identity, music, autobiography, women's writing, internet literature and more.
Illuminating the Renaissance
This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period – beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening – the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebrated panel painters of the time, illuminators achieved astonishing innovations in the handling of color, light, texture, and space, creating a naturalistic style that would dominate tastes throughout Europe for nearly a century. Centering on the n...
The Asian Shadow Play
Comprehensive study of shadow puppetry in several Asian countries as well as the Middle East, Europe, England and America.
Believing in Ghosts and Spirits
The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China. The main focus of attention is the character gui 鬼, an essential key to the understanding of spiritual beings. The author analyses the character gui in various materials – lexicons and dictionaries, excavated manuscripts and inscriptions, and received classical texts. Gui is examined from the perspective of its linguistic root, literary interpretation, ritual practices, sociopolitical implication, and cosmological thinking. In the gradual process of coming to know the otherworld in terms of ghosts and spirits, Chinese people in ancient times attempted to identify and classify these spiritual entities. In their philosophical thinking, they connected the subject of gui with the movement of the universe. Thus the belief in ghosts and spirits in ancient China appeared to be a moral standard for all, not only providing a room for individual religiosity but also implementing the purpose of family-oriented social order, the legitimization of political operations, and the understanding of the way of Heaven and Earth.
Atemtyp Tai Chi
Dieses Lehrbuch ist eine überarbeitete Fassung des Lehrbuches ›Das Innere Taijiquan‹ von 2011. Zum Zeitpunkt seines Erscheinens war Atemtyp Tai Chi gerade fünf Jahre in der Taiji Akademie erprobt worden. Heute, über zehn Jahre später, sind in der Arbeit der Taiji Akademie immer mehr Erkenntnisse hinzugekommen, sodass eine Überarbeitung erforderlich wurde. Dieses Buch ist die ideale Ergänzung zu den Lernvideos auf der Website (https://online.tai-chi.academy/) nach denen jede/r allein lernen und üben kann. Natürlich ist es auch ein Begleitbuch auf dem traditionellen Tai-Chi-Weg, auf dem Schüler vom Lehrer persönlich lernen, also in Präsenz. Und besonders Motivierte könnten nach diesem Buch auch autark lernen. Möchten Sie Ihren individuellen Atemtyp wissen? Den können Sie aus der Tabelle erfahren, die sich im hinteren Teil des Buches befindet, oder auch im Internet finden: www.terlusollogie.de.«
