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Ambition and Identity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Ambition and Identity

What binds overseas Chinese communities together? Traditionally scholars have stressed the interplay of external factors (discrimination, local hostility) and internal forces (shared language, native-place ties, family) to account for the cohesion and "Chineseness" of these overseas groups. Andrew Wilson challenges this Manichean explanation of identity by introducing a third factor: the ambitions of the Chinese merchant elite, which played an equal, if not greater, role in the formation of ethnic identity among the Chinese in colonial Manila. Drawing on Chinese, Spanish, and American sources and applying a broad range of historiographical approaches, this volume dissects the structures of a...

Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Chinese and Chinese Mestizos of Manila

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-01-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

For centuries, the Chinese have been intermarrying with inhabitants of the Philippines, resulting in a creolized community of Chinese mestizos under the Spanish colonial regime. In contemporary Philippine society, the “Chinese” are seen as a racialized “Other” while descendants from early Chinese-Filipino intermarriages as “Filipino.” Previous scholarship attributes this development to the identification of Chinese mestizos with the equally “Hispanicized” and “Catholic” indios. Building on works in Chinese transnationalism and cultural anthropology, this book examines the everyday practices of Chinese merchant families in Manila from the 1860s to the 1930s. The result is ...

Stone City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 754

Stone City

A thrilling and gripping page-turner, that serves as both a sociological study of prison life and a metaphor for contemporary America. In a prison of youthful hardcore criminals, a college professor convicted of killing a young girl while driving drunk teaches other inmates reading skills. A series of killings prompts officials to coerce Bauman to track down the killer. His quest takes readers into the web of corruption that is inherent in a big state prison.

Learning to Be A Sage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Learning to Be A Sage

Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)—a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of the state's prestigious civil service examinations. Nor was Chu's influence limited to China. In Korea and...

Dragon Son In Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1181

Dragon Son In Law

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-01-16
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  • Publisher: AZCCULTURE

As the son in law of a rich family, everyone thinks that I am useless crap, However, I will prove myself to be a King of Dragon!

The Great Recreation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 750

The Great Recreation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-08-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The poetry of the Ming dynasty has been relatively neglected in scholarship of the past century, and the 'Archaist' poets of the middle Ming especially so. This book attempts to redress this neglect by presenting by far the most detailed treatment available in any language of the life, milieu, and work of Ho Ching-ming (1483-1521). While Ho's participation in the Archaist circle of Li Meng-yang in his youth is confirmed, the later development of his ideas is shown to move toward a stance usually thought more representative of the following century. The book also argues that 'May Fourth' accounts of the pre-modern literary tradition are seriously flawed and require replacement.

Living Spirit, Living Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Living Spirit, Living Practice

In Living Spirit, Living Practice, the well-known cultural studies scholar Ruth Frankenberg turns her attention to the remarkably diverse nature of religious practice within the United States today. Frankenberg provides a nuanced consideration of the making and living of religious lives as well as the mystery and poetry of spiritual practice. She undertakes a subtle sociocultural analysis of compelling in-depth interviews with fifty women and men, diverse in race, ethnicity, national origin, class, age, and sexuality. Tracing the complex interweaving of sacred and secular languages in the way interviewees make sense of the everyday and the extraordinary, Frankenberg explores modes of communi...

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1058

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1846

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1971
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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List of Members - Cambridge University
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

List of Members - Cambridge University

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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