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China's Sacred Sites
The ancient Chinese developed building techniques that are astounding in their ability to match nature and endure for centuries. China's Sacred Sites presents a vision of architecture as a harmonious interaction of human culture and the natural world. Over 300 color photos and architectural drawings document some of the most remarkable achievements of mountainscape feng shui. The wisdom of these ancient builders is particularly relevant today as sustainable building practices and green design take architecture in new directions.
The Glory of Yue
The Glory of Yue is the first translation into any Western language of the Yuejue shu, a collection of essays on history, literature, religion, architecture, economic thought, military science, and philosophy related to the ancient kingdoms of Wu and Yue, in present day eastern China. This book consists of sixteen chapters, together with three additional chapters of explanation written by the compilers in approximately 25 CE. This translation is presented with copious annotations and explanations, linking the concepts discussed with the development of the mainstream Chinese cultural tradition, and draws on both modern Western and Chinese exegesis, as well as archeological discoveries, to elucidate this highly complex and unjustly neglected text.
Book of Zhou and Sui Dynasty
The Twenty-Four Histories (Chinese: 二十四史) are the Chinese official historical books covering a period from 3000 BC to the Ming dynasty in the 17th century. The Han dynasty official Sima Qian established many of the conventions of the genre. Starting with the Tang dynasty, each dynasty established an official office to write the history of its predecessor using official court records. As fixed and edited in the Qing dynasty, the whole set contains 3213 volumes and about 40 million words. It is considered one of the most important sources on Chinese history and culture. The title "Twenty-Four Histories" dates from 1775 which was the 40th year in the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. This ...
Fiktion oder Wirklichkeit?
Die Arbeit behandelt eine fur lange Zeit in Vergessenheit geratene Sammlung von funfzig Palastliedern, die einer der machtigsten Kaiserinnen der Song-Dynastie zugeschrieben werden. Die Quelle wird in ihren historischen und literarischen Kontext eingeordnet. Anhand intertextueller Interpretationen einzelner Palastlieder sowie einer Analyse der dichterischen Themen und Motive wird exemplarisch eine Annaherung an das bislang nahezu unbekannte Palastlied-Genre unternommen mit dem Ziel, eine Poetik fur dieses Genre zu erstellen. Die geplante Studie versteht sich als Fallstudie. Sie ruckt die jahrtausendelang gepflegte Tradition des Palastliedes als Quelle der Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte des Hoflebens im Alten China in den Blickpunkt. Der Anhang enthalt die erste deutsche Gesamtubersetzung des Werkes.
The Boundaries of Meaning and the Formation of Law
Different legal systems share some basic developmental tendencies that are rooted in the historical evolution of language and culture. In this comparative history of English common law, Islamic law, and Chinese imperialist law Sharron Gu describes the formation of three diverse legal systems in terms of their unique linguistic environments. She argues that the characteristics of each language define the nature of the common, statute, administrative, and religious laws associated with it and set the boundaries for its legal imagination.
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Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music
Sacred music is a universal phenomenon of humanity. Where there is faith, there is music to express it. Every major religious tradition and most minor ones have music and have it in abundance and variety. There is music to accompany ritual and music purely for devotion, music for large congregations and music for trained soloists, music that sets holy words and music without words at all. In some traditions—Islamic and many Native American, to name just two--the relation between music and religious ritual is so intimate that it is inaccurate to speak of the music accompanying the ritual. Rather, to perform the ritual is to sing, and to sing the ritual is to perform it. This second edition ...
