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The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi

A longtime teacher and Harvard researcher presents the latest science on the benefits of T’ai Chi as well as a practical daily program for practitioners of all ages Conventional medical science on the Chinese art of T’ai Chi now shows what T’ai Chi masters have known for centuries: regular practice leads to more vigor and flexibility, better balance and mobility, and a sense of well-being. Cutting-edge research from Harvard Medical School also supports the long-standing claims that T’ai Chi also has a beneficial impact on the health of the heart, bones, nerves and muscles, immune system, and the mind. This research provides fascinating insight into the underlying physiological mechan...

Handbook of Research on Science Literacy Integration in Classroom Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Handbook of Research on Science Literacy Integration in Classroom Environments

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-12
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Secondary schools are continually faced with the task of preparing students for a world that is more connected, advanced, and globalized than ever before. In order to adequately prepare students for their future, educators must provide them with strong reading and writing skills, as well as the ability to understand scientific concepts. The Handbook of Research on Science Literacy Integration in Classroom Environments is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the importance of cross-curriculum/discipline connections in improving student understanding and education. While highlighting topics such as curriculum integration, online learning, and instructional coaching, this publication explores practices in teaching students how to analyze and interpret data, as well as reading, writing, and speaking. This book is ideally designed for teachers, graduate-level students, academicians, instructional designers, administrators, and education researchers seeking current research on science literacy adoption in contemporary classrooms.

The New and the Multiple
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

The New and the Multiple

This is the first comprehensive English study of Sung Chinese historical consciousness. Written by leading Sung scholars in the United States, Europe, Japan and Taiwan, the eleven articles in this collection seek to understand how Sung scholars perceived the past.

Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Controversies in Modern Chinese Intellectual History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973-06-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

An analytic bibliography of periodical articles on controversies in modern Chinese intellectual history, mainly focused on the May Fourth movement and the Post-May Fourth periods..

Shotoku
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Shotoku

Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important phenomena in early Japanese religion. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his deatha period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. Michael Como highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. He skillfully places these groups in their socio-cultural context and convincingly demonstrates their pivota...

Trade and Expansion in Han China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Trade and Expansion in Han China

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.

How to Read the Chinese Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

How to Read the Chinese Novel

Fiction criticism has a long and influential history in pre-modern China, where critics would read and reread certain novels with a concentration and fervor far exceeding that which most Western critics give to individual works. This volume, a source book for the study of traditional Chinese fiction criticism from the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, presents translations of writings taken from the commentary editions of six of the most important novels of pre-modern China. These translations consist mainly of tu-fa, or "how-to-read" essays, which demonstrate sensitivity and depth of analysis both in the treatment of general problems concerning the reading of any work of fict...

Trade and Expansion in Han China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Trade and Expansion in Han China

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Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 888

Inventing Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-10-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Hui-neng, the patriarchal ancestor of all existing Ch’an/Zen, was invented by Shen-hui (684-758) based on a fusion of Buddhist and Confucian themes. This propaganda led to the creation of a large hagiographical literature that determined the trajectory of Ch’an.

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1961-06-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The authors list and briefly describe nearly 500 books on modern Chinese history published in Communist China between 1949 and 1959. Includes an introductory essay.