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A Social History of Medieval China
A valuable reference work for the social history of China in the period 960-1279 from leading Chinese scholars.
Handbook of Chinese Mythology
Compiled from ancient and scattered texts and based on groundbreaking new research, Handbook of Chinese Mythology is the most comprehensive English-language work on the subject ever written from an exclusively Chinese perspective. This work focuses on the Han Chinese people but ranges across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China, showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. A quick reference section covers all major deities, spirits, and demigods, as well as important places, mythical animals and plants, and related items.
Asian Popular Culture
Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media, edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons, is an interdisciplinary study of popular culture practices in Asia, including regional and national studies of Japan, China, South Korea, and Australia. The contributors explore the evolution and intersection of popular forms (gaming, manga, anime, film, music, fiction, YouTube videos) and explicate the changing cultural meanings of these media in historical and contemporary contexts. At this study's core are the roles popular culture plays in the construction of national and regional identity. Common themes in this text include the impact of new information technology, whether it be on gam...
He's Like a Star
The mud at the edge of the fields, the sharp straw, the heavy basket, drove her from nothing to the position of a million years salary, the hardships within were only known to her. Her granny treated her as a ATM, her eccentric relatives treated her as a piece of fat, her cousin shamelessly hooked her fiancé and then, as a matter of course, asked her for the dowry money. "Three years from now, we will get a divorce and not disturb each other." After being betrayed by her fiancé, a marriage contract like this was thrown in front of her. She didn't even think about following the man to the Civil Affairs Bureau to obtain his certificate. After the marriage, before she could vent her anger of betrayal, Mr. Qi had started to play it for real!
He Who Breaks the Earth
Wicked Saints meets There Will Come a Darkness in this sequel to the atmospheric, “tightly woven” (Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author) She Who Rides the Storm that follows the four thieves turned unlikely allies as one of their own decides where their loyalties lie. Mateo spent years believing he suffered from a strange wasting sickness, but he’s finally learned the much darker truth. Now he will do whatever it takes to save himself, even if it means betraying Lia, the one girl who’s ever made him care about something besides his research. It doesn’t help that his father kidnapped the last living member of Lia’s family, and Lia is only coming back into Mateo’s...
Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History
The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural centrality resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese people to retain control over social and economic developments. The study focuses on two and a half million people in three prefectures of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the "central plain”--a common synecdoche for C...
Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road
Western scholars of ancient Chinese ceramics have long thought blue and white porcelain manufactured before the Ming (1368-1644 A.D.), dates to the Yuan (1279-1368 A.D.). Even in China today these porcelains are still termed “Yuan Blue and White.” Based upon first-hand surveys of sites in Inner Mongolia, Adam T. Kessler’s Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road demonstrates that blue and white was made during the Song (960-1279 A.D.) ended up in the hands of the Xi Xia (1038-1226 A.D.) and the Jin (1115-1234 A.D.). Blue and white found today in hoards was buried prior to Mongol invasions of China in the 1200s. Sites from the Philippines to Egypt have yielded Song blue and white. Also reviewed is the cobalt-bearing ore used by Song China to create blue and white.
Urban Magic Eye
The impoverished graduate Li Hao occasionally obtained the broken treasure of the Immortal World and became a dragon from then on. Stone gambling made a fortune. He gained the reputation of being a doctor. He became rich in casinos. From then on, his wealth surged, he had endless luck and his most beautiful first date and so on entered his world. With so many beauties present, to Li Hao, who was lacking in willpower, this was a severe test.
Street of Eternal Happiness
'Enjoyable and illuminating . . . Rob Schmitz writes with great affection' Guardian Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas and opportunity. Rob Schmitz is one of them. He immerses himself in his neighbourhood, forging relationships with ordinary people who see a brighter future in the city's sleek skyline. There's Zhao, whose path from factory floor to shopkeeper is sidetracked by her desperate measures to ensure a better future for her sons. Down the street lives Auntie Fu, a fervent capitalist forever trying to improve herself while keeping her sceptical husband at bay. Up a flight of stairs, CK se...
The Strongest Soldier King
Ye Feng, who once stood at the peak of the world and made the world tremble. Conspiracy had allowed him to be reborn into a useless cripple with the same surname and surname. And to see, how could Ye Feng return to the peak from being a loser. As long as I, Ye Feng, am not dead, I will make the world cry.
