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Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken captive to the north after the Liang capital fell, and served several northern dynasties. Today he remains one of the best-known medieval writers for his book-length “family instructions” (jiaxun), the earliest surviving and the most influential of its kind. Completed in his last years, the work resembles a long letter addressed to his sons, in which he discusses a wide range of topics from family relations and remarriage to religious ...
"Hubby, come on, today is our wedding day, aren't we going to do something meaningful?" "Ha, not yet. I still have some infectious diseases that I haven't cured. Let's talk about them when I'm done." ...... "Damn you, He Chen. You told me that you have an infectious disease, yet you're fooling around with this bitch!" "Since you've found out, I won't hide it anymore. I've never liked you before."
"That Julia Andrews has reached sources that are so sensitive and difficult with such success is remarkable. The book is unquestionably a brilliant job, well-written, understandable, and of enormous scholarly value."--Joan Lebold Cohen, author of The New Chinese Painting
This book situates the development of 20th and 21st century Chinese art in such fundamental contexts as Chinese politics and social change and is ideally suited for readers to understand the particularities of Chinese art that are distinct from Western art history. Such an approach is appropriate to the understanding of the development of modern Chinese art, which differs from both the Western approach to art history and the approach to traditional Chinese art, which is limited to the combing of ink and brush heritage and ideological traditions. Based on the scale and influence of historical works, considering the specificity of the term involving 'fine art' in China, and the scope of influence of the phenomenon of fine art in the cultural field, this book is mainly limited to the study of artistic phenomena completed by painting, sculpture, photography, video, and mixed media. The main readers of this book are: undergraduate students in art schools, graduate and doctoral students in art history; students in other humanities disciplines; experts and professors in the study of 20th century Chinese art and cultural history should be important readers of this book.
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, the first publication of its kind since 1898, is the work of more than one hundred internationally recognized experts from nearly a dozen countries. It has been designed to satisfy the growing thirst of students, researchers, professionals, and general readers for knowledge about China. It makes the entire span of Chinese history manageable by introducing the reader to emperors, politicians, poets, writers, artists, scientists, explorers, and philosophers who have shaped and transformed China over the course of five thousand years. In 135 entries, ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 words and written by some of the world's leading China scholars, the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography takes the reader from the important (even if possibly mythological) figures of ancient China to Communist leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. The in-depth essays provide rich historical context, and create a compelling narrative that weaves abstract concepts and disparate events into a coherent story. Cross-references between the articles show the connections between times, places, movements, events, and individuals.
The greatest wish of a housewife who had transmigrated was to continue eating lazily without doing anything.But what sort of status was most suitable for such a pig's life?It would be best to marry a rich man, a man with many wives, a rich man who often ignored her existence, a man who had absolute power and did not have to worry about suddenly losing his family.For example ...Emperor? Or the idle prince...]
As soon as she entered the house, she was immediately declared to be married to a fool. She desperately escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den. Being coerced, threatened, and pressed. "Woman, once you enter my room, you must give birth to my son!" Mu Huan foolishly asked, "Why not daughter?" He replied with a cold voice, "Then it will be one son and one daughter." In the following days, all kinds of knocking sounds could be heard. She would be reborn many years later. She would be a famous designer, but he said that in this life, she had only designed the most perfect piece of work for him.
As Su Qinghuan put her hands on her hips, she said, "With medical skills in hand, I have all the skills in the world!" What? You're accusing me of not marrying seventeen? No problem, buy a sickly guy, sit and wait to become a widow, earn a chastity memorial archway! However, with a change in his bearing, how did he become a powerful general? Su Qing Huan: Hey, hey, hey. You took the wrong script. This is Tian Wen! The female lead likes to take off the tease, kind-hearted and tough; the male lead is overbearing and affectionate, playing the pig to eat the tiger; Joy and tears, sorrow and joy, but deep love never let down.
Folk art is now widely recognized as an integral part of the modern Chinese cultural heritage, but in the early twentieth century, awareness of folk art as a distinct category in the visual arts was new. Internationally, intellectuals in different countries used folk arts to affirm national identity and cultural continuity in the midst of the changes of the modern era. In China, artists, critics and educators likewise saw folk art as a potentially valuable resource: perhaps it could be a fresh source of cultural inspiration and energy, representing the authentic voice of the people in contrast to what could be seen as the limited and elitist classical tradition. At the same time, many Chines...