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Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects, edited by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, explores East Asian collections in "peripheral" areas of Europe and North America and their relationship with the East Asian collections in former imperial and colonial centres. The authors not only present the stories of a number of less well-known individual objects and collections, but also discuss the evolution of fashions and tastes in East Asian objects in areas that were not centres of European colonial power, and the socioeconomic conditions in which they were collected. To date, research on the collecting of East Asian objects in the Euro-American region has focused prima...
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Himalaya Calling: The Origins of China and India will take the reader through a journey through the periods of time and places starting from the beginning of civilization from the Himalayas and extending into the Himalaya Sphere. The chapters in the book enable the reader to view the dynamics of China and India from the geo-civilizational paradigm of the Himalaya Sphere. Among the other new concepts introduced is a new understanding of the Buddhist tryst with China's developing process as a super-state and the interaction of the dynamics of ‘wandering ascetics’ from India and ‘householder’ in China. It conveys the message of two ‘civilization-states’ as akin to oases in the deser...
Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship of ancient artifacts and inscriptions. As a scholarly field, jinshi was inaugurated in the Northern Song (960–1127) and remained popular until the early twentieth century. Literally the study of inscriptions on bronze vessels and stone steles, jinshi combined calligraphy and painting, the collection of artifacts, and philological and historical research. For aficionados of Chinese art, the practices of jinshi offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of traditional Chinese scholars and artists, who spent their days roaming the sometimes seamy world of the commercial art ...
When she saw him for the first time, on the night of the full moon, he was the wild wolf and plundered her beauty at no allowance.When she met him again, he was the Duke of the United Kingdom."From now on, when I stand you cannot sit, when I lie down you must sit on me and move yourself!""No revealing clothing, no contact with any other male except me......" "..."All of the rules restricted her freedom. And at last, she couldn't stand him any longer, she shouted: "Stop, Duke! I've had enough with this!""You want me to stop? Sweetie, if you stay with me, you only can let me 'do not stop'..."Damn it, she's had the bad luck of her life to mess with the wolfish Duke..." This is Book 3 of Stop,Your Grace!(5 books)
Provides a summary of information contained in the microfiche collection entitled: Chinese biographical archive.
Provides a summary of information contained in the microfiche collection entitled: Chinese biographical archive.