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Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 678

Song Blue and White Porcelain on the Silk Road

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-07-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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.

Information Computing and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 793

Information Computing and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Computing and Applications, ICICA 2010, held in Qinhuangdao, China, in October 2011. The 97 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are organized in topical sections on computational economics and finance, computational statistics, mobile computing and applications, social networking and computing, intelligent computing and applications, internet and Web computing, paralelle and distributed computing, and system simulation and computing.

Dimensions of Originality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Dimensions of Originality

  • Categories: Art

This book investigates the issue of conceptual originality in art criticism of the seventeenth century, a period in which China dynamically reinvented itself. In art criticism, the term which was called upon to indicate conceptual originality more than any other was "qi", literally, "different"; but secondarily, "odd," like a number and by extension, "the novel," and "extraordinary." This work finds that originality, expressed through visual difference, was a paradigmatic concern of both artists and critics. Burnett speculates on why many have dismissed originality as a possible "traditional Chinese" value, and the ramifications this has had on art historical understanding. She further demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of "qi" as "originality" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes, and explains how the value lost its luster at the end of the seventeenth century.

Sequel of Dragon Oath
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1112

Sequel of Dragon Oath

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-15
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  • Publisher: Funstory

Buddha said: "The Eight Tribes of Heaven Dragon, Man and Man, all see the Dragon Lady become Buddha." As for the gods, the dragons, the yakshas, the kanda, the asura, the garuda, and the mandara. After the Dragon and Heaven, the most tragic one was Carrolo, because he was Yue Fei's embodiment. Carrolo was a kind of giant bird with all kinds of solemn and precious colors on its wings. Legend has it that Yue Fei was the reincarnation of the Golden Winged Roc, and Jia Luo was the reincarnation of the Golden Winged Roc. When its life ended, the dragons vomited poison and were no longer able to eat. As a result, Garuda flew up and down seven times before finally dying on top of the Vajra Mountain. The complicated plot, ups and downs, locked in a clumsy work, all of this is in the "Heavenly Dragon's Eight Postscript." [Previous Chapter] [Table of Contents] [Next Chapter] Close]

Green Polymer Composites Technology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 614

Green Polymer Composites Technology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-03
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

This book is a comprehensive introduction to "green" or environmentally friendly polymer composites developed using renewable polymers of natural origin such as starch, lignin, cellulose acetate, poly-lactic acid (PLA), polyhydroxylalkanoates (PHA), polyhydroxylbutyrate (PHB), etc., and the development of modern technologies for preparing green composites with various applications. The book also discusses major applications of green polymer composites in industries such as medicine, biotechnology, fine chemicals and engineering.

The Power of Position
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

The Power of Position

Annotation A history of Beijing University, up through the early-twentieth century.

Proceedings of the 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering (ICCASE 2024)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 861

Proceedings of the 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering (ICCASE 2024)

Zusammenfassung: This is an open access book. 2024 8th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Structural Engineering (ICCASE 2024) will be held in Guangzhou during April 19-21, 2024. The conference mainly discussed research areas such as "Engineering Structures", "Smart Buildings", "Building Materials", "Structural Seismic Resistance", "Monitoring and Testing", "Geotechnical Engineering", and "Underground Space Engineering". Intended to provide an exchange platform for experts, scholars, engineering technicians, and technical research and development personnel in related fields. By discussing scientific research achievements and cutting-edge technologies, understanding academic development trends, broadening research ideas, strengthening academic research and exploration, and promoting the industrialization of academic achievements

China's Grandmothers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

China's Grandmothers

Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and above all, sources of love, warmth and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and aging in modern Chinese society.

This Suffering Is My Joy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

This Suffering Is My Joy

Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, noted scholar D. E. Mungello illuminates the period between the imperial expulsion of foreign Christian missionaries in 1724 and their return with European colonialism in the 1800s. Few realize that this was the first time in which Chinese, rather than Europeans, came to control their own church as Chinese clergy and lay leaders maintained communities of clandestine Catholics. Mungello follows the church in a time of persecution, focusing in particular on the role of Chinese clergy and lay leaders in maintaining communities of clandestine Catholics during the eighteenth century. He highlights the parallels be...

2014 International Conference on Biological Engineering and Biomedical
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

2014 International Conference on Biological Engineering and Biomedical

The BEAB 2014 provides a high level international forum to bring together industry professionals, academics, and individuals from institutions, industrials and government agencies to exchange information, share achievements, and discuss the advancement in the fields of Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Material and application, and discussed the practical challenges encountered and the solution adopted. The BEAB2014 tends to collect the latest research results and applications on Biological Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Material and application. It includes a selection of 56 papers from 215 papers submitted to the conference from universities and in...