Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.

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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China 9780231553896

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. S

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Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China 0824843207, 9780824843205

Why do we spend so much on health services, and levels of treatment do not improve? Why do we spend so much on education

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China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) [2] 0674060350

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces

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Mirroring the Past: The Writing and Use of History in Imperial China 9780824843205

China is known for its deep veneration of history. Far more than a record of the past, history to the Chinese is the mag

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The Cambridge illustrated history of China 0521435196, 9780521435192

More populous than any other country on earth, China also occupies a unique place in our modern world for the continuity

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Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912–1949 9781501760631

Touring China tells a fascinating story about the physical and intellectual routes people took on various journeys, agai

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Women and Power in Imperial China 9781495170638

Women and Power in Imperial China focuses on the status and roles of women in China, especially those who had a signific

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Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain 9781442664272

These essays examine a variety of cultural objects described or alluded to in books from the Golden Age of Spanish liter

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The city in late Imperial China 9789576383106

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