Windows on the Chinese World - Reflections by Five Historians

Informationen zum Autor Clara Wing-chung Ho Klappentext The value of this collection lies in its linking together of a group of internationally renowned scholars who are at the forefront of their fields to present some of their recent findings on different historical issues. By covering different topics and periods, this volume is representative of contemporary Western scholarship in Chinese history. Zusammenfassung The value of this collection lies in its linking together of a group of internationally renowned scholars who are at the forefront of their fields to present some of their recent findings on different historical issues. By covering different topics and periods! this volume is representative of contemporary Western scholarship in Chinese history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Chronologies of Ancient China: A Critique of the "Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology" Project Chapter 3 2. The Politics of Imperial Collecting in the Northern Song Period Chapter 4 3. Who is Responsible for the Limits of Jesuit Scientific and Technical Transmission from Europe to China in the Eighteenth Century? Chapter 5 4. Marriages, Births, and Deaths in the Lower Yangzi Valley during the Later Eighteenth Century Chapter 6 5. Why Women Were Not a Problem in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Thought

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Clara Ho, Clara Wing-Chung (EDT) Ho
• Mitarbeit: Clara Wing Ho (Herausgeber), Clara Wing-chung Ho (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.10.2008
• EAN: 9780739127698
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2769-8
• Seiten: 135
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: AsiaWorld (Hardcover); AsiaWorld
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Asia, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social and cultural history, Asian History