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The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the takeover of China by Manchu rulers in the 1640s were of crucial importance in the late history of Chinanbsp But because traditional Chinese sources arbitrarily divide the century at the change of dynasty in 1644 it has been difficult to form a clear picture of the transitionnbsp The nine essays in this book will contribute significantly toward understanding the complexity of change and continuity over the span of time leading up to and resulting from the tumult of the mid1600sThe fullest introduction in English to the MingChing transitionTom Fisher Pacific AffairsNo other recent work compares with its scope and no older work can stand up to the introduction of its new materials and perspectivesLibrary JournalThis book makes a valuable contribution to MingChing studies and should be required reading for anyone interested in the two dynastiesJames B Parsons American Historical Review
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Chinese textiles go back thousands of years The Silk Road was named for the extensive trade in these fine materials Due to Chinas size and history of successive wealthy dynasties a vast amount of textile art is available for study today Great tombs have yielded beautiful and dateable pieces worn and used by elite members of Chinese society These and other fragile examples reside in museums and a few private collections Other examples of antique Chinese textiles are found still to be in the marketplace While it is impossible to look at these beautiful examples and not admire the skill of the weaver and embroiderer until now there has been little information about their history or value This comprehensive guide to collectible Chinese textiles with an extensive number of examples and with an understandable grading system that relates to what constitutes value This book is beautifully illustrated with over 500 detailed photos of ceremonial court robes badges and decorative textiles dating from the Ming dynasty 13681644 through the Ching dynasty 16441911 It is designed for historians Asian studies sholars and textile collectors from beginning to advanced as a realworld representation of available pieces and an indepth study It is a must for appraisers and connoisseurs alike
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This volume is the longawaited reprint of the important pioneering study on Chinese furniture by R H Ellsworth Profusely illustrated it provides a comprehensive study of classical hardwood furniture from the Ming and early Qing dynasties It examines the historical background and gives detailed accounts on Chinese joinery metal mounts changes in seating surfaces the dating of Chinese furniture and conservation and restoration With the authors new introduction and illustrating 155 superb examples this volume is an indispensable reference for scholars collectors dealers and readers interested in the subject
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This volume is the longawaited reprint of the important pioneering study on Chinese furniture by R H Ellsworth Profusely illustrated it provides a comprehensive study of classical hardwood furniture from the Ming and early Qing dynasties It examines the historical background and gives detailed accounts on Chinese joinery metal mounts changes in seating surfaces the dating of Chinese furniture and conservation and restoration With the authors new introduction and illustrating 155 superb examples this volume is an indispensable reference for scholars collectors dealers and readers interested in the subject
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The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of Chinas political contact with the western world which describes a man of his own time and country with his own background of education endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong This important work will be studied with interest by historians of both China and England and of AngloChinese relations
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Chen Tzulung 16081647 was a Ming loyalist and poet who joined the resistance against the Manchu invasion of the 1640s and died a martyr to the cause Giving imaginative expression to his experience of national crisis his poetic writing established him in China as an exemplar of moral courage and literary accomplishment A consequence of his heroic status is that a crucial concern of his poetry namely romantic love has been largely neglected by scholars This Kangi Sun Chang focuses on Chens poetry and establishes a connection between his love poetry and his loyalist writings Chang argues that an appreciation of his love poetry is vital to a full understanding of the more celebrated loyalist poems and demonstrates the broader implications for poetic genre in this era She also discusses Chens lover the captivating and accomplished woman poet Liu Shih shedding light onto the life of 17th century Chinese women The book includes numerous translations of poems by
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of Chinas political contact with the western world which describes a man of his own time and country with his own background of education endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong This important work will be studied with interest by historians of both China and England and of AngloChinese relations
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel ssu ta chishu Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives Professor Plaks shows that their fullest recensions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty especially in the sixteenth century He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the periodOriginally published in 1987The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest printondemand technology to again make available previously outofprint books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state The Magistrates Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern Chinas development
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This is the second of two volumes in this major Cambridge history dealing with the gradual decline of the Ching empire in China the first was volume 10 Volume 11 surveys the persistence and deterioration of the old order in China during the late nineteenth century and the profound stirring during that period which led to Chinas great twentiethcentury revolution The contributors focus on commercial and technological growth foreign relations the stimulation of Chinese intellectual life by the outside world and military triumphs and disasters They show that the effects of the accelerating changes were to fragment the old ruling class and the ancient monarchy finally bringing the Chinese people face to face with the challenges of the new century For readers with Chinese proper names and terms are identified with their characters in the glossary and full references to Chinese Japanese and other works are given in the bibliographies
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This volume of The Cambridge History of China considers the political military social and economic developments of the Ching empire to 1800 The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty covered in Volumes 7 and 8 and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century described in Volume 10 Ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between emperors and their servitors Manchus and nonManchu populations various elite groups competing regional interests merchant networks and agricultural producers and rural and urban interests and at work among all these tensions between old and new China under the Ching dynasty changed and this volume presents these changes underway in the period prior to the advent of Western imperialist military power
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