Open these pages to discover the great figures of Chinese history: Du Yu, the tamer of floods; Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China; Confucius, the great philosopher; Sima Qian, the great historian; and the unforgettable villain, Cao Cao. This book covers the history of Chin…
Volume 1 starts from ancient times and culminates in the last years of the Eastern Jin dynasty (317-420).
Open these pages to discover the great figures of Chinese history: Du Yu, the tamer of floods; Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of China; Confucius, the great philosopher; Sima Qian, the great historian; and the unforgettable villain, Cao Cao. This book covers the history of Chin…
This open access book discusses a variety of important but unprecedented ways in which psychology can be useful to philosophy. The early chapters illustrate this theme via comparisons between Chinese and Western philosophy. It is argued that the Chinese notion of a heart-mind is…
Gender and sexuality in modern Chinese history
by Mann, Susan
fromNew approaches to Asian history
"Susan Mann focuses on the often neglected issue of the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from the late imperial times to modern times." "Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, w…
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Le grand livre de la Chine
by Liu Le Grix, Libin, Chancel, Claude
fromLe Grand livre (Paris. 2009)
"The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's impossibility to develop industrial capit…
ÞThe Confucian-Legalist stateþ analyzes the history of China between the 11th century BCE and 1911 under the guidance of a new theory of social change. It centers on two questions. First, how and why China was unified and developed into a bureaucratic empire under the state of Q…
"The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's impossibility to develop industrial capit…
'The Confucian-Legalist State' proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's inability to develop industrial capitali…
"The Confucian-Legalist State proposes a new theory of social change and, in doing so, analyzes the patterns of Chinese history, such as the rise and persistence of a unified empire, the continuous domination of Confucianism, and China's impossibility to develop industrial capit…