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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this new book, one of the world's the leading writers in the field, looks at Christianity's long history in China, its extraordinarily rapid rise in the last half of the twentieth century, and charts its future direction. Bays expertly tracks the expansion of Christianity in China from the seventh century to the present day, charting how a religion first brought into China by a foreign mission has been adapted by the local population into part...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
In its period of slow decline from the late 18th into the early 20th century and throughout its 20th century revolution, one of the most important problems facing individual Chinese and China as a nation was choosing appropriate political, social, cultural, and economic identities as contexts and situations changed. This documentary history of 20th century China begins with the turn-of-the-century Boxer uprising to set the stage for understanding...
Author
Publisher
University of Hawaiʻi Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it. The shift in drinking habits that occurred in late medieval China cannot be understood...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 201 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chinese natives rarely attempt to explain their country to outsiders; everything they know is China, and everyone they know is Chinese. China is so all-absorbing that the idea of helping foreigners understand its customs, traditions, and history seems pointless. In this book, Ge Zhaoguang has undertaken the task of explaining China to foreigners. He examines the historical and cultural background of China's emergence as a major world power from a...
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