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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ancient China"”.
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The examination of the traditional femininity and women’s lives in ancient China
… femininity in relation to women’s lives in ancient China (221 BCE – A.D.1840). It proposes that the traditional Chinese femininity had been trying to seek a balance between the permanent principles and contingency plans for the stability and development of the society, which caused women’s …
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The ceramic technology of bronze-casting molds in ancient China : production practices at three western Zhou foundry sites in the Zhouyuan area
… and first millennia BCE, peoples living near China's Yellow and Yangzi Rivers produced bronze ritual and military paraphernalia that represent arguably the most sophisticated use of metal casting by any ancient society. These objects were cast by pouring bronze into mold assemblies composed of …
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A Study of Shangshu Excerpts in Qunshu Zhiyao [The Governing Principles of Ancient China] 《群書治要·尚書選》考述
… Stone Classics(AD 837). It also used many ancient characters in pre-Qin script from Liguding隸古定version. Besides, the annotations recorded in it quoted original manuscripts of pseudo-Kong chapters except Canon of Shun舜 典selected from other scholars. This thesis focuses on the Shangshu …
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A peptide, QUB-1420, from the defensive skin secretion of Heilongjiang Brown Frog Rana amurensis
… an efficient anti-microbial defence system. In ancient China, people had already realised that frog could be used to cure some diseases. Currently, a lot of components in the frog skin secretions have been identified, such as biogenic amines, steroids, alkaloids and peptides and protein, many of …
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Translating Peking opera for the London stage: Lady Precious Stream
… forms of Classical Chinese Opera in China today. The overall aesthetic impact of Peking Opera in performance reflects Confucianism’s emphasis on the harmony – cosmic, social and personal – that arises from the observance of the natural order of things, making it highly-formulaic and …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
… incantatory, and divinatory manuals from early China. These manuals are studied collectively as medicine and people's engagement with the spirit world were inseparable. While there has been much research into the early Chinese medical and divinatory landscape, the materialistic and textual …
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The Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: A Theory of Moral Discourse and International Norms
… evidence which suggests that political actors in Ancient China, the early Islamic empire, early medieval Europe, and modern international society all endorsed similar normative ideas for protecting the victims of war, I claim that humanitarian protection norms are fairly common in the history of …
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On the Periphery of a Great "Empire": Secondary Formation of States and Their Material Basis in the Shandong Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age, ca. 1000-500 B.C.E
… been of considerable interest to the study of ancient China due to its location in the eastern periphery of the central culture. For the Western Zhou state, Shandong was the "Far East" and it was a vast region of diverse landscape and complex cultural traditions during the Late Bronze-Age …
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The Tale of the Southern Tour
… House. The work is a musical sketch depicting ancient Chinese story of Emperor Shun’s southern tour which took place thousands of years ago. The piece consists four sections, with each section depicting a different scene. Different compositional techniques and materials are used to build the …
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Soft Masculinity and Its Discontents in Contemporary China
… billboards and social media platforms in today’s China has attracted scholarly attention. Researchers repeatedly mention keywords such as cultural globalisation, modernisation, consumerism and increasing gender equality as if this is an emerging trend in (mainland) China. The waxing and waning of …
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Retelling an Old Wife’s Tale: Postpartum Care of Taiwanese and Chinese Immigrant Women
… English as doing-the-month. Having its roots in ancient China, this set of practices has maintained its salience today in Taiwan, China, and among first generation immigrant women in the U.S. Women not only continue to perform <em>zuoyuezi</em> at home, many also rely on emerging forms of …
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<i>Cangianti</i> and Shot Silk: Material Influence on Artistic Practice in Central Italian Painting from 1300 to 1550
… <p>Chapter 3 begins with a survey of ancient Greek concepts of color, especially those of Empedocles, Plato, Aristotle, and Theophrastus, whose ideas were inseparable from theories of sight. To gain a better understanding of their theories, I investigated color vision, color …
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An interdisciplinary study of an aesthetic particularism: the ‘Split representation in the Art of Asia and America’
… Haida people from the Northern West Coast, Ancient China (Yangshao and Shang Dynasty), Māori People from New Zealand and Kadiweu people from Brazil. I conducted this inquiry through an online study of academic papers and historical accounts available in online databases, by doing researches …
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Pottery Production, Mortuary Practice, and Social Complexity in the Majiayao Culture, NW China (ca. 5300-4000 BP)
… First discovered in the 1920s in northwestern China, these Neolithic painted pottery vessels have become one of the most popular icons used to depict the rich material culture of ancient China. Today, many museums throughout the world hold Majiayao painted pottery vessels in their collections. …
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An examination of privacy in the socio-technological context of Big Data and the socio-cultural context of China
… and businesses that relate to privacy in China, a rising economic power of the East. China is a country with Confucian heritage and governed under decades of Communist leadership. Its philosophical traditions and social fabric have shaped the perception of privacy since more than 2,000 …
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Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China
… of musical references in Warring States and Han China.’ This study traces and analyses musico-political links in texts dating to these periods. In doing so, it demonstrates how textual references to music may be used as rhetorical tools, attesting to ideological conflicts raging within early …