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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Warring States"”.
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From Premodern Xiaoshuo To A Modern Sino-Japanese Discourse On Fiction: A New History Of Xiaoshuo From The Warring States To The Twentieth Century
The first modern Chinese study of the history of premodern Chinese fiction is Lu Xun’s 魯迅 (1881-1936) A Brief History of Chinese Fiction 中國小說史略 (A Brief History hereafter), a work of fundamental importance in Western and Chinese academia. Lu’s influence on the study of premodern Chinese fiction is …
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《荀子》中的两种文化--荀子思想的基本性格及其思想史的诠释 = Two patterns of Culture in XunZi - The Basic Character of XunZi's Thought and an interpretation in the Scope of Intellectual History
… cultures of the Zhou dynasty and the Warring States period. Specifically, utilitarianism was the mainstream thinking during the Warring States period in which Xun Zi lived, yet his broader sense of utilitarianism inherited and absorbed the elements of rites and music from the Zhou …
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Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China
… philosophical, and military treatises of the Warring States (戰國, 453-221 BCE) and Western Han (西漢 206 BCE-9 AD) periods. In a few words, it can be defined as ‘a socio-political analysis of musical references in Warring States and Han China.’ This study traces and analyses musico-political …
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Shi in Architecture: the Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Doors
… philosophical schools of thought during the Warring States Period: the advantageous shi, the authoritative shi and the self-so-doing shi, are re-engaged as the theoretical framework for this study. The three categories of shi correspondingly shed light on the understanding of the craftiness …
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The state of the clear-sighted ruler as envisioned by Han Fei and his predecessors
… (d. 233 BCE), a prince from China’s tumultuous Warring States period, is thought to have influenced the governing philosophies of rulers from the First Emperor (d. 210 BCE) to Xi Jinping. This dissertation challenges our prevailing scholarly understanding of Han Fei as the “great synthesizer” of …
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In the Name of the Realm: The Loyal Service of House Hosokawa in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Japan’s sengoku—warring states—period (1467–1615) has been popularized in the West by the 2024 television adaptation of James Clavell’s 1975 novel Shōgun. But the period has not received scholarly attention in the West commensurate with its popularity—this is a natural consequence of the …
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BURIAL AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN ITALIAN IRON AGE NECROPOLES: TESTING A BIODISTANCE APPROACH
… sociopolitical landscapes just prior to a warring-states period and emergence of Rome as world power. A multivariate statistical approach investigates skeletal estimations of biological kinship (“biodistance”) and its role in the burial and social organizational practices of two central …
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‘Action through non-action’: self-transformation and social transformation at the PRC grassroots
… ethical-political tradition, dating from the Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), which sees societal political progress as predicated on prior individual self-transformation. My overarching argument is that in contemporary China, discourses and practices of self-improvement have mediated, and …