China : a new cultural history

The Resource China : a new cultural history
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China : a new cultural history
Title remainder
a new cultural history
Statement of responsibility
Cho-Yun Hsu ; translated by Timothy D. Baker, Jr. and Michael S. Duke
Title variation
New cultural history of China
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  • eng
  • chi
  • eng
Summary
An internationally recognized authority on Chinese history and a leading innovator in its telling, the author constructs an original portrait of Chinese culture. Unlike most historians, he resists centering his narrative on China's political evolution, focusing instead on the country's cultural sphere and its encounters with successive waves of globalization. Beginning long before China's written history and extending through the twentieth century, he follows the content and expansion of Chinese culture, describing the daily lives of commoners, their spiritual beliefs and practices, the changing character of their social and popular thought, and their advances in material culture and technology. In addition to listing the achievements of emperors, generals, ministers, and sages, he builds detailed accounts of these events and their everyday implications. Dynastic change, the rise and fall of national ambitions, and the growth and decline of institutional systems take on new significance through the author's careful research, which captures the multiple strands that gave rise to China's pluralistic society. Paying particular attention to influential relationships occurring outside of Chinese cultural boundaries, he demonstrates the impact of foreign influences on Chinese culture and identity and identifies similarities between China's cultural developments and those of other nations
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DLC
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  • illustrations
  • maps
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index present
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Translated from the Chinese
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Masters of Chinese Studies
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