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Genre | : China |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1870 |
File | : 482 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UOM:39015049818100 |
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Genre | : China |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1870 |
File | : 482 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UOM:39015049818100 |
Genre | : |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1870 |
File | : 466 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : BSB:BSB10620719 |
This two-volume travelogue, first published in 1870, records the observations of the Scottish missionary Alexander Williamson (1829-90).
Genre | : History |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Release | : 2012-08-02 |
File | : 465 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9781108045735 |
Genre | : China |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : |
Release | : 1870 |
File | : 474 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : UCAL:$B296384 |
This travelogue chronicles the journeys of Alexander Williamson through North China, Manchuria, and Eastern Mongolia in the late 19th century. Along the way, Williamson offers readers a glimpse into the cultures, customs, and history of the regions he visits. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Genre | : |
Author | : Alexander Williamson |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
File | : 0 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 1020047801 |
Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls’ feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.
Genre | : Social Science |
Author | : John Robert Shepherd |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Release | : 2018-12-18 |
File | : 274 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780295744421 |
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, it has been entirely neglected by historians of science. This book is the first comprehensive study on this topic. In a series of vivid chapters, Fa-ti Fan examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of empire, and of Sino-Western relations. The author gives a panoramic view of how the British naturalists and the Chinese explored, studied, and represented China's natural world in the social and cultural environment of Qing China. Using the example of British naturalists in China, the author argues for reinterpreting the history of natural history, by including neglected historical actors, intellectual traditions, and cultural practices. His approach moves beyond viewing the history of science and empire within European history and considers the exchange of ideas, aesthetic tastes, material culture, and plants and animals in local and global contexts. This compelling book provides an innovative framework for understanding the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural encounters. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Port 1. Natural History in a Chinese Entrepà ́t 2. Art, Commerce, and Natural History II. The Land 3. Science and Informal Empire 4. Sinology and Natural History 5. Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior Epilogue Appendix: Selected Biographical Notes Abbreviations Notes Index Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qing is both a delight and a revelation. The topic has scarcely been addressed by historians of science, and this work fills important gaps in our knowledge of British scientific practice in a noncolonial context and of Chinese reactions to Western science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to the culture of Victorian naturalists and Sinology, Fan shows an admirable grasp of visual representation in science, Chinese taxonomic schemes, Chinese export art, British imperial scholarship, and journeys of exploration. His treatment of the China trade and descriptions of Chinese markets and nurseries are especially welcome. I learned a great deal, and I strongly recommend this book. --Philip Rehbock, author of Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology By focusing on the experiences of British naturalists in China during a time when it was gradually being opened up to foreign influences, Fan makes at least two important contributions to history of science: He gives us an authoritative study of British naturalists in China (as far as I know the only one of its kind), and he forces us to rethink some of our categories for doing history of science, including how we conceive of the relationship between science and imperialism, and between Western naturalist and native. Fan's scholarship is meticulous, with careful attention to detail, and his prose is clear, controlled, and succinct. --Bernard Lightman, editor of Victorian Science in Context
Genre | : History |
Author | : Fa-ti FAN |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
File | : 269 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674036680 |
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Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
Author | : N. J. Girardot |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Release | : 2002-09-05 |
File | : 824 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0520215524 |
In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Joseph Esherick |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Release | : 1987 |
File | : 472 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 9780520064591 |
In the summer of 1900, bands of peasant youths from the villages of north China streamed into Beijing to besiege the foreign legations, attracting the attention of the entire world. Joseph Esherick reconstructs the early history of the Boxers, challenging the traditional view that they grew from earlier anti-dynastic sects, and stressing instead the impact of social ecology and popular culture.
Genre | : History |
Author | : Joseph W. Esherick |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Release | : 1988-08-18 |
File | : 476 Pages |
ISBN-13 | : 0520908961 |