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Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange
The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange – culturally, politically, and artistically – across Eurasia. The wide-ranging international exchange that occurred during the Mongol period is most apparent visually through the inclusion of Mongol motifs in textile, paintings, ceramics, and metalwork, among other media. Eiren Shea investigates how a group of newly-conf…
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- 9781032238432
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- xvii,207 p
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- 391.00951 HEA M
Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion To The Taliban
This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghani…
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- 9780520967373
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Yuarn music dramas : studies in prosody and structure and a complete catalogu…
Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii] Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the a…
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- 9780472901470
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- XVI, 376 p
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 40
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- 895.12409 JOH y
Global history with Chinese characteristics : autocratic states along the sil…
This open access book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered commerce, consumption and socioeconomic networks between China and Europe through a particular case study: Macau, connecting with South China, and Marseille in Mediterranean Europe from 1680 to 1800. How did foreign merchant networks and trans‐national com…
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- 9789811578656
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- xxxv, 244p. : ill.
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- 330.95103 PER g
Translating Chinese tradition and teaching Tangut culture : manuscripts and p…
This book is about Tangut translations of Chinese literary texts. Although most of the extant Tangut material comprises Buddhist texts, there are also many non-religious texts, which are mostly translations from Chinese. The central concern is how the Tanguts appropriated Chinese written culture through translation and what their reasons for this were. Of the seven chapters, the first three pro…
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- 9783110453959
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- VIII, 318 p.
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- Studies in Manuscript Cultures, 6
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- 895.4 GAL t
Genealogy, archive, image : interpreting dynastic history in western India, c…
The ethnographic approach to Indian history and genealogy; the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad; the history of Gujarat. ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over th…
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- 9783110539455
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- XVI, 278 p.
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- 954.75 JHA, g
Boundaries and beyond: China's maritime Southeast in late imperial times
Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, these linked essays by a senior scholar challenge the usual readings of Chinese history from the centre. The book begins with the boundaries between “us” and “them”, Chinese and other, during this period, including the rise of state systems. It lo…
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- 9789814722018
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- xiv, 499 pages, 3 pages of plates : maps ; 24 cm
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