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Beast Cop In Romantic City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 680

Beast Cop In Romantic City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-05-20
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  • Publisher: Funstory

Traveling a part of the city, painting a legend. Li Jun, who had a background of "Golden Hunter", returned to the city after three years of silence. Facing his jealous, jealous, petty and stingy superior, the Qing Gang had cheated each other internally, and the ancient mafia, Barnano Family's global wanted poster ... ... He put on his black leather suit, tied the Widow Maker, and pushed the bullets from the Golden Desert Eagle into the chamber of the gun, moving against the wind. Just how many piles of bones did he need to be able to do whatever he wanted? He could do anything he wanted!

Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Mediation of Legitimacy in Early China

Scholarship on early China has traditionally focused on a core group of canonical texts. However, understudied sources have the potential to shift perspectives on fundamental aspects of Chinese intellectual, religious, and political history. Yegor Grebnev examines crucial noncanonical texts preserved in the Yi Zhou shu (Neglected Zhou Scriptures) and the Grand Duke traditions, which represent scriptural traditions influential during the Warring States period but sidelined in later history. He develops an innovative framework for the study and interpretation of these texts, focusing on their role in the mediation of royal legitimacy and their formative impact on early Daoism. Grebnev demonstr...

Rural Doctor's Romantic Affairs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 984

Rural Doctor's Romantic Affairs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-07-26
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  • Publisher: Funstory

After graduation, I became a little doctor in the village. I accidentally touched Second Sister-in-law when I was drunk that day. She told me to go to her house at night to give her an injection ...

Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancient: from copies, replicas and imitations to fakes and forgeries. Fakes are often a response to a demand from the public or scholarly milieu, or even both. The motives behind their production may be economic, political, religious or personal – aspiring to fame or simply playing a joke. Fakes may be revealed by combining the study of their contents, codicological, epigraphic and palaeographic analyses, and scientific investigations. However, certain famous unsolved cases still continue to defy technology today, no matter how advanced it is. Nowadays, one can find fakes in museums and private collections alike; they abound on the antique market, mixed with real artefacts that have often been looted. The scientific community’s attitude to such objects calls for ethical reflection.

Writing Early China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Writing Early China

Archaeological discoveries over the past one hundred years have resulted in repeated calls to "rewrite ancient Chinese history." This is especially true of documents written on oracle bones, bronze vessels, and bamboo strips. In Writing Early China, Edward L. Shaughnessy surveys all of these types of documents and considers what they reveal about the creation and transmission of knowledge in ancient China. Opposed to the common view that most knowledge was transmitted orally in ancient China, Shaughnessy demonstrates that by no later than the tenth century BCE scribes were writing lengthy texts like portions of the Chinese classics, and that by the fourth century BCE the primary mode of textual transmission was by way of visual copying from one manuscript to another.

Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The Tsinghua University bamboo-strip manuscripts are among the most extraordinary collections of ancient texts discovered in China to date. In Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts, Liu Guozhong, one of the scholars intimately involved in editing the Tsinghua strips, offers a straightforward overview to the complexities inherent in researching this collection. Liu provides an invaluable glimpse into how these artifacts were cleaned, preserved, and prepared for publication, while also situating them within a history of similar finds. He moreover explores in detail a number of crucial questions raised by the Tsinghua strips, from the transmission of the Shangshu and the nature of the oft-neglected Yi Zhoushu, to the implications these texts have for our understanding of early Western Zhou history.

Political Implications of China's Technocracy in the Reform Era
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Political Implications of China's Technocracy in the Reform Era

This book focuses on the evolution of technocracy in contemporary Chinese politics and its implications in China’s elite politics and policymaking. The rise of technocracy in contemporary Chinese politics is not only attributed to the meritocratic tradition based on civil service exams in ancient China but also tied to the current authoritarian political system that relies on the top-down cadre promotion approach instead of public elections. Leaders with technocratic backgrounds have brought changes to China’s political landscape since technocrats tend to solve governance issues using technical solutions in an industrialized society as compared to pure politicians and revolutionaries, wh...

Co-operative Innovations in China and the West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Co-operative Innovations in China and the West

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-07-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book aims to contribute to our understanding of recent changes in Chinese and Western cooperatives. It will provide a variety of audiences with relevant and useful information for further co-operative development, mutual understanding and cooperation.

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy challenges the traditional accounts of the nature and formation of the Shangshu and its individual chapters. As it analyzes in detail the central ideas and precepts given voice in the text, it further recasts the Shangshu as a collection of dynamic cultural products that expressed and shaped the political and intellectual discourses of different times and communities. Contributors are: Joachim Gentz, Yegor Grebnev, Magnus Ribbing Gren, Michael Hunter, Martin Kern, Maria Khayutina, Robin McNeal, Dirk Meyer, Yuri Pines, Charles Sanft, David Schaberg, Kai Vogelsang.

Chinese Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Chinese Politics

Written by a team of leading China specialists, this updated 2nd edition of Chinese Politics explores the dynamics of state power and politics in contemporary China, focusing on the Xi Jinping era. Through its multi-disciplinary contributions, this book explores the extent to which Xi has reshaped the political, economic, socio-cultural, and demographic terrains of the PRC, as well as Beijing’s foreign policy. The book will help readers to think productively about the trajectory of these aspects of Chinese politics and society through Xi’s current term and beyond. The book also highlights the potential role outside countries and non-state actors might play in shaping China’s trajectory...