"Frederic Wakeman's scholarship is impeccable and the breadth of learning in this book is astounding. I repeatedly found myself slowing down to savor the material. Many of the ...

The Classical Music Of The India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Subcontinent Is One Of The New Ancient Art Forms Still Widely Practised Today. In Recent Years It Has Been Much Appreciated ...

Modern research has not only demonstrated that all these accounts are inventions of a much later period but has also shown why such narratives were composed. The older ...

This comprehensive annotated bibliography of reference works from Chinese, Japanese, and Western language sources covers the 1911 Revolution, the Republic of China (1912-1949 ...

Drawing on history of science and philosophy of knowledge, this wide-ranging collection of essays on varieties of diagram, schema, technical illustration and chart offers a ...

Viewing education as the central battleground over the status of language, this book investigates the language policies of various social agents in early 20th century China and ...

Reflections of Early China is a comprehensive study that presents a historical, archaeological, and theoretical exploration of pictographs and decorations on ancient Chinese ...