The Lingering Garden has a lot of fine specimen of calligraphy.Many of them, which date back to hundred years ago, are included in this book. With the help of this book, readers could have a better understanding of the collection in the Lingering Garden.
This series introduces hundreds of Chinese traditional handicraft which started from Jiangsu province. It focuses on reorganizing and expressing the traditional handicraft in this area, and will be very helpful for understanding their origin and development.
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This series introduces hundreds of Chinese traditional handicraft which started from Jiangsu province. It focuses on reorganizing and expressing the traditional handicraft in this area, and will be very helpful for understanding their origin and development.
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Gold bricks produced by the imperial kiln in Suzhou in eastern Jiangsu Province are not actually made of gold. The smooth, shiny bricks are big and square. They got their name from their quality, the tedious manufacturing process and the high cost involved. The bricks, which have long been used to build imperial palaces, are a specialty of Lumu, a small village near Yangcheng Lake in Suzhou. In the early 15th century when the Forbidden City began to be constructed, the bricks made in Lumu were recommended to the Ming government (1368-1644). Central government officials assigned to Lumu found the yellow earth in Lumu was especially good to make bricks. Besides the special material, the advanced firing technique and the strict firing procedures of the Lumu kiln also contributed to producing the high-quality gold bricks. Thus the Lumu kiln was named the Imperial Kiln by the Ming emperor.
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China enjoys a profound civilization. Among countless classics, some are of rich meaning and deep insights, which has influenced people’s personality, mindset, morality and appreciation of beauty. These classics serve as a door to the understanding of Chinese culture. This series offers readers a way to learn classics through the calligraphy of master Sun Xiaoyun.
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This series introduces hundreds of Chinese traditional handicraft which started from Jiangsu province. It focuses on reorganizing and expressing the traditional handicraft in this area, and will be very helpful for understanding their origin and development.
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It tells the story of the craftsmen and their families. They all come from the Shen Village, the hometown of the writer. They are gardeners, tailors and blacksmiths. From the story, we can see the change of northern Suzhou. And the writer reminisces about her hometown. The prosperity or decline of Shen Village not only shows the changes of the time, but also tells about the fate of karma.
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Ximi is a shy young boy from the countryside. A female graduate from the city of Suzhou was sent to live in Ximi’s village in the late 1960s. This beautiful young woman, with her pure and gentle character and her spirit power, led Ximi, formerly an obstinate and unruly country boy, into a new period of growth. With detailed description of subtle emotion, this is an elegant book about a boy’s growth of the soul. The peaceful village, the quiet wheat field, the spinning windmill, little boats in a river, pigeons of different colors, the snow-white fluffy ends of reeds, and the smoke curling upwards, such year-round beautiful country scenery is the witness to the boy's coming-of-age ceremony.
This book presents Suzhou’s ‘abnormally prosperous’ city life during the Second Sino-Japanese War through studying four leisure trades in Suzhou – tea houses, restaurants, hotels and opium dens. The book reverses the perceived wisdom about an occupied area where it is destined to be war-torn, to endure economic recession and business, financial and industrial sectors shrinkage. This book examines people’s everyday life through contextualizing a city in the bigger picture of an epoch while enquiring into people’s consuming habits and the crowd psychology in that abnormal prosperity.
Series of Books of "Unfolding the history series" is composed of 12 themes: The Great Wall, Terra Cotta Warriors, Mogan Grottoes, Forbidden City, Leshan Giant Buddha Statue, Dujiangyan Irrigation System, Sanxingdui Bronze Works and Classical Gardens of Suzhou,etc. For the books, a proper way easy to be received by children will take children into a brand-new realm showing miracle and grandeur of ancient civilization of China.
This encyclopedia is a complete work that highlights various Chinese themes with texts and images. Demonstrating a rich array of unique Chinese elements, including history, geography, politics, economy, literature, arts and the alike, and from the past to the present, the work mirrors the soul of Chinese civilization. With 1020 items and over 1000 pictures, this encyclopedia is especially applicable to foreign readers who are eager to learn about China. This book is printed in full color and laced with facts and photographs that verify and complement each other, making abstract knowledge more visualized and easy to access.
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China.
