books about: lilienthal     books:       The Life of a Text: Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (Philip E.Lilienthal Books) Philip Lutgendorf University of California Press, 1991 The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite textthe epic Ramcaritmanasand the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in ...             Wandering Spirits: Chen Shiyuan's Encyclopedia of Dreams (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) Richard E. Strassberg University of California Press, 2008 Dreams have been taken seriously in China for at least three millennia. Wandering Spirits is a translation and study of the most comprehensive work on dream culture in traditional China-- Lofty Principles of Dream Interpretation (Mengzhan yizhi), compiled in 1562 by Chen Shiyuan and periodically reprinted up to the modern era. The best introduction to the diversity of ideas held by the educated class about dreams, this unique treatise ...             Birdflight As The Basis Of Aviation4 reviews Otto Lilienthal Markowski International Publishers, 2000 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Being an engineer, I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of technology. If you study Otto Lilienthal's work and the correspondance of the Wright brothers carefully, you will agree with me that there would have been no flight in December 1903 in Kitty Hawk without this very book ! It did much more than just influence Wilbur Wright - it provided the very concepts that allowed ...             Shanghai Splendor: Economic Sentiments and the Making of Modern China, 1843-1949 (Philip E. Lilienthal Book ... Wen-hsin Yeh University of California Press, 2007 Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin Yeh traces the evolution of a dazzling urban culture that became alternately isolated from and ...             Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) Margaret Trawick University of California Press, 2007 Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence ...             Toshi?: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)2 reviews Simon Partner University of California Press, 2004 Best Book on Village Life in Japan I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book. I am a third generation Japanese American(sansei) born and raised in Hawaii. My grandparents came here from Niigata ken, which is the setting of the book, around the turn of the 20th century. They came as laborers to work in the sugar plantations. Therefore I found the details about village life in Niigata very relevant to their experiences in America. I ...             Modernizing China's Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies)6 reviews David Shambaugh University of California Press, 2004 Excellent Insight Into The PLA I read this book for a graduate history class on Mao's China David Shambaugh's book is a well-written and extremely important resource to anyone who is interested in China's military development, and its implications for Sino-American relations. With China's recent burgeoning economy and explosive military budget, Shambaugh's book could not have come at a better time. Shambaugh's use of very ...             A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies) Hermann Tessenow, Paul U. Unschuld University of California Press, 2008 This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, translated by Hermann Tessenow and Paul U. Unschuld. The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine and natural philosophy. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi ...             The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century China (Philip E. ... David Der-Wei Wang University of California Press, 2004 In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang ...             The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (A Philip E. Lilienthal book)2 reviews Mary Elizabeth Berry University of California Press, 1997 Thorough and fascinating view of late-medieval Kyoto This book is a bit of a paradox. Working with incomplete primary sources, Mary Elizabeth Berry has put together a remarkably textured and complete picture of Kyoto in the late Medieval period of Japan. The book examines the fate of 'classical' Kyoto, the political and economic changes of the time, and shows a view not commonly seen in historical Japan: that of the urban commoners who had to ...             Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 (Philip E.Lilienthal Books)2 reviews Frederic Wakeman Jr. University of California Press, 1996 A Golden Age of Crime Shanghai in the 1920's and 30's must have been the single most difficult city in the world to govern. Shanghai's reputation as a center of vice and corruption was legendary in its own day. At the beginning of the Twenty First Century, the Shangai of this period still holds its own romantic appeal. Frederic Wakeman's book is a study of the Nationalist Government's attempt to bring order and ...             Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions (Philip E. Lilienthal Books) University of California Press, 2008 The land of Tibet--its people, culture, and religion--has long been both an object of contention and a source of fascination. Since 1959, Tibet has also been at the center of controversy when China's "peaceful liberation" of the land of snows led to the Lhasa uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India. Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's "100 Questions" offers clear and unbiased responses to a booklet published by the Chinese ...             A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955 (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)3 reviews Melvyn C. Goldstein University of California Press, 2007 Serial Mystery I feel like I have been reading a mystery story. I have the first part of the mystery in Goldstein's first volume and in the second we are shown the honeymoon between the Chinese and the Tibetans after China coerced Tibet into union. We know the eventual outcome (because we have been beaten over the head with the final chapters of the who-done-it) in Chinese repression, but the period between ...             Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.- China Relations, 1989-2000 (A Philip E. Lilienthal book)2 reviews David M. Lampton University of California Press, 2002 BALANCED LOOK AT A DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP Lampton writes from a perspective unencombered by the black and white thinking that often dominates both our domestic politics and other popular books on the subject. I found it a facinating insiders look at a relationship that will continue to be rewarding, challenging, and very important to the world political scene.             What Price Israel? 50th Anniversary Edition 1953-20036 reviews Alfred M Lilienthal Infinity Publishing, 2004 Eyewitness history of Palestine/Israel conflict Alfred Lilienthal has been involved with seeking solutions to the Middle East conflict for over 50 years. Amazingly he is still alive and yet was present in 1947 for the UN partition vote that paved the way for the state of Israel. He was a Jewish American who represented the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism at the UN discussions. The Council was against a Jewish state and favored a ...              search for books 1843-1949, 1927-1937, 1951-1955, 1953-2003, 1989-2000, anniversary, authenticating, batticaloa, birdflight, childhood, dictionary, different, economic, encyclopedia, fictional, lilienthal, modernizing, performing, policing, problems, prospects, questions, ramcaritmanas, relations, sentiments, shanghai, twentieth, twentieth-century, violence, wandering books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Digital Infrastructures: Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through ... we recommend Standing on the Shoulders of Giants leave a comment home  impressum - about us