The Culture of Love in China and Europe

The Culture of Love in China and Europe
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ISBN-10 : 9004396861
ISBN-13 : 9789004396869
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Synopsis The Culture of Love in China and Europe by : Paolo Santangelo

The Culture of Love in China and Europe offers a cautiously comparative survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century.

Introduction to Chinese Culture

Introduction to Chinese Culture
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9789811081569
ISBN-13 : 9811081565
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Synopsis Introduction to Chinese Culture by : Guobin Xu

Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in understanding the fundamentals of Chinese culture. Written by a team of experts in their fields, it offers a comprehensive and detailed introduction to Chinese culture and addresses the fundamentals of Chinese cultural and social development. It notably considers Chinese traditional culture, medicine, arts and crafts, folk customs, rituals and etiquette, and is a key read for scholars and students in Chinese Culture, History and Language.

Who Will Feed China?

Who Will Feed China?
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 180
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ISBN-10 : 0393038971
ISBN-13 : 9780393038972
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Synopsis Who Will Feed China? by : Lester Russell Brown

To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as food production stagnates, China still increases its population by the equivalent of a new Beijing each year. When Japan, a nation of just 125 million, began to import food, world grain markets rejoiced. But when China, a market ten times bigger, starts importing, there may not be enough grain in the world to meet that need - and food prices will rise steeply for everyone. Analysts foresaw that the recent four-year doubling of income for China's 1.2 billion consumers would increase food demand, especially for meat, eggs, and beer. But these analysts assumed that food production would rise to meet those demands. Brown shows that cropland losses are heavy in countries that are densely populated before industrialization, and that these countries quickly become net grain importers. We can see that process now in newspaper accounts from China as the government struggles with this problem.

Portrait of a Greek Imagination

Portrait of a Greek Imagination
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0226329100
ISBN-13 : 9780226329109
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Synopsis Portrait of a Greek Imagination by : Michael Herzfeld

Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld first met Greek novelist Andreas Nenedakis in the courtyard of a public library. Their enduring friendship prompted Herzfeld to reconsider both the contours of fiction and the nature of anthropology. Part biography and part ethnography, PORTRAIT OF A GREEK IMAGINATION is Herzfeld's contextualization of Nenedakis's life, as it was both lived and fictionalized. 10 photos.

Sojourners and Settlers

Sojourners and Settlers
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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages : 422
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ISBN-10 : 9780824882402
ISBN-13 : 0824882407
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Synopsis Sojourners and Settlers by : Clarence E. Glick

Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.