Isbn: 9780393033557 - chinese roundabout: essays in history and culture (22 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Good. First Edition. The spirit of adventure is at the heart of Jonathan Spence's widely acclaimed scholarship on the modern history of China. This vitality, fleshed out with deep research and attired in elegant style, has drawn countless readers to subjects otherwise approachable only by experts. Through eight books, from the story of the early eighteenth century Manchu bondservant Ts'ao Yin to his magisterial history, The Search for Modern China, Spence has made the excitement of intellectual discovery palpable for us all. In the course of his fruitful career Spence has written many shorter pieces as well, and the best of these are collected for the first time in Chinese Roundabout. Here the reader will meet Arcadio Huang, the Chinese linguist and Christian convert who moves from south China to Enlightenment Paris, marries a French woman, and in conversations with Montesquieu becomes the likely source for the Persian Letters. The poignant story of Huang's hard-won success and final defeat by poverty and disease illustrates the perils of crossing cultures. Spence's delight in intellectual risk animates his Shakespearean approach to the life of the great Qing emperor in The Seven Ages of K'ang-hsi. Spence's great learning informs an authoritative essay on China's tragic experience with opium. Following the social process of addiction from the cultivation of poppies and the processing of the drug through its introduction by the British into China, its widespread distribution and consumption by Chinese, and the public struggle to suppress opium use, Spence explores issues of historical and contemporary interest. In an equally substantial piece he focuses on the cultural dimensions of food in Qing China, illuminating the marginal diet of a peasantry constantly threatened by famine as well as the grand banquets of the literati and the imperial household. In the work of 25 years, Spence has established himself as a brilliant interpreter of modern Chinese history. His books-among them the recent national bestseller The Search for Modern China-exhibit uncommon imagination, unobtrusive learning, verve, and elegance. These same qualities animate the essays gathered here.; Boek met harde kaft en losse stofomslag, eerste druk 1992. Boek met fris en schoon binnenwerk, gave boekband. Losse omslag: onderkant strak en scherp, bovenkant lubbert enigszins.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiii, [1] 400, [2] p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. From Wikipedia: "Jonathan D. Spence (born 11 August 1936) is a British-born historian specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, he has published more than a dozen books on China. He retired from Yale in 2008. Spence's major interest is modern China, especially the Qing Dynasty, and relations between China and the West. Spence frequently uses biographies to examine cultural and political history. Another common theme is the efforts of both Westerners and Chinese "to change China, " and how such efforts were frustrated." Derived from a Kirkus review: More erudite history and eminently readable scholarship from Yale Sinologist Spence. Many of these essays and reviews, previously published in various journals, were inspired by Western inquirers of yore like 16th-century Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and novelist Andre Malraux, both subjects of essays in an opening section entitled ``Crossing the Cultures.'' In ``Looking East: The Long View,'' Spence concedes that Western confusion about China began with accounts by Ricci and other missionaries, but, still, he relishes these reports' delicate balance and appreciation for culture. A second vigorous group of essays, ``The Confucian Impulse,'' surveys a range of topics from the Mings to the Manchus. Outstanding is Spence's recovery of the Ming painter Tao-chi, member of a brilliant artistic circle that Spence brings to life with remarkable color. A third section consists of a cornucopia of essays on topics from food to opium. While exhaustively detailing Chinese culinary pleasures, Spence notes that, through much of Chinese history, `it was the danger of famine that gave such urgency to agriculture and such joy to eating.' He describes the crucial economic function of opium in late-19th-century China and measures political swings in the country according to its use. Other highlights include a penetrating analysis of Chinese director Bai Hua's controversial 1980 film, Bitter Love, and an admiring essay on eminent Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank. Spence conveys vast knowledge with a style and grace unique in academic writing. A pure pleasure cruise through the Middle Kingdom. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. …

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