The Geomancer's Compass

2012-11-13
The Geomancer's Compass

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  • Author: Melissa Hardy
  • Publisher: Tundra Books
  • ISBN: 1770493654
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 272

This futuristic novel has all the elements YA fiction needs to draw critical attention from reviewers, and to elicit award-nominations. It is thematically interesting, culturally diverse, well-written, futuristic, and very funny. Set in the year 2021, this fantastic YA novel explores the tension between a young woman's future building infrastructure for Augmented Reality, and the commitment she makes to her dying grandmother to honour ancient Chinese magic. The Geomancer's Compass imagines a world in the near future while exploring the Chinese immigrant experience and the expanding, elastic and shifting nature of reality.

The Architecture of Ideology

1987-01-01
The Architecture of Ideology

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  • Author: David J. Nemeth
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520097131
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

00 Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people. Cheju Island, Korea's historic island of exile, with a harsh natural environment, early developed a negative image as human habitat. The author challenges this perception and shows how Neo-Confucian state ideology during the Yi dynasty (A.D. 1392-1910) created and conserved the island as a viable habitat by using feng-shui--a powerful medieval science of surveying--to shape the island's built environment and quality of life. The outcome, reflecting sustained political commitment to the philosophical concept of enlightened undervelopment, was a sincere landscape inhabited by a virtuous people.

Thirty Great Inventions of China

2020-12-14
Thirty Great Inventions of China

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  • Author: Jueming Hua
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9811565252
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 864

The book presents thirty great Chinese inventions, both ancient and modern, which are original, distinct, have made outstanding contributions and had extensive influence in China and around the globe. It also clarifies the misunderstandings and provides a clear definition and classification of the evaluation criteria for great inventions. Each invention is presented with color pictures and comprehensive discussions. The book not only offers readers the fascinating stories behind the greatest inventions of all time from China, such as the compass, paper, and tea making & planting, but also allows them to be inspired by the great Chinese inventors’ inherent spirit of innovation and creativity.

Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

1877
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

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  • Category : China
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 868

Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

1877
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

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  • Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai
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  • Category : China
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 596

Contains list of members.

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1877
Journal

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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society

1877
Journal of the Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society

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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 212

Asian American Religious Cultures [2 volumes]

2015-09-01
Asian American Religious Cultures [2 volumes]

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  • Author: Jonathan H. X. Lee
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • ISBN: 1598843311
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 1111

A resource ideal for students as well as general readers, this two-volume encyclopedia examines the diversity of the Asian American and Pacific Islander spiritual experience. Despite constituting a fairly small proportion of the U.S. population—roughly 5 percent—Asian Americans are a widely diverse group with equally heterogeneous religious beliefs and traditions. This encyclopedia provides a single source for authoritative information on the Asian American and Pacific Islander religious experience, addressing South Asian Americans, such as Indian Americans and Pakistani Americans; East Asian Americans, including Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Korean Americans; and Southeast Asian Americans, whose ethnicities include Filipino Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans. Pacific Islanders include Hawaiians, Samoans, Marshallese, Tongan, and Chamorro. The coverage includes not only traditional eastern belief systems and traditions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism as well as Micronesian and Polynesian religious traditions in the United States, but also the culture and religious rituals of Asian American Christians.

Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts

1991
Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts

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  • Author: Carol Stepanchuk
  • Publisher: China Books
  • ISBN: 9780835124812
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

By Lt. General William E. Odom

Chinese Buddhism (Annotated Edition)

2012
Chinese Buddhism (Annotated Edition)

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  • Author: Joseph Edkins
  • Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
  • ISBN: 3849622045
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids Edkins' account of Chinese Buddhism is one of the most extensive ever written. In far more than 20 chapters he covers everything there is to know about about Chinese Buddhism. Contents: 1. Joshu's Dog 2. Hyakujo's Fox 3. Gutei's Finger 4. A Beardless Foreigner 5. Kyogen Mounts The Tree 6. Buddha Twirls A Flower 7. Joshu Washes The Bowl 8. Keichu's Wheel 9. A Buddha Before History 10. Seizei Alone And Poor 11. Joshu Examines A Monk In Meditation 12. Zuigan Calls His Own Master 13. Tokusan Holds His Bowl 14. Nansen Cuts The Cat In Two 15. Tozan's Three Blows 16. Bells And Robes 17. The Three Calls Of The Emperor's Teacher 18. Tozan's Three Pounds 19. Everyday Life Is The Path 20. The Enlightened Man 21. Dried Dung 22. Kashapa's Preaching Sign 23. Do Not Think Good, Do Not Think Not-Good 24. Without Words, Without Silence 25. Preaching From The Third Seat 26. Two Monks Roll Up The Screen 27. It Is Not Mind, It Is Not Buddha, It Is Not Things 28. Blow Out The Candle 29. Not The Wind, Not The Flag 30. This Mind Is Buddha 31. Joshu Investigates 32. A Philosopher Asks Buddha 33. This Mind Is Not Buddha 34. Learning Is Not The Path 35. Two Souls 36. Meeting A Zen Master On The Road 37. A Buffalo Passes Through The Enclosure 38. An Oak Tree In The Garden 39. Ummon's Sidetrack 40. Tipping Over A Water Vase 41. Bodhidharma Pacifies The Mind 42. The Girl Comes Out From Meditation 43. Shuzan's Short Staff 44. Basho's Staff 45. Who Is He? 46. Proceed From The Top Of The Pole 47. Three Gates Of Tosotsu 48. One Road Of Kembo 49. Amban's Addition