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The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial ...
Evelyn S. RawskiIn this book, Evelyn Rawski offers a bold new interpretation of the remarkable success of this dynasty, arguing that it derived not from the assimilation of the dominant Chinese culture, as has previously been believed, but rather from an ...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Evelyn S. RawskiEvelyn Rawski presents a revisionist history of early modern China in the context of northeast Asian geopolitics and global maritime trade.
China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795
Evelyn S. RawskiPublished to accompany an exhibition of the same name, this volume contains reproductions of all works featured, together with scholarly essays exploring the themes that link them and the society that produced them.
Revolution and the People in Russia and China: A Comparative ...
S. A. SmithIn her pioneering study, Evelyn Rawski estimated that 30% to 45% of men and 2 % to 10% of women in late-Qing China could read and write to some extent.55 The 'awakened' Chinese worker, like his 'conscious' counterpart in Russia, strove ...
Popular Culture in Late Imperial China
Full viewEvelyn S. Rawski This essay focuses on two questions. In answer to the first — Why do we study the late Ming and Ch'ing as one historical unit? — we argue that this era, the late imperial period (sixteenth through nineteenth centuries), was ...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives
Evelyn S. RawskiKenneth M. Swope's thought-provoking survey of the Japanese, Korean, and Chinese accounts of the events following Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 1592 invasion of Korea nicely illustrates the benefit of taking this point seriously. Swope uses these ...
Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century
Susan NaquinIn this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era.
Harmony and Counterpoint: Ritual Music in Chinese Context
Bell YungIntroduction BELL YOUNG, EVELYN S. RAWSKI, RUBIE S. WATSON Gesture, artifact, speech, and music are the primary architectural elements of rituals. In this book we are concerned with the music in the ritual. Whether we focus on the ...
Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn UnderhillThe Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill Dana Greene. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My work on the life of Evelyn Underhill has spanned a decade, and the persons to whom I am grateful for support and encouragement are too ...
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China
PreviewRitual. Evelyn. S. Rawski. There are several reasons why a historian's overview of Chinese death ritual is different from an anthropologist's. Anthropologists have made it their business to look closely at death ritual performance "on the ground" ...
Evelyn Waugh
Preview'The Letters of Evelyn Waugh' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980). BRADBURY, MALCOLM, 'Evelyn Waugh' (Oliver & Boyd, 1964), Writers and Critics series. CARENS, JAMES F., 'The Satiric Art of Evelyn Waugh' (Seattle and London, University of ...
Waugh in Abyssinia
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh. EVELYN WAUGH Waugh in Abyssinia PENGUIN BOOKS Contents I The Intelligent Woman's Guide to the Ethiopian Question. EVELYN WAUGH Waugh in Abyssinia.
I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist ...
Temple Tsenes-Hills100 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent (New York: Harvard University Press, 1993) 5101 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 5. 102 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 49. 103 Evelyn ...
Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy
Evelyn Underhill... Albany, N.Y., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Underbill, Evelyn, 1875-1941. Evelyn Underbill: modern guide to the ancient quest for the holy / edited and with an introduction by Dana Greene, p. cm. Bibliography: p.
Michigan Ensian
Full viewCatherine Zimmer Katheryn Kunert . Evelyn Borgerding Frances Johnson Helen Haapamaki Jane Robinson Norma Bockelman Ada Blackman Evelyn Borgerding Annete Cummings Dorothy Davis Evelyn Decker Alice Deming Phyllis Diehl ...
Evelyn Underhill: Spirituality for Daily Living
Annice CallahanArtist Dana Greene. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. New York: Crossroad, 1990. Cloud Evelyn Underbill. Introduction. A Book of Contemplation the Which is Called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul is Oned with God.
Tate and allied families of Robertson County, Tennessee
Evelyn Yates CarpenterEvelyn Yates Carpenter. ary service in 1957. He is a retired professor from Western Kentucky University and was Principal of the Campus School there for 11 years. (SAR member) Evelyn is a member of PAR. a Kentucky Colonel, active in the ...
You Were Born to Triumph: Create a Five-Star Life in Your ...
Evelyn Roberts BrooksCreate a Five-Star Life in Your Quantum Kitchen Evelyn Roberts Brooks ... toward envisioning the beautiful world I see, and I move towards my vision. Interacting with Negative Friends Fear is a dream killer. The 128 Evelyn Roberts Brooks.
The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn ...
Evelyn UnderhillSubstantial correspondence from an exceptional writer, poet, pacifist, and mystic
Evelyn Scott: Recovering a Lost Modernist
PreviewRecovering a Lost Modernist Dorothy McInnis Scura, Paul C. Jones. Becoming ( M)Other: The Anxiety of Maternity in Evelyn 5cott'5 Escapade Paul Christian Jones arly reviews of Escapade, Evelyn Scott's expressionistic account of her ...
BFF's 2: Best Frenemies Forever Series
Brenda HamptonKayla thought that her best friends, Evelyn and Trina, were supposed to always have her back, but when she discovers that Evelyn has been creeping with her husband, Cedric, and Trina has known about the ongoing affair for quite some time, ...
Advent with Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn UnderhillThis work compiles several passages from her significant works providing readings for every day of the Advent and Christmas season.
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family
Michael G. BrennanIn addition, the book goes on to consider how Evelyn Waugh's descendants - his son Auberon and his grandson Alexander Waugh - have echoed and developed these literary concerns in their own writing.
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
Evelyn MonahanEvelyn Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee have conducted numerous interviews with survivors and scoured archives for letters, diaries, and journals to uncover the heroism and sacrifices of these brave women.
Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr
Evelyn WaughYears later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr.
The Century of the Gene
Evelyn Fox KELLERIn a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of ...
The Literary Works of Shamekia Conchetta Wilson: A peek ...
Shamekia WilsonTo My Mother, Evelyn WhenGodcreatedmymotherHecreatedabeing Whosestrengthknowsnobounds,eventhoughshe ... Sheinspiresmy Soullikenoother Physicallyseparatedbutemotionallyclose,Evelyn Wilson' smymotherIproudlyboast. She'sa ...
Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and ...
Frances HarrisThe most controversial episode in the life of the seventeenth-century virtuoso and diarist John Evelyn has always been his passionate, complex friendship with the Restoration maid of honour Margaret Blagge, afterwards Mrs Godolphin.
Ruysbroeck
Evelyn Underhill"Ruysbroeck is Evelyn Underhill s biography of 14th-century Flemish mystic John of Ruysbroeck.
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