Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads write by Barend ter Haar. This book was released on 2021-08-30. Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of this new paperback title in Brill’s Scholars’ List. The author critically evaluates the extant sources and offers a wealth of contextual information. The core of the book is formed by a close reading of the initiation ritual, including the burning of incense, the altar, the enactment of a journey of life and death, and the blood covenant. Different narrative structures are also presented. These include the messianic demonological paradigm, political legitimation, and the foundation of myth. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowing radically new conclusions about its origins, meanings and functions. This book is of special interest to social historians, anthropologists, and students of Chinese religious culture.
The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads
The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads write by Barend ter Haar. This book was released on 2021-11-15. The Ritual and Mythology of the Chinese Triads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extensive ritual and mythological lore of the Chinese Triads form the scope of this new paperback in Brill’s Scholar’s List. In it the reader will find a critical evaluation of the extant sources together with a true wealth of context. The core of the book is formed by a close reading of the initiation ritual, including the burning of incense, the altar, the enactment of a journey of life and death, and the blood covenant. Different narrative structures are also presented. These include the messianic demonological paradigm, political legitimation, and the foundation of myth. Triad lore is placed in its own religious and cultural context, allowing radically new conclusions about its origins, meanings and functions. This book is of special interest to social historians, anthropologists, and students of Chinese religious culture.
Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes
Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes write by Robert J. Antony. This book was released on 2023. Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals China's history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folk studies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, sorcerers, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China.
The Shaolin Monastery
The Shaolin Monastery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shaolin Monastery write by Meir Shahar. This book was released on 2008-01-10. The Shaolin Monastery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This meticulously researched and eminently readable study considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shaolin monks to disregard the Buddhist prohibition against violence and instead create fighting techniques that by the 21st century have spread throughout the world.
Encyclopedia of Chinese History
Encyclopedia of Chinese History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Chinese History write by Michael Dillon. This book was released on 2016-12-01. Encyclopedia of Chinese History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media. Our understanding of China’s history has also been evolving. The study of history in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao Zedong period was strictly regulated and primary sources were rarely available to westerners or even to most Chinese historians. Now that the Chinese archives are open to researchers, there is a growing body of academic expertise on history in China that is open to western analysis and historical methods. This has in many ways changed the way that Chinese history, particularly the modern period, is viewed. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire span of Chinese history from the period known primarily through archaeology to the present day. Treating Chinese history in the broadest sense, the Encyclopedia includes coverage of the frontier regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet that have played such an important role in the history of China Proper and will also include material on Taiwan, and on the Chinese diaspora. In A-Z format with entries written by experts in the field of Chinese Studies, the Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students of Chinese history, politics and culture.
