Why Sports Morally Matter (Routledge Critical Studies in Sport)
by William Morgan
When we accept that advertisers and sponsors dictate athletic schedules, that success in sport is measured by revenue, that athletes' loyalties lie with their commercial agents instead of teams and that game rules exist to be tested and broken in the pursuit of a win, what does our regard for sport say about the moral and political well-being of our society? Why Sports Morally Matter is a deeply critical examination of pressing ethical issues in sports - and in society as a whole. Exploring the...
Pa Chin and His Writings (Harvard East Asian, #28) (East Asian S.)
by Olga Lang
Ancient Chinese Porcelains, Pottery and Bronzes and Old Japanese Bronzes and Lacquers
Buddhism under Mao shows what kind of a problem Buddhism presented to the Chinese Communists and how they solved it. Relying largely on materials from the Mainland press, Holmes Welch has made what is probably the most detailed study so far available of the fate of a world religion in a Communist country. He describes how Buddhist institutions were controlled, protected, utilized, and suppressed; and explains why the larger needs of foreign and domestic policy dictated the Communists' approach t...
Lettres Edifiantes Et Curieuses, Ecrites Des Missions Etrangeres, Vol. 7
by Charles Le Gobien
Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide ?public goods??defined in contraposition to market-mediated goods and goods provided through personal relations, such as kinship ties. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure building, and forestry management in East Asia and Europe, using...
Wu Tse-T'Ien and the Politics of Legitimation in T'Ang China (Studies in Ministry and Parish Life)
by R.W.L. Guisso
Eurasian Influences on Yuan China
This book documents the extraordinarily significant transfers and cultural diffusion between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China and Central and West Asia, which had a broad impact on Eurasian history in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Yuan era witnessed perhaps the greatest inter-civilisational contacts in world history and has thus begun to attract the attention of both scholars and the general public. This volume offers tangible evidence of the Western and Central Asian influences, via the Mong...
Snapshots of a New China (Cultural China: Chinese-English Readers)
by Shanghai Daily
Cathay and the Way Thither, Being a Collection of Medieval Notices of China (Hakluyt Society, First)
'Translated and Edited with a Preliminary Essay on the Intercourse between China and the Western Nations previous to the Discovery of the Cape Route'. Containing the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone, 1316-30, and letters and reports from missionary friars from Cathay and India, 1292-1338, in English translation. With a list of 'illustrations from drawings by the author'. This and volume II (First Series 37) have continuous main pagination. The supplementary material includes the 1866 annual...
The importance of this book lies in conclusively establishing the linkages between, on the one hand, the transmission of Buddhism from India to China, and, on the other, the trade in commercial items that went on between these two countries.
中華文明史 Part1--Color
by Tianliang Zhang