Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires Presents hundreds of precious objects from tombs and hoards in present-day China, Mongolia, North Korea, Japan, South Siberia, Kazakhstan, Eastern Ukraine, Bulgaria and Hungary Uses primary and secondary sources in Modern and Classical Chine...(展开全部)

http://www.cambridge.org/cn/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-asia-sub-saharan-africa-and-pacific/ancient-china-and-its-eurasian-neighbors-artefacts-and-cross-cultural-interactions-3000-700-bce?format=HB#vjJit9fv0Spej6Vl.97 This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a la...(展开全部)

Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape―an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke―that underlies texts of...(展开全部)

Dreaming is a near-universal human experience, but there is no consensus on why we dream or what dreams should be taken to mean. In this book, Robert Ford Campany investigates what people in late classical and early medieval China thought of dreams. He maps a common dreamscape―an array of ideas about what dreams are and what responses they should provoke―that underlies texts of...(展开全部)

During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Chang'an, near today's Xi'an in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its grandest, during the last fifty years or so before the collapse of the dynasty in 9 CE, Chang'an boasted imperial libraries with thou...(展开全部)

"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure....(展开全部)

"Sainthood" has been, and remains, a contested category in China, given the commitment of China's modern leadership to secularization, modernization, and revolution, and the discomfort of China's elite with matters concerning religion. However, sainted religious leaders have succeeded in rebuilding old institutions and creating new ones despite the Chinese government's censure....(展开全部)

The terrible conflict that dominated the mid 19th century, the Crimean War killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was...(展开全部)