| Date | 1983 |
| Publish_location | Boulder, CO |
| Publisher | Westview Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Reading Room |
| Call Number | DS754.14.S6 1983 |
| Description | xiv, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Note | China's cultural heritage : the Ch’ing dynasty, 1644-1912 / Richard J. Smith. London edition printed by Francis Pinter. Includes bibliography: p. 290-304, and index, p. 305-321. Examines traditional Chinese culture of the late imperial period. Diagrams and tables for Qing bureaucracy, central government income and expenditures (1899), examination system, official salaries, Manchu Bannermen, Five degrees of mourning (wu-fu, wufu), tenency estimates, primary trigrams and associations, yin-yang and five elements correlations, Altar of Heaven, Shidian sacrifice, Tianhou, family ancestral temples for officials, ancestor worship, tablets, ritual implements, Jiezi Yuan huazhuan, tradtional Chinese house, bound feet, footbinding, weddings, gestures of respect. |
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| Subject | China--Civilization--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 China--Social life and customs--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 China--Politics and government--Organization and structure--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 |
| ISBN | 0865316279 |
| LCCN | 83-10188 |
| Date | 1993 |
| Publish_location | Honolulu |
| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Reading Room |
| Call Number | DS754.14.C68 1993 |
| Description | xiii, 258 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note | Cosmology, ontology, and human efficacy : essays in Chinese thought / edited by Richard J. Smith and D. W. Y. Kwok [郭穎頤]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Ho and T'ung in Chinese intellectual history / D. W. Y. Kwok -- Confucian cosmological myth and neo-Confucian transcendence / Hao Chang [張灝]-- Toward an interpretation of Ch'ing ontology / On-Cho Ng -- The revaluation of benevolence (Jen) in Ch'ing dynasty evidential research / Benjamin A. Elman -- Testimony to the resilience of the mind : the life and thought of P'eng Shao-sheng (1740-1796) / Richard Shek --- Ch'ing cosmology and popular precepts / San-Pao Li [李三寶] -- Divination in Ch'ing dynasty China / Richard J. Smith -- Purist hermeneutics and ritualist ethics in mid-Ch'ing thought / Kai-Wing Chow -- The "turn of fortune" (Yun-hui) : inherited concepts and China's response to the West / Erh-Min Wang [王爾敏] -- Escape from disillusionment : personality and value change in the case of Sung Chiao-jen / Don C. Price. Added keywords: Peng Shaosheng 彭绍升, 1740-1796 -- Ren 仁 (benevolence) -- Song Jiaoren 宋教仁, 1882-1913. |
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| Subject | Cosmology, Chinese China--Intellectual life--1644-1911 Ontology |
| ISBN | 0824814436 |
| LCCN | 92-31229 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Publish_location | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Digital Book (PDF) |
| Series | Critical Asian scholarship ; 9 |
| Shelf | Digital Archives |
| Call Number | GA1121.S65 2013d |
| Description | dig.pdf. [xvi, 270 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.] |
| Note | Mapping China and managing the world : culture, cartography and cosmology in late imperial times / Richard J. Smith. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- The languages of the Yijing and the representation of reality -- Mapping China's world : cultural cartography in late imperial China -- Ritual in Qing culture -- The teachings of ritual and the rectification of customs : echos of tradition in the political culture of modern China -- Divination in the Qing -- Jesuit interpretations of the Yijing in global perspective. Local access dig.pdf. [Smith-Mapping China.pdf] |
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| Subject | Yijing 易經 Cosmology, Chinese Cartography--China--History Yijing 易經--Figurist interpretations Yijing 易經--Commentaries--Catholic authors Political culture--China--History Human geography--China |
| Series | foo 99 |
| ISBN | 9780203094754 |
| LCCN | 2012012457 |
| Date | 1979 |
| Publish_location | Taibei Shi 臺北市 |
| Publisher | Southern Materials Center |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library [ASCC] |
| Edition | |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Series | KTO studies in American history |
| Shelf | Dir. Office Gallery North |
| Call Number | UA838.C4 S54 1979 |
| Description | xxiii, 271 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Note | Mercenaries and Mandarins : the Ever-Victorious Army in nineteenth century China / Richard J. Smith ; foreword by John K. Fairbank. Reprint. Originally published: Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Press, 1978. This ed. not in OCLC. Based on the author's thesis, University of California at Davis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and index. Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Setting: Rebellion at the Crossroads p. 3 -- The Shanghai Foreign-Arms Corps p. 24 -- The Politics of Intervention (a) p. 41 -- The Politics of Intervention (b) p. 63 -- The Structure of the Ever-Victorious Army p. 81 -- The Ever-Victorious Army in Transition p. 107 -- The Ever-Victorious Army under Gordon p. 123 -- Chinese Gordon: the Foreigner in LI Hung-Chang's Service p. 150 -- The Ever-Victorious Army in Perspective p. 177 -- Bibliography p. 245 -- Glossary for Chinese and Japanese Sources p. 255 -- Glossary p. 257 -- Index. |
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| Subject | China--History--Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864 Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885 China--History, Military--Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 China. Lujun 陸軍. Changshengjun 常勝軍 [Ever-Victorious Army] |
| Series | foo 99 |
