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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944- China's cultural heritage. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994 (OCoLC)624398199 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard J Smith |
| ISBN: | 0813313465 9780813313467 0813313473 9780813313474 |
| OCLC Number: | 29753748 |
| Description: | xiv, 386 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Qing inheritance -- The Qing political order -- Social and economic institutions -- Language and symbolic reference -- Thought -- Religion -- Art -- Literature -- Social life -- Tradition and modernity, 1860-1993. |
| Responsibility: | Richard J. Smith. |
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Abstract:
He also examines a number of important but too-often neglected aspects of traditional Chinese daily life, including divination, food, music, sexual practices, festivals, child-rearing, and games. Based on the author's careful rethinking of certain themes and arguments presented in the first edition, this revised version of China's Cultural Heritage also draws heavily upon the enormous body of new scholarship on Chinese history and culture that has appeared in the last decade. Although focused primarily on the Qing Dynasty, the book not only sheds valuable light on the distant past but it also helps us to understand China's contemporary problems of modernization. A concluding chapter systematically explores the legacy of traditional Chinese culture to the twentieth century.
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