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Free Download Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters: The Relevance of Ancient Wisdom for the Global Age By Ming Dong Gu
2018 | 252 Pages | ISBN: 1138562718 | PDF | 3 MB
Traditional Chinese philosophy, if engaged at all, is often regarded as an object of antiquated curiosity and dismissed as unimportant in the current age of globalization.Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this book, however, challenges this judgement and offers an in-depth study of pre-modern Chinese philosophy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Exploring the relevance of traditional Chinese philosophy for the global age, it takes a comparative approach, analysing ancient Chinese philosophy in its relation to Western ideas and contemporary postmodernist theories. The conversation extends over a broad spectrum of philosophical areas and themes, ranging from metaphysics, hermeneutics, political theory, religion and aesthetics to specific philosophical schools including Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. By engaging many time-honoured philosophical issues from a comparative perspective, this book bridges the gap between Eastern and Western thought and emphasises the need for a newly fortified global humanism and a deeper appreciation of different philosophical and religious values in an age gripped by large-scale crises.Arguing that traditional Chinese philosophy has immediate relevance to the many challenges of modern life, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Asian Philosophy and Asian Studies in general.

Free Download Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China: How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400 By Valerie Hansen
1995 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0300060637 | PDF | 14 MB
This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the process it illuminates specific everyday concerns during China’s medieval transformation.Valerie Hansen translates and analyzes surviving contracts and also draws on tales of the supernatural, rare legal sources, plays, language texts, and other anecdotal evidence to describe how contracts were actually used. She explains that the educated wrote their own contracts, whereas the illiterate paid scribes to draft them and read them aloud. The contracts reveal much about everyday life: problems with inflation that resulted from the introduction of the first paper money in the world; the persistence of women’s rights to own and sell land at a time when their lives were becoming more constricted; and the litigiousness of families, which were complicated products of remarriages, adoptions, and divorces. The Chinese even armed their dead with contracts asserting ownership of their grave Descriptions, and Hansen provides details of an underworld court system in which the dead could sue and be sued. Illustrations and maps enrich a book that will be fascinating for anyone interested in Chinese life and society.

Free Download An Outline of Chinese Traditional Philosophy By Li Cunshan
2015 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 1844642658 | PDF | 12 MB
The traditional Chinese philosophies of ‘nature and human’ lie at the heart of China’s modern culture and popular philosophical beliefs. To understand China, one must first understand its traditional philosophies. This book outlines the core beliefs and key elements of the three principles of traditional Chinese philosophy: the natural theory (cosmology), the human theory (the theory of life), and the theory of knowledge (the theory of methodology). This book offers a systematic analysis of these three fundamental theories, enabling the reader to gain a clear understanding of the part they have played in the creation of modern day China. It is aimed towards academics and students studying both philosophy and China, as well as researchers and professionals seeking clear concise information on traditional Chinese philosophies and popular Chinese culture. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Philosophy, Chinese Studies, Asian Studies]

Free Download Authentic Japanese Cookbook: Best Traditional Dishes from Japan to Enjoy in The Comfort of Your Own Home by Noah Wood
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BHQH97C5 | 81 pages | EPUB | 3.58 Mb
Do you want to try cooking Japanese dishes at home but don’t know where to start? Well, look no further as this cookbook brings together a menu of traditional and delicious Japanese dishes, which are all easy to prepare in the comfort of your own home.

Free Download James Norbury, "Traditional Knitting Patterns: from Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy and Other European Countries "
English | ISBN: 0486210138 | | 256 pages | EPUB | 28 MB
In this book you will find 263 different patterns and designs, the best traditional knitting material from the Arabic, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Austrian, Dutch, Scandinavian, Shetland, English, Scottish, and Irish knitting traditions. All are presented clearly so you can use them immediately in your own work, or use them for learning how knitting developed the world over.

Free Download Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach (SCC Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 4) By Georges Metailie
2015 | 788 Pages | ISBN: 1107109876 | PDF | 29 MB
This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient times to the end of the seventeenth century. In this highly illustrated study, Georges Métailié explores the perception and use of a wealth of plants and vegetation in China before the introduction of modern botany. Drawing from a number of original Chinese texts, which have been translated for the first time, Métailié gives new insights into a variety of aspects of plant knowledge in ancient China. Chapters are devoted to traditional botany and sources of classification, aquatic plants, fungi, horticultural techniques, fruit production, grafting and the influences of ancient Chinese plant culture on Europe. This volume combines technical expertise in the identification of plants with historical and anthropological sensitivity to propose a new, non-teleological view of scientific knowledge about the botanical world in ancient China.

Free Download How to Combine Traditional & Contemporary Furniture: Understand the Different Styles, Decide on a Theme, Tips, and Warnings by MCWILLIAMS IISHIA
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09T6NPHHB | 55 pages | EPUB | 5.17 Mb
Author strives to create homes of calibrated simplicity that balance the push and pull of modern life, address a sense of place and persons rather than any particular period or style, and balance the traditional with the modern and aesthetics with function. This book favors earthy color palettes that transition like seasons and organic textures that patina gently like metals that burnish with touch, leathers that soften, and floorboards that reveal more of a home’s soul with every year. The homes are filled with vintage furniture and rugs juxtaposed against custom upholstery to feel contemporary yet classic and familiar.