Brill's Encyclopedia of China

Biographical note Reviews

Publication Type:

Reference Work

Pages, Illustrations:

xxiv, 1180 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Publication Value:

Handbook

Biographical note

Daniel Leese is assistant professor of Sinology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. In his Ph.D. dissertation Performative Politics and Petrified Image (Bremen 2006) he traced the evolution of the Cultural Revolutionary Mao cult. He has published on aspects of modern Chinese history and Western perceptions of China.

Reviews

'An impressive list of global authorities created 450+ entries all backed with solid research and covering all facets of development from the early beginnings to present day. Assembled with the latest statistics available, this resource should be in all public and academic libraries.'
Dr. William R. Taylor, Choice, February 2009
"...the most comprehensive, single-volumed, European-language reference work on modern China, understood by the editors to cover the period fromt he mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth and to include developments in Taiwan and Hongkong.(...) The real strength of this encyclopedia lies precisely in its Weberian categories. Read together, these entries on economy, society, and law provide a superb introduction to the socioeconomic transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented reform during the second half of the twentieth century. All aspects of the economic, fiscal, monetary, industrial, agricultural, service and trading systems are addressed."
Ned Davis, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, JAS
"this work will almost certainly become an important port of call for sound and unbiased information on the PRC. (...) excellent reference work which certainly merits a place in a good subject collection."
Joan Williamson, Reference Reviews, 2009/348

€254.00$353.00

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HO4-1

Volume:

12/3

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ISBN13:

9789004184008

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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 3

Marylin Martin Rhie

Presenting new studies on the chronology and iconography of Buddhist art during the Western Ch'in (385-431 A.D.) in northwest China, including Ping-ling ssu and Mai-chi shan, this book addresses issues of dating, textual sources, the five-Buddhas, and relation with Gandhara.

€336.00$467.00

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HO4-1

Volume:

12/2

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Bibliographic Set

ISBN13:

9789004114999

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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 2 The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia (2 vols)

Marylin Martin Rhie

Volume two of Marylin Rhie’s widely acclaimed and formative multi-volume work on Buddhist Art in China and Central Asia focuses on the art and the religious and historical background in the regions of South and North China (other than Kansu) and the sites of Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in ...

€269.00$374.00

Series:

HO4-1

Volume:

12/1

Version:

Publication Value:

Handbook

ISBN13:

9789004161375

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Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia, Volume 1 Later Han, Three Kingdoms and Western Chin in China and Bactria to Shan-shan in Central Asia

Marylin Martin Rhie

A comprehensive analysis of the earliest Buddhist art of China, Bactria, and the Southern Silk Road in Central Asia from ca. 1st - 4th century A.D., elucidating the inter-relationships, history, religious elements, sources, dating and chronology.

€254.00$353.00

Series:

HO4/2

Volume:

21/2

Version:

Publication Value:

Bibliographic Set

ISBN13:

9789004175853

Status:

Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) (2 vols)

Edited by John Lagerwey and Lü Pengzhi

Focused on the social dimensions of Chinese religion, this multi-disciplinary presentation of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and shamanism in a time of foundational historic change analyzes their respective pantheons, rituals, geographies, organizations, canons, literature, and recent ...

€269.00$374.00

Series:

HO4/2

Volume:

21/1

Version:

Publication Value:

Bibliographic Set

ISBN13:

9789004168350

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Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD) (2 vols)

Edited by John Lagerwey and Marc Kalinowski

€119.00$168.00

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Volume:

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ISBN13:

9789004188600

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Words and Their Stories

Edited by Wang Ban

In spite of dislocations and ruptures in China’s revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with non-revolutionary rivals. ...

€225.00$320.00

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ISBN13:

9789004178717

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New Title

China, Democracy, and Law

Edited by Mireille Delmas-Marty and Pierre-Étienne Will. Translated by Naomi Norberg.

This landmark volume deals with such essential questions as: What points of departure, or resources, can be identified in Chinese history and culture for what we call 'democracy'? What are, and have been, their potential for development in a modern China confronted with powerful Western ...

€171.00$238.00

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Volume:

25/1

Version:

ISBN13:

9789004191273

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Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I)

Edited by David R. Knechtges and Taiping Chang

The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.

€249.00$354.00

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ISBN13:

9789004184916

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Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia

Edited by Charles D. Orzech (General Editor), Henrik H. Sørensen, Richard K. Payne

This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.

€189.00$263.00

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Volume:

23/2

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ISBN13:

9789004176010

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Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume Two

Kenneth Dean and ZHENG Zhenman

This book documents the revival of local popular religion in Putian, Fujian. Volume 1 provides a historical introduction to 153 regional ritual alliances made up of 724 villages. Volume 2 surveys the population, lineages, temples, gods, and annual rituals of these villages.