Article: From War to Diplomatic Parity in Eleventh-Century China: Sung's Foreign Relations with Kitan Liao.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China, New ed. (book ...
Philosophy East and West;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Quite fortuitously I acquired The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China by John W. Chaffee and the first volume of Scholastic Humanism ... the lack of warrant for Chaffee's passing contrast between Sung China and medieval Europe. Chaffee says: "Unlike medieval European ...

Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and State in Sung ...
Journal of Asian and African Studies;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Bossier, Powerful Relations: Kinship, Status, and State in Sung China (960-1279) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press ... 45.00. For more than a decade, the historiography of Sung China has been dominated by an extremely powerful and productive ...

Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, vol. 1, Foundations. ...
Philosophy East and West;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Quite fortuitously I acquired The Thorny Gates of Learning in Sung China by John W. Chaffee and the first volume of Scholastic Humanism ... the lack of warrant for Chaffee's passing contrast between Sung China and medieval Europe. Chaffee says: "Unlike medieval European ...

Koans in the Dogen traditon: how and why Dogen does what he does with ...
Philosophy East and West;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the peak period of the creation of koan collections in Sung China. What is the most significant and distinctive feature ... Dogen's mastery and importation of the koan tradition of Sung China is his extensive and creative use of dozen

Article: Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters.(The Koan: Texts and ...
Buddhist-Christian Studies;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... meaning of the koan from its origins and growth in T'ang and Sung China to later Japanese developments. Steven Heine's Opening ... its "other" from a variety of koan collections compiled in Sung China and Kamakura Japan. The volume is organized around the theme ...

Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and ...
Perspectives on Political Science;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... to have been the first world economic and political power. Sung China, and continue their analysis with Renaissance Italy. The authors admit that the relevant data is sparse, particularly for Sung China, yet the inclusion of the two cases is made possible only ...

Article: Nuyen, France 1939Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television;      700+ words ... ... amarillo y el negro, Samurai, Shoot First ... Ask Questions Later, and White, the Yellow, and the Black ), 1975. Mrs. Sung, China Cry: A True Story, Penland Productions, 1990. Write to Kill, RCA, 1990. Ying–Ying St. Clair, The Joy ...