Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China by Xiaoqiao Ling 9780674241114

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During the Manchu conquest of China (1640s-1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front...

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Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters by Nicholas Hardy 9780198716099

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The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters', a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and...

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Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China by Roland Mousnier

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This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and...

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Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England by Anne James

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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king...

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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren by Jing Shen 9780739138571

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Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated...

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Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China by Ying Zhang

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During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of...

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Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright by Patrick Cheney 9780521839235

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Shakespeare, National Poet-Playwright is an important book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as 'a man of the...

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A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China by Jing Shen

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A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family's...

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Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China by Roland Mousnier 9781032048161

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This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and...

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