Connecting the dots in world history, a teacher's literacy-based curriculum : from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to death of Genghis Khan. Volume II by Edwards, Chris, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to volume ii; chapter one. the west cut in half; chapter two. theology and politics; chapter three. the rise of islam; chapter four. the abbasids; chapter five. the byzantines and russians; chapter six. islamic glory days; chapter seven. christendom; chapter eight. before the crusades; chapter nine. the crusades; chapter ten. the tang dynasty; chapter eleven. tang satellites; chapter twelve. the song dynasty; chapter thirteen. genghis khan; appendix; references; about the author…”
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Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine : Roots of Modern Practice. by Buck, Charles

Table of Contents: “…FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DYNASTIES OUTLINE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 MEDICINE IN CHINA PRIOR TO THE HAN DYNASTY; 3 FOUNDING OF CLASSICAL MEDICINE IN THE HAN DYNASTY; 4 POST-HAN AND TANG DYNASTIES; 5 SONG DYNASTY MEDICINE; 6 SOUTHERN SONG AND JIN-YUAN MEDICINE; 7 MING DYNASTY; 8 THE QING DYNASTY AND THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; POSTSCRIPT; APPENDIX 1: GLOSSARY; APPENDIX 2: CLASSIC TEXTS MENTIONED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; CLASSIC TEXTS INDEX.…”
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Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine : Roots of Modern Practice. by Buck, Charles

Table of Contents: “…FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; DYNASTIES OUTLINE; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 MEDICINE IN CHINA PRIOR TO THE HAN DYNASTY; 3 FOUNDING OF CLASSICAL MEDICINE IN THE HAN DYNASTY; 4 POST-HAN AND TANG DYNASTIES; 5 SONG DYNASTY MEDICINE; 6 SOUTHERN SONG AND JIN-YUAN MEDICINE; 7 MING DYNASTY; 8 THE QING DYNASTY AND THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; POSTSCRIPT; APPENDIX 1: GLOSSARY; APPENDIX 2: CLASSIC TEXTS MENTIONED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; CLASSIC TEXTS INDEX.…”
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Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. by Faure, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; 1 CHAN AND ZEN STUDIES; 2 IMAGINING THE PORTRAIT OF A CHAN MASTER; 3 ON THE RITUAL USE OF CHAN PORTRAITURE IN MEDIEVAL CHINA*; 4 A TANG DYNASTY CHAN MUMMY [ROUSHEN] AND A MODERN CASE OF FURTA SACRA?…”
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Chinese beauty secrets. Key to the secrets

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China : a 5,000-year odyssey by Tan, Chung, 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Common Geographical Entity of China; Chapter 2 The Chinese Common Political Entity; Chapter 3 A Unified Empire Sans Imperialism; Chapter 4 External Security and Internal Stability; Chapter 5 The Prosperous Tang Dynasty and Its Golden Culture; Chapter 6 The Glorious and Pathetic Song Dynasty; Chapter 7 Civilization Highway Damaged but Extended; Chapter 8 Manchu China and the Challenge of the Sea; Chapter 9 The Awakened Lion Shaking China, Not the World; Chapter 10 China Joins the Comity of the ""Nation-State"" World; Conclusion…”
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The Silk Road. Episode 1, China

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An Armchair Traveller's History of The Silk Road. by Clements, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…The Western Regions: From Han to Tang (AD 6-618); 4. The Tang Dynasty (618-907); 5. The Uyghurs and the Mongols (907-1408); 6. …”
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Tea : a global history by Saberi, Helen

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Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. by Fenollosa, Ernest F.

Table of Contents: “…Mystical Buddhist Art in China:Tang Dynasty 163; VIII. Mystical Buddhist Art in Japan: Fujiwara Period 197; IX. …”
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The festival of March the third by Li, Song

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Preface; Contents; Chapter one: Inheritance; 1: The Early Origin; 2: The Wei and Jin Dynasties; 3: The Sui and Tang Dynasties; 4: The Song and Yuan Dynasties; 5: Ethnic Minorities; Chapter Two: Circulation; 1: Heluo Central Plain; 2: Frontier Land; 3: Colorful Minorities; Chapter Three: Customs; 1: Floating Goblets, Eggs and Dates; 2: Wearing Willow and Spring Outing; 3: Diet Customs; 4: Singing and Dancing; Chapter Four: Places of Characteristic Celebration; 1: March 3rd Temple Fair in Jiangdu; 2: Li People's Intangible Culture Heritage: March 3rd; 3: March 3rd of Wujiang Town.…”
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Chinese Martial Arts : From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century. by Lorge, Peter

Table of Contents: “…AND MARTIAL ARTS; CONCLUSION; 4 The Six Dynasties; THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN DYNASTIES; WOMEN MARTIAL ARTISTS IN THE SIX DYNASTIES; MULAN; THE RETURN OF CHINESE INFANTRY; CONCLUSION; 5 The Sui and Tang Dynasties; THE TANG MILITARY; MARTIAL ARTS TRAINING; WOMEN IN MARTIAL ARTS ENTERTAINMENT; MONKS AND BANDITS; MILITARY EXAMS; CONCLUSION; 6 The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Song Dynasty.…”
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The Empress in the Pepper Chamber by Milburn, Olivia

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Chinese religious art by Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1 : The beginnings of Chinese religious art -- Neolithic period to Shang Dynasty -- Ceremonial art of the Zhou Dynasty -- The religious art of the Chu culture -- The first emperor Qin Shihuangdi -- Part 2 : Confucian art -- The development of Confucianism in the Han (206 BCE-220 CE) -- Confucian art in medieval China : Six Dynasties to Song Dynasty (220-1279) -- Confucian art : Yuan to Qing Dynasties (1279-1912) -- Confucian temples -- Part 3 : Daoist art -- Daoist art of the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) -- Daoist art of the medieval period : Tang and Song Dynasties (618-1279) -- Daoist art of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (1279-1912) -- Daoist ritual and temples -- Part 4 : Buddhist art -- Early Buddhist Chinese art (386-618) -- Buddhist art of the Tang Dynasty (618-907) -- Later Buddhist art : northern Song to Qing (960-1912) -- Buddhist temples -- Conclusion.…”
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Chinese lexicography : a history from 1046 BC to AD 1911 by Yong, Heming

Table of Contents: “…PART V: CHINESE BILINGUAL LEXICOGRAPHY: A BRIEF OVERVIEW: (from the Tang Dynasty, 618-907 to the Qing Dynasty, 1616-1911)Appendix I: List of book titles from English to Chinese with English titles arranged in alphabetical order; Appendix II: List of book titles from Chinese to English with Chinese titles arranged in Pinyin order; Appendix III: (Omitted)/The chronology of Chinese history; Bibliography; Websites; Index of Chinese names.…”
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Transmitting Authority : Wang Tong (ca. 584-617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China's Manuscript Culture. by Warner, Ding Xiang

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Notes to the Reader; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; The Transmission History of the Zhongshuo, Seventh through Eleventh Centuries; IThe Contents of the Received Zhongshuo; IIAppendices to the Received Zhongshuo; IIIThe First Shaping of the Zhongshuo; IVThe Zhongshuo during the Tang Dynasty; VThe Shaping of the Zhongshuo -- In the Song Dynasty and Since; Chapter 2; Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Received Zhongshuo Features, Problems, and Puzzles in the Zhongshuo; IFormat Types; IIStyles of Reference; IIIThe Growth of Wang Tong's Discipleship.…”
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The true history of tea by Mair, Victor H., 1943-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Tea : leaf of awareness -- A botanical excursion : the rivals of tea -- The heartstrings of national pride : Southeast Asia and the origins of tea -- A slave of yoghurt : tea in the 1st to 6th centuries -- Go have some tea! : the Tang dynasty -- Cloudy feet in a hare's fur cup : the Song dynasty -- Buying peace with the celestial beverage : the tea and horse trade -- The taste of zen is tea : Japan in the 12th to 15th centuries -- Sen Rikyū the tea master : the perfection of the Japanese tea ceremony -- Han Xin counts the soldiers : tea in the Ming and Qing -- How the Dalai Lama got his name : brick tea in Tibet and Mongolia -- We invented the samovar! …”
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Kimonos in the closet by Shumate, David

Table of Contents: “…My Desk Sets Sail -- The Art of the Moors -- Chagall's Blue Horse -- Curry -- Mangos -- Octopus Stuck Between My Teeth -- Lincoln -- Chumming Around with Hemingway -- The Many Offspring of Genghis Khan -- Kimonos in the Closet -- Talking to the Woman in the Yellow Kimono -- Rainfall -- Waking Up as a Buddhist -- My Buddhist Lessons -- Shakespeare in the Morning -- Talking Animals -- Bringing Things Back from the Woods -- Animal Souls -- The Immigrant's First Day at School -- The Races of Man -- The Old Teacher -- Troy -- The Man Who Made the Minotaur Up -- Those Days in Eden -- If Your Hire a Poet to Draw a Map -- Route 66 -- In The Company of Bedouins -- A Thousand Steeples -- The Kind of Sleep You Can Only Get in Church -- Upon Learning Disturbing Facts Concerning the Last Supper -- An Acre -- Amish -- Rural Aria -- Broom -- Hummingbirds -- The Meek -- The Lost Arts -- Rain Dance -- Republic of Umbrellas -- Taking the Psychological Test -- When a Fool Reaches Maturity -- A Good Idea -- Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights -- The Landscape Paintings of Cheap Motels -- In the Abstract -- The Acres of the Moon -- An Inventory of Moons -- How to Speak to the Senile -- Between Dogs -- The Tang Dynasty -- Moving Away from Home -- Surgery -- The Executioner -- After My Beheading -- All the Dead -- Getting Outfitted for a Casket -- Widow -- The Soldier's Hundredth Birthday Cake -- The Last Nazi -- A Hundred Years from Now.…”
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The Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy : the development of Chan's records of sayings literature by Welter, Albert, 1952-

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Chinese Art. by Bushell, Stephen W.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Imperial Era; Qin Dynasty; Han Dynasty; Southern And Northern Dynasty; Tang Dynasty; Sung Dynasty; Yuan Dynasty; Ming Dynasty; Chronology; Qing Dynasty; I. …”
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Christianity

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Knowledge is pleasure : Florence Ayscough in Shanghai by Shen, Lindsay

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Planetary modernisms : provocations on modernity across time by Friedman, Susan Stanford

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Rediscovering Wen Tingyun : a historical key to a poetic labyrinth by Mou, Huaichuan, 1946-

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China and the West To 1600 Empire, Philosophy, and the Paradox of Culture. by Wallech, Steven

Table of Contents: “…The Calorie Advantage and Diseases of Plant Cultivators -- Roman and Han China Suffer a Major Demographic Crisis -- Loyalty, the State, and Paradise Lost -- Daoism -- Buddhism -- An Era of Chaos -- The Fall of Rome -- The Danube -- The Rhine -- The Xiongnu, the Huns, and the Germans -- Chinese Potential for Reunification versus Western Fragmentation -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Contrasting Medieval China and Europe -- Unexpected Consequences -- Revisiting the Paradox of Agriculture -- The Sui Dynasty (581-618) -- The Tang Dynasty (618-906) and the Rejuvenation of China -- The Tang Economy…”
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The Fu Genre of Imperial China : Studies in the Rhapsodic Imagination

Table of Contents: “…The Assimilation and Dissimilation of Fu and Shi Poetry up to the Tang Dynasty; The Pre-Qin Period and Han Dynasty; "Fu Is an Outflow of the Ancient Songs": Canonizing a Genre Through Assimilation; "To Recite without Singing Is Called Fu": Establishing Self-Identity through Dissimilation; The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties; Shi and Fu Pieces with the Same Title; Lyricization of the Fu in the Southern Dynasties; The "Fu-icization" of Verse and the Rise of the Fu de ti; Conclusion…”
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Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives : a Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women : A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women. by Mou, Sherry J.

Table of Contents: “…Writing Virtues with Their Bodies; Introduction; The Paradigms: Chinese Womanhood of the Tang Dynasty (618-907); Interpreting the Inconsistencies: The Undercurrents in the Biographies; 6. …”
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The lantern festival by Song, Li

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Preface; Contents; Chapter One: The Origin and Legends of the Lantern Festival; 1: Emperor Wen of Han Commemorated the Ending of Lu Clan Disturbance; 2: Emperor Wu of Han worshiped Taiyi God of Heaven; 3: Emperor Ming Lit a Lantern to Worship Buddha; 4: Three Yuan Legend of Taoism; 5: Dongfang Shuo and Yuan Xiao; Chapter Two: The Development of the Lantern Festival; 1: The Lantern Festival in the Sui Dynasty; 2: The Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty; 3: The Lantern Festival in the Song Dynasty; 4: The Lantern Festival in the Ming Dynasty; 5: The Lantern Festival in the Qing Dynasty.…”
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The house of flying daggers

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Anecdote, network, gossip, performance : essays on the Shishuo xinyu by Chen, Jack Wei

Table of Contents: “…A textual history of the Shishuo xinyu -- The Shi Jingyin and Liu Ziaobiao commentaries -- Liu Yiqing's biography -- The Shishuo in the bibliographic treatises of the official histories -- The Shishuo in the Tang dynasty -- The Shishuo in Song dynasty encyclopedias and bibliographic writings -- Wang Zao (1079-1154) on the Shishuo -- The Dong Fen, Lu You, and Yuan Jiong editions -- Modern editions of the Shishuo -- Conclusion : On medieval textuality -- 2. …”
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Literature as dialogue : invitations offered and negotiated

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The Sea in World History. by Stein, Stephen K.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 3 Exchange and Encounter, 300 ce to 1000 ceINTRODUCTION; CHRONOLOGY; China and East Asia, 300 to 1000 ce; Imperial Tribute in the Sui and Tang Eras; Buddhist Pilgrimage from China; The Tang Dynasty Maritime Ceramic Route; Seaborne Merchants of Silla, 668-935 ce; Fa Xian, 337 to ca. 422 ce; Grand Canal; India, 300 to 1000 ce; Shipbuilding and Navigation; Buddhism Influence on Trade and Travel; Islamic Commercial Dominance; The Chola Empire; Pilgrimage, Buddhist; Islamic World, 632 ce to 1000 ce; Indian Ocean (Bahr al-Hind); The Mediterranean Sea (Bahr al-Rum, or Bahr al-Sham).…”
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Thomé H. Fang, Tang Junyi and Huayan Thought : a Confucian Appropriation of Buddhist Ideas in Response to Scientism in Twentieth-Century China. by Chiu, King Pong

Table of Contents: “…2.2.3 Searching for New Sources for Cultural Transformation as the Chinese Response2.3 Confucian Thinkers' Appropriations of Buddhist Thought-An Overview; 2.4 Classical Huayan Thought and its Modern Development; 2.4.1 A Brief History of the Huayan School in the Tang Dynasty; 2.4.2 The Foundation of Huayan Thought; 2.4.3 Key Concepts in Huayan Thought; 2.4.4 The Modern Development of the Huayan School; 2.5 Fang and Tang as Models of 'Chinese Hermeneutics'-A Preliminary Discussion; Chapter 3 Thomé H. …”
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Chinese Lives : the People Who Made a Civilization. by Mair, Victor H.

Table of Contents: “…; The Period of Disunion to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, 220-907; 23. Zhuge Liang (181-234); 24. …”
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Confucianism : a modern interpretation by Zhang, Qiyun, 1901-1985

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Problems of Han administration : ancestral rites, weights and measures, and the means of protest by Loewe, Michael

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