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O'brien, John. "A Comparison of the Philosophical Developments in Greece and China during the 5th Century B.C." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111153708.

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Ho, Man-shek, and 何文石. "History teacher's beliefs in their interpretation of NSS liberal studies curriculum: how do the teachingbeliefs of history teachers affect their interpretation of the NSS LScurriculum?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50178362.

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This research aims at finding out the effects of teaching beliefs of History teachers in interpreting NSS Liberal Studies curriculum. Using autoethnography as the research methodology, the researcher, as a novice History teacher, reflected on his curriculum interpretation in comparison to other LS teachers in his context. This self-narrative is then compared with another History teacher's curriculum interpretation in its respective context. The findings of the research identified some common features between the two History teachers in LS curriculum interpretation. They are more likely to

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Li, Danyang. "Li Hanjun and the early Communist movement in China." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2011. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/27335/.

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This thesis explores the role Li Hanjun played in the initial stage of the Communist movement in China. It describes Li’s early life, including his family background, his upbringing, his schooling and the environment he grew up in. It analyses some of Li’s early writings to demonstrate his philosophical predispositions and political orientation, as well as his character and temperament. It examines Li’s understanding of Marxism and his endeavours to disseminate it and to introduce various socialist theories into China. It describes his contacts with socialists of other countries and his cooper

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Luan, Duo. "Political history TV dramas and the representation of Confucian China : the regulation, emergence and politics of a new genre." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2017. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/744/.

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In order to bridge the knowledge gap noted between Western and Chinese approaches to analysis of China’s TV media, this thesis sets out to propose an alternative methodological framework for investigation of the emergence, development and significance of a distinctive television genre categorised as ‘political history TV drama’ (PHTD), produced in Mainland China since the 1980s. Situating the genre in its historical and political contexts of production, I make particular reference to the orchestrating role of the Chinese state, the political re-articulation of Confucian values, and the reinven

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Bian, Su. "Contested constitutionalism : constitutionalization in contemporary China." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6589/.

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This thesis was written on the constitutional changes of contemporary China, with the 1982 Constitution as the object of researches. This constitution is the currently valid constitution in China, and is expected by constitutional scholars to be put in “juridification”. However, for thirty years since its birth, this task is yet to be realized. What is more, the claim of “judicialization of the constitution” as Chinese legal constitutionalists held especially during the 1990s, is now contested by emergent constitutional schools as one of many constitutions in China. They are arguing that China

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Kang, Lili. "Essays on human capital and productivity analysis in China." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3241/.

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This thesis examines the Chinese economy by focusing on the specialized human capital themes of production processes, regional productivity disparities and convergence, cost competitiveness comparisons and private returns to education from 1978 to 2009. Chapter 2 reviews the growth accounting model and measurement methods of its components such as capital services, labour inputs, labour composition index and Total Factor Productivity index. China’s spectacular economic growth is from unequal performance of provinces and regions. Thus, chapter 3 examines effects of the physical and human capita

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Leung, Terence Man Tat. "French May '68, "China," and the dialectics of refusals in film and intellectual cultures since 1960s." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/94.

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One of the most fashionable impressions about the legacies of French May ’68 lurking in our capitalist society nowadays is perhaps the view that this historic episode has greatly inspired a chain of sexual liberations and anti-authoritarian lifestyle revolts within the realm of modern Western cultures. However, without actually questioning the ideological implications behind this liberal-libertarian ethos, the above convenient historical verdict may still help perpetuate the predominant logic of late capitalism and the concurrent status quo. Historically speaking, during the heyday of the worl

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Maimaiti, Yasheng. "Women’s education and work in China : the menstrual cycle and the power of water." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/790/.

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This study investigates the joint impact of menstrual cycle and poor access to water on women’s education and labour market outcomes. The research context is chosen to be rural China. Two parallel hypotheses that are tested in this study are as follows: (1) Girls have less probability of school enrolment and shorter schooling duration due to the joint impact of poor access to water and menarche presumably because that poor access to water may raise time/health/psychic costs of school enrolment for girls post-menarche. (2) Women have less probability of participating in work for wages due to th

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Garcia-Borrón, Martínez Maria Dolors. "Introducción a la historia de las artes del espectáculo en China." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/8599.

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Tras un breve Prefacio en que se da cuenta de los procedimientos metodológicos y epistemológicos seguidos, se inicia el trabajo con un Prólogo sobre los primeros europeos de tiempos medievales, renacentistas y del Barroco e Ilustración que se acercan a China, citándose también en notas a viajeros orientales que realizan el camino inverso. Dentro del mismo Prólogo, se abunda luego en el surgimiento y desarrollo de la biografía relativa a los temas específicos de este trabajo, esto es, las artes del espectáculo en China y las influencias, aportaciones, diferencias y similitudes mutuas entre Orie

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Xie, Chunling, and 谢春玲. "A study of the "empty category" in Oracle bone inscription from the Shang dynasty ruins." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46916532.

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Bailey, Keolani W. "The PLA's combat leadership system time for a change? /." Quantico, VA : Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA490883.

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Cheng, Yuchen, and 程語忱. "Does heritage conservation generate social benefits?" Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207653.

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The aim of this research is to investigate the social benefits generated by heritage conservation in the Eastern country – China. With economic booming in the urban area, the cultural built heritage is hardly got properly conservation resulting from primarily considering economic benefits other than environmental or social benefits. Nowadays, the social benefits have been recognized by experts and governments; however few studies were conducted in developing or Eastern countries. Thus, this research is appealing a completed picture of heritage conservation in China. This research was based on

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Hödl, Klaus. "‘Jewish history’ as part of ‘general history’: A comment." HATiKVA e.V. – Die Hoffnung Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur Sachsen, 2018. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A34627.

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Li, Pui-lin. "Evaluation of Hong Kong secondary school chinese history textbooks." [Hong Kong] : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13833522.

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Barton, Philip J. "Tibet and China : history, insurgency, and beyond /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Jun%5FBarton.pdf.

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Zhu, Jiming. "Assessing the viability of general practice in China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b33cb439-3f72-44ec-b628-5e0d893bc1f1.

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<b>Background:</b> China has had a well-known tradition of primary care, particularly its barefoot doctors in the 1960s and 1970s, and it contributed to the Declaration of Alma-Ata. In 2011 China formally launched a new, ambitious plan of establishing a system of general practitioner (GP) care by 2020; and aims to train 300,000 GPs. My thesis assesses whether this new strategy for general practice is viable. <b>Methods:</b> I used a systematic approach with a rigorous pre-set protocol to review the government documents at national level in relation to GPs. I undertook a policy implementation s

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Wu, Hao, and 吳昊. "History of Chinese women's costume." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3124080X.

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Wang, Chien-hsün. "Political economy of village governance in contemporary China." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3210048.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Political Science, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-03, Section: A, page: 1080. Adviser: Elinor Ostrom. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed March 16, 2007)."

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Hirschfeld, Fritz. "Smallpox, the Continental Army, and General Washington." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625695.

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Fairbrother, Daniel. "Montaillou and the history of possibilities." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/100880/.

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This thesis develops a reading of Montaillou, un village occitan de 1294 à 1324 (1975) by Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie in parallel with a theory of possibilities in history. It is argued that possibilities are fundamentally involved in the semantics of sociological concepts, in the nature of historical judgements, and in the way actions feature in historiography. The thesis addresses a variety of literature in historiography, sociological theory, the philosophy of social science, and the philosophy of history. The thesis is split into a Preface and 5 parts containing between them 24 chapters of var

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黃錦昌 and Kam-cheong Wong. "Chinese history textbook writing in late Ch'ing China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31207960.

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Wong, Kam-cheong. "Chinese history textbook writing in late Ch'ing China /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12228163.

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Ng, Mei-pou Mabel, and 吳美寶. "A study on the immigrants from the Korean Peninsula in the Tang Dynasty (618-907)=." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30479277.

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余明威 and Ming-wai Yue. "A study of leisure activities in the Tang Dynasty =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44570004.

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Sallee, Scott. "Major General Sterling Price's 1864 Missouri Expedition." TopSCHOLAR®, 1990. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2814.

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Early in the Civil War, the Union Army drove pro-southern Missouri leaders and their followers into Arkansas, and the state fell under Federal occupation. However, many people of southern sympathies remained in Missouri, and between 1862 and 1864 Confederate forces launched four large scale cavalry raids into the state from their Arkansas bases. Major General Sterling Price, C. S. A., led the fourth and largest of these raids, September through November, 1864. An ex-Governor of Missouri, Sterling Price was the truly representative figurehead of the state's Confederate element. Throughout the w

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Wong, Pik-wah Angela, and 黃碧華. "General practitioners' use of computers: a Hong Kong study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B25101225.

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Chong, Shing-kan Patrick, and 莊承謹. "A randomized controlled trial for exercise prescription in general practice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31970977.

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Watson, Robert Emmerson. "The Foreign Office and policy-making in China, 1945-1950 : Anglo-American relations and the recognition of Communist China." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1645/.

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The thesis contributes to the broad body of literature which examines the role of Great Britain in the origins of the Cold War. In particular it focuses on the Foreign Office attitude towards the course of the Chinese Civil War, and ultimately the establishment of a Communist government in China between 1945 and 1950. It is a revisionist interpretation of cold war history drawn from a study of Anglo-American relations with regard to Chinese politics during this period. Traditional interpretations have emphasised the unchallenged nature of American involvement in China after the war. The thesis

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Ye, Shirley. "Business, Water, and the Global City: Germany, Europe, and China, 1820-1950." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11176.

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The dissertation examines the evolving role of Germans under the auspices of European imperialism in modern China's hydraulic management and economic globalization. In the early nineteenth-century, Germans were on the margins of both the Chinese and British Empires, connecting former frontier regions to the major hubs of Asian trade. Over the nineteenth-century there was a large expansion of trade on the coast, where Qing authority had to contend with an emerging international maritime legal and economic order, and German shippers before national unification had a niche as carriers of domestic

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Thompson, Simon J. "Where do history teachers come from? Professional knowing among early career history teachers." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6289/.

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The Training and Development Agency for Schools continue to set an official agenda for what constitutes professional knowledge for teachers in England. The Professional Standards for Teachers (TDA, 2007) set out expectations regarding attributes, knowledge and understanding and skills for teachers at different stages in their careers. Such prescriptions have been the subject of critique by the academic community (Furlong, 2001, Phillips, 2002, Ellis, 2007) for their implicit reductionist assumptions about professional knowledge. History teacher educators (John, 1991, Husbands et al, 2003) have

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Lee, Sai-chong Jack, and 李世莊. "China trade painting: 1750s to 1880s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45015442.

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Lam, Hok-chung, and 林學忠. "International law in Late Qing China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B36266061.

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Huen, Yun-on. "A study of Zhao Zichen's (1888-1979) response to theAnti-Christian Movement in the 1920s." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951338.

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Meng, Gaofeng. "Rural land ownership and institutional change in China." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30768/.

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The focus of this study is the property rights theories tested in the context of Modern China’s rural areas. It is divided into three parts: Part I presents the theoretical framework, concepts. These form the analytical tools. Part II briefly describes the three big transformation of rural arable land ownership in modern China. This is a particular case in which the theoretical framework can be tested. In Part III of this study I apply the analytical framework developed in part I to understand the puzzles and problems described in part II. This is the application of theory to the history and r

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阮秀美 and Sau-mei Teresa Yuen. "The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31212049.

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Ho, Sun-yan Anita, and 何蕣顏. "Post-1949 China in Hong Kong's "History" and "Chinese History" curricula: a comparative study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40203815.

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Mok, Kin-wai Patrick, and 莫健偉. "The British intra-Asian trade with China, 1800-1842." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45014930.

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Kwong, Kwok-tung Vincent. "A new general Post Office." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25954751.

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CAROTA, FRANCESCO. "China Brand Homes: Business history and projects¿ analysis of China Vanke Co. Ltd., 1988-2016." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2742534.

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Yuen, Chee-ying, and 袁持英. "Eunuchs and the consolidation of the North-eastern frontier during the period of Yongle (1403-1424) =." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38621423.

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Zhang, Shunhong. "British views on China during the time of the embassies of Lord Macartney and Lord Amherst (1790-1820)." Thesis, Online version, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.294158.

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Feng, Huanian, and 馮華年. "The reception of western art history in Republican China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31227326.

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Cai, Zhipeng [Verfasser], and Nicola [Akademischer Betreuer] Spakowski. "Fascism in Republican China: a study of conceptual history." Freiburg : Universität, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1238605494/34.

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Ho, Sun-yan Anita. "Post-1949 China in Hong Kong's "History" and "Chinese History" curricula a comparative study /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/b40203815.

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Miller, Anthony J. "PIONEERS IN EXILE: THE CHINA INLAND MISSION AND MISSIONARY MOBILITY IN CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1943-1989." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/26.

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My dissertation explores how the movement of missionaries across Asia responded to the currents of nationalism, decolonization, and the Cold War producing ideas about sovereignty, race, and religious rights. More specifically, it looks at how U.S. evangelicals in the China Inland Mission, an international and interdenominational mission society, collaborated with Christians in the Atlantic and Pacific worlds. While doing so it also details the oft-neglected study of the post-China careers of former China missionaries by extensive use of oral histories. Forced to abandon its only field by the C

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Oaks, Jason C. "Examining the past with an eye to the future the implications of current Chinese middle school history textbooks /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3722.

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Wang, Wanying, and 王婉莹. "The Yuanpei program in Peking University: a case study of curriculum innovation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46076773.

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Wilms, Sabine 1968. "Childbirth customs in early China." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291810.

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The recent discovery of Chinese medical manuscripts in a tomb dated to the second century BC in Ma-wang-tui, Ch'ang-sha, has revealed extremely interesting new information on the subject of ancient Chinese childbirth practices. The scrolls contain detailed advice concerning a proper and auspicious treatment of the placenta, an astronomical chart for choosing the perfect location for the burial of the placenta, and a description of the custom of exposing the newborn infant on the earth directly after birth. This paper offers a translation of these paragraphs and an interpretation based on a Jap

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Dai, Lianbin. "Books, reading, and knowledge in Ming China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5800e2b8-024b-415f-ae6a-3793efd3b955.

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The art of reading and its application to knowledge acquisition and innovation by elites have been largely neglected by historians of print culture and reading in late imperial China (1368-1911). Unlike most studies, which are concerned more with the implied reader and individual reading experience, the present study assumes that the actual reader and the social, cultural and epistemic dimensions of reading practices are the central issues of a history of reading in China. That is, while the art of reading was internalized by the individual, his learning and application of it had social, cultu

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Zhang, Yimin 1961 Oct 19. "The role of literati in military action during the Ming-Qing transition period /." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102772.

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This dissertation explores the interaction between literati and various social forces in east China in the mid-seventeenth century by focusing on their military performance. Based on a wide range of sources, the study focuses on about twenty literati, most of whom have never been previously researched from a military history perspective. It examines the diversity and complexity of Chinese literati as they pursued power over and within local society, paying special attention to the interrelation between them (literati and society). It argues that Chinese literati in this time period had much le

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