John S Major
Biographic Data
| ID | 232181 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John S Major |
| GIVEN NAMES | John S |
| FAMILY NAME | Major |
| SIGNATURE | MAJOR J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion
Metamorphic Imagery in Ancient Chinese Art and Religion demonstrates that the concept of metamorphism was central to ancient Chinese religious belief and practices from at least the late Neolithic period through the Warring States Period of the Zhou dynasty. Central to the authors' argument is the ubiquitous motif in early Chinese figurative art, the metamorphic power mask. While the motif underwent stylistic variation over time, its formal prope…
Anti-Terrorism; Forensic Science; Psychology in Police Investigations
Ancient China: A History
Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early imperial era of Qin and Han, up to the threshold of the medieval period in the third century CE. For most of that long span of time there was no such place as "China"; the vast and varied territory of the Heartland Region was home to many diverse cultures th…
Ralph D. Sawyer , with the bibliographic collaboration of Mei-chün Lee Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare. New York: Basic Books, 2011
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Tool Metaphors in the Huainanzi and Other Early Texts
This chapter examines the role of tools as a topos in the Huainanzi . The first and longest looks at a number of tool metaphors in the text shows that they exhibit such a wide range of meanings and applications that the text itself can fairly be summarized by means of the tool metaphors. The second part looks comparatively at tool metaphors in other Warring States and early Han texts, and shows that those texts vary greatly in the degree to which…
The Troublemaker. Michael Scott and his lonely struggle against injustice, by Anne Yates and Lewis Chester
In their attitude to Africa, and especially to South Africa, some 20th-century Anglican clerics were famously militant. We already have the lives of two such men, Archbishop Joost de Blank of Cape Town and Bishop Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg, both written by John Peart-Binns. Most recently, there have been the studies of Father Trevor Huddleston by Robin Denniston, and of Canon John Collins by Denis Herbstein. Now comes the long-anticipated bio…
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter
Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis by Christopher Breward
(2005). Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis by Christopher Breward. Fashion Theory: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 117-120
Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 B.C.E., is of great importance in the subsequent development of Chinese culture. Early Han artists and writers from the first century B.C.E. were encouraged to preserve "exotic" and "barbaric" Chu images and songs as an antidote to the harsh laws of the Qin. This somewhat disparaging view of the Chu has persisted t…
Dress, Sex and Text in Chinese Culture , edited by Antonia Finnane and Anne McLaren
Exhibition Review: Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament . The China Institute In America, New York
Cosmology, Myth, and Philosophy in Ancient China: "New Studies on the "Huainan zi
Presentation de quatre ouvrages consacres au Huainan zi, texte philosophique et de recits (179-122 av. J.-C.) presentant la cosmologie, la philosophie, l'art de gouverner et la mythologie. C. Larre, I. Robinet, et E. Rochar de la Vallee ont traduit six chapitres (le Tao a l'origine de toute existence, l'essence et l'esprit qui representent le Tao dans les etres humains, la transformation permanente des coutumes et comportements humains dans la re…
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West . Toby E. Huff
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four, and Five of the Huainanzi
Les méthodes rapides pour la trigonométrie et le rapport précis du cercle (1774): Tradition chinoise et apport occidental en mathématiques. Catherine Jami
Forum: John S. Major
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Science and Technology in Chinese Civilization. Cheng-Yih Chen , Roger Cliff , Kuei-Mei Chen
The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks 1380-1780
The Art of Rulership: A Study in Ancient Chinese Political Thought
Images of Human Nature: A Sung Portrait
In this volume Donald Munro, author of important studies on early and contemporary China, provides a critical analysis of the doctrines of the Sung Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200). For nearly six centuries Confucian orthodoxy was based on Chu Hsi's commentaries on Confucian classics. These commentaries were the core of the curriculum studied by candidates for the civil service in China until 1905 and provided guidelines both for per…
China Briefing, 1985
New Light on the Dark Warrior
(1985). New Light on the Dark Warrior. Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 65-86
Science and Civilisation in China. Volume VI: Biology and Biological Technology. Part 2: Agriculture . Joseph Needham , Francesca Bray
Essays on Chinese Civilization
Who Wrote the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Convention
Journal Article Who Wrote the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Convention? Get access John Major John Major teaches history at the University of Hull. He is the author of Send a Gunboat (1967), The New Deal (1968), and The Oppenheimer Hearings (1971) and is currently working on a study of U.S. policy toward Panama and the Panama Canal. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1984, Pag…
Defining Chu: Image and Reality in Ancient China
Scholars agree that the "southern" culture of China, roughly identifiable with the state of Chu during the period between 700 and 200 B.C.E., is of great importance in the subsequent development of Chinese culture. Early Han artists and writers from the first century B.C.E. were encouraged to preserve "exotic" and "barbaric" Chu images and songs as an antidote to the harsh laws of the Qin. This somewhat disparaging view of the Chu has persisted t…
Research Priorities in the Study of Ch'u Religion
The Efficacy of Uselessness: A Chuang-tzu Motif
The Invisible Government
Journal Article The Invisible Government Get access The Invisible Government. By David Wise and Thomas B. RossLondon: Jonathan Cape. 1965. 375 pp. Index. 30s. John Major John Major Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1966, Page 355, https://doi.org/10.2307/2611715 Published: 01 April 1966
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House and The Making of the President 1964
Journal Article A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House and The Making of the President 1964 Get access A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. By Arthur M. Schlesinger, London: Andre Deutsch. 1965. 920 pp. Index. 55s.The Making of the President 1964. By Theodore H. White. London: Jonathan Cape. 1965. 431 pp. Index. 42s. John Major John Major Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Interna…
The Fulbright Program: A History
Journal Article The Fulbright Program: A History Get access The Fulbright Program: A History. By Walter Johnson and Francis J. Colligan. Foreword by J. W. Fulbright. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press. 1965 & 1966. 380 pp. Bibliog. Index. $8.50. 63s. John Major John Major Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 43, Issue 2, April 1967, Pages 419–420, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
American-East Asian Relations: A Survey
American-East Asian Relations: A Survey Get access American-East Asian Relations: A Survey. Edited by Ernest R. May and James C. Thomson, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1972. London: Oxford University Press. 1973. 425 pp. Index. (Harvard Studies in American-East Asian Relations, 1.) £7⋅50. John Major John Major Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 50, Issue 1, January …
The Pattern of the Chinese Past
Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology; Pt. 2: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality
The Efficacy of Uselessness: A Chuang-tzu Motif
A Note on the Translation of Two Technical Terms in Chinese Science: Wu-Hsing and Hsiu
(A recent conversation between the author and Prof. Nathan Sivin of MIT on the correct translation of the term hsiu was followed up by a thoughtful letter from Prof. Sivin which is quoted at length below. It seemed appropriate to broaden the discussion to include the term wu-hsing , to provide some lexical-historical background, and to share the sense of the conversation with our colleagues.) Technical terms in any language cannot be understood c…
China and Southeast Asia: Han Tomb Find. Director and producer not identified
Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Four Chinese Philosophers
The Cradle of the East. An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China 5000-1000 B.C. Ping-ti Ho Early Chinese Civilization. Anthropological Persp…
Reply to Richard Kunst's Comments on Hsiu and Wu Hsing
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Christy G. TurnerII, “Dental Evidence on the Origins of the Ainu and Japanese.” Science193 (3 091976): 911–913. - Marvin J. Allison, “Paleopathology in Peru”. Natural History88.2 (02, 1978):74–82
Christy G. TurnerII, “Dental Evidence on the Origins of the Ainu and Japanese.” Science193 (3 091976):911–913. - Marvin J. Allison, “Paleopathology in Peru”. Natural History88.2 (02, 1978):74–82. - Volume 4
Toward an Inferential Method for Evaluating Public Works Projects in Pre-Modern China
Science and Civilisation in China. Volume V: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 2: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin . Joseph Needh…
Pai Wen P'ien, or the Hundred Questions: A Dialogue between Two Taoists on the Macrocosmic and Microcosmic System of Correspondences
Research Priorities in the Study of Ch'u Religion
Notes On the Nomenclature of Winds and Directions in the Early Han
The Huai-nan-tzu M M (hereafter HNT), an eclectic Taoist work presented to the court of Han Wu-ti around I39 B.C., is an important source of information concerning Warring States and Han conceptions of the size, shape, and operations of the cosmos. The doctrines incorporated in HNT represent one of the final steps in the development of Chinese cosmology anterior to Tung Chungshu's K Tff grand synthesis of natural and social philosophy, political …
Pacing The Void: T'ang Approaches to the Stars
The United States and the Republic of Korea: Background for Policy and The Future of US-China Relations
The United States and the Republic of Korea: Background for Policy and The Future of US-China Relations Get access The United States and the Republic of Korea: Background for Policy. By Claude A. Buss. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press. 1982. 184 pp. Index. $10.95.The Future of US-China Relations.Edited by John Bryan Starr. New York, London: New York University Press. 1981. 270 pp. Index. $32.50. John Major John Major 1University of Hull…
Facets of Taoism
Who Wrote the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Convention
Journal Article Who Wrote the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Convention? Get access John Major John Major teaches history at the University of Hull. He is the author of Send a Gunboat (1967), The New Deal (1968), and The Oppenheimer Hearings (1971) and is currently working on a study of U.S. policy toward Panama and the Panama Canal. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1984, Pag…
New Light on the Dark Warrior
(1985). New Light on the Dark Warrior. Journal of Chinese Religions: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 65-86
Science and Civilisation in China. Volume VI: Biology and Biological Technology. Part 2: Agriculture . Joseph Needham , Francesca Bray
Essays on Chinese Civilization
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