Robert P Hymes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1149404 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert P Hymes |
| PRENOMES | Robert P |
| SOBRENOME | Hymes |
| ASSINATURA | HYMES R P |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Way and BywayTaoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, this book addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questio…
Ordering the World
These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the disparate intellectual worlds of Northern and Southern Sung China. Their fin…
Ordering the World
The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in …
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally-rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes offers a remarkable picture of the institutional and social changes this process entailed, but he also examines in d…
Statesmen and Gentlemen
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan
Not Quite Gentlemen? Doctors in Sung and Yuan
Statesmen and Gentlemen
The Dynamics of Elite Domination in Sung China
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Statesmen and Gentlemen is an important study of the way in which, during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, China's ruling meritocracy was transformed into a locally-rooted elite whose principal aim was the consolidation of their power, wealth and influence on a local as opposed to a national and dynastic basis. Professor Hymes offers a remarkable picture of the institutional and social changes this process entailed, but he also examines in d…
Statesmen and Gentlemen
Ordering the World
The Sung Dynasty (960–1278) was a time of vast changes and new challenges in China. The growth of the urban and rural economics, population increase, the emergence of an educated elite, political and intellectual ferment, and threats from hostile neighbors are some of the forces that shaped the age. How did Sung statesmen and thinkers view the relation of state and society and the role of political action in solving society’s ills? The essays in …
Ordering the World
These essays examine the relation of society and the state or, more broadly, the place of political action in society and in the history of Sung China. Connections between intellectual change and sociopolitical change are a consistent focus; attitudes toward history and problems of authority are a recurrent concern. The authors suggest new kinds of continuity between the disparate intellectual worlds of Northern and Southern Sung China. Their fin…
Way and BywayTaoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China
Using a combination of newly mined Sung sources and modern ethnography, this book addresses questions that have perplexed China scholars in recent years. Were Chinese gods celestial officials, governing the fate and fortunes of their worshippers as China's own bureaucracy governed their worldly lives? Or were they personal beings, patrons or parents or guardians, offering protection in exchange for reverence and sacrifice? To answer these questio…
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