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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779679303321

Autore

Nielsen Bent

Titolo

A companion to Yi Jing numerology and cosmology : Chinese studies of images and number from Han (202 BCE-220 CE) to Song (960-1279 CE) / / Bent Nielsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-60268-2

0-203-35792-2

1-299-47780-1

1-136-60269-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 p.)

Disciplina

133.3/35/0951

Soggetti

Numerology - China

Cosmology, Chinese

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; A Companion to Yi Jing Numerology and Cosmology; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Common Abbreviations; Conventions; Introduction; A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology; Selected Bibliography; Index of Common English Translations of the Hexagram names; Index of Chinese Works

Sommario/riassunto

Translations of the Yi jing into western languages have been biased towards the yili ('meaning and pattern') tradition, whereas studies of the xiangshu ('image and number') tradition - which takes as its point of departure the imagery and numerology associated with divination and its hexagrams, trigrams, lines, and related charts and diagrams - has remained relatively unexplored. This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended. A chara



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953379603321

Autore

Endelman Todd M

Titolo

The Jews of Georgian England, 1714-1830 : tradition and change in a liberal society / / Todd M. Endelman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c1999

ISBN

1-282-42360-6

9786612423604

0-472-02356-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 p.)

Collana

Ann Arbor Paperbacks

Disciplina

941.004/924

Soggetti

Jews - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Great Britain Ethnic relations

Great Britain History 1714-1837

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume originated as a doctoral dissertation at Harvard University ..."--P. xxix.

Originally published: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979. With new preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface to the Ann Arbor Paperbacks Edition; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Secular Basis for Jewish Toleration; 2 Philo-Semitism in Anglo-Christianity; 3 Anti-Jewish Sentiment-Religious and Secular; 4 Gentlemen Jews: The Acculturation of the Anglo-Jewish Middle Class; 5 Peddlers and Hawkers; 6 Pickpockets and Pugilists; 7 Reforming the Jewish Poor; 8 Integration and Intermarriage; 9 Jewish Citizens in a Liberal State; 10 From Tradition to Modernity; Appendix: Statistics on Jewish Crime; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A landmark study of the rise of Anglo-Jewish society in eighteenth century England