China at the Center
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (Verlag)
978-0-939117-72-7 (ISBN)
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They provided Europeans with greater knowledge of China and the Chinese with new ideas about geography, astronomy, and the natural sciences. The maps also show the ways that certain myths were perpetuated, especially as seen in the vivid and imaginative descriptions of the peoples and places of the world and in their depictions of exotic fauna.
Natasha Reichle is the Associate Curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Her previous publications include Violence and Serenity: Late Buddhist Sculpture from Indonesia (2007) and Bali: Art, Ritual, Performance (2010). M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon), is the Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History and Associate Professor of East Asian studies at the University of San Francisco. Theodore N. Foss recently retired as the Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at The University of Chicago. Prior to this, he was Assistant Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University Mark Stephen Mir has been a member of the USF Ricci Institute for more than 25 years, where he is responsible for the library, archives, and digital collections and provides support for students, faculty and visiting scholars. The Asian Art Museum-Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is a public institution whose mission is to lead a diverse global audience in discovering the unique material, aesthetic, and intellectual achievements of Asian art and culture.
Erscheinungsdatum | 02.03.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 40 color illustrations |
Verlagsort | San Francisco |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 203 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 340 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-939117-72-X / 093911772X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-939117-72-7 / 9780939117727 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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