An Introduction to Chinese Culture Through the Family,9780791450482

An Introduction to Chinese Culture Through the Family

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ISBN13: 9780791450482
ISBN10: 0791450481
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1(8)
Roger T. Ames
Written and Spoken Chinese: Expression of Culture and Heritage
9(32)
Linda S. Pickle
Meeting Chinese Philosophy
41(18)
Vance Cope-Kasten
The Role of the Visual Arts in Confucian Society
59(30)
Lawrence E. Butler
Women and Gender
89(18)
Mary Gallagher
Chinese Music and the Family
107(16)
Kathleen M. Higgins
Chinese Folktales and the Family
123(16)
Howard Giskin
Chinese Literature in the Confucian and Modern Traditions
139(24)
Fay Beauchamp
Jia, ``Family,'' and the Chinese House
163(32)
Judy Schaaf
Family in the Seventh Art---Modern Chinese Film: An Analysis of Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern, and To Live
195(18)
Bettye S. Walsh
Selected Annotated Readings 213(6)
Chinese Dynasties 219(2)
Pronunciation Suggestions 221(2)
Notes on Contributors 223(4)
Index 227

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