| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 418 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Chinese Pronunciation Guide -- Traditional Chinese Dynastic Time Chart -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Plates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Legendary Archer Heroes -- 3. The Archer's Magic -- 4. The Archers' Rituals -- 5. The Confucian Ideal -- 6. Bows, Arrows and Targets -- 7. Fact, Fiction and Stranger Yet -- 8. The Crossbow and Other Forms -- 9. China's Middle Ages -- 10. China Shared -- 11. Action and Overreaction: The Ming Dynasty -- 12. The Transition from Ming to Qing -- 13. The Final Years -- 14. Epilogue -- 15. Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Chinese Archery is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers, poets, artists, novelists and strategists from 1500 BC until the present century. The book is written around parallel text translations of classical chinese sources some famous and some little known in which Chinese writers give vivid and detailed explanations of the techniques of bow-building, archery and crossbow technique over the centuries. The author is both a sinologist and practising archer; his translations make the original Chinese texts accessible to the non-specialis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index |
| Notes |
English and passages in Chinese |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Archery -- China
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Archery.
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Archery
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789882200661 |
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9882200664 |
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