The Construction of Space in Early China

The Construction of Space in Early ChinaShows how the emerging Chinese empire purposely reconceived but was also constrained by basic spatial units such as the body, the household, the region, and the world. This book examines the formation of the Chinese empire through its reorganization and reinterpretation of its basic spatial units: the human body, the household, the city, the region, and the world. The central theme of the book is the way all these forms of ordered space were reshaped

This sustained and distinctively Buddhist challenge to the ontology of Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness resolves the incoherence implicit in the Sartrean conception of nothingness by opening to a Buddhist vision of emptiness

From an insider's perspective

and Ebru Kayaalp (Department of Anthropology

How would you ever know that “to lose a baby ostrich” means to rush into something without thinking

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The author shows how this unique nutritional profile translates into health benefits related to almond consumption

long lasting

and their heavenly interpretations in the Han dynasty (206 BCE–220)

which then made great way

political and economic circumstances

Through a revision of feminist theory and new accounts of film history it contributes to expanding debate and encourages comparison between Iberian cinemas and visual culture from different regions

Attacks on public schools and efforts to impose nationalizing "reforms" are no less threatening today than they were during the era of progressive education under the conditions that gave rise to the John Dewey Society