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Frederick W. Mote (1922–2005)

Autor(a) de Imperial China 900-1800

7+ Works 365 Membros 6 Críticas

About the Author

Inclui os nomes: F. W. Mote, Frederick W. Mote

Image credit: Prof. Frederick Mote. Photo by Robert Matthews, 1983 (photo courtesy of Princeton University)

Obras por Frederick W. Mote

Associated Works

Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration (1991) — Autor — 175 exemplares
Propyläen-Weltgeschichte - Eine Universalgeschichte (1960) — Contribuidor, algumas edições63 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1922-06-02
Data de falecimento
2005-02-10
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Plainview, Nebraska, USA
Local de falecimento
Aurora, Colorado, USA
Educação
Harvard University
University of Nanking
University of Washington
Ocupações
historian
Sinologist
Organizações
Office of Strategic Services
Princeton University
Prémios e menções honrosas
Guggenheim Fellowships

Membros

Críticas

The definitive single-volume work on the last millennium of Imperial Chinese history. Certainly a book to be read and reread many times over to appreciate its wealth of facts and interpretations.
 
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NFSreloaded | 4 outras críticas | Dec 23, 2023 |
Only got up to Chapter 27, on the Ming Dynasty, but what I managed to read before my loan ended was enough to convince me to track down a more permanent copy. Very good overview that, while you do sometimes get the sense some important things are left out, seems to hit on most of the immediate questions. Mote does a good job moving up and down in scale, giving just enough biographical information to personalize the periods he's talking about (and, significantly, to make clear how different life was at various points), while never losing sight of the big picture. I especially appreciated the digressions on China's nomadic neighbors, which despite being even more abbreviated than the main body of the text were detailed and consistently engrossing in their own right.… (mais)
 
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Roeghmann | 4 outras críticas | Dec 8, 2019 |
Amazing book.

"Other features of Chinese religion also can be better understood when freed from implicit assumptions about universal analogies in the way people think." (page 18)

"The Chinese Great Tradition, under no necessity to consider the issue of a supreme creator God, did not need to elevate faith over reason." (page 19)

Confucianism, Taoism, Mo Tzu, problem of knowledge, comparisons to western notions.
 
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Michael.Bradham | Feb 28, 2015 |
Frederick W. Mote was an eminent American sinologist and in this opus, Imperial China one sees the dedication and love towards the history of China that this man had.

Covering nearly a millennium, from the fall of the Tang and the Five Dynasties, the Liao Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Xi Xia state, the Jin Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty to the first century and a half of the Qing Dynasty, this book is a major contribution to scholarship.

Readable and accessible to layperson and scholar alike, Mote intimately brings alive 900 years of history and in spite of its length, is able to maintain the reader's attention throughout. As scholarly material, this book is well-researched with an excellent bibliography.

This is an excellent addition to any sinologist's library or to an interested layperson.
… (mais)
 
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xuebi | 4 outras críticas | May 30, 2014 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
7
Also by
4
Membros
365
Popularidade
#65,883
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
6
ISBN
12
Línguas
1

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