Joseph F Rock And His Shangri La

Download or read book Joseph F. Rock and His Shangri-La written by Jim Goodman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peoples of the Buddhist World written by Paul Hattaway and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 20 years, Christians around the world have launched initiatives to reach Muslims, Communists, Hindus and other major unreached people groups but the Buddhist world has largely been overlooked. Hundreds of millions of Buddhists continue to live and die without any exposure to the Gospel. In Peoples of the Buddhist World, researcher and author Paul Hattaway graphically presents prayer profiles of more than 200 Buddhist people groups around the world, beautifully illustrated with color pictures throughout. In addition, experts have contributed articles on various aspects of Buddhism, helping the reader to learn, pray and work until that day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).--From publisher's description.

Download or read book The World Beneath Their Feet written by Scott Ellsworth and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Best History/Biography A saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement -- all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war -- that became one of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century. As tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was already raging across the Himalayas. Teams of mountaineers from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States were all competing to be the first to climb the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest and K2. Unlike climbers today, they had few photographs or maps, no properly working oxygen systems, and they wore leather boots and cotton parkas. Amazingly, and against all odds, they soon went farther and higher than anyone could have imagined. And as they did, their story caught the world's attention. The climbers were mobbed at train stations, and were featured in movies and plays. James Hilton created the mythical land of Shangri-La in Lost Horizon, while an English eccentric named Maurice Wilson set out for Tibet in order to climb Mount Everest alone. And in the darkened corridors of the Third Reich, officials soon discovered the propaganda value of planting a Nazi flag on top of the world's highest mountains Set in London, New York, Germany, and in India, China, and Tibet, The World Beneath Their Feet is a story not only of climbing and mountain climbers, but also of passion and ambition, courage and folly, tradition and innovation, tragedy and triumph. Scott Ellsworth tells a rollicking, real-life adventure story that moves seamlessly from the streets of Manhattan to the footlights of the West End, deadly avalanches on Nanga Parbat, rioting in the Kashmir, and the wild mountain dreams of a New Zealand beekeeper named Edmund Hillary and a young Sherpa runaway called Tenzing Norgay. Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot-one that was clouded by the onset of war and then, incredibly, fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Sides, Erik Larson, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.

Download or read book The Plantsman written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book China From Where We Stand written by Kate Rose and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Comparative Sinology? China from Where We Stand brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of this new field, providing a range of perspectives – insider, outsider and in-between – with China at the center. This exemplifies a new China: progressive, outward-looking, yet reflective. Comparative Sinology studies how China has been studied. In today’s global world of hybrid, hyphenated identities, such studies cannot be confined to how non-Chinese study China. What does it mean to be Chinese? Where does it start? Where does it end? Like the related disciplines of China Studies and National Studies, Comparative Sinology is interdisciplinary. Though the four parts of this book represent Philosophy, Literature, History, and Culture, all articles could fit in at least two of these categories. This book redefines the boundaries of traditional academic study, including the subject position, as it is essential, when trying to understand China and its place in the world today, to look at the place of each one of us. Personal connections may be explicit or implicit; but every author here is passionate and personally connected to the work that he or she does, and to China’s future. The practical and intellectual possibilities of this discipline are vast and varied, and this book offers a potential springboard for such ideas.

Download or read book China's Route Heritage written by Gary Sigley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s Route Heritage examines the creation, development and proliferation of the route heritage discourse of the Ancient Tea Horse Road (Chamagudao), in the People’s Republic of China. Examining the formation of the tea-horse road as a concept, its development as a platform for cultural branding, and its most recent interactions with the policy of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the revival of the discourse on the Silk Roads, the book demonstrates that the tea-horse road is an important part of the discourse on Chinese modernity. Describing the route heritage of the tea-horse road as a ‘mobility narrative’, whereby an ancient route is used to form a narrative of ethnic unity and cooperation, the book demonstrates that the study of such heritage offers unique insights into issues that are of concern to the wider field of critical heritage studies. Sigley also shows how the study of alternative route heritage enables us to gain a broader sense of route heritage discourse and its implications for the discussion of historical, present and future forms of mobility and connectivity within China and beyond its borders. China’s Route Heritage should be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students who are engaged in the study of heritage, China, the Silk Roads and the BRI, politics, international relations and tourism.

Download or read book Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962) written by Joseph Francis Rock and published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der aus Wien stammende Joseph Franz Rock (1884-1962) ist als Botaniker und als Ethnograph der in Sudwestchina lebenden Na-khi (Naxi), einer nichtchinesischen, einem Schamanenkult anhangenden und tausende von Manuskripten in ihrer eigenen Bilderschrift besitzenden Ethnie, hervorgetreten. Neben zehntausenden von botanischen Belegen (darunter ein groaer Teil der heute kultivierten Rhododendron-Arten) und etwa 2000 Vogelbalgen hat Rock zehntausend Na-hsi-Manuskripte gesammelt, das erste Worterbuch verfaat und eine Anzahl der Rituale ubersetzt. Inzwischen ist Rocks ehemaliges Wohnhaus in Lijiang (Yunnan) Museum, und sein Hauptwerk uber die Na-khi ist ins Chinesische ubersetzt. Rocks vielseitige Tatigkeit wird im vorliegenden Band von mehreren Seiten beleuchtet: Die Zeitungsberichte zeigen ihn im Umgang mit den Medien und die Rezeption seines Werkes in den USA, der Briefwechsel mit den ostasienwissenschaftlichen Gelehrten an der University of Washington erlautert die Genese des Na-hsi-Worterbuchs und seine Forderung der tibetischen Sammlungen, wahrend die Korrespondenz mit C. S. Sargent (Arnold Arboretum) Licht auf die Expedition zum Amnye Machen Bergmassiv wirft. Der Briefwechsel mit dem Leipziger Tibetologen Johannes Schubert liefert den Hintergrund zu Rocks zunehmenden tibetologischen Studien, wahrend die Briefe an seinen Neffen Robert Koc die Personlichkeit des Forschers in den Mittelpunkt stellen und seine Anhanglichkeit an die alte Heimat dokumentieren. Besondere Bedeutung hat das von Rock selbst noch uberarbeitete Tagebuch der Reise 1921-1923 von Chieng-mai (Thailand) nach Lijiang, wobei er teils der Route von Major H. R. Davies folgte, so daa die Berichte sich gewissermaaen erganzen. Der Band liefert umfangreiches Material zum Verstandnis eines bedeutenden Wissenschaftlers und seines Werks. Mit mehreren Registern.