Xia Culture

6 books

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Lonely Fists Shi Wang Qidian · 2011 In a future where material civilization is highly advanced yet the human spirit utterly barren, the Chinese Federation builds a virtual world called T…
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The Legend of the Last Immortal Luoxu Feihua Qidian · 2012 Li Xiaofei, an orphan steeped in martial arts culture, is sentenced to death for killing the son of a powerful official while saving someone on the st…
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Rating 3.9
The Floating World of Chang'an: Folkways and Culture in Tang China 程蔷 / 董乃斌 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2025 This book is a collaborative work by folklorist Cheng Qiang and Tang literature scholar Dong Naibin. Originally published as The Spiritual Civilizatio…
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The Knight-Errant's Character and World 汪涌豪 / 陈广宏 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016 The Knight-Errant's Character and World is a scholarly study of knight-errant (xia) culture co-authored by Wang Yonghao and Chen Guanghong, both profe…
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Rating 3.5
The Knight-Errant's Character and World 汪涌豪 / 陈广宏 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2016 This is a scholarly study of knight-errant culture co-authored by Wang Yonghao and Chen Guanghong, professors in the Department of Chinese Language an…
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Rating 3.4
A View of Chivalry: The Historical Image and Cultural Foundations of the Wandering Knight 张琼霙 Jinan University Press · 2025 Centered on the concept of "xia guan" (views of the xia), this book follows a chronological thread to examine how conceptions of the xia found express…