Author: Linda Glaser File Type: epub *Give me your tired,your poorbr Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . *In 1883, Emma Lazarus, deeply moved by an influx of immigrants from eastern Europe, wrote a sonnet thatgavea voice to the Statue of Liberty. Originally a gift from France to celebrate our shared national struggles for liberty, the statue, thanks to Emmas poem,came todefine us as a nation that welcomesimmigrants.Thetext of thatnow famous poem,The New Colossus, appears in this free-verse biography, illustrated in an exquisitefolk art style.TheNew Colossus by Emma Lazarus hasbeen selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 4-5, Poetry)**

Author: Mark Edward Lewis File Type: pdf In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the classical period of Chinese history--a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures the demilitarization of the interior and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in Chinas long history of imperialism--events whose residual influence can still be discerned today. From BooklistInaugurating a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, this volume holds that characteristics of the first Chinese empire broadly endured for the succeeding 2,000 years. Structuring the subject topically while integrating chronology in a supporting capacity, Lewis explains the geographical advantages that the Qin enjoyed over its competitors in Chinas Warring States period (481-221 BCE). Curiously, the Qin empire existed for only two decades--long enough, however, to ordain the emperor as semidivine and to establish other features of state, such as bureaucracy. Describing its moving parts of army and administration, Lewis attends to military campaigns of the Qin and its successor dynasty, the Han. Beyond the statecraft, the author delves into the Confucian culture that informed it, presenting extracts from Chinese literature of the period that instructed officials on correct conduct. Confucianism itself was drawn from deeper cultural wells of family relations and cultic worship, which Lewis brings out in glimpses into everyday life provided by archaeological discoveries. Libraries planning to acquire the entire series mustnt omit Lewis solid foundation. Gilbert Taylor American Library Association. ltReviewAs the first volume in the History of Imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires sets an authoritative, reliable tone that bodes well for this important new series. The book meets a high standard of historical accuracy and covers an impressively broad range of topics. Accessible to a wide audience, it will appeal to anyone interested in the foundations of the Chinese imperial tradition.--Victor H. Mair, University of PennsylvaniaInaugurating a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, this volume holds that characteristics of the first Chinese empire broadly endured for the succeeding 2,000 years...[Those] planning to acquire the entire series mustnt omit Lewis solid foundation.--Gilbert Taylor (Booklist 20070415)The standard multivolume history of China has long been the magisterial, exhaustive Cambridge History of China. Now Harvard University Press has announced a six-volume series that will cover the rise, development, and decline of dynastic China from the second century B.C.E. through the early 20th century in an up-to-date, compact, and approachable way. This opening volume by Lewis foretells that the series will become the new gold standard, as the author explains in clear and telling detail how the Qin dynasty ruthlessly defeated a succession of rivals to unify briefly what we now call China in 221 B.C.E. We then see how the succeeding Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.) combined social engineering and political savvy to institutionalize control and form a classical era parallel to the Greeks and Romans in the West. Han imperial structures, including religion, literature, and law, were quite different from what evolved out of them, but Lewis convincingly argues that later societies cannot be understood without understanding this classical foundation.--Charles W. Hayford (Library Journal (starred review) 20070401)Mark Lewiss mind-opening and readable book reminds us of the enduring but changing realities of China.--Jonathan Mirsky (Times Literary Supplement 20080314)Early Chinese Empires is a brilliant example of nuanced, responsible popularization. As the first in a series of six volumes that will cover all of Imperial China, it sets a very high standard.--Grant Hardy (The Historian 20090801)This series on China, brilliantly overseen by Timothy Brook, is a credit to Harvard University Press. Above all, it encourages us to think of China in different ways.--Jonathan Mirsky (Literary Review 20101101)

Author: David O'Connell File Type: pdf The Instructions are Saint Louiss second set of recommendations, which he addressed to his daughter Isabelle, who later became Queen of Navarre. OConnells critical text is, for the most part, based on the non-Latinized manuscript ms. G (ca. 1300) and incorporates variants from E (the printed version of the Latinized manuscripts) and KMN (non-Latinized manuscripts). **

Author: Xu Di File Type: pdf This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective. The Dunhuang Grottoes are well-known in the world for their stunning beauty and magnificence, but the teaching of Dunhuang advocates a philosophical perspective that cosmos, nature, and humanity are an interconnected whole, and that all elements function interactively according to universal and relational principles of continuity, cause-and-effect, spiritual connection, and enlightenment. Xu Di and volume contributors highlight the moral education and ethics found throughout the Dunhuang with numerous stories of the personal journeys and growth of the Buddha and bodhisattvas, discussing and analyzing these teachings, and their possible implications for modern education systems throughout China and the world today.