Society

Elisabeth All�s. - Muslims in China - Anthropology of the Hui of Henan. Editions Bellaterra. Barcelona, 2008

The approach to the daily practice of the Islam, to the vital cycle of the believers and to the mosques like centers of the religious life, is one of the big achievements of this study, especially the chapters dedicated to the feminine mosques and to the place that the women occupy in the religion. The phenomenon of the feminine mosques shows the originality of the Chinese Islam with the creation of a few peculiar, relatively autonomous religious structures, directed by women. Finally one reflects on the juxtaposition and the coexistence of the Islam, as well as and ethnicity in the Chinese context.

Antolinez, Miguel �ngel. - The go, a millennial oriental game. New Acropolis. 1998. 410 pags.

The first and wide introduction in Spanish to this game. With his history, philosophy, laws of the game. A game that in fact, it is much more than a game in East.

Birrell, Anne. - Chinese Myths. Akal. 80 pgs

The brief Birrell work, one of the biggest experts in the mythology and ancient literature of China, translator to English of the Book of the Mounts and the Seas, is an essential work for all the interested parties in the Chinese world. The succinct revision to the principal myths and mythological subject-matters of China proposes to the reader a new vision of a topic, which in spite of being treated continuously, is distant from being provided very much with a definitive work.

Fisac, Taciana. - Another sex of the dragon. Narcea. 1997

The situation of the woman in China, outsider since it has been in the society, it has produced different answers levels. In this work his situation is analyzed, along the history, and especially, the literature produced by women, he was thinking leakage route to this oppression.

Fisac, Taciana. - The intelligentsia and the power in China. Trotta. 1997

A librito of big interest that, nevertheless it has spent almost unnoticed for the public interested by China. The essays of six specialists of world relief on the relation between the intelligentsia and the power in China, forces to a deep reflection on the nature of its own society and the essentials of the power.

Gulik, R.H. van. - The sexual life in the ancient China. Siruela. 2000

The particular refinement of the Chinese culture receives evidence, once again, when it is a question of comprising his conception of the sexuality and the secrets of his erotic customs. As fundamental part of the existence, the sexual world does not stop being thought and organized even in his most minimal details and circumstances.

Miers, Suzanne. - Women and patriarchal Chinese. Bellaterra. 1998

For many centuries the woman has suffered the alienation of a patriarchal society. Along this book this past is described, but what is more important, shows us how, some of the phenomena of modernization of last years, are making to re-live through situations that one believed missing.

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