Combining social, political, and cultural history, this book examines the contestation over space, history, and power in the late Qing and Republican-era reconstruction of the ancient capital of Suzhou as a modern city. Located fifty miles west of Shanghai, Suzhou has been celebrated throughout Asia as a cynosure of Chinese urbanity and economic plenty for a thousand years. With the city's 1895 opening as a treaty port, businessmen and state officials began to draw on Western urban planning in order to bolster Chinese political and economic power against Japanese encroachment. As a result, both Suzhou as a whole and individual components of the cityscape developed new significance according to a calculus of commerce and nationalism. Japanese monks and travelers, Chinese officials, local people, and others competed to claim Suzhou’s streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples, and thereby to define the course of Suzhou’s and greater China’s modernity.

Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937

Business & Money

Peter J. Carroll

Economics

Stanford University Press

An incredible two CD set. Pete's introductory lecture on Chaos Magick is itself worth the price, but then he goes on to provide an uncommonly powerful 'guided meditation,' the Cthonos Rite. WARNING: sensitive individuals should not perform the Cthonos Rite; it can evoke some very strong experiences. The first CD contains a lengthy discussion of Chaos Magick followed by an Introduction to the Cthonos Rite: The Philosophy &amp; Practice of Magick Introduction to the Cthonos Rite Using the Cthonos Rite CD The second CD contains the guided Cthonos Rite itself: Beginning the Cthonos Rite The 1st Chamber---Evocation The 2nd Chamber---Divination The 3rd Chamber---Enchantment The 4th Chamber---Invocation The 5th Chamber---The Pit The 6th Chamber---Illumination Conclusion

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 1: The Cthonos Rite

The Original Falcon Press

What are Chaos Magic rituals all about? Here's your chance to find out. This remarkable two CD set includes recordings of live rituals and workings performed by Peter Carroll and other prominent Chaos Magicians. It's worth getting the CDs just for the three different Banishing Rituals and the Enochian Call of the 10th Aethyr by Dr. John Dee, but then there's much, much more...   The first CD includes: Health Warning Golden Dawn Banishing Dispersion by Pentagram Mass of Chaos 'C' 'Theogony' of Hesiod The Asgarth Pathworking The Pillar of Chaos Meditation The Mummy & the Mirror Green & Black Gnostic Banishing  The second CD includes: Sanity Warning Mass of Chaos 'B' The Enochian Call of the 10th Aethyr Disursus Cum Daemone The Evocation of Tiamat Target Practice Chao/Runic Banishing

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 2: Liber Bootleg

The seven classical planetary bodies can be used to represent the spectrum of psychology. Ouranos (Uranus), the eighth body, orbits outside the sphere of the classical planets---and of the god-forms or thought-forms attributed to them. Thus it forms an ideal symbol for that which encompasses all of the gods within its orbit, namely, the magical personality. It represents not the power of the magic itself, (which is attributed to Pluto), but rather the desire to be a magician, and the personality required to live as one.  Ouranos can also be thought of as the dark side of the Sun. Ouranos represents something more dark---and perhaps devious---creeping around in the darkness outside of the normal.  Warning: You should beware that the Ouranos Rite tends to unleash something quite different from the normal personality of the user.  The CD contains: Introduction Prologue Invocation I Invocation I (short version) Invocation II Invocation II (short version) Invocation III Evocation Ouranian Sonic Invocation The accompanying booklet includes instructions and text for all of the above plus a section on Barbaric Languages and a Barbaric/English dictionary.

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 3: The Ouranos Rite

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Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 1: The Cthonos Rite

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 2: Liber Bootleg

The Chaos Magick Audio CDs Volume 3: The Ouranos Rite