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  • - Excursions with the Anthropology of E. Douglas Lewis
     
    1.070,95 kr.

    This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically informed anthropology.

  • - A Study of Physicians in Suzhou, 1600-1850
    af Yuan-ling Chao
    1.252,95 kr.

  • - Mongolian Royal Marriages from World Empire to Yuan Dynasty
    af George Qingzhi Zhao
    882,95 kr.

    Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression is the first comprehensive study of Mongolian royal marriages from World Empire (1206-1279) to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) in Asia. This study examines the Mongolian royal family¿s marriage strategies and the political implications of these royal marriages, specifically, the intermarriages between the Mongolian royal house and its allies, including the Onggirat, the Oirat, and other Mongol peoples as well as the Uighur State and Korea in Central and East Asia. This book concludes that the short lifespans of Mongol royalty after Khubilai Khan were the result of consanguineous marriage and inbreeding ¿ genetic factors that contributed to the collapse of the Mongol dynasty.

  • - An Introduction to Youyang Zazu
    af Carrie E. Reed
    582,95 kr.

  • - The Government-in-Exile Meets the Challenge of Democratization
    af Helen R. Boyd
    620,95 kr.

  • - Zhang Tianyi and the Narrative Discourse of Upheaval in Modern China
    af Yifeng Sun
    1.052,95 kr.

  • - An Historical Overview of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Christianity
    af Chunwah Kwong
    887,95 kr.

  • - The Nuogao Ji
    af Chengshi Duan
    551,95 kr.

    «Nuogao ji» (Records of Nuogao) is the title of five juan of the ninth-century miscellany entitled Youyang zazu, by Duan Chengshi (c. 800-863). «Nuogao ji» is made up of anecdotes and notices that focus on the strange or supernatural. Simultaneously reminiscent of earlier zhiguai works and characteristic of Tang xiaoshuo writing, this book is an important text for the study of both change and continuity in Chinese informal narratives. This is the first complete English translation of «Nuogao ji.»

  • - Translated and Commented by O'Hyun Park
     
    427,95 kr.

  • - Huang Pin-Hung's Late Work
    af Jason C. Kuo
    744,95 kr.

  • - Expression of Self in Xin Qiji's Song Lyrics
    af Xinda Lian
    606,95 kr.

  • af Robert Shanmu Chen
    453,95 kr.

    The cyclic myth is a temporal schema of the unity of man and the cosmos. It identifies man with the periodic becoming and perpetual regeneration in nature, and guarantees personal duration against the flux of time. It has imprints on every sphere of human experience in Chinese and Western cultures. The author first traces the origin, formation, abstraction and presentation of the cyclic myth in Chinese mythology, ritual, philosophy and literature, and confirms that the cyclic ontology is the core of Chinese culture. He then adumbrates the transmutation of the cyclic mentality in the linear eschatology of the Western culture and its impact in literature from Dante, Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Goethe, Shelley and Yeats to Joyce and Beckett. The author concludes with the assertion that the cyclic myth is an informing structure of literary works and an index of cultures.

  • - Studies in Japanese Thought
    af Steven Heine
    420,95 kr.

    This book is a collection of articles by one of the leading scholars in Japanese thought dealing with three areas of Japanese philosophy and religion: Dôgen's Zen view of liberation, including the key doctrines of casting off body-mind, being-time, and spontaneous manifestation of the kôan; the relation between Buddhism, literary aesthetics, and folk religion; and a comparison of Japanese and Western thought, particularly Heidegger, on science, language, and death. The central theme throughout these essays is the meaning of time and impermanence in Japanese religion and culture based on Buddhist contemplation. The book's title refers to a phrase used by Dôgen, the dramatist Chikamatsu, and others that plays on the twofold image of «dream» representing either the fleeting world of illusion or the nonsubstantial realm of ultimate reality. One of the articles is a new annotated translation of Dôgen's Shôbôgenzô «Muchû setsumu» («Disclosing a Dream Within a Dream») fascicle. Other essays offer novel interpretations of Chikamatsu and Kyoto-school thinkers Kuki Shûzô and Nishitani Keiji in addition to Japanese folk religion.

  • - Visualization and Meaning in Tantras
    af Sthaneshwar Timalsina
    696,95 kr.

    Language of Images is the result of a long and sustained engagement with Tantric practitioners and philosophical and exegetical texts. Due to its synthetic approach of utilizing multiple ways to read cultural artifacts, this work stands alone in its attempt to unravel the esoteric domains of Tantric practice by means of addressing the culture of visualization.

  • - Undercurrent Murmurings in Indonesia's Colonial Past
    af Tineke Hellwig
    730,95 kr.

    Examines Malay literature by Chinese peranakan authors in the Dutch East Indies between 1915 and 1940. In this book, the narratives, some of them based on sensational murder trials reported in the news, offer insights into women's lives and experiences and glimpses of female agency.

  • - Tourism Practices, Heritage Policies, and Anthropological Sites
    af Robert J. Shepherd
    607,95 kr.

    How and why do some places in the world become symbols of illusive paradise, and what does this mean for their residents? This book examines the origins of a Euro-American fascination with places imagined to exist outside of Modernity. It offers a lens on the politics of development, modernization, and cultural preservation.

  • - The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715-1745
    af Ronald R. Gray
    1.062,95 kr.

    Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715-1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).

  • - A Critical Study of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers
    af Xin Yang
    620,95 kr.

    From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever

  • - Two Erotic Novellas from Ming China- Translated with an Introduction by R.W.L. Guisso and Lenny Hu
     
    620,95 kr.

    The last century of Ming rule (1368-1644) in China saw an unparalleled and short-lived loosening of the restraints of conventional Confucian morality in both art and literature. This title presents a translation of two novellas that are representative of that trend.

  • - The Rise and Fall of Bengali Elitism in South Asia
    af Pranab Chatterjee
    882,95 kr.

    A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal

  • - "Yudayaka/Jewish Peril" Propaganda and Debates in the 1920s
    af Jacob Kovalio
    688,95 kr.

  • - Cao Xueqin and the "Dream of the Red Chamber"- Edited by Ronald R. Gray and Mark S. Ferrara- Translated by Liangmei Bao and Kyongsook Park
    af Mark S. Ferrara
    743,94 kr.

  • - Matteo Ricci and His Closest Chinese Friends
    af Yu Liu
    785,95 kr.

    The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by claiming a theistic affinity with Confucianism and by presenting himself as a defender of Confucian orthodoxy from Buddhism.

  • - The Symphony of God, Humanity, and the Universe
    af Kwang Sun Choi
    758,95 kr.

    This book guides the reader to the emerging Ecozoic Era when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner. Indeed, this book calls for an Ecozoic spirituality that is timely and much needed. It also illustrates an important direction for theology and spirituality and for deep ecumenism that is yet to be fully realized and opens more doors for such dialogue.

  • af Yuwen Hsiung
    703,95 kr.

    Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre is the first scholarly book to explore the deep and intricate relationship between Expressionism and contemporary Chinese drama, attempting to assume the critical task of challenging these dramatists while delineating the contours of the most recent trends of Chinese theatre.

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