Minority Stages

Josh Stenberg

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Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Performance and Public Display offers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, t

Clear Serenity, Quiet Insight: T’ien-t’ai Chih-i’s Mo-ho chih-kuan, 3-volume set

Paul L. Swanson

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The Mo-ho chih-kuan(Great cessation-and-contemplation) by T’ien-t’ai Chih-i (538–597) is among the most influential treatises in the long history of Buddhist scholarship. It is known for its brilli

Theater of the Dead

Jeehee Hong

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In eleventh-century China, both the living and the dead were treated to theatrical spectacles. Chambers designed for the deceased were ornamented with actors and theaters sculpted in stone, molded

The Making of the First Korean President

Young Ick Lew

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Literary Remains

Eileen J. Cheng

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Lu Xun (1881–1936), arguably twentieth-century China’s greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambi

Chinese Architecture and Metaphor

Jiren Feng

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Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan

Andrew Edmund Goble

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Remote Homeland, Recovered Borderland

Dan Shao

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Confucian Role Ethics

Roger T. Ames

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Confucian Role Ethics is an exploration of what constitutes and how one becomes an authentic, moral human being as conceived in the Confucian tradition. The book establishes an interpretive context

Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-arts

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In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the École des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scho

Parkscapes

Thomas R. H. Havens

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The Ideology of Kokugo

Lee Yeounsuk

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Available for the first time in English, The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan (1996) is Lee Yeounsuk's award-winning look at the history and ideology behind the constructi

The Flaming Womb

Barbara Watson Andaya

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"The Princess of the Flaming Womb," the Javanese legend that introduces this pioneering study, symbolizes the many ambiguities attached to femaleness in Southeast Asian societies. Yet despite these

Women in Daoism

Catherine Despeux

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Book by Catherine Despeux, Livia Kohn Review "This book is awesome. It reads clearly and fluently. The topics of the chapters make sense; the arguments are convincing and well-s

Mapping Chengde

Philippe Forêt

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The imperial residence of Chengde was built by two powerful and ambitious Manchu emperors between 1703 and 1780 in the mountains of Jehol. This volume, the first scholarly publication in English on

The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution, 1919-1927

Alexander Pantsov

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Mad Wives and Island Dreams

J. Philip Gabriel

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A thorough assessment of the literary legacy of a highly original and influential modern Japanese writer.

The Transparent Eye

Eugene Chen Eoyang

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In this remarkably stimulating and erudite series of essays, Eugene Chen Eoyang explores many of the underlying paradigms and presumptions in world literature, highlighting issues of cultural inter

Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha

Robert E. Buswell

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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200-600

Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

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Between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the year 600, more than thirty dynasties, kingdoms, and states rose and fell on the eastern side of the Asian continent. The founders and rulers of

Cosmos and Community

Livia Kohn

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Siam Mapped

Thongchai Winichakul

评分 9.1分

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges

THE FOOD OF PARADISE

Laudan, Rachel

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Recent winner of a prestigious award from the Julia Child Cookbook Awards, presented by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. Lauden was given the 1997 Jane Grigson Award, p