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  • av Daniel A. Getz Jr
    438,-

    An exploration of Buddhism during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279). It asserts, that, far from signalling a decline, the Sung was a period of great efflorescence in Buddhism. The studies presented focus largely on elite figures, elite traditions, and interactions among Buddhists and literati.

  • av Associate Professor of History K R (Massey University) Howe
    371,-

  • - Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
    av James J. Orr
    371 - 1 100,-

    This work is an inquiry into the emergence of ""victim consciousness"" as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. It reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war.

  • - Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics
    av Steve Odin
    371,-

    A study of the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercultural motif for East-West comparative aesthetics. It opens with an overview of aesthetic theory in the West since the 18th-century empiricists and concludes with a survey of various critiques of psychic distance.

  • - The Sacred Book of Japan's Hidden Christians
     
    279,-

  • - Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in Late Imperial China
    av Randall A. Dodgen
    438,-

    The Yellow River has long been viewed as a symbol of China's cultural and political development, its management traditionally held as a gauge of dynastic power. This work examines long-term efforts to manage the river, and the nature of the bureaucracy created to do the job.

  • - The New Ethnic Community in Urban America
    av Wei Li
    409,-

    Provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority.

  • - Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine
    av Anthony L. Schmieg
    438,-

    How can the art of healing ally itself with the art of killing? ""Watching Your Back"" applies Daoist notions of wellness and survival to reconcile these apparent paradoxes and unveil the origins and rationale of the unexplored symbiosis of Chinese medicine and the martial arts.

  • av William R. LaFleur
    371,-

  • av Walter C. Dudley & Min Lee
    438 - 1 312,-

    This is a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawaii. It includes eyewitness accounts of the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis, our scientific understanding of tsunamis, the tsunami warning system and other major tsunamis from Japan to the Caribbean.

  • - Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945 (Pacific Islands Monograph)
    av Peattie
    438,-

  • - The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image
    av Maurizio Peleggi
    371,-

    "Lords of Things" offers an interpretation of modernity in late 19th and early 20th century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion itself and its public image in the early stages of globalization.

  • av Kristina Lindell
    195,-

  • - An Intensive Language Course with Grammatical Notes and Glossary
    av Byron W. Bender
    468,-

  • - Archaeology, History, and Mythology
    av J.Edward Kidder
    997,-

    Turning to three sources - historical, archaeological, and mythological, this title provides a multifaceted study of Himiko and ancient Japanese society.

  • - Ruling Chiefs of Kaua'i
    av Frederick Wichman
    342,-

    The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers. Genealogical references to the chiefs are interspersed with legends of sea voyages, wars, heroes and romances in this resource book.

  • - Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution
     
    249,-

  • - The Storm Over Critical Buddhism
     
    438,-

  • - Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace
    av Ann Marie Leshkowich
    827,-

  • - Migrant Artists and Self-Reinvention on the World Stage
    av Olga Kanzaki Sooudi
    827,-

    New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Among them are artists and designers who produce cutting-edge work in fields such as design, fashion, music, and art. Japanese New York offers an intimate, ethnographic portrait of these Japanese creative migrants living and working in NYC.

  • - A Quest for Truth in China, and Beyond
    av Vera Schwarcz
    688,-

    This book explores the tenacity of truth in the wake of historical trauma in a wide variety of cultural and linguistic settings.

  • av Johannes Bronkhorst
    732,-

    Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one's deeds in earlier lives. This belief was and is widespread in the Indian subcontinent as is the word "karma" itself. In lucid and accessible prose, this book presents karma in its historical, cultural, and religious context.

  • - Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii
    av Gerald Horne
    1 033,-

    Powerful labour movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne's gripping story of Hawaii workers' struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.

  • - Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-Present
     
    827,-

    Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to "'Nam" the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first century has seen the revision of this image to recognize the people and culture of Vietnam itself. Vietnamese Americans, both immigrants and the American children of immigrants, have participated in changing this perception, consistently presenting their side of the story in memoirs published since the 1960s. My Viet is the first anthology to provide a comprehensive overview of these memoirs and the historical picture they offer and to includeVietnamese writing that goes beyond memoir, revealing a new generation of Vietnamese American poetry, fiction, and drama.My Viet presents a rich, varied, and provocative collection of literary work that explores Vietnam from many Vietnamese points of view, sees America through a specifically Vietnamese American lens, and broadens the scope of Vietnamese American literature to its fullest extent.

  • - From Art and Antiquarianism to Modern Chinese History
    av Shana J. Brown
    732,-

    Pastimes is the first book in English on Chinese jinshi, or antiquarianism, the pinnacle of traditional connoisseurship of ancient artifacts and inscriptions. As a scholarly field, jinshi was inaugurated in the Northern Song (960-1127) and remained popular until the early twentieth century. Literally the study of inscriptions on bronze vessels and stone steles, jinshi combined calligraphy and painting, the collection of artifacts, and philological and historical research. For aficionados of Chinese art, the practices of jinshi offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of traditional Chinese scholars and artists, who spent their days roaming the sometimes seamy world of the commercial art market before attending elegant antiquarian parties, where they composed poetic tributes to their ancient objects of obsession. And during times of political upheaval, such as the nineteenth century, the art and artifact studies of jinshi legitimatized reform and contributed to a dynamic and progressive field of learning. Indeed, the paradox of jinshi is that it was nearly as venerable as the ancient artifacts themselves, and yet it was also subject to continual change. This was particularly true in the last decades of the Qing (1644-1911) and the first decades of the twentieth century, when a diverse group of cosmopolitan and science-minded scholars contributed to what was considered at the time to be a "revolution in traditional linguistics." These antiquarians transformed how historians used literary sources and material artifacts from the ancient past and set the stage for a new understanding of the longevity and cohesiveness of Chinese history. The history of jinshi offers insights that are relevant to Chinese cultural and intellectual history, art history, and politics. Scholars of the modern period will find the resiliency and continuing influence of jinshi to be an important counterpoint to received views on the trajectory of Chinese cultural and intellectual change. We are accustomed to think that Chinese modernity originated in the great tumult of the turn-of-the-century encounter with foreign learning. The example of jinshi reveals the significance of local transformations that occurred much earlier in the nineteenth century. Its combination of art and historiography reveals the full range of scholarly appreciation for the past and its artifacts and provides a unique perspective from which to define "modern China" and illuminate its indigenous origins.

  • - A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887
    av Jonathan K. Osorio
    526,-

    Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this political history of the Kingdom of Hawai'i from the onset of constitutional government in 1840 to the Bayonet Constitution of 1887.

  • - A Look Back at the 1980 Kwangju Uprising
    av Linda S. Lewis
    386,-

    As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this work on commemoration politics, social representation and memory, she draws on her writings from the 1980s and ethnographic work she conducted in the 1990s.

  • av Charles Holcombe
    386,-

    This title examines in a comprehensive way the critically formative period when a culturally coherent geopolitical region identifiable as East Asia first took shape. By sifting through an array of both primary material and modern interpretations, it unravels what ""East Asia"" means, and why.

  • - Understanding Its Past
    av Etc. & Eileen H. Tamura
    577,-

    China: Understanding Its Past aims to fill a conspicuous gap in conventional world history texts, which are often Eurocentric and give scant attention to Asia. Using role-playing, simulations, debates, primary documents, first person accounts, excerpts from literary works, and cooperative learning activities, this text will help students explore many key aspects of China's history and culture. The teacher's manual includes a synopsis of each chapter and section, learner outcomes, definitions of key concepts, directions for student activities, and possible responses to questions posed in the student text. The CD contains selections of Chinese music from different time periods and locales. Liner notes include English translations of lyrics as well as historical information about each selection.

  • av Fay G. Calkins
    327 - 1 100,-

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