The Awakening of Faith is one of the basic texts of Mahayana Buddhism, used by most of its major schools. The popularity of the text in East Asian Buddhism is well attested by the numerous works writt
The Blue Cliff Record(Chinese Biyanlu, Japanese Hekiganroku) is widely considered one of the most important classics of the Chan (Zen) school of Buddhism. Composed in China during the Song Dynasty (96
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs
How is the memory of the past affected by the politics of the present? Tanabe (anthropology, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) and Keyes (anthropology, U. of Washington, US) present 11 chapters tha
Volumes in the Early Korea Project Occasional Series focus on centralissues related to the study of early Korea history and archaeology. Thepresent volume addresses several seminal questions associate
Nine papers from a conference in Hacienda Heights, California, October 1989, explore the religious analogs of the momentous social and cultural changes during the T'ang (618-907) and Sung (960-1279) d
Patrons and Patriarchs breaks new ground in the study of clergy-court relations during the tumultuous period that spanned the collapse of the Tang dynasty (618–907) and the consolidation of the Northe
São Paulo, Brazil, holds the largest number of Japanese descendants outside Japan, and they have been there for six generations. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 to replace European immi
National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiros
São Paulo, Brazil, holds the largest number of Japanese descendants outside Japan, and they have been there for six generations. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 to replace European immi
At the base of a steep cliff towering some 500 feet above the coast of the remote Na Pali district on the island of Kaua'i, lies the spectacular historical and archaeological site at Nu'alolo Kai. Fir
At the base of a steep cliff towering some 500 feet above the coast of the remote Na Pali district on the island of Kaua'i, lies the spectacular historical and archaeological site at Nu'alolo Kai. Fir
Translingual Narration is a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era. It is a postcolonial intervention into
Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Takin
Kathirithamby-Wells (Cambridge U.) explores the relationship between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia, where the planet's richest terrestrial ecosystem has collided with the fastest economic
This volume brings to light the impact of Asian culture on psychotherapy. Scholars and clinicians from East Asia and India go beyond technical dimensions to examine culture and psychotherapy at the th
This highly informative and insightful study opens numerous windows into the history of Islamic religious thought in the Malay-Indonesian world from the thirteenth to the late twentieth century. The a
“Hideyoshi made a strangled noise, words stifled by his rage. . . . [He] flew down from the dais, the toes of his gold brocade socks flashing over ten green grass mats in a second. Soji’s body was kic
“Hideyoshi made a strangled noise, words stifled by his rage. . . . [He] flew down from the dais, the toes of his gold brocade socks flashing over ten green grass mats in a second. Soji’s body was kic
This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa’s Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the
Literary Nonfiction. Northeast Asia Studies. Art. The history of Korean museums goes back more than 100 years, to the opening of the Jesil Bangmulgwan in 1909. There are now 11 national museums in pro
This is an absorbing study of Buddhism as practiced at that time in a community in rural Central Thailand, describing how esoteric spells and magical diagrams were the main interest of children and ad
This is a unique study of Daoism and Platonism, avoiding the common assumptions either interpreting Daoism through the western perspective or favoring rational cognitive thought over empirical instrum
This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While touching on all manner of items traded, from where, to
This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While touching on all manner of items traded, from where, to
"For better or for worse, the history of Philippine Catholicism has always been closely bound up with the history of the Filipino people and the development of the nation. The essays gathered into thi
Has its close connections with academe enriched or diminished Philippine literature in English? Are there alternatives to academe as literary arbiters? How do contemporary Filipino women writers "perf
The maintenance of Chinese community cohesion in the Philippines largely rested upon the ambitions of the Chinese merchant elite in promoting Chinese ethnic identity, argues Wilson (U.S. Naval War Col
Educated Youth. The Lost Generation. They served Mao?s Cultural Revolution as Red Guards in the late 1960s, only to be sacrificed to that same revolution a decade later when they were rusticated to de
What actually happened as Europeans and peoples of the Pacific discovered each other? How have their respective senses of the past influenced their understanding of the present? And what are the conse
This book explores the position of Islam as one of the domestic political variables in Indonesia’s foreign policy. The author mainly draws on material from the New Order period when President Soeharto
