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Marriage As Political Strategy And Cultural Expression - Mongolian Royal Marriages From World Empire To Yuan Dynasty

by George Qingzhi Zhao

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 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 familys 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.
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Harmonious Disagreement - Matteo Ricci And His Closest Chinese Friends

by Yu Liu

90,90€ + 10% CARD

 The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552â€"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.
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Ecozoic Spirituality - The Symphony Of God, Humanity, And The Universe

by Kwang Sun Choi

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 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. By giving special attention to the integral relationship among God, the cosmos, and humanity, the works of Thomas Berry (19142009, USA) and Zhou Dunyi (10171073, China) provide insights that speak to the current ecological crisis, a cosmological context for developing an Ecozoic spirituality, while helping to advance clear values and ethical parameters that lead to a more authentic human presence on Earth.
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Wandering Between Two Worlds - The Formative Years Of Cao Xueqin 17151745

by Ronald R. Gray

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 Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 17151745 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). It covers Cao Xueqins life from his birth in Nanjing in 1715 to the time when it is roughly estimated he began to seriously write his massive work. The book attempts to provide a brisk but broad overview of the important familial, social, historical, literary, and intellectual influences on Cao and his decision to write Honglou meng. Wandering Between Two Worlds relies upon extensive interviews done with noted mainland Chinese scholars on the novel, such as Zhou Ruchang, Cai Yijiang, Duan Jiangli, Shen Zhijun, Zhang Qingshan, and Sun Yuming, during the authors eight-year stay in China; recent research done by Western scholars on Qing dynasty literature, gender, qing, philosophy, and education; and insights from the burgeoning field of the New Qing history. This is only the second biography of Cao Xueqins life to appear in English, and the first to examine in detail his early life and to be written by a non-Chinese. It is intended for students of traditional Chinese literature and culture, as well as general readers interested in the novel and features a special foreword written by the distinguished redologist Zhou Ruchang.
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Language Of Images - Visualization And Meaning In Tantras

by Sthaneshwar Timalsina

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 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.
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Expressionism And Its Deformation In Contemporary Chinese Theatre

by Yuwen Hsiung

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 Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present. Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even transformed during a critical phase in the modernization of Chinese drama during the post-Maoist era. Six leading Chinese dramatists (Gao Xingjian, Lin Zhaohua, Huang Zuolin, Xu Xiaozhong, Meng Jinghui, and Stan Lai) are clear representatives of opening up a new world of modern Chinese drama. They embody each of the major phases of the adoption, deformation, and multicultural infusion of Expressionism in the development of Chinese dramatic modernization. Approaching their dramatic works from multiple perspectives, including expressionist vision and techniques, comparative aesthetics, Bakhtinian chronotope and heteroglossia, semiotics, «psychic interiority», and concluding with Lu Xuns definition of Expressionism as «to write a good deal about yourself», Chinese dramatists enthusiasm for Expressionism is not just an artistic rejoinder to the spiritual aspirations of life in a time of rapid industrialization and modernization but also a coming-to-terms with the ideological and aesthetic conflicts between different dramatic traditions. 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. This book could situate itself within the Chinese scholarly and theatrical contexts for English readers as it is an accessible text for both undergraduate students and graduates and scholars.
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New Essays In Chinese Philosophy

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 New Essays in Chinese Philosophy explores various facets of Chinese thought which have received dynamic and creative scholarly attention in the recent past. It argues that Chinese culture is not «logic-less». The Confucian perception of moral sense and of reason can be revitalized to meet current challenges. The book displays the religiosity of Confucian philosophy and explains why contemporary Confucianists may become Christians, and vice versa. It also illuminates the Taoist and Buddhist concepts of the universe by comparing Chinese and Western metaphysics, and expounds how the ideas of yin, yang and harmony in Chinese tradition are consistent with recent advances in science.
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A Story Of Ambivalent Modernization In Bangladesh And West Bengal - The Rise And Fall Of Bengali Elitism In South Asia

by Pranab Chatterjee

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 This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization. Centuries of invasions (1204-1757) resulted most notably in the Islamization of Bengal. Often there were conflicts between Sanskritization and Islamization. Later colonization of Bengal by Britain (1757) led to a process of Anglicization, which created a new middle class in Bengal that, in turn, created a form of elitism among the Bengali Hindu upper caste. After British rule ended (1947), Bengali culture lost its elitist status in South Asia and has undergone severe marginalization. Political instability and economic insufficiency, as reflected by many quantitative and qualitative indicators, are common and contribute to pervasive unemployment, alienation, vigilantism, and instability in the entire region. A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal is appropriate not only for Bengali intellectuals and scholars but for sociologists, political scientists, cultural anthropologists, historians, and others interested in a case study of how and why a given culture becomes derailed from its path toward modernization.
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Women And Malay Voices - Undercurrent Murmurings In Indonesias Colonial Past

by Tineke Hellwig

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 Women and Malay Voices examines Malay literature by Chinese peranakan authors in the Dutch East Indies between 1915 and 1940. The narratives, some of them based on sensational murder trials reported in the news, offer insights into womens lives and experiences and glimpses of female agency. With its primary focus on Malay texts and Asian women, this book offers a unique opportunity to hear subaltern voices and understand the lives of colonized women in new ways. Using feminist and postcolonial theories, this study juxtaposes the Malay texts with Dutch fiction and newspaper accounts to gain insight into how gender, race, and class are represented and what ideologies marked power relations in Dutch East Indies society.
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Partners In Paradise - Tourism Practices, Heritage Policies, And Anthropological Sites

by Robert J. Shepherd

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 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.
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Trajectories - Excursions With The Anthropology Of E. Douglas Lewis

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 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.
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Harmonious Disagreement - Matteo Ricci And His Closest Chinese Friends

by Yu Liu

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 The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552â€"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.
ENGLISH

Ecozoic Spirituality - The Symphony Of God, Humanity, And The Universe

by Kwang Sun Choi

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 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.
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Marriage As Political Strategy And Cultural Expression - Mongolian Royal Marriages From World Empire To Yuan Dynasty

by George Qingzhi Zhao

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Language Of Images - Visualization And Meaning In Tantras

by Sthaneshwar Timalsina

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 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.
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Expressionism And Its Deformation In Contemporary Chinese Theatre

by Yuwen Hsiung

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 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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The Russian Â«Protocols Of Zionâ» In Japan - Â«Yudayaka/Jewish Perilâ» Propaganda And Debates In The 1920s

by Jacob Kovalio

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Wandering Between Two Worlds - The Formative Years Of Cao Xueqin 1715â€“1745

by Ronald R. Gray

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 Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715â€"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).
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Â«Between Noble And Humbleâ» - Cao Xueqin And The Â«Dream Of The Red Chamberâ»- Edited By Ronald R. Gray And Mark S. Ferrara- Translated By Liangmei Bao And Kyongsook Park

by Mark S. Ferrara, Ronald Gray e Tingting Xu

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Medicine And Society In Late Imperial China - A Study Of Physicians In Suzhou, 1600-1850

by Yuan-Ling Chao

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A Story Of Ambivalent Modernization In Bangladesh And West Bengal - The Rise And Fall Of Bengali Elitism In South Asia

by Pranab Chatterjee

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 A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal
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From Beauty Fear To Beauty Fever - A Critical Study Of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers

by Xin Yang

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 From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever
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Of Woman By Woman - Two Erotic Novellas From Ming China- Translated With An Introduction By R.W.L. Guisso And Lenny Hu

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 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.
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Partners In Paradise - Tourism Practices, Heritage Policies, And Anthropological Sites

by Robert J. Shepherd

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 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.
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