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Poems And Stories For Overcoming Idleness - Pâ€™Ahan Chip By Yi Illo

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 Presents is the first complete translation in any Western language of Pâ€™ahan chip, the earliest Korean work of sihwa (C. shihua; ""remarks on poetry"") and one of the oldest extant Korean sources. The collection was written and compiled by Yi Illo (1152-1220) during the mid-Koryo dynasty (918-1392).
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Moral Foods - The Construction Of Nutrition And Health In Modern Asia

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 Investigates how foods came to be established as moral entities, how moral food regimes reveal emerging systems of knowledge and enforcement, and how these developments have contributed to new Asian nutritional knowledge regimes.
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A Chinese Traveler In Medieval Korea - Xu Jingâ€™S Illustrated Account Of The Xuanhe Embassy To Kory?

by Sem Vermeersch

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 Although famous for its celadon and Buddhist paintings, the Kory? period is still very much terra incognita in world history because of the lack of translated source materials. The present work, the first fully annotated, complete translation of a key source text on Kory?, fills this gap.
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Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated - Selections From Yi Kyuboâ€™S Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip

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Korean Relations With Japan And Ryukyu In The Early Choson Period - A Translation Of Sin Sukchuâ€™S Haedong Chegukki

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The Thousand And One Lives Of The Buddha

by Bernard Faure

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 Many biographies of the Buddha have been published in the last 150 years, and all claim to describe the authentic life of the historical Buddha. This book starts from the opposite assumption and argues that we do not yet possess the archival and archeological materials required to compose such a biography: All we have are narratives, not facts.
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War At The Margins - Indigenous Experiences In World War Ii

by Lin Poyer

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 Offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their emergence as players on the world's political stage.
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Official Manual Of The State Of Missouri, 2015-2016

by Office Of The Secretary Of State Of Missouri

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 For more than 130 years, the Missouri Secretary of Stateâ€™s Office has published what is commonly known as the â€œBlue Bookâ€. Missouriâ€™s history and the work of its public servants have been collected in this book every other year since 1878. Each edition of the â€œBlue Bookâ€ is a snapshot of Missouri history.
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Record Of The Seasonal Customs Of Korea - Tongguk Sesigi By Toae Hong Sok-Mo

by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.

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 One of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family.
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The Encyclopedia Of Daily Life - A Woman'S Guide To Living In Late-Choson Korea

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 A fully annotated translation of an early nineteenth-century encyclopedia, the Kyuhap ch'ongs. Written by Lady Yi (1759-1824) as a household management aid for her daughters and daughters-in-law, the work is a treasure trove of information on how women of higher status in the late Chosn ran their households and conducted their daily lives.
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Teaching Mikadoism - The Attack On Japanese Language Schools In Hawaii, California, And Washington, 1919-1927

by Asato

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 Previously unexamined archival documents and oral history interviews highlight Japanese immigrants' resistance and their efforts to foster traditional Japanese values in their American children. They also reveal complex fissures of class and religion within the Japanese communities themselves.
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Colonizing Madness - Asylum And Community In Fiji

by Leckie

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 Tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. This book offers new insights into a history of Fiji by entering the Pacific Islands' most enduring psychiatric institution - St Giles Psychiatric Hospital, established as Fiji's Public Lunatic Asylum in 1884.
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Shinra My Jin And Buddhist Networks O

by Sujung Kim

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 Offers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myjin, the ""god of Silla"" worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myjin as a protective deity of the Tendai Jimon school, showing how its worship emerged and developed in the complex networks of the East Asian ""Mediterranean"".
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Chinese Pure Land Buddhism - Understanding A Tradition Of Practice

by Charles B. Jones

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 Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Charles Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.
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Imperatives Of Care - Women And Medicine In Colonial Korea

by Sonja M. Kim

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 Places women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. This study outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients.
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The Dreaming Mind And The End Of The Min

by Lynn A. Struve

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 Taking the approach of cultural history, this ambitious work aims both to describe the most salient aspects of this ""dream arc"" and to explain its trajectory in time through the writings, arts, and practices of well-known thinkers, religionists, litterateurs, memoirists, painters, doctors, and political figures of late Ming and early Qing times.
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Buddhism After Mao - Negotiations, Continuities, And Reinventions

by Zhe Fisher Laliber

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 With well over 100 million adherents, Buddhism emerged from near-annihilation during the Cultural Revolution to become the largest religion in China today. Despite this, Buddhism's rise has received relatively little scholarly attention. This volume explores the evolution of Chinese Buddhism in the post-Mao period.
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Broken Voices - Postcolonial Entanglements And The Preservation Of Korea'S Central Folksong Traditions

by Roald Maliangkay

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 The first English-language book on Korea's rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony.
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After The Tsunami - Disaster Narratives And The Remaking Of Everyday Life In Aceh

by Samuels

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 The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused immense destruction and over 170,000 deaths in the Indonesian province of Aceh. After the Tsunami explores Acehnese survivors' experiences of the deadly waves and the subsequent reconstruction process through the stories they tell about the disaster.
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Hales Medications Mothers Milk 20 - A Manual Of Lactational Pharmacology

by Hale

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 Written by a world-renowned expert in perinatal pharmacology, this essential reference contains current, complete, and evidence-based information on the transmission of maternal drugs into human milk. This 2021 edition has been extensively revised, and now includes 49 completely new and 356 updated medications.
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Becoming Odyssa: 10th Anniversary Edition - Adventures On The Appalachian Trail

by Jennifer Pharr Davis

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Tales Of The Strange By A Korean Confuci - KŭMo Sinhwa By Kim SisŭP

by Dennis Wuerthner

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 One of the most important and celebrated works of premodern Korean prose fiction, Kmo sinhwa (New Tales of the Golden Turtle) is a collection of five tales of the strange written in literary Chinese by Kim Sisp. This book features a study of Kim and the Kmo sinhwa, followed by a complete English translation of the tales.
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Divorce In South Korea - Doing Gender And The Dynamics Of Relationship Breakdown

by Yean-Ju Lee

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 It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as the root cause of marital dissolution. Those expectations that prescribe what men should do and what women should do help break down marital relationships.
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Legacies Of The Drunken Master - Politics Of The Body In Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy Films

by Luke White

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 In 1978 the films Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Drunken Master, both starring a young Jackie Chan changed the landscape of martial arts cinema. This first book-length analysis of kung fu comedy interrogates the politics of the films and their representations of the performing body.
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