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Beyond The Nation-State - From Geopolitical Discourse To Civilizational Dialogues

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Formulating A Minimalist Morality For A New Planetary Order - Alternative Cultural Perspectives

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Ni'Ihau Place Names

by John R. K. Clark

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 The story of Ni'ihau has been told many times by many people, but this book adds new information to the island's history from a unique source: Hawaiian-language newspapers. John Clark has gathered and edited a large collection of invaluable articles that recorded daily life on Ni'ihau, events and topics of interest, and the island's place names.
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Tianxia In Comparative Perspectives - Alternative Models For A Possible Planetary Order

by Liam C. Kelley, Peter D. Hershock, Rajeev Bhargava, Roger T. Ames e Xinfeng Kong

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 Tianxia - 'all-under-Heaven' - in everyday Chinese parlance simply means 'the world'. But tianxia is also a geopolitical term found in canonical writings that has a deeper historical and philosophical significance. This volume contextualizes the tianxia vision within a variety of strategies drawn from a broad spectrum of cultures and peoples.
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Pacific America - Histories Of Transoceanic Crossings

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 In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the US, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the US have exceeded their European counterparts. What does transpacific history look like if the arc of the story is extended to the present? This volume offers answers to this question.
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Confucianism - Its Roots And Global Significance

by Ming-Huei Lee

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 This work is divided into three sections: Classical Confucianism and Its Modern Reinterpretations, Neo-Confucianism in China and Korea, and Ethics and Politics. These sections evince just some of the range of Ming-huei Lee's thinking as well as his inclusive reach of Confucian philosophy to the whole of East Asia, especially to Korea.
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E Ho?I Ka U?I - Perspectives On Placemaking In Hawai?I

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Worldly Saviors And Imperial Authority In Medieval Chinese Buddhism

by April D. Hughes

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 Demonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule.
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Confucianism And Deweyan Pragmatism - Resources For A New Geopolitics Of Interdependence

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 In this volume, a cadre of distinguished scholars comes together to reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics that begins from an ontology of interdependence and recognises the irreducibly ecological nature of the human experience at every level.
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Buddhist Tourism In Asia

by Bruntz Schedneck R

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 Explores how Buddhists, government organisations, business corporations, and individuals in Asia participate in re-imaginings of Buddhism through tourism. Contributors from religious studies, anthropology, and art history examine sacred places and religious monuments as they have been shaped and reshaped by socio-economic and cultural trends.
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God Is Samoan - Dialogues Between Culture And Theology In The Pacific

by Matt Tomlinson

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 Christian theologians in the Pacific Islands see culture as the grounds on which one understands God. In this groundbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of ""contextual theologians,"" exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands' culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues.
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Occam'S Razor

by T.R. Ryden

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A Commentary On The Psalms

by Allen P, Ph.D. Ross

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Xu Fuguan In The Context Of East Asian Confucianisms

by Chun-Chieh Huang

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 Among twentieth-century Confucians, Xu Fuguan (1904-1982) remains preeminent. This volume, written by Chun-chieh Huang, an authority on Xu's life and thought, offers English-speaking readers for the first time an exhaustive analysis of the philosopher's original ideas and research.
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Maritime Ryukyu, 1050-1650

by Gregory Smits

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 Conventional portrayals of early Ryukyu are based on official histories written between 1650 and 1750. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Gregory Smits makes extensive use of scholarship in archaeology and anthropology and leverages unconventional sources such as the Omoro soshi (a collection of ancient songs) to present a fundamental rethinking of early Ryukyu.
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Yellow Perils - China Narratives In The Contemporary World

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 Based on archival material and interviews, the collection supplements and often challenges superficial journalistic accounts and top-down studies by economists and political scientists. Yellow Peril narratives, contributors find, constitute cultural vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties, spanning the cultural, racial, political, and economic.
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Land, Power, And The Sacred - The Estate System In Medieval Japan

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 From the tenth to sixteenth centuries, landed estates served as sites of de facto government, trade network nodes, developing agricultural technology, and centres of religious practice in Japan. This volume examines the system from three perspectives: the land itself; the power derived from and exerted over the land; and the religious institutions and individuals involved in landholding practices.
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Li Zehou And Confucian Philosophy

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 For more than a century scholars have undertaken the project of modernizing Confucianism, but few have been as successful or influential as Li Zehou (b. 1930). Although the authors of this volume hail from different regions and a variety of academic backgrounds, they are unanimous in their appreciation of Li's contributions to an evolving Confucian philosophy, and also world philosophy.
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Beyond Ethnicity - New Politics Of Race In Hawai'I

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Confucianisms For A Changing World Cultural Order

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 Critically explores how the pan-Asian phenomenon of Confucianism offers alternative values and depths of ethical commitment that cross national and cultural boundaries to provide a new response to the challenges of the changing world order.

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