Sagacious Monks and Bloodthirsty Warriors: Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period, Paperback - Joshua A. Fogel

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Zuyan Zhou offers an astute look at the concept of androgyny in key works of Chinese fiction and drama from the 16th to the 18th centuries. This st...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

An authoritative A to Z guide to the mythologies and legends of the East, from ancient Egypt to Japan. Over 500 alphabetical entries describe the c...

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First published in 1981, Chun-fang Yu's The Renewal of Buddhism in China challenged the conventional view that Buddhism had reached its height unde...

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The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccu...

At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simp...

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers...

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balan...

This study examines the changing role of Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese in contemporary China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It analyzes how Tibetan B...

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly t...

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DescriptionDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from pop...

Reducere. With over 800 unique photographs, this Chinese art book is a feast for the eyes. Produced exclusively for wealthy Chinese communities along the Str...

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DescriptionRaising the Dead and Returning Life: Emergency Medicine of the Qīng Dynasty is essentially a first aid manual based on the practices of ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Prof. Qitao GuoIllustration(s): 8 color illus.; 5 tables; 1 mapNumber of pages: 303Publication ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): The Perils of Interpreting Henrietta HarrisonIllustration(s): 1 map. 36 b/w illus.Number of pages: ...

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a bac...

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A core text of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, presented in English for the first time, with commentary by Jamg n Mipham, one of the Nyi...

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Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): John W. DardessNumber of pages: 172Collection: Critical Issues in World and International HistoryPublicat...

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Through accessible prose, ethnographically-grounded analysis, and emotionally compelling stories, this book explores the rich pastiche of daily lif...

This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plu...

Exciting investigations in northwest China are set to reveal more of the mysteries of the huge mausoleum of the Qin Emperor, a portion of which was...

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Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Ming, ...