An expansion of the ""ABC Chinese-English Dictionary"", this alphabetically ordered dictionary of Chinese contains over 196,000 entries.
Draws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple... Læs mere
Using a variety of local documents to analyse the veneration of yonaoshi gods, Takashi Miura looks beyond the traditional modality of research... Læs mere
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate... Læs mere
Based on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, Making Our Own Destiny is the first study to comprehensively compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities.
The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and... Læs mere
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers... Læs mere
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of the empire in the... Læs mere
Presenting Poepoe’s funerary narrative in Hawaiian and in English, this work features a kanikau (mourning chant) by... Læs mere
An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of... Læs mere