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Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Medieval China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Robert Ford Campany, one of North America’s preeminent scholars of Chinese religion, presents in this volume the first... Læs mere
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Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation, 1940s-1970s (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
China's role in the history of world animation has been trivialized or largely forgotten. In Animated Encounters, Daisy Yan Du addresses this omission in her study of Chinese animation and its engagement with international forces during its formative period, the 1940s-1970s.
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Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of this book, an original... Læs mere
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Integrated Korean Workbook: Intermediate 1 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised third edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1. It provides students with extensive skill-using activities based on the skills learned in the main text.
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Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
It could be argued that cultic practices associated with particular buddhas and bodhisattvas are more representative of the way... Læs mere
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Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Can an imperial city survive, let alone thrive, without an emperor? Alice Y. Tseng answers this intriguing question in Modern Kyoto, a... Læs mere
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Chinese Architecture in an Age of Turmoil, 200 - 600 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The author has done on-site research at almost every site mentioned in the book. Many of the 476 illustrations are the author's own photographs. Many of... Læs mere
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Night Is a Sharkskin Drum (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This is a lyrical evocation of Hawaii by a Native poet whose ancestral land has been scarred by tourism, the American military and urbanization. Grounded in the ancient grandeur and beauty of Hawaii, this collection is a love song for a beloved homeland under assault.
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Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This analysis of of the transformation of political thought in 19th century Japan examines the transmission to Japan of key... Læs mere
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The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
When he died from tuberculosis at the age of 31, Kajii Motojiro had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued... Læs mere
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No Abode: The Record of Ippen (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Ippen (1239-1289) was a wandering ""hijiri"" (holy man) and religious leader whose movement developed into one of the major schools of Japanese Buddhism. This text presents... Læs mere
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Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a spatially explicit study on the influence of the Protestant church in imperial Japan. Garrett Washington examines the physical and social spaces that Tokyo’s largest Japanese-led congregations cultivated between 1879 and 1923 and their broader social ties.
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