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  • The King of Violins

    The Extraordinary Life of China's Greatest Violin Virtuoso

    by M.G. Crisci, Cheng Ken Chi, Ph.D. Ph.D. ...
    HOW CHINA'S MOST CELEBRATED VIOLIN PRODIGY BECAME AN ENEMY OF STATE.The King of Violins is the heartbreaking story of China's most celebrated violin prodigy, Ma Sicong, who composed his first concerto at the age of 12.During his career, this gentle, dignified man composed 57 of the world's best-known symphonies and concertos and performed in front of hundreds of sold-out audiences across the globe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shame Across East and West

    Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Krista K. Thomason, Ken Cheng ...
    Series series Political Theories in East Asian Context
    In order to gain a deeper understanding of shame and shamelessness as ethico-political phenomena in the contemporary world, this book stages a cross-cultural dialogue that questions and unsettles established views.Expounding and evaluating a range of perspectives on shame, from the ancient Greeks and classical Confucians to modern liberalism, the chapters in this collection reflect on how we ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Relationality across East and West

    Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Ken Cheng ...
    Series series Political Theories in East Asian Context
    This book explores how the concept of ‘relationality’ can offer a strong basis for cross-cultural dialogue between Western and non-Western traditions of moral and political philosophy.As addressed in this book, the implications of relationality go beyond a Eurocentric binary of Western individualism and non-Western collectivism. Instead, the contributors seek to establish an appropriate discursive ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Modernities in Northeast Asia

    Edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak, Ken Cheng ...
    Series series Political Theories in East Asian Context
    To form a truer portrait of Northeast Asian perspectives on modernity, this book presents a broad range of analyses from philosophical and political-philosophical scholars specializing in the region.The book considers the encounter between "Western" modernity and "Eastern" tradition not as a simple clash of cultures, but as a generative and hybridizing process of negotiation. It examines the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How Animals Think and Feel

    An Introduction to Non-Human Psychology

    by Ken Cheng ...
    This highly accessible book explains key scientific findings in the areas of animal cognition, emotion, and behavior in easy-to-understand language.Why do dogs get separation anxiety? Can a chimpanzee recognize itself in a mirror? Do animals in a zoo get neurotic? Do animals actually have emotions, or are humans simply anthropomorphizing them? How Animals Think and Feel: An Introduction to Non ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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  • Encountering China

    Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Confucian Reflections

    Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times

    by Philip J Ivanhoe ...
    Confucian Reflections: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is about the early Chinese Confucian classic the "Analects" Lunyu, attributed to the founder of the Confucian tradition, Kongzi (551-479 bce) and who is more commonly referred to as "Confucius" in the West. Philip J. Ivanhoe argues that the Analects is as relevant and important today as it has proven to be over the course of its more than 2000 ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Doing Philosophy Comparatively

    Foundations, Problems, and Methods of Cross-Cultural Inquiry

    by Tim Connolly ...
    What standards should we use to evaluate culturally distinct philosophies? What kind of barrier does language or cultural difference pose in our attempts to understand other traditions? How do we avoid our comparisons being biased?Doing Philosophy Comparatively answers these questions by providing a thorough overview of the methodology involved in extending philosophy across linguistic and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • All under Heaven

    The Tianxia System for a Possible World Order

    by Tingyang Zhao ...
    Series Book 3 - Great Transformations
    In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question W**here did China come from? has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Confucian Democracy in East Asia

    Theory and Practice

    by Sungmoon Kim ...
    This book explores a mode of democracy that is culturally relevant and socially practicable in the contemporary pluralistic context of historically Confucian East Asian societies, by critically engaging with the two most dominant theories of Confucian democracy - Confucian communitarianism and meritocratic elitism. The book constructs a mode of public reason (and reasoning) that is morally ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Anthropology Of China, The: China As Ethnographic And Theoretical Critique

    by Charlotte Bruckermann, Stephan Feuchtwang ...
    Putting China into the context of general anthropology offers novel insights into its history, culture and society. Studies in the anthropology of China need to look outwards, to other anthropological areas, while at the same time, anthropologists specialised elsewhere cannot afford to ignore contributions from China. This book introduces a number of key themes and in each case describes how the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD