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  • Interdisciplinary Edo

    Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan

    Edited by Joshua Schlachet, William C. Hedberg ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603–1868). It makes an intervention in the field by thinking across conventional disciplinary boundaries toward a holistic and cohesive approach to Japan’s early modern period. By taking historical, religious, literary, and art ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction

    The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon

    by William C. Hedberg ...
    The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There is no work of Chinese fiction more ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction

    The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon

    by William C. Hedberg ...
    The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There is no work of Chinese fiction more ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

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  • Japan Through the Looking Glass

    by Alan MacFarlane ...
    A JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY THROUGH JAPAN'S MULTI-FACETED CUSTOMS AND CULTURE'An excellent book for anyone with an interest in Japanese culture' Sunday Telegraph'Takes in everything from the mythical roots of sumo to the ubiquity of Shinto shrines' The TimesAlan Macfarlane first encountered Japan full of certainty, confidence and unexamined assumptions. He soon found his preconceptions challenged on ... Read more

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  • Esoteric Theravada

    The Story of the Forgotten Meditation Tradition of Southeast Asia

    by Kate Crosby ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history.Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on ... Read more

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  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

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  • Unseen Beings

    How We Forgot the World Is More Than Human

    by Erik Jampa Andersson ...
    **'Unseen Beings is a magnificent, passionate, brilliantly written manifesto for our urgent reimagining of our relationship with every aspect of the creation… indispensable reading for anyone who longs for a just and balanced human future. Buy it and give it to everyone you know.' Andrew Harvey, author of The HopeA revolutionary perspective on the climate catastrophe bridging history, philosophy, ... Read more

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  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

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  • The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

    by Federico Marcon ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
    "Opens a fascinating window into the history of Japan's relationship to its natural environment. . . . A must-read for historians of early modern science." — New Books in East Asian StudiesBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious ... Read more

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  • Secularizing Buddhism

    New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition

    by Sarah Shaw, Bhikku Bodhi, Kate Crosby, Roger L. Jackson ...
    A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond.How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddhism are being transmitted to the West? Is it possible to know whether an interpretation of the Buddha’s words is correct?In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist ... Read more

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  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

    $30.29 USD