A Few Good Men is a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugraparip?cchâ), one of the most influential Mahâyâna sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in West
Zen was popularized in the West largely through the writings of Dr. D.T. Suzuki, who followed the school of Rinzai Zen. Although it remains relatively unknown in the West, Soto Zen eventually attracte
Wang Wen-hsing caused a sensation in Taiwan in 1972 with publication of Family Catastrophe, his first full-length novel. Many critics were outraged, called it socially irresponsible, morally corrupt, and stylistically irrational, but the novel weathered its controversial reception to become what is now widely regarded as a masterpiece in modern Chinese fiction and the benchmark of Taiwan?s Modernist movement. Often described as Joycean, Family Catastrophe is significant for its stylistic and linguistic experimentation as well as for its disturbing and universal themes. It appears now in English for the first time.
The original unpublished manuscript which led to this Workbook was compiled by Sakihara (1928-2001) during his 1971-2001 tenure at the U. of Hawaii. The material was produced by Sakihara as a full dic
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Tong, the child of missionaries, recalls the three years he spent, along with his mother and siblings and five hundred other foreigners, in prisoner of war camps in the Philippines during WWII. The me
There are few published grammars of the languages of the Admiralty Islands. This work makes available valuable data compiled by Po Minis and the New Britain missionary P. Josef Meier for the Titan lan
Offers a collection of stories featuring Japanese-Americans women dealing with love, marriage, motherhood, and friendship and the impact on their lives of the internment of Japanese Americans during W
In the early twentieth century, Chinese traditional architecture and the French-derived methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts converged in the United States when Chinese students were given scholarships
An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice
"The Growth Idea represents a significant contribution to the emerging field of postwar Japanese history and an important step forward in the historicization of Japan's high-speed growth of the 1950s
