Through a close reading of Xin Qiji's (1140-1207) song lyrics, Lian (Chinese language and literature, Denison U.) reveals the aesthetic implications of the eccentricity of an unruly self within the Ru
Wu Leichuan (1870-1944) was the last Christian with the Metropolitan degree in China and the first Chinese chancellor of Yenching University. This book studies his intellectual odyssey from Confuciani
A curiously apt typo in the preface refers to Buddhism as the "daring" rather than the "darling" of many Chinese apt in that foreign Buddhist thought breached the seemingly impregnable, incompatible i
Timalsina presents students, academics, researchers, and general interest readers with an examination of Tantric images and Indian visual culture. The author has organized the main body of his text in
Cao Xueqin was a Chinese novelist born in Nanjing around 1715, and still famous for his huge novel Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), which is considered the foremost of the four great classic n
This book discusses how the meal tradition in the particular context of Korea, abridged as Rice is Heaven, is to be reinterpreted in terms of main themes in the biblical meal tradition, summarized as
This volume presents the "Nuogao ji" (Records of Nuogao), five juan scrolls or books of a ninth-century miscellany titled Youyang zazu by Duan Chengshi (c. 800-863), an erudite and highly imaginat
Phongpaichit (economics, Chulalongkorn U., Bangkok) and Baker (a freelance writer) discuss how Thailand got through its recent economic crisis. Emphasis is placed on four main themes: the economic an
Gonzslez-Reimann (South Asian studies, U. of California, Berkeley) argues that a focus on the transitory nature of life among not only the Hindus but also the Buddhists and Jains in the formative peri
Starting in 1767 with the first portrayal of China and the Chinese on stage in the American colonies, Williams (theater, Ohio State U.-Newark) traces the evolution of such portrayals from harmless buf
This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically in
Reed (Chinese language and literature, Middlebury College, Vermont) introduces English readers to the Youyang zazu (Miscellaneous Morsels from the South Slope of You Mountain), a ninth-century Chine
Expressionism and its deformation in contemporary Chinese theater is the focus as Hsiung (applied Chinese language, National Taiwan Normal U.) examines expressionism from 1900 to 1930, the influx of e
The fascinating story of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) changing himself while trying to change the religious faith of the Chinese has been told many times. As a Jesuit, Ricci pushed Christian evangelism by
The eighteenth century Chinese masterpiece novel Dream of the Red Chamber is only beginning to be known in the West. Zhou, the leading expert on the novel, gives a literary and historical biography of
