Author: Publisher:
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Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Translations on South and East Asia
Author: Transdex
Author: Spaces in Translation
Author: Christian TagsoldPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246748
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
In Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation between Japanese and Western experts created an idea of the Orient and its distinction from the West.
The End of Pax Americana
Author: Naoki SakaiPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478022213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of nationality in conjunction with internationality, the civilizational construction of differences between East and West, and empire and decolonization, Sakai focuses on the formation of a nationalism of hikikomori, or “reclusive withdrawal”—Japan’s increasingly inward-looking tendency since the late 1990s, named for the phenomenon of the nation’s young people sequestering themselves from public life. Sakai argues that the exhaustion of Pax Americana and the post--World War II international order—under which Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China experienced rapid modernization through consumer capitalism and a media revolution—signals neither the “decline of the West” nor the rise of the East, but, rather a dislocation and decentering of European and North American political, economic, diplomatic, and intellectual influence. This decentering is symbolized by the sense of the loss of old colonial empires such as those of Japan, Britain, and the United States.
The English translation
Author: Thomas (bp. of Marga)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nestorian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
History of the monastery of Bêth Âbhê and of Nestorianism for three centuries.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects
Author: Laurie J. SearsPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295804254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The essays in Knowing Southeast Asian Subjects ask how the rising preponderance of scholarship from Southeast Asia is de-centering Southeast Asian area studies in the United States. The contributions address recent transformations within the field and new directions for research, pedagogy, and institutional cooperation. Contributions from the perspectives of history, anthropology, cultural studies, political theory, and libraries pose questions ranging from how a concern with postcolonial and feminist questions of identity might reorient the field to how anthropological work on civil society and Islam in Southeast Asia provides an opportunity for comparative political theorists to develop more sophisticated analytic approaches. A vision common to all the contributors is the potential of area studies to produce knowledge outside a global academic framework that presumes the privilege and even hegemony of Euro-American academic trends and scholars.
Accessions List
Author: United States. Department of State. Library DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Transforming the Void
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004306528
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions considers paths to self-cultivation and salvation that are patterned on human embryological development or procreative imagery in the religions of China and Japan. Focusing on Taoism, Esoteric Buddhism, Shinto, Shugendō, and local religious traditions, the contributors to the volume provide new insight into how the body’s generative processes are harnessed as powerful metaphors for spiritual attainment. This volume offers an in-depth examination of the religious dimensions of embryology and reproductive imagery, topics that have been hitherto solely approached through the lens of the history of medicine. Contributors include: Brigitte Baptandier, Catherine Despeux, Grégoire Espesset, Christine Mollier, Fabrizio Pregadio, Dominic Steavu, Lucia Dolce, Bernard Faure, Iyanaga Nobumi, Anna Andreeva, Kigensan Licha, Gaynor Sekimori.