From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever

Xin Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 67
• From Beauty Fear to Beauty Fever: A Critical Study of Contemporary Chinese Female Writers looks at a glamorous literary and cultural moment in China a... Lees meer

Ecozoic Spirituality

Kwang Sun Choi

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 72
• This book guides the reader to the emerging Ecozoic Era when humans will be present upon the Earth in a mutually enhancing manner. Indeed, this book c... Lees meer

Chinese Poetic Closure

Yang Ye

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 10
• In this comparative study of Chinese poetic closure, Yang Ye focuses on a «scenic ending» that presents an image rather than a statement of thought, a... Lees meer

Gender, Culture, and Christianity

Gael Graham

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 25
• Between 1880 and 1930, Christian schools established in China by American Protestant missionaries were at the peak of their popularity and autonomy. D... Lees meer

Wandering Between Two Worlds

Ronald R Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 68
• Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715-1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteent... Lees meer

Harmonious Disagreement

Yu Liu

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 73
• 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.... Lees meer

Between Noble and Humble

Mark S Ferrara, Ronald Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 62
• Between Noble and Humble: Cao Xueqin and the Dream of the Red Chamber (曹雪芹新传, literally New Biography of Cao Xueqin) is a translation of a scholarly w... Lees meer

Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression

George Qingzhi Zhao

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 60
• Marriage as Political Strategy and Cultural Expression is the first comprehensive study of Mongolian royal marriages from World Empire (1206-1279) to ... Lees meer

Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre

Yuwen Hsiung

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 63
• Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre is the first scholarly book to explore the deep and intricate relationship between E... Lees meer

Partners in Paradise

Robert J Shepherd

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 69
• How and why do some places in the world become symbols of illusive paradise, and what does this mean for their residents? Moving between anthropology,... Lees meer

Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre

Diana Dimitrova

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 58
• Western Tradition and Naturalistic Hindi Theatre is a critical study of the dramatic work of naturalistic Hindi playwright Upendranath Ashk (1910-1996... Lees meer

Wu Leichuan

Sin-Jan Chu

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 19
• Wu Leichuan (1870-1944) was the last Christian with the Metropolitan degree in China and the first Chinese chancellor of Yenching University. This boo... Lees meer

Women and Malay Voices

Tineke Hellwig

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 70
• Women and Malay Voices examines Malay literature by Chinese peranakan authors in the Dutch East Indies between 1915 and 1940. The narratives, some of ... Lees meer

A Tang Miscellany

Carrie E Reed

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 57
• Youyang zazu is an important Tang dynasty miscellany by the erudite and well-traveled chronicler, Duan Chengshi (c. 800-863). Duan collected over thir... Lees meer

The Japanese Garden

Seiko Goto

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 56
• Even in crowded metropolitan areas, Japan's temple precincts preserve not only architecture, but the garden traditions of earlier centuries as well. T... Lees meer

Someone or Nothing?

Russell H Bowers

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 27
• In the context of globalization and pluralism, Christians and Buddhists have opened an instense dialogue. Their goals have progressed beyond seeking m... Lees meer

The Lion's Roar

Hsing Yun

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 6
• Although Japanese Zen is well-known in the West, there is much less awareness of its roots in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism. Ch'an represents a unique and re... Lees meer

Rejuvenating a Tradition

Young-Tsu Wong

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 3
• This book collects eleven articles and reviews on the history of modern China with particular emphasis on the themes of reform and revolution. The top... Lees meer

A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal

Pranab Chatterjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 65
• This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally p... Lees meer

Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting

Jason C Kuo

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 35
• Modern Chinese painting embodies the constant renewal and reinvigorations of Chinese civilization amidst rebellions, reforms, and revolutions, even if... Lees meer

A Comparative Study Between Minjung Theology & Reformed Theology from a Missiological Perspective

Sang-Bok Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 22
• How does Reformed theology compare with liberation theology with respect to the Protestant church's mission in Korea? Why has the Korean conservative ... Lees meer

Reformed Social Ethics and the Korean Church

Nak Heong Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 21
• Conservative Korean presbyterian churches, comprising the absolute majority of the Korean Church, have always claimed to be heirs of the Reformed trad... Lees meer

Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China

Yüan-Ling Chao

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 61
• Medicine and Society in Late Imperial China explores the vibrant medical landscape in late imperial China (1600-1850), focusing on one of the most cul... Lees meer

Trajectories

• Hardcover | Engels | Asian Thought and Culture | nr. 74
• This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, cultur... Lees meer