A leading cultural historian of premodern Japan draws a rich portrait of the emerging samurai culture as it is portrayed in gunki-mono, or war tales, examining eight major works spanning the mid-tenth
Tells the story of Fragrant Lotus, whose feet were bound in the Grand Lotus style when she was six years old and now enable her to marry into a wealthy family
The first study in English to offer a systematic introduction to the Chinese pantheon of divinities. It challenges received wisdom about Chinese popular religion, which, until now, presented all Chine
This book explores the connections between popular music genres and politics in Southeast Asia, with particular emphasis on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore.Over the past
The Japanese tea ceremony is generally identified with chanoyu and its bowls of whipped, powdered green tea served in surroundings influenced by the tenets of Zen Buddhism. Tea of the Sages is the fir
Is capitalism in Southeast Asia 'real' or a 'chimera', that is, some Southeast Asian derivative of capitalism that ultimately will not be sustainable? Malaysia, where an intimate relationship has been
This book deals chronologically with the history of writing in Japan, a subject which spans a period of 2,000 years, beginning with the transmission of writing from China in about the first or second
Introduced to China by the British in the late 1700s, opium has had a profound impact on the political, economic, and social fabric of the country since. Rather than focusing on the Opium Wars and oth
Less than one tenth of the active repertory of kabuki plays have been translated from Japanese into English. The four-volume set begins to correct the deficiency, choosing plays that are being perform
Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in MP3 format at http://www.kleartextbook.com. A set of CDs is also available for purchase.The Intermediate Level texts and workbooks are the s
Listen to Your Body shows how you can promote health and natural well-being by modifying everyday actions to improve the flow of qi (the universal principle of energy). Breathing, eating, drinking, re
Edwards (Asian studies, Australian Catholic U.) examines Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in The Red Chamber Dream , an 18th century Chinese novel of manners. Using feminist literary cr
Lents (communications, Temple U.) continues his series on Asian cartooning and cartoonists by assembling views of western and Asian scholars of literature, art, the orient, and other relevant discipli
This highly informative and insightful study opens numerous windows into the history of Islamic religious thought in the Malay-Indonesian world from the thirteenth to the late twentieth century. The a
Craig (sociology of health and medicine and international social policy, U. of Auckland) explores the construction of everyday household health in the southeast Asian country, which integrates classic
Kleeman (East Asian languages and civilizations, U. of Colorado-Boulder) explores the literature of the Japanese southern colonies through writing by Japanese visitors to the colonies, by prominent Ja
How do people make sense of their world in the face of the breakneck speed of contemporary social change? Through the lives and narratives of eight women, The Melodrama of Mobility chronicles South Ko
