Students of kendo and general readers interested in Japanese swordsmanship will welcome this introduction to the marshal art written by an advanced practitioner and illustrated with hundreds of sketch
Gade (religion, Oberlin College, Ohio) explains the revitalization of piety among Indonesian Muslims since the middle 1990s, as it is expression in perfecting the various modes of reciting the Qur'an.
This anthology presents selected lesbian and gay short fiction from contemporary Taiwanese writers. Martin (cinema studies, La Trobe U., Australia) discusses the development of Taiwan's literature of
This volume showcases some of the most current and exciting research being done on Cambodian religious ideas and practices by a new generation of scholars from a variety of disciplines. The different
Compiled for divers and those fishing in the region, this comprehensive reference describes the many thousands of fish species of the shore area (to a depth of 200 meters) of the islands of Oceania (b
The five decades following the following the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 witnessed major, and conflicting, changes in the way the Chinese viewed their expansionist and modernizing neighbors, accordin
Harris (Buddhist studies, U. College of St. Martin, Lancaster) traces the history of Buddhism in Cambodia from its origins to the fall of Angkor, through the emergence of Theravada in the Medieval Per
This dictionary is an expansion of the ABC Chinese-English Dictionary, the first strictly alphabetically ordered and Pinyin computerized dictionary. It contains over 196,000 entries, compared to the
In 817 the great Buddhist monk Kôbô Daishi Kûkai selected Mount Kôya as the training center for Shingon Buddhism. Since then hundreds of works of religious art were collected and preserved at Mount Kô
Published in 1930, when Japan was struggling to define and assert its national and cultural identity, The Structure of Iki (Iki no kôzô) re-introduced the Japanese to a sophisticated tradition of urba
Seaman (Japanese literature, University of Massachusetts) examines the recent boom in Japanese women's detective fiction and looks at how five Japanese authors critically engage with social issues suc
Morton (Foreign Language Research and Training Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) provides a historical and critical reading of the development of modernist "free-verse" poetry in post-Worl
Miike (who has served as Hawai'i State Director of Health and as a member of the Commission on Water Resource Management) examines the current state of fresh water resource regulation in Hawai'i, part
Ten essays based on an Association of Asian studies conference in 2001 examine xushu (sequels), a little-studied popular genre in traditional Chinese fiction. Counter to the view that sequels are deri
Wiegele (anthropology, Northern Illinois U.) examines a charismatic Catholic movement that has gathered people for miracle and healing rallies since the early 1980s in the Philippines. Documenting its
Both Western and Chinese intellectuals have long derided filial piety tales as an absurd and grotesque variety of children's literature. Selfless Offspring offers a fresh perspective on the genre, rev
The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentio
Sixteen international academics examine the cinematic traditions of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora from the beginning of Chinese film history to the present. Seventeen ess
In a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, contributors reexamine the influence of the Japanese on the region known as "Manchuria" from about 1900 to 1945. The seven essays describe the role o
Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Many governing institutions in the reg
