Far Eastern category: 291 books
Performing China
Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a model of economic and political strength, viewed by many as the greatest empire in the world. While the importance of China to eighteenth-century English consumer culture is well documented, less so is its influence on English values. Through...
The English Renaissance and the Far East
Cross-Cultural Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhist teachings. Purported to contain the autobiography and sermons of Huineng (638–713), the legendary Sixth Patriarch of Chan, the sutra has been popular among monastics and the educated elite for centuries. The first study of...
by Massimo Cimarelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"The purpose of the work of my whole life has been to deliver this holy book in your hands, and make you able to enter the Most Noble Path by contacting the teaching of the Buddha" This is the note that on his deathbed Kenji asks his father to write on the copies, addressed to his friends,...
Edo Kabuki in Transition
From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding...
by Vincent Gagliano
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
The Art of War is one of the oldest and most widely read books on tactics and strategy ever written, but it can also be one of the most mystifying for modern readers to tackle. In order to complete this book, author Vincent Gagliano studied several different translations of The Art of War, in addition...
by Jeffrey Kinkley
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Wang Anyi, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, Ge Fei, Li Rui, and Zhang Wei skew and scramble common...
Samurai Wisdom Stories
Tales from the Golden Age of Bushido
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
A collection of samurai stories, drawn from traditional sources, of battles, strategy, conflict, and intrigue--featuring some of the greatest warriors and military leaders of the samurai era.
Martial artist and samurai scholar Pascal Fauliot has collected and retold twenty-eight wisdom...
by Mario Poceski
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earliest extant records about the life, teachings, and legacy of Mazu Daoyi (709-788), the famous leader...
The Resurrected Skeleton
From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The early Chinese text Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi) is well known for its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work, Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is a butterfly and wonders, upon awaking, if he in fact dreamed that he was a butterfly or if the butterfly is now dreaming...
Mo Yan in Context
Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This...
On Cold Mountain
A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac’s...
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam
Perspectives on Umayyad Elites
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later, by the time of their downfall...
The Sarashina Diary
A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened...