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Author: John King Fairbank
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 1020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A scholarly, concise, and eminently readable history of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian civilization since the 19th century."--Dust jacket.
Author: Jiang Wu
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1498547583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this huge collection has remained largely the province of Buddhologists focusing on textual and bibliographical studies. We thus aim to initiate methodological innovations to study the transformation of the canon by situating it in its modern context, characterized by intricate interactions between East and West as well as among countries in East Asia. During the modern period the Chinese Buddhist canon has been translated, edited, digitized, and condensed as well as internationalized, contested, and ritualized. The well-known accomplishment of this modern transformation is the compilation of the Taisho Canon during the 1920s. It has become a source of both doctrinal orthodoxy as well as creativity and its significance has greatly increased as Buddhist scholarship and devotionalism has utilized the canon for various ends. However, it is still unclear what led to the creation of the modern editions of the Buddhist canon in East Asia. This volume explores the most significant and interesting developments regarding the Chinese Buddhist canon in modern East Asia including canon formation, textual studies, historical analyses, religious studies, ritual invention, and digital research tools and methods.
Author: Daniel Chirot
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780295976136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthnic Chinese in Southeast Asia, like Jews in Central Europe until the Holocaust, have been remarkably successful as an entrepreneurial and professional minority. Whole regimes have sometimes relied on the financial underpinnings of Chinese business to maintain themselves in power, and recently Chinese businesses have led the drive to economic modernization in Southeast Asia. But at the same time, they remain, as the Jews were, the quintessential “outsiders.” In some Southeast Asian countries they are targets of majority nationalist prejudices and suffer from discrimination, even when they are formally integrated into the nation.
Author: Prasenjit Duara
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2004-09-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0585463859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three times the area of Japan, catalyzes a broader understanding of new global trends that characterized much of the twentieth century. Asking why Manchukuo so desperately sought to appear sovereign, Duara examines the cultural and political resources it mobilized to make claims of sovereignty. He argues that Manchukuo, as a transparently constructed 'nation-state,' offers a unique historical laboratory for examining the utilization and transformation of circulating global forces mediated by the 'East Asian modern.' Sovereignty and AUthenticity not only shows how Manchukuo drew technologies of modern nationbuilding from China and Japan, but it provides a window into how some of these techniques and processes were obscured or naturalized in the more successful East Asian nation-states. With its sweepingly original theoretical and comparative perspectives on nationalism and imperialism, this book will be essential reading for all those interested in contemporary history.
Author: Albert M. Craig
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1960
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ISBN-13: 9780395050927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Joel Steinberg
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 9780824811105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix contemporary historians trace the development of distinctive cultural, political, and social institutions in Southeast Asia
Author: Edwin Oldfather Reischauer
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 1016
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Honghua Men
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-05
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9811546541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.S and ASEAN play important roles in the transformation of East Asian order, and discusses the new logic of regional order formation in the era of globalization and regional integration. The book analyzes China’s relationship with East Asian order, great powers and regional institutions involved, especially bilateral relations between China and Japan, China and the U.S., China and ASEAN, and explores how China could improve its regional strategy. Addressing a hot topic in world politics from the angle of regional order, and using methods such as historical analysis, comparative analysis, quantitative analysis and case study, this readable book enables readers to develop an understanding of the history and status quo of East Asia and China’s role in the region.
Author: Thomas David DuBois
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-18
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1139499467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this engaging and informative book, Thomas David DuBois sets out to explain how religion has influenced the political, social, and economic transformation of Asia from the fourteenth century to the present. Crossing a broad terrain from Tokyo to Tibet, the book highlights long-term trends and key moments, such as the expulsion of Catholic missionaries from Japan, or the Taiping Rebellion in China, when religion dramatically transformed the political fate of a nation. Contemporary chapters reflect on the wartime deification of the Japanese emperor, Marxism as religion, the persecution of the Dalai Lama, and the fate of Asian religion in a globalized world.
Author: John King Fairbank
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 955
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