Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2008

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• The Adaptable Peasant

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  • Author: N.R. Dewasiri
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  • This study analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism.

• Animals in Stone

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  • Author: A.A.E. Van Der Geer
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  • This magnificently illustrated study of a vast amount of South Asian animal stone sculptures provides an art history covering almost four and a half thousand years, analyzing the art historical, archeological and cultural context of animals in society.

• The China Economy Yearbook, Volume 2

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  • Editor Jiagui Chen
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  • This second English volume of The China Economy Yearbook provides an in-depth analysis of China’s economy during the initial year of China’s 11th 5-Year Plan. Written by leading economic researchers from China’s leading economic research institutions, the articles in the yearbook examine key aspects of China’s economic performance, including macroeconomic adjustment, inflation control, the financial system, public finance, foreign trade, agriculture, industry, and real estate.

• The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 2

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  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • This volume of The China Environment Yearbook is the second in a series of annual records written, commissioned, produced, and edited by Friends of Nature, China’s premier environmental citizens’ group. It is the signature annual research publication of China’s non-governmental environmental sector.

• The China Society Yearbook, Volume 2

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  • Editors Xin Ru; Xueyi Lu; Peilin Li
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  • The 2007 volume of The China Society Yearbook, the second volume in the annual China Society Blue Book series to be translated into English, contains important facts and analysis from Chinese scholars on a wide array of issues in China. Along with analysis, this volume offers recommendations and insight into the daunting issues and opportunities facing China as it moves towards a free-market system.

• Chinese Capitalisms

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  • Editors Kwok-bun Chan; Tak-sing Cheung; Agnes Ku
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  • The annual is a venue of publication for sociological studies of Chinese societies and the Chinese all over the world. The main focus is on social transformations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the mainland, Singapore and Chinese overseas.

• Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money

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  • Author: M. Van Crevel
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  • Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use.

• The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature

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  • Author: M. Gamsa
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • A history of the translation, transmission and interpretation of modernist Russian literature in China during the first half of the 20th century, this book views modern Chinese literary culture from an original and revealing perspective. It is the first English-language study of the subject to draw on sources in both Russian and Chinese, and it also shows the crucial role of English, German and Japanese translations in mediating knowledge of Russian literature in China.

• Christ in Japanese Culture

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  • Author: E. Mase-Hasegawa
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  • Shedding light on a wide range of cross-cultural concerns and encounters, going far beyond narrow theological specialisation, the author argues that any successful process of missiological inculturation demands a serious antholopological consideration of indigenous faith.

• Cinema and Television in Singapore

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  • Author: K.P. Tan
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  • Through close readings of contemporary made-in-Singapore films (by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan) and television programs (Singapore Idol, sitcoms, and dramas), this book analyzes the prospects of resistance in an advanced capitalist-industrial society with “global city” aspirations.

• The Colonial 'Civilizing Process' in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662

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  • Author: H.H. Chiu
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  • Focusing on Formosan agency in the encounter with Dutch colonialism and Chinese encroachment, this book reveals a fascinating picture of Taiwan in the early modern era.

• Community Matters in Xinjiang: 1880-1949

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  • Author: I. Bellér-Hann
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  • Drawing on a wide range of historical sources presenting both emic and etic views, this book offers an insight into aspects of social life among the Uyghur in pre-socialist Xinjiang and substantiates the concept of tradition which modern Uyghurs draw upon to construct their ethnic identity.

• Conflict and Social Order in Tibet and Inner Asia

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  • Editors Fernanda Pirie; Toni Huber
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  • Assessing the legacies of revolution, social upheaval and reform among minorities in communist Asia, the case studies in this volume analyse the experience of conflict and social disruption, while providing an original comparative perspective on Tibet and Inner Asia.

• The Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film

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  • Author: T. Iles
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  • A concise, textually analytical study of the ways in which works of contemporary Japanese cinema have explored and reflected a 'crisis' in Japan's changing conceptions of individuality and identity approaching the central issue from a range of aspects.

• Different Worlds of Discourse

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  • Editors Nanxiu Qian; Grace Fong; Richard Smith
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  • Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895–1912) from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.

• Divine Knowledge

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  • Author: B.G. Baumann

• Early Christian Remains of Inner Mongolia

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  • Author: T.H.F. Halbertsma
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • Drawing on recent discoveries, this study reconstructs the material culture of the Christian Öngüt in Inner Mongolia. As much of this material no longer survives in the field, it provides an insight into the rise and disappearance of a Christian culture in Asia.

• The Emperors of Modern Japan

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  • Editor Ben-Ami Shillony
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  • The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.

• Enlightened Rainbows

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  • Author: J.-L. Achard
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  • Within the tradition of the Great Perfection, the Works of Shardza Tashi Gyeltsen stand as textual references of an exceptional erudition. As a sign of realization, the author manifested the Rainbow Body, the ultimate fruit of Dzogchen, in 1934.

• From Coffee to Tea Cultivation in Ceylon, 1880-1900

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  • Author: R. Wenzlhuemer

• Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre

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  • Author: I. Labedzka
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions.

• Globalization and Changes in China's Governance

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  • Author: K. Yu
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  • China’s structure of governance has also been substantially altered in response to globalization. A unique model of political development is underway in China, which differs considerably from those conceived under both traditional socialist and liberal Western models. This volume tackles these issues of global importance through the analytical prowess of one of China’s leading intellectuals.

• The Great Recreation

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  • Author: D. Bryant
  • Editor Barend J. Haar
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  • Based on extensive use of contemporary historical and literary sources, this book offers a detailed account of the Ming poet Ho Ching-ming and his place in the Chinese poetic tradition, arguing for a reevaluation of the 'Archaist' school and Ming poetry in general within Chinese literary history.

• Himalayan Tribal Tales

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  • Author: S.H. Blackburn
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  • Apatani oral tradition, in the eastern Himalayas, illustrates key cultural ideas, social practices and identity construction. A comparative analysis of Apatani stories reveals parallels across the extended eastern Himalayas, from Arunachal Pradesh to upland Southeast Asia and southwest China.

• Imagining the Good Life

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  • Author: F.K.G. Lim
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  • Effectively combining ethnographic research and theoretical reflections on the pursuit of the good life in a Tibetan community in the Nepal Himalaya, this fascinating book offers a fresh perspective in seeking to understand contemporary experience of development and globalization.

• Indian Islamic Architecture

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  • Editor George Michell
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  • The articles by John Burton-Page on Indian Islamic architecture assembled in this volume give an historical overview of the subject, ranging from the mosques and tombs erected by the Delhi sultans in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, to the great monuments of the Mughals in the 16th and 17th centuries.

• The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road

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  • Editors Philippe Forêt; Andreas Kaplony
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  • Drawing on evidence from the many civilizations that shared the Silk Road, this book examines specific cases of the mobility of maps and images through the centuries.

• Kingship in Early Medieval China

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  • Author: A. Eisenberg
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  • The institution of the Retired Emperor forms the innovative angle from which this study analyzes Classical Chinese political history (4th to 7th centuries A.D.) and lays bare broader patterns of political and social action of Classical Chinese monarchy. The author lays a basis for a new framework to think about kingship and succession in East Asia.

• Korea Yearbook (2008)

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  • Editors Rüdiger Frank; Jim Hoare; Patrick Köllner; Susan Pares
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  • South Korea-related refereed articles in Korea Yearbook 2008 focus on the domestic political scene, relations with Japan, policy towards the North, higher education reform, and new Korean cinema. Additional articles deal with the recovery of the remains of US soldiers killed in the Korean War, economic reform in North Korea, and inter-Korean economic cooperation.

• Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors

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  • Author: A. Balikci
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  • Presented as a village ethnography, this book contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the relationship between Buddhist lamas and shamans by considering their co-existence and everyday interactions, as seen among the Lhopo (Bhutia) people of Sikkim.

• Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 7 A Grammar of Sunwar

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  • Author: D. Borchers
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  • This description of Sunwar, spoken in eastern Nepal, offers an overview of the language, the culture of its speakers, a collection of glossed texts and a glossary; and it shows how suffix conjugations developed as the result of language contact.

• Modern Ladakh

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  • Editors Martijn Beek; Fernanda Pirie
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  • Arguing for the need to situate Ladakh in a South Asian context, albeit not neglecting its ties with Tibet, this volume brings together empirical studies from the region to analyse the change and continuity resulting from colonialism, independence and modernisation.

• Modernist Aesthetics in Taiwanese Poetry since the 1950s

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  • Author: C. Au
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  • Drawing on the phenomenon of placelessness, this book offers an alternative approach to reexamine Chinese modernist literature on the whole and Taiwanese modernist poetry in particular.

• Nagaoka

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  • Author: E.M.A. Van Goethem
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  • This comprehensive account of the Nagaoka capital discusses the capital's construction and layout, and investigates the motivations behind the establishment and abrupt abandonment of Nagaoka within the context of Kanmu's reign and personal convictions.

• New "Temples" of India

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  • Author: F. Bin Yahya

• Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies

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  • Editor David Lim
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  • This book examines the passion for race in Malaysia through a burgeoning archive of Malaysia-related social texts, ranging from media and technological discourse, popular culture and literary production to historical writings, produced originally in English, Malay and Mandarin Chinese.

• Performing "Nation"

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  • Editors Doris Croissant; Catherine Yeh; Doris Croissant; Catherine Yeh; Joshua S. Mostow
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  • Uniquely covering literary, visual and performative expressions of culture, this volume aims to correlate the conjunctions of nation building, gender and representation in late 19th and early 20th century China and Japan.

• Policing Marital Violence in Singapore

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  • Author: G. Narayanan
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  • Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s relational concepts of the ‘field’ and ‘habitus’, the book offers an alternative conceptual framework to appreciate the police response to marital violence in the Singapore context.

• The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919

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  • Author: E. Kaske
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  • Viewing education as the central battleground over the status of language, this book investigates the language policies of various social agents in early 20th century China and offers a comprehensive and fascinating analysis of the emergence of China’s national language.

• Practical Materia Medica of the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean According to the Cairo Genizah

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  • Authors: E. Lev; Z. Amar
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  • The authors provide a new insight to the practice of medical care in the medieval world. They examine the medicinal prescriptions and references to materia medica of the Cairo Genizah by combining the approaches of ethnobotany and history of medicine.

• Proceedings of the Tenth Seminar of the IATS, 2003. Volume 11: Tibetan Modernities

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  • Editors Robert Barnett; Ronald D. Schwartz
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  • This book, the first scholarly publication in the West to provide detailed documentation of modern life in contemporary Tibet, presents the cutting-edge field work carried out by an interdisciplinary group of researchers studying caste, pop music, media, painting, education, economics, childbirth and environment in Tibetan communities today.

• Remapping the Past

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  • Author: H.Y.F. Choy
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  • This study investigates how writers of Deng Xiaoping’s China undermined the grand narrative of official history by rewriting the past. It showcases fictions of history by eleven Chinese, Muslim and Tibetan authors in terms of spatial schemes of fictional historiography.

• Roots and Routes of Development in China and India

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  • Editors Jos Gommans; Harriet Zurndorfer

• Science, War and Imperialism

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  • Author: J.N. Sinha
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  • This is the first integrated and in-depth study of the state of science during the Second World War in India. Drawing on a variety of sources, it examines the impact of the war on science under colonial conditions and its consequences for India in transition from bondage to freedom.

• Sizhu Instrumental Music of South China

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  • Author: A. Thrasher
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  • According to a reader's report, this is "one of the finest studies on (any kind of) Chinese music to emerge in recent years." Based on extensive fieldwork and a thorough knowledge of the scholarly literature, the author examines the theoretical underpinnings of the 'silk and bamboo' instrumental ensemble traditions of the Chaozhou, Hakka and Cantonese peoples of South China.

• Social Policy in Post-Industrial Singapore

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  • Editors Kwen Fee Lian; Chee-Kiong Tong
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  • The contributors to this edited volume, covering a range of social issues ranging from family and aging to sexuality and culture and the arts, critically examine the relevance of social policy as it is understood in the West; and addresses the question of whether Singapore's response is unique.

• State and Ethnicity in China's Southwest

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  • Author: X. Guo
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  • An exhaustive narrative of political integration from the early years of the PRC to the present era of economic reform that foregrounds ethnic politics while problematizing the contradiction between a highly centralized state and persistence of local variations.

• Text and Authority in the Older Upaniṣads

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  • Author: S. Cohen
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  • This book offers a new interpretation of the older Upaniṣads. Issues of textual authority in the Upaniṣads are examined, and the book also outlines a theory of textual criticism as applied to oral texts.

• Through the Eye of Time

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  • Authors: S.H. Blackburn; M.A. Tarr
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  • Here is the first visual history of Arunachal Pradesh, a state in northeast India bordering on Tibet/China, Burma and Bhutan. Based on ample archival and field research, it illustrates a century and a half of cultural change in this culturally diverse and little-known region of the Himalayas.

• Tibetan Transitions

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  • Author: G. Childs
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  • Tibetan Transitions uses the dual lenses of anthropology and demography to analyze population regulating mechanisms in traditional Tibetan societies, and to link recent fertility transitions with family systems, economic strategies, gender equity, and family planning ideologies.