Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 4 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture - Year by Year

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: W. Spink
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  • These photographs of the Ajanta cave complex are the indispensable complement to the text volumes of Ajanta: History and Development. With maps, timechart, ornamentation checklist, and numerous details of the art of Ajanta.

• Buddhism and Empire

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  • Author: M.L. Walter
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  • This book analyzes the religious-political culture of the Tibetan Empire (c. 620-842) and the establishment of Buddhism, based on early sources. It shows how relationships formed in the Imperial period underlie many of the unique characteristics of traditional Tibetan Buddhism.

• The China Economy Yearbook, Volume 3

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  • Editors Shucheng Liu; Tongsan Wang; Shucheng Liu
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  • This third English volume of The China Economy Yearbook, based on the 2008 annual report in Chinese, provides an in-depth analysis of China’s economy during 2007 and predictions for 2008. Written by leading economic researchers from China’s premier economic research institutions, the articles in the yearbook examine key aspects of China’s economic performance, including the capital goods market, agricultural output, monetary policy, tax revenue, and sustainable growth metrics.

• The China Educational Development Yearbook, Volume 1

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  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • The Blue Book of Education, as it is known in Chinese, has gained a reputation for offering the most penetrating perspective in China on educational reform and development. In this important English translation combining the Blue Books published in 2007 and 2008, the issues, developments, challenges, and crises in Chinese education are comprehensively discussed and critically analyzed.

• The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 3

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  • Author: Yang Dongping
  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • The research and analysis contained in the volume depicts the broader patterns of an emerging environmental politics in China - a more assertive and restive citizenry in environmental affairs, the rise of interest groups, and international influences on domestic policy debates. The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 3 is an indispensable source for scholars and policy makers concerned about how China's environmental policies and practices will affect its own future and the future of the earth.

• The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1

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  • Editors Fang Cai; Yang Du
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  • This yearbook is a collection of important articles by demographers and economists from CASS and other top research and policy institutes in China. Several of the articles in this volume are based on major labor and population surveys carried out in recent years.

• The China Society Yearbook, Volume 3

  • Type: E-Book
  • Editors Guangjin Chen; Wei Li; Xinxin Xu; Guangjin Chen; Wei Li; Xinxin Xu
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  • The 2008 volume of The China Society Yearbook, the third volume in the annual China Society Blue Book series to be translated into English, contains important statistics and analysis from Chinese scholars on a wide array of social issues in China. Topics explored in this volume include employment, social security, national health insurance, labor security, political participation, the internet, food safety, corruption, and quality of life.

• Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity

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  • Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity.

• The Discovery of Chinese Logic

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  • Author: J. Kurtz
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  • This book analyzes the discovery of Chinese logic as a paradigmatic case of the epistemic shifts that have shaped interpretations of China’s intellectual heritage. Reconstructing the transcultural genealogy of a modern discourse, it adds a neglected chapter to the global history of philosophy.

• Doing Families in Hong Kong

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  • Editors Kwok-bun Chan; Agnes Ku; Yin-wah Chu
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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.

• Early Chinese Religion, Part Two: The Period of Division (220-589 AD) (2 vols)

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  • Editors John Lagerwey; Pengzhi Lü
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  • Focused on the social dimensions of Chinese religion, this multi-disciplinary presentation of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, and shamanism in a time of foundational historic change analyzes their respective pantheons, rituals, geographies, organizations, canons, literature, and recent archaeological discoveries.

• Early Chinese Religion: Part One: Shang through Han (1250 BC-220 AD)

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  • Editors John Lagerwey; Marc Kalinowski

• Eighteenth-Century Gujarat

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  • Author: G.A. Nadri
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  • Based on Dutch and English archival sources, this study analyses the political economy of Gujarat in the eighteenth century and situates the economic growth of the region in the broader context of the major issues and debates in the historiography of early modern South Asia and the Indian Ocean.

• Gog and Magog in Early Eastern Christian and Islamic Sources

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  • Authors: E.J. Van Donzel; A.B. Schmidt
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  • An important contribution to the discussion about Christian Syriac influence on Koran and Early Muslim Tradition, this volume studies Eastern Christian and Islamic views on the Biblical and Koranic Gog and Magog. Connected with this theme is the quest for Alexander’s wall.

• Hitomaro: Poet as God

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  • Author: A.E. Commons
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  • This book analyses the reception and eventual deification of the seventh-century poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. The result is a new perspective on a major literary figure through his placement within the broader context of Japanese poetic culture.

• The Idea of Writing

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  • Editors Alex Voogt; Irving Finkel
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  • This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when they are used to represent loanwords, solve problems of polysemy or when they are adapted to be used for another language. The approaches from different academic traditions provide a varied but expert account.

• The Kitan Language and Script

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  • Author: D. Kane
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  • The Kitan language and script have disappeared from history for more than 800 years. Recent research has partially deciphered a number of Kitan inscriptions, reveal significantly more of its lexicon and morphology. This book summarises the current state of research.

• Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 8 A Grammar of Dhimal

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  • Author: J.T. King
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  • This groundbreaking reference work is a linguistic description of the western dialect of Dhimal, a hitherto little-known and endangered Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 20,000 individuals of the same name in the lowlands of southeastern Nepal and northeastern India.

• Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, Volume 9 A Grammar of Anong

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  • Editors Fengxiang Li; Ela Thurgood; Graham Thurgood
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  • A work that will be of interest to those interested in typology, language history, and contact induced change, this book documents the radical restructuring of Anong over the last 40 years under intense contact with Lisu.

• Marriage Dissolution in Singapore

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  • Author: P. Straughan
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  • Drawing on sociological perspectives, this book provides an important insight into social change and its impact on marital expectations. Marriage stability is influenced by women's changing expectations of their roles in the family, notions of romantic love and expecations of the ideal spouse, preparedness for parenthood, and work demands.

• Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945

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  • Author: S.C. Townsend
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  • This biography draws upon a range of autobiographical sources and new methods of narrative interpretation in order to discover what lies behind the ideas and motivations of Miki Kiyoshi, one of the best-known and most controversial Japanese philosphers of the 1920s and 30s.

• One Hundred Thousand Moons (2 vols)

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  • Authors: W.D. Shakabpa; D.F. Maher
  • Editor Derek Maher
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  • A sustained argument for Tibetan independence, this volume also serves as an introduction to many aspects of Tibetan culture, society, and especially religion with a compendium of biographies of the most significant religious and political figures.

• Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context

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  • Author: M.R. Pirbhai
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  • Considering seminal sources of doctrine, literary expressions of practice and colonial records of reform, this book challenges dominant perspectives on South Asian Muslim society between 1526-1947, and offers an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broadly.

• The Revolt of Prince Nuku

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  • Author: M.S. Widjojo
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  • This study analyzes how Prince Nuku succeeded in regaining independence for the Sultanate of Tidore by creating an alliance with the English and his Malukan and Papuan adherents.

• Tradition and Modernity

  • Type: E-Book
  • Authors: L. Chen; E. Ryden
  • Editor Edmund Ryden
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  • In this collection of essays written over a period of some twenty years (1987-2006), Chen Lai reflects on the question in an informative and original way. He reads behind the political slogans and engages with the thought both of Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Western sociology, and representative Chinese thinkers, notably Feng Youlan and Liang Shuming.

• Western Himalayan Temple Records

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  • Author: M. Sharma
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  • Fifty-five documents in a western-Himalayan language dealing with land, pilgrimage, legality and temple-economy are presented. They explicate how ‘lesser states’ patronized numerous shrines and the role of Nath-Siddha-ascetics in creating consent-to-rule, and constructing hybridity between the Hindu and Tibetan-Buddhist traditions.