Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2011

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• ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index

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  • Editor Ellen Raven
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  • Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.

• Ajanta: History and Development

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  • Author: Walter M. Spink

• Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I)

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  • Editors David Knechtges; Taiping Chang
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  • The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.

• Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism

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  • Author: J. Bronkhorst
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  • This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.

• The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion

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  • Author: P. Brancaccio
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  • Drawing on a large corpus of cross-disciplinary evidence, this book sheds light on the life of the Aurangabad caves and offers new interpretations on the development of Buddhist art and practice in the region, from the diffusion of early rock-cut monasteries to the advent of Mahayana and the emergence of esoteric art and rituals.

• The China Economy Yearbook, Volume 5

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  • Editor Jiagui Chen
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  • This fifth English volume of The China Economy Yearbook is based on a symposium held in autumn 2009 titled Analysis and Forecast of China’s Economic Situation, organised by the Analysis and Forecast Project Group for China’s Economic Situation of the Institute of Economics, China Academy of Social Sciences.

• The China Educational Development Yearbook, Volume 3

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  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • The third volume of the English-language The China Educational Development Yearbook offers international scholars a glimpse into key issues in Chinese education today from the perspective of Chinese academics, practitioners, and applied researchers.

• The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 5

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  • Editor Dongping Yang
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  • In this fifth volume of the China Environment Yearbook by Friends of Nature, key issues affecting China’s environment in the year 2009 are explored through five main themes: Public Policy, Litigation, Pollution and Health, Consumption, and Ecological Protection.

• The China Legal Development Yearbook, Volume 5

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  • Editor Lin Li
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  • Various aspects of law and regulation that are giving shape to China’s legal system are examined in this volume of the Yearbook. The editors present an informative and comprehensive volume, covering both general topics such as administrative law reform, as well as analysing a number specific areas of interest such as military law and the new food safety regime.

• The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 3

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  • Editors Meiyan Wang; Meiyan Wang
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  • This English-language volume is an edited collection of articles from the 2010 Chinese-language volume of the Green Book of Population and Labor. It examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market.

• The China Society Yearbook, Volume 5

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  • Editors Xin Ru; Xueyi Lu; Peilin Li
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  • The China Society Yearbook, Volume 5 continues the ten-year tradition of presenting precise and venerable academic principles by compiling the findings of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ subject research group for the “Analysis and Forecast of the Social Situation”.

• China’s Creation and Origin Myths

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  • Editors Mineke Schipper; Shuxian Ye; Hubin Yin
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  • This book makes a provocative case for the comparative study of China’s oral and written myth traditions in different languages and cultures. It opens new doors to the study of Chinese mythologies, a surprising and so far almost unknown world outside China.

• Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change

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  • Editors Marleen Dieleman; Juliette Koning; Peter Post
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  • By taking regime change as its main theme this book offers a new perspective on the multiple roles that Chinese Indonesians played in terms of shaping, moderating, and stimulating social change in Indonesia.

• The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga

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  • Editors Jurgis S.A. Elisonas; Jeroen P. Lamers
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  • Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title “The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,” is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history—Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the “Three Heroes” who unified Japan after a century of fragmentation and internecine bloodshed.

• A Concise History of Chinese Literature (2 vols.)

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  • Author: Luo Yuming
  • Editor Yang Ye
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  • Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics.

• The Constitution and Contestation of Darhad Shamans' Power in Contemporary Mongolia

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  • This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia.

• Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua

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  • Author: H. LI
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  • The focus of this study is coming of age in troubled Cultural Revolutionary times as portrayed in contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua, along with a comprehensive overview of the Bildungsroman in China and the west.

• Death in Ancient China

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  • Author: Constance A. Cook
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  • This richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts.

• Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu fanlu

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  • Author: M. Loewe
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  • The assumption that a system described as ‘Confucianism’ formulated by Dong Zhongshu became accepted as the norm during the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE – 9 CE) is challenged and his supposed authorship of the Chunqiu fanlu examined.

• Emerging Civil Society in China, 1978-2008

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  • Editor Ming Wang
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  • Emerging Civil Society in China, 1978-2008 is translated from the original Chinese to provide a look into how scholars in China have been assessing the development of civil organizations and analyzing them based on system reforms, the public sphere, and collective action. This volume and the others in the SSRC series, provide western scholars with an accessible English language look at the state of current scholarship in China, and as such, does not simply provide information for the direct study of socio-political issues, but also for meta-level analysis of how the domestic scholarship in China is developing and assessing the interplay of the country's political and economic reforms with the society and daily life of its people.