Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, reli...(展开全部)

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, reli...(展开全部)

More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional life and culture. In recent years the economies of eastern Asia have virtually exploded. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand,...(展开全部)

Despite the growth of interest in the history of anthropology as a over the last two decades, surprisingly little has been published in English on the development of anthropology in East and Southeast Asia and its relationship to the rest of the academic "world-system." The anthropological experience in this region has been varied. Japanese anthropology developed early, and ran...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

The history of the book in East Asia is closely linked to problems of language and script, problems which have also had a profound impact on the technology of printing and on the social and intellectual impact of print in this area. This volume contains key readings on the history of printed books and manuscripts in China, Korea and Japan and includes an introduction which prov...(展开全部)

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)