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Paperback. Offers an investigation into what is known in Tibet as 'secret autobiography', a literary genre that presents an exploration of religious experiences. This book translates and studies the autobiographies by a Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730 - 1798). Num Pages: 384 pages, 12 halftones 1 map 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; DSBD; HREX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691009483
- ISBN
- 9780691009483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 51.06
€ 65.07
€ 51.06
Paperback. Draws on reader-response literary theory and anthropological approaches to the study of objects in society in order to trace the biographies of Indian religious images. This book shows that Hindu priests and worshipers are not the only ones to enliven images. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AGR; HRG; HRLB; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691005201
- ISBN
- 9780691005201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.81
€ 59.15
€ 46.81
Hardcover. Presents an analysis of the social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society from which the holders of political power stem. This book focuses on the twentieth century and, in particular, on the Ba'th movement, the structures of power after the military coup d'etat of 1963, and the era of ivfiz al-Asad. Num Pages: 432 pages, 56 tables. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691002545
- ISBN
- 9780691002545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.95€ 98.01
€ 128.95
€ 98.01
Paperback. An ethnography of contemporary Java. It analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. It exposes the ways a culture reconstitutes itself. It leads to insights into the 'accidents' that precede the formulations of culture as such. Num Pages: 350 pages, 8 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; CFB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000855
- ISBN
- 9780691000855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 51.02
€ 65.07
€ 51.02
Paperback. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. By taking women and men's relationships with women seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674970649
- ISBN
- 9780674970649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.85
€ 34.99
€ 29.85
Hardback. Rebecca Doran offers a new understanding of major female figures of the Tang era including Wu Zhao, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan'er within their literary-historical contexts, and delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBAH; HBJF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674970588
- ISBN
- 9780674970588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 37.91
€ 45.99
€ 37.91
Hardback. This study of the evolution of Chinese capitalism chronicles the Song family of North China under five successive authoritarian governments. Brett Sheehan shows both foreign and Chinese influences on private business, which, although closely linked to the state, was neither a handmaiden to authoritarianism nor a natural ally of democracy. Num Pages: 327 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 31. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674967601
- ISBN
- 9780674967601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.54€ 51.45
€ 55.54
€ 51.45
Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cu...
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Hardback. This work is an English translation of the author's own work on the shishosetsu, a genre in Japanese literature. It provides a means of researching and interpreting the tradition of the genre, linking it to forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to classical cultural assumptions. Translator(s): Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Professor of Japanese Literature, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674773196
- ISBN
- 9780674773196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.22
€ 51.99
€ 43.22
Hardcover. Timothy Brook studies three widely separated and economically dissimilar counties. He draws on rich data in monastic gazetteers to examine the patterns and social consequences of patronage. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 426 pages, 10ill.3M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 740.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674697751
- ISBN
- 9780674697751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.02
€ 49.99
€ 42.02
Hardcover. This study examines the realignment of the Chinese social order that took place over the course of the Sung dynasty. From the perspective of specific Sung families, it uses data on two groups of Sung elites - the grand councilors who led the bureaucracy, and locally prominent gentlemen in Wu-chou. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 table, 1 map, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674695924
- ISBN
- 9780674695924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.25
€ 52.99
€ 44.25
Paperback. Blending political, cultural and economic perspectives, this text traces the evolution of Asian countries in the 20th century. Its aim is to determine the mix of culture, experience, scale, timing, leadership and policy that shapes individual developing nations. Series: The Edwin O.Reischauer Lectures. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 3JJ; GTF; HBJF; JFC; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674687585
- ISBN
- 9780674687585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.99
€ 41.99
€ 34.99
Hardcover. Through an exploration of contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, Wei-Ping Lin paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. Analyzing these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework, she traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities. Num Pages: 217 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRA; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504363
- ISBN
- 9780674504363
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardcover. In Defensive Positions, Noell Wilson shows how control of coastal defense by regional domains exacerbated the shogunate's inability to respond to major military and political challenges as Japan transitioned from an early modern system of parcelized, local maritime defense to one of centralized, national security in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 257 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 341 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674504349
- ISBN
- 9780674504349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardcover. Wai-yee Li examines the discursive space of women in seventeenth-century China. Using texts written by women or by men writing in a feminine voice, as well as writings that turn women into signifiers of lamentation or nostalgia, Li probes the emotional and psychological turmoil of the Ming-Qing transition and subsequent moments of national trauma. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 625 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492042
- ISBN
- 9780674492042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.74€ 63.83
€ 69.74
€ 63.83
Hardcover. Melek Ortabasi reassesses the influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), a folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. Only the second book-length English-language study of Yanagita, this book moves beyond his pioneering work in folk studies to reveal the full range of his contributions as a public intellectual. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; BGL; DSB; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674492004
- ISBN
- 9780674492004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.34
€ 54.99
€ 46.34
Hardcover. The first full-length biography of a premodern Japanese nun, The Princess Nun is the story of Bunchi (1619-1697), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and founder of Enshoji. The study incorporates issues of gender and social status into its discussion of Bunchi's ascetic practice to rewrite the history of Buddhist reform and Tokugawa religion. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JD; BGX; HBJF; HRE; JFSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 622.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674491977
- ISBN
- 9780674491977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
€ 46.30
Hardcover. Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperialist power on the Eurasian continent and expanding its local and long-distance ("Silk Road") markets. Chin explains why rival political groups introduced new literary forms with which to represent these expanded markets. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 382 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSB; HBJF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417199
- ISBN
- 9780674417199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.34
€ 54.99
€ 46.34
Hardcover. The Korean Economy provides an overview of Korean economic experience since the 1950s, with a focus on the period since democratization in 1987. Chapters analyze the Korean experience from a wide range of economic and social perspectives, as well as describing the country's economic challenges going forward and how they can best be met. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417182
- ISBN
- 9780674417182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.30
€ 54.99
€ 46.30
Hardcover. Natasha Heller offers a cultural history of Buddhism through a case study of the Chan master Zhongfeng Mingben. Monks of his stature developed a broad set of cultural competencies for navigating social and intellectual relationships. Heller shows the importance of situating monks as actors within wider sociocultural fields of practice and exchange. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417113
- ISBN
- 9780674417113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.26
€ 54.99
€ 46.26
Hardback. The exiled Chinese Communist Party member offers his views on the corruption and hypocrisy within the Party and his belief in the democratic reforms taking place in his homeland. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 44 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674118829
- ISBN
- 9780674118829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.28
€ 53.99
€ 45.28