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Anthology of Japanese Literature Two Volume Slipcased Set Compiled by Donald Keene Mirror The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya by Ann Sherif - Soft Cover New Mirror The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya by Ann Sherif - Hard Cover New
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Donald Keene Ann Sherif Ann Sherif
Extensive anthology of Japanese Literature, two volume set, over 800 pages, from the ancient period through the modern. Compiled by Donald Keene. 1955 A valuable work for anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the continuity of Confucian aspects of the traditional Japanese artistic and literary heritage, a heritage that nurtures refinement of character, discipline, and the rhetoric of humility and inadequacy A valuable work for anyone who wishes to understand and appreciate the continuity of Confucian aspects of the traditional Japanese artistic and literary heritage, a heritage that nurtures refinement of character, discipline, and the rhetoric of humility and inadequacy
Japanese and Korean Art Auction Catalog Christies 2000 - Exquisite Blade, Ceramic, Netsuke, Paintings, Prints The Further Side of Silence Turn of Century Malaysia Travel History Culture 1927 Sir Hugh Clifford Treasures from Japan Sculpture and Decorative arts Honolulu Academy of Arts 1957
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Christies 2000 Sir Hugh Clifford February 1957
Presenting a superb collection from a West coast collector, of Japanese and Korean works of various periods, ancient to modern. An exquisite collection in color with detail and price estimates. Life in Malaysia, stories of the people and culture from a British official who lived in Pahang as adviser to the Sultan from 1883 to 1903, just prior to the British Colonialization Art Exhibition catalog of exhibition held at Honolulu Academy of Arts, 209 pieces with images
Hopes and Aspirations Decorative Painting of Korea Art Exhibition Catalog PHILIPPINES Political Economy History Marcos Era NEW Hong Kong Essays Anthropology Cultural Changes
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art exhibition catalog
Catalog represents 16 works of Korean Art with English description that were part of an exhibit at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco between February 14 and May 10, 1998 Economic History Marcos era Philippines A series of essays exploring the Hong Kong outside of the cliche, from gender roles to bad boys to kinship, tea houses, Bank of China buildings and more from the University of Hawaii Press
Anthology of Chinese Literature to 14th Century Trans-Himalayan Traders the Magars of Tarangpur No Abode Ippen Record of Ippen's Teachings and Writings
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Ancient Asian Literature Magars of Tarangpur No Abode
The selections in this first volume span a two-thousand-year period: from the Chou Dynasty (1122-221 B.C.) to the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1280-1367), from the ancient Songs to the dramas of the fourteenth century, every major genre of Chinese literature is represented by a crucial work. Tucked away in an obscure fold of the Himalayas in northwest Nepal two weeks' walk from the nearest transportation, the village of Tarangpur is as culturally complicated as it is remote. founded the Ji  branch of Pure Land Buddhism
Between Tokyo and Moscow Glaubitz Daoist Utopia the Great Perfection Ba of Sichuan the Li family New York China Town History A Portrait of a Closed Society
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Glaubitz China New York China Town
History of Japanese Soviet Relations the study begins in the mists of prehistory, traces the early history, of the Ba, chronicles the rise of the Daoist faith and their role in it, then sets forth in detail a chronicle of the state of Great Perfection -- the
kingdom they built in an attempt to realize the Daoist utopia.
In the first book in fifty years to break the code of silence about New York's Chinatown, Kinkead offers us an intimate portrait of an exciting community that is also one of the most insular and until now, enigmatic in the world.
Japanese Fishing Villages Economics Historic Role Chinese Landscapes The Village as Place Knapp The Courage to Stand Alone Letters from Prison Wei Jingsheng Chinese Dissident Revolutionary
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Fishing Villages Village as Place Wei Jingsheng
analysis of the fishing village in the context of Japan's economic history Going beyond books on Chinese vernacular architecture that focus on individual dwellings, this work examines the village ensemble itself, the various settings for the habitation, work, and leisure of China's large rural population Brilliant words of defiance from China's most famous advocate for democracy... Wei Jingsheng
Hermit Kingdom Ladakh Himalayas Tibet Tibetan The Chrysanthemum Throne: A History of the Emperors of Japan by Peter Martin Fenjia: Household Division and Inheritance in Qing and Republican China by David Wakefield
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Tibet Buddhism emperors of japan Inheritance
This book contains for the first time fascinating photographs of Nubra, the forbidden valley, Pangong lake and the Karakoram. The book also contains the first ever reproduction of the covers of the Gilgit manuscript (extremely rare), 5th century A.D. In this first general study of the Japanese imperial institution throughout its history, Peter Martin brings together inaccessible material, much of it available only in Japanese. He surveys the history and political and religious status of the monarchy of Japan from its mythological origins to our own times. In his presentation of case studies of household division as it operated in Qing-dynasty Taiwan and Republican era North China, Wakefield determines that equal division was the rule, yet living parents and single siblings had property rights as well.
The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia Dunnell Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued: Yamagata Daini's Ryushi shinron of 1759 Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
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Tangut studies Ryushi Shinron
Part one of this book is a detailed study of Buddhism in his Xia state during its formative stage.  It describes the role of Buddhism as a legitimizing factor in the context of a political history based on a multitude of sources. Part two is a most meticulous study of the famous 1094 inscriptions in Liangzhou and the temple and whose precincts the stele has been erected.
Lionized by imperial loyalists from the 1850s to 1945 for his biting critique of the Tokugawa political system and his supposed advocacy of the restoration of imperial rule, he has been transformed in the eyes of some postwar Japanese interpreters into a precocious advocate of modern modes of political activism,erected.