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The Worship of Confucius in Japan
How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly …
A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese
Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han and Han texts selected to give …
Legal Scholars and Scholarship in the People’s Republic of China
A comprehensive introduction to Chinese legal scholarship and the scholars who developed the new Communist legal system during the initial decades of the PRC when the old system …
War and National Reinvention
For Japan, as one of the victorious allies, World War I meant territorial gains in China and the Pacific. At the end of the war, however, Japan discovered that in modeling itself …
An Introduction to Literary Chinese
The second edition of An Introduction to Literary Chinese incorporates recent developments in linguistics and has been expanded to include a lesson on Buddhist texts. Beginning …
Navigating Narratives
Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources and modern literary criticism, Navigating Narratives offers unique insights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of …
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those …
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial
This book assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)—commonly called the Tokyo trial—established as the eastern …
Transmedial Landscapes and Modern Chinese Painting
Chinese ink painters of the Republican period (1911–1949) creatively engaged with a range of art forms in addition to ink, such as oil painting, drawing, photography, and woodblock …
Daoist Modern
This book explores the Daoist encounter with modernity through the activities of Chen Yingning (1880–1969), a famous lay Daoist master, and his group in early twentieth-century …
The Heart of Time
By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates …
Empire and Aftermath
This detailed biography of Japan's postwar prime minister was favorably received in the United States and has sold widely in translation in Japan.