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Book SynopsisThe Kaohsiung Incident of 1979-1980 disturbed Taiwan’s dictatorship and ultimately contributed to Taiwan’s democratization. This book analyzes the precursors to the Kaohsiung Incident, the Kaohsiung Incident itself, the following trials and the contributions of these events to Taiwan’s democratization. After the indictments were issued, the murder of the mother and twin daughters of Lin I-hsiung, one of the defendants, shocked Taiwan and the world. The government accused the author, a well-known scholar of Taiwan, of being involved in the murder case and he was placed under “police protection” for three months. Part 2 of this book is the writer’s memoir of that period.Trade ReviewFrom the reader's report: “The author has given us a very, very wonderful book that many, I would hope, would read and take to heart. What he writes about is a major moment in modern Taiwan’s history and many should know it and what it has meant to the later evolution of Taiwan’s state and society—and place in the world. The book is very unique and useful piece of scholarship.” Murray A. Rubinstein, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead Institute, Columbia University 'Jacob’s latest effort, The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard, is geared toward academics or people with a specific interest in Taiwanese history and politics who would probably find the entire book interesting or at least valuable. But the second half of the book, which contains Jacobs’ memoir, is so much more engaging, unique and personal that it could make a fun read for anybody. It is almost a shame to put it last.' Han Cheung, Taipei Times, Sat, Aug 13, 2016 'In this slim two-part volume titled The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard, Jacobs provides the context in which the events leading to the transformative incident occurred (...) Part I, which constitutes the bulk of the book, is relatively straightforward and is short enough to serve as a useful introduction for readers who aren’t familiar with Taiwanese history.Far more personal is the second part of the book, where Jacobs describes the murder of the mother and twin daughters of activist Lin I-hsiung (one of the defendants first discussed in Part I) and how the atrocity affected the author’s own safety and freedom. (...) Jacobs’ brief history of a traumatic period in Taiwan’s not-too-distant-past is a reminder that democratization is not an end state but rather a process that is never completely achieved.' J. Michael Cole, Taiwan Sentinel (https://sentinel.tw/memoirs-of-a-foreign-big-beard/) 'The title of Jacobs’s book, The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard, immediately informs us that we’re in the right territory. Here we have a carefully negotiated balance of scholarly evenness and personal memoir. The monograph is attentively divided into two narratives. Drawing upon multiple sources, the contextual, scholarly section details the events leading up to the incident, its aftermath, and the implications of that fateful day. The author’s own participation in the events draws the reader in. From within, you get the sense of theatre that other accounts of the incident have not quite achieved. (...) Jacobs’s personal memoir is not the only one...yet [his]... marriage of emotional memoir to scholarly context in this volume is exemplary. (...) [T]his book is an important text that is useful not just for the study of Taiwan and the region, but also for comparative research on microhistorical inquiries of authoritarianism and protest as well as connected or transcultural histories.' Niki J.P. Alsford, University of Central Lancashire, UK, International Journal of Taiwan Studies 1 (2018) 'Bruce Jacobs, an important figure in Taiwan history both as a principal and a scholar, has produced a useful, informative and long-awaited book on the political watershed events in Taiwan between late 1979 and mid-1980, along with the unexpected and unwanted roles he ended up playing in them. It is essential reading for anyone interested in democratization and the struggle for respect for human rights in modern Taiwan history. (...) This engaging, informative and reasonably priced volume belongs in the libraries of Taiwan history scholars and buffs and in the libraries of serious academic institutions throughout the world.' DAVID CURTI S. WRIGHT, University of Calgary, The China Quarterly, 235 (2018)

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Book SynopsisIn Tibetan Printing: Comparisons, Continuities and Change the editors publish the results of the workshop “Printing as an Agent of Change in Tibet and beyond” held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in November 2013. This is the first study of the social and cultural history of Tibetan book technology that takes materials, living traditions and cross-cultural comparisons into consideration. Bringing together leading experts from different disciplines, it discusses the introduction of printing in Tibetan societies in the context of Asian book cultures with an eye to the questions raised by the study of the European history of printing. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Alessandro Boesi, Peter Burke, Michela Clemente, Hildegard Diemberger, Dorje Gyeltsen, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Helmut Eimer, Johan Elverskog, Camillo Formigatti, Imre Galambos, Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, Tomasz Wazny, Sherab Sangpo Kawa, Peter Kornicki, Leonard van der Kuijp, Stefan Larsson, Ben Nourse, Anuradha Pallipurath, Porong Dawa, Paola Ricciardi, Tsering Dawa Sharshon, Sam van Schaik, Cristina Scherrer-Schaub, Marta Sernesi, Pasang Wangdu.Trade Review"For me, the value of this book lies in the connections that it draws between the materiality of the book – its physical make-up and the labor of production – and the sociopolitical and historical impact of the spread and dissemination of the knowledge contained within the books. To understand how this impact plays out in the telescoping contexts of Asia and then Tibet is key to a proper understanding of the region's intellectual and religious history, and the editors are to be congratulated on their innovative and vital contribution to this history." Simon Wickhamsmith, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newbooks.AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations, Tables and Maps x Introduction 1 PART ONE: The Introduction of Printing in the Asian Context: Wider Perspectives on Print and Manuscript Cultures 1 Three Print Revolutions 13 - Peter Burke 2 The Gutenberg Fallacy and the History of Printing among the Mongols 21 - Johan Elverskog 3 Mongolian Female Rulers as Patrons of Tibetan Printing at the Yuan Court: Some Preliminary Observations on Recently Discovered Materials 38 - Kawa Sherab Sangpo 4 Empress Shōtoku as a Sponsor of Printing 45 - Peter Kornicki 5 From Chongzhen lishu 崇楨曆書 to Tengri-yin udq-a and Rgya rtsis chen mo 51 - Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp 6 A Forgotten Chapter in South Asian Book History? A Bird’s Eye View of Sanskrit Print Culture 72 - Camillo A. Formigatti 7 Manuscript and Print in the Tangut State: The Case of the Sunzi 135 - Imre Galambos 8 Printing versus Manuscript: History or Rhetoric? A Short Note Inspired by Pelliot DIC 153 - Cristina Scherrer-Schaub 9 The Uses of Early Tibetan Printing: Evidence from the Turfan Oasis 171 - Sam van Schaik PART 2: The Introduction of Printing Into Tibet: Drivers, Impact and New Discoveries 10 New Discoveries in Early Tibetan Printing History 195 - Porong Dawa 11 Collected Writings as Xylographs: Two Sets from the Bo dong pa School 212 - Franz-Karl Ehrhard 12 Continuity and New Developments in 15th Century Tibetan Book Production: Bo dong Phyogs las rnam rgyal (1376–1451) and His Disciples as Producers of Manuscript and Print Editions 237 - Tsering Dawa Sharshon 13 Tibetan Women as Patrons of Printing and Innovation 267 - Hildegard Diemberger 14 Prints about the Printer: Four Early Prints in Honor of the Mad Yogin of gTsang 309 - Stefan Larsson 15 Works and Networks of mkhas pa Dri med. On the Illustrations of 16th Century Tibetan Printed Books 332 - Marta Sernesi 16 Early Book Production and Printing in Bhutan 369 - Dorji Gyaltsen 17 An Unacknowledged Revolution? A Reading of Tibetan Printing History on the Basis of Gung thang Colophons Studied in Two Dedicated Projects 394 - Michela Clemente 18 Revolutions of the Dharma Wheel: Uses of Tibetan Printing in the Eighteenth Century 424 - Benjamin J. Nourse 19 Observations Made in the Study of Tibetan Xylographs 451- Helmut Eimer PART 3: Exploring the Materiality of Prints and Manuscripts 20 Wooden Book-covers, Printing Blocks, their Identification and Dating – How to Read the Wood 471 - Tomasz Ważny 21 The Five Colours of Art: Non-invasive Analysis of Pigments in Tibetan Prints and Manuscripts 485 -Paola Ricciardi and Anuradha Pallipurath 22 Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study 501 - Alessandro Boesi 23 The Choice of Materials in Early Tibetan Printed Books 532 - Agnieszka Helman-Ważny 24 Paper, Patronage and Production of Books: Remarks on an 11th Century Manuscript from Central Tibet 555 - Pasang Wangdu 25 Pattern Reproduction Possibilities and the Alpha and Omega of Tibetan Printing 560 - T. H. Barrett Index 575

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Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of primary sources and covering the entire Ottoman period, Ottoman Women in Public Space challenges the traditional view that sees Ottoman women as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the home and not seen beyond the walls of the house or the public bath. Instead, taking women in a variety of roles, as economic and political actors, prostitutes, flirts and slaves, the book argues that women were active participants in the public space, visible, present and an essential element in the everyday, public life of the empire. Ottoman Women in Public Space thus offers a vibrant and dynamic understanding of Ottoman history. Contributors are: Edith Gülçin Ambros, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet and Svetla Ianeva.Trade Review“Ultimately the collection is a rich offering of evidence, from a range of sources, places, and times, that decisively refutes the notion of Ottoman women as inconsequential, invisible, and wholly passive actors in Ottoman history.” Elizabeth Matsushita in SCTIW Review , November 1, 2016.Table of ContentsPreface: Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet Ch. 1: Ottoman Women in Public Space: an Introduction, Edith Gülçin Ambros, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet, Svetla Ianeva Ch. 2: The ‘What If?’ of the Ottoman Female: Authority, Ethnography, and Conversation, Palmira Brummett Ch. 3: Female Actors, Producers and Money Makers in Ottoman Public Space: the Case of the Late Ottoman Balkans, Svetla Ianeva Ch. 4: The Powerful Public Presence of the Ottoman Female Consumer, Kate Fleet Ch. 5: The Extremes of Visibility: Slave Women in Ottoman Public Space, Kate Fleet Ch. 6: Frivolity and Flirtation, Edith Gülçin Ambros Ch. 7: An Imagined Moral Community: Ottoman Female Public Presence, Honour and Marginality, Ebru Boyar Ch. 8: The Public Presence and Political Visibility of Ottoman Women, Ebru Boyar Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisText, History, and Philosophy. Abhidharma Across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions discusses Abhidhamma / Abhidharma as a specific exegetical method. In the first part of the volume, the development of the Buddhist argumentative technique is discussed. The second part investigates the importance of the Buddhist rational tradition for the development of Buddhist philosophy. The third part focuses on some peculiar doctrinal issues that resulted from rational Abhidharmic reflections. In this way, an outline of the development of the Abhidharma genre and of Abhidharmic notions and concepts in India, Central Asia, China, and Tibet from the life time of the historical Buddha to the tenth century CE is given. Contributors are: Johannes Bronkhorst, Lance S. Cousins, Bart Dessein, Tamara Ditrich, Bhikkhu Kuala Lumpur Dhammajoti, Dylan Esler, Eric Greene, Goran Kardaš, Jowita Kramer, Chen-kuo Lin, Andrea Schlosser, Ingo Strauch, Weijen Teng and Yao-ming Tsai.Trade Review"In my own evaluation, the most important aspect of this collection is that it addresses an absolutely central issue about the study of Buddhist rational inquiry. The collection examines Buddhist rational inquiry as such, rather than in a context in which the concerns, categories, and concepts of Euro-American philosophy (or psychology) are uncritically assumed as a universal structure into which Buddhist thought is expected to fit. Only since about the beginning of the twenty-first century (a symbolic marker rather than an exact historical one) has the study of Buddhist thought, or as Dessein says “Buddhist 'philosophy' begun to move out of the colonialist mode of viewing Buddhist thought as a resource for pre-existing conversations in Euro-American philosophy. More directly relevant to scholars of religious studies, the same dynamic applies to the treatment of Buddhism as a 'religion'." – Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, in Reading Religion (February 2018)

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Notes on Contributors Introduction: In the Footsteps of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring  Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun Sugawara Part 1: Language 1 From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki Dictionary  Birgit N. Schlyter 2 Manuscript Technologies, Writing, and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar  Arienne M. Dwyer 3 From Eastern Turki to Modern Uyghur: A Lexicological Study of Prints from the Swedish Mission Press in Kashgar (1892–1938)  Äsäd Sulaiman 4 The Khotan Varieties of Uyghur as Seen in Jarring’s Transcription  Abdurishid Yakup Part 2: History 5 The 1795 Khoqand Mission and Its Negotiations with the Qing: Political and Diplomatic Space of Qing Kashgaria  Takahiro Onuma 6 Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing Xinjiang  Eric T. Schluessel 7 Models and Realities: Aspects of Format in Real Estate Deeds under Conditions of Legal Pluralism in Xinjiang  Jun Sugawara 8 Muslim Reformism in Xinjiang: Reading the Newspaper Yengī Ḥayāt (1934–1937)  Alexandre Papas 9 Defining the Past and Shaping the Future: Reflections on Xinjiang Narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui Relations, and the Perspectives of Research  Fredrik Fällman Part 3: Religion 10 Writing the Religious and Social History of Some Sufi Lodges in Kashgar in the 20th Century  Thierry Zarcone 11 Ordam Mazar: A Meeting Place for Different Practices and Belief Systems in Culturally Diverse Xinjiang  Rahile Dawut 12 Magic, Science, and Religion in Eastern Xinjiang  Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part 4: Kinship and Gender 13 “Keep the wealth within the Family”: Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in Kashgar  Rune Steenberg 14 “A man works on the land, a woman works for her man”: Building on Jarring’s Fascination with Eastern Turki Proverbs  Dilmurat Mahmut [Dilimulati Maihemuti] and Joanne Smith Finley Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award The Later Han dynasty, also known as Eastern Han, ruled China for the first two centuries of the Christian era. Comparable in extent and power to the early Roman empire, it dominated east Asia from present-day Vietnam to the Mongolian steppe. Rafe de Crespigny presents here the first full account of this period in Chinese history to be found in a Western language. Commencing with a detailed account of the imperial capital, the history describes the nature of government, the expansion of the Chinese people to the south, the conflicts of scholars and officials with eunuchs at court, and the final collapse which followed the rebellion of the Yellow Turbans and the rise of regional warlords.Trade Review"The bulk of this book consists of chronologically arranged chapters bookended by two chapters on the first reign and the Later Han capital Luoyang and the fall of the city, as well as a short introduction and concluding chapter. Written by a leading scholar in the field and meticulously researched, this book should be read by every student of Later Han China in the West. [..] Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries." - V. C. Xiong, Western Michigan University, in: CHOICE, Vol. 54/8 (April 2017) "'We two reviewers see the riches that this book offers to specialists and non-specialists alike. Fire over Luoyang, along with de Crespigny’s Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23–220 AD) (2007), has laid the firmest of hangtu foundation for many topics in Eastern Han history. Like the fabled palaces of Luoyang itself, it is a splendid edifice." - MICHAEL NYLAN, University of California, Berkeley & THOMAS H. HAHN, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, in: Monumenta Serica, 66:1 (2018)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps and Tables x Introduction 1 The Emperors of Han 6 Chronology of the Later Han Dynasty 8 1 Imperial Capital 17 Luoyang and its Surroundings 17 Emperor Guangwu and his New Capital 28 Formalities and Government 34 City, Suburbs and People 52 Parks, Pleasure-Grounds and Tombs 61 2 Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang (57–88) 71 Chronology 71 Imperial Succession 72 The Government of Emperor Ming 82 The Government of Emperor Zhang 99 Empress Dou and the Boy from the Harem 108 3 The Reign of Emperor He (88–106) 117 Chronology 117 Triumph in the Steppe 118 The Fall of the Dou Family 127 The Peoples of the West 136 The Government of Emperor He 141 The Military Structure of Later Han 148 Peace and Settlement? 164 4 The Dowager Deng and Emperor An (106–125) 169 Chronology 169 The Child Emperors and the Regency 170 The Rebellion of the Qiang 177 Problems of Finance 190 The Government of the Dowager 199 The Favourites of Emperor An 207 5 The Reign of Emperor Shun (125–144) 220 Chronology 220 The Destruction of the Yan Clan 221 Emperor Shun and the Reformers 225 The Rise of the Liang Family 238 Barbarians, Migrants and Rebels 244 People and Land 257 6 The Hegemony of Liang Ji (144–159) 269 Chronology 269 Liang Ji and the Puppets 270 Rebel Emperors and Great Peace 274 The Government of Liang Ji 278 Great Families in the Provinces 294 The Fall of the House of Liang 303 7 Emperor Huan and the Eunuchs (159–168) 310 Chronology 310 Imperial Favourites 311 Problems of Finance 321 Gentlemen and Eunuchs 324 Imperial Consorts and the Worship of Huang-Lao 335 The First Faction Incident 351 Invitation to Genocide 357 8 Emperor Ling: Disordered Government (169–184) 361 Chronology 361 The Dou Family and the Eunuchs 362 Duan Jiong and the Barbarians 369 The Second Faction Incident, the Great Proscription and the Decline of the University 375 The Government of Emperor Ling 388 Tanshihuai and the Misfortunes of the Frontier 397 Yellow Turbans 402 9 End of an Empire (185–189) 418 Chronology 418 The Loss of Liang Province 420 Imperial Extravagance 428 Imperial Succession 436 Slaughter in the Palace 442 A Note on the Dates of the Crisis 448 Dong Zhuo 449 Ruin of a Capital 456 The End of Han 465 10 Epilogues and Conclusions 474 Part I: Elegy for a Lost Capital 474 Chronology 474 The Afterlife of Luoyang 475 Part II: What Went Wrong? Reflections on a Ruin 480 A Failure of Virtue? 480 The Division of China 497 The Difficulty of Reunification 504 Bibliography 513 Index and List of Characters 543

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Lifanyuan and Libu, revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire. This volume offers insight into how China's past has continued to inform its modern policies, as well as the geopolitical make-up of East Asia and beyond.Trade Review"This seminal work (...) essential reading for specialists in Inner Asian and Chinese history, as well as for anyone interested in probing into the institutional and operational aspects of frontier management in early modern empires." Tommaso Previato, Ming Qing Studies (2017) "This book offers a stimulating overview of recent studies on Qing dynasty's institutions related to managing frontier issues and non-Han peoplse, the Lifanyuan 理藩院 and the Libu 礼部. Since it represents "the first comprehensive study" on Lifanyuan (Di Cosmo, p. viii), it will certainly be warmly welcomed by scholars of the Qing dynasty, but it also offers a World historical comparative perspective, revealing a unique practice of early modern empire building, departing from both Western imperial narratives as well as Chinese political traditions. [...] One finds in these pages a set of very inspirational perspectives that will certainly have lots of impact on future researches on these institutions and on the Qing dynasty in general." Carl Déry, Université de Montréal, Journal of World History 29/3 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface - Nicola Di Cosmo Acknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations and Tables Emperors and Dynasties Contributors Introduction - Dittmar Schorkowitz and Chia Ning 1 Lifanyuan and Libu in Early Qing Empire Building - Chia Ning 2 The Lifanyuan: A Review Based on New Sources and Traditional Historiography - Michael Weiers 3 The Lifanyuan and Stability during Qing Imperial Expansion - Pamela Kyle Crossley 4 The Libu and Qing Perception, Classification, and Administration of Non-Han People - Zhang Yongjiang 5 Lifanyuan and Libu in the Qing Tribute System - Chia Ning 6 The Qing Court and Peoples of Central and Inner Asia: Representations of Tributary Relationships from the Huang Qing Zhigong tu - Laura Hostetler 7 Manchu-Mongolian Controversies over Judicial Competence and the Formation of the Lifanyuan - Dorothea Heuschert-Laage 8 The Sino-Russian Trade and the Role of the Lifanyuan, 17th–18th Centuries - Ye Baichuan and Yuan Jian 9 On Lifanyuan and Qianlong Policies Towards the Muslims of Xinjiang - Song Tong 10 Lifanyuan and Tibet - Fabienne Jagou 11 From Lifanyuan to the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission - Mei-hua Lan 12 Clashes of Administrative Nationalisms: Banners and Leagues vs.Counties and Provinces in Inner Mongolia - Uradyn E. Bulag 13 Dealing with Nationalities in Imperial Formations: How Russian and Chinese Agencies Managed Ethnic Diversity in the 17th to 20th Centuries - Dittmar Schorkowitz Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Foundation Council Award of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen Public Law Foundation in the category of “Outstanding Publications of Young Scientists”, 2017. In Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History, Historiography, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider give an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese nation-state. Non-Chinese people, mainly Manchus, Mongols, Tibetans, and Turkic Muslims, (Uyghurs), have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities.Trade Review"Julia C. Schneider’s Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discussions on History, Historiography, and Nationalism is a timely and important contribution to the scholarship on Chinese nationalism and nationalist historiography at a time when the domestic ethnic issue has loomed large as a potential catalyst for political instability in the People’s Republic of China, and the “nationality policies” implemented since the 1950s have been contested... Overall, Schneider’s book is a very compelling study that delves deep into source materials and makes valid critical argument about the racialist/orientalist bent of early 20th century Chinese thinkers and historians when representing Chinese history and positioning non-Han peoples in it." -Guo Wu, Allegheny College, Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, 66:1.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Maps and Tables IX Abbreviations X Notes XI Introduction 1 Part 1 Imperial Times 1 Liang Qichao: Nationalism and Historiography 67 2 Zhang Taiyan: The Republic of China as an Image 143 3 Liu Shipei: The Expulsion of the Non-Chinese from China’s History 211 Part 2 The Republican Era 4 Non-Chinese People in Periodisations and Assimilationist Theories 283 5 The Genre of General Histories in the 1920s 330 Conclusion 381 Bibliography 399 Glossary 441 Index 474

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Book SynopsisIndia, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.Trade Review"[Yazdani] has made an excellent contribution to the debate on the ‘Great Divergence’ and to Indian economic history." – Dietmar Rothermund, Prof. Em. of South Asian History, Heidelberg University, in: Studies in History (Volume 35, Number 1, February 2019), pp. 141-143. "a book [...] by a very promising young scholar who should be encouraged and whose substantial contribution deserves acknowedgment. His remarkable industry has assembled a truly impressive range of new sources that illuminate the intellectual, social, and economic life, politics, and military statecraft in Mysore and Gujarat as never before. This adds reference points in the divergence debate that will stimulate many new and fruitful lines of inquiry." – Erik Grimmler-Solem, Wesleyan University, in: History & Theory. Studies in the Philosophy of History (volume 57, no. 3, sept 2018), pp. 464-481 "Kaveh Yazdani’s work is hugely ambitious. It seeks simultaneously to attempt a micro-history of two advanced commercial regions of India – Mysore and Gujarat in the eighteenth century – and to intervene more broadly in the ongoing debates on modernity and its origins in the context of the great divergence between the west and the rest. In embarking on such a study, Yazdani treads a complex path as he works his way through existing scholarship, conceptual and empirical, to argue for the plurality of historical experience, in this case of modernity. Drawing from an impressive range of archival material and subjecting it to very critical scrutiny, what Yazdani does is to identify all those elements that are commonly understood to embody modernity, to attempt a periodization of modernity and to examine actual social and economic processes in the era of what he calls middle modernity (17th to 19th centuries). These processes contributed very definitively to a new register of experience and social transformation. What marks Yazdani’s work is both his contribution to a deeper understanding of transformation in Asia as well as his choice of methodology that moves away from earlier frames adopted by global and connected histories." – Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor of History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta "Kaveh Yazdani takes his reader on an epic global journey of re-discovery that plies an authentic passage to India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shorn of all Eurocentric baggage. On the way over our passenger will be treated to the intriguing sights of a macro-global picture of the world, before disembarking to witness the detailed sights of Mysore and Gujarat, some of which has not been seen before, even by non-Eurocentric revisionists, and none of which to date has been brought together in so much vivid detail. With global and local history combined at its most impressive, this truly remarkable journey is worth every penny of the ticket price." – John M. Hobson, Professor of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield "My immediate reaction on reading Kaveh Yazdani’s work was unequivocal; monumental and definitive. Through a microscopic analysis of two regions in India, Gujarat and Mysore, Yazdani has deconstructed the complexity of the process of modernization and at the same time provided a new perspective to our understanding of the Great Divergence that took place between the West and the rest. This book is a must read for any historian working on modernity and the Great Divergence." – Sashi Sivramkrishna, Professor of Economics, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore "Framed by a discussion of the chronological and geographical bounds of modernity, and centering around a detailed analysis of developments in Mysore and Gujarat, Kaveh Yazdan’s new work is one of the most important recent Marxist studies of 17th and 18th century India. Transcending the false polarity offered by Eurocentric and Postcolonial perspectives, Yazdani takes seriously the possibilities for indigenous capitalist development in India, but provides a compelling account of the internal and external factors which combined to prevent it." – Neil Davidson, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow "Recent discussion about modernities and convergences seem to have focused mainly on China. This is why the present book on India and “convergence”, from which I have learned much, is topical and welcome." – Fredric Jameson, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen Professor of Comparative Literature, Duke University, Durham "Kaveh Yazdani has assembled an extraordinary range of materials on economic life in Mysore and Gujarat in the long eighteenth century. This wonderful book is essential reading for all those interested in global economic history and in the divergence debate." – Prasannan Parthasarathi, Professor of History, Boston College "Yazdani’s book represents a major contribution to the ‘the Great Divide’ debate. It brings India into a central role in global history, using it to link East and West. It also shifts focus from anachronistic national to contemporaneous regional levels of state and economy, posing new questions and finding some strikingly original answers. It is a ‘must-read’ for all those interested in global history." – David Washbrook, Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge "Yazdani has made a great addition to scholarship on the Great Divergence. His analysis of military, economic, technical, and political advances in Mysore and Gujarat – two of the most commercially advanced areas of 17th and 18th century India – sheds new light on the nature and complexity of the differences between contemporary Indian and European states. No analysis of the Great Divergence will be credible without taking Yazdani’s research, and Indian developments, into account." – Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax "This is an extraordinarily impressive inquiry into European-Asian difference in the early modern period which is as erudite and meticulous as it is ambitious." – Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Professor of History, University of Michigan "Yazdani’s book consists of an intriguing quantity and quality of empirical evidence, with which he is able to enlighten the reader with detailed information on the very similarities and differences between ‘middle modern’ India and Europe." – Susann Pham Thi (Bielefeld Graduate School In History and Sociology, Universität Bielefeld), in: HistLit 2017-4-088.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... xiii Problem of Quotation and Transliteration ... xvi List of Illustrations ... xvii List of Abbreviations ... xvii Glossary ... xx Maps ... xxvi Introduction ... 1 0.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 1 0.2) Purpose of Study ... 2 0.3) Unprinted Primary Sources 11 0.4) Orientalism ... 11 0.5) Eurocentrism ... 13 0.6) Methodology ... 14 0.7) Modes of Production ... 16 0.8) Modernity ... 22 0.9) ‘Simultaneity of the Non-Simultaneous’ ... 31 0.10) Modernity as a Historical Process and the Problem of Periodization ... 32 0.11) Prospect ... 61 1 The Transitional State of India’s History of Ideas, Science, Technology and Culture in the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 66 1.1) Introduction ... 66 1.2) Critical Thinking and Indo-Persian Curiosity vis-à-vis Europe ... 69 1.3) Late 18th Century Indo-Persian Preoccupation with the British Political System ... 79 1.4) Technology ... 84 1.5) Documents and Manuscripts ... 98 1.6) Science and Learning ... 100 1.7) Printing ... 105 1.8) Art, Culture and the Emergence of a ‘Public Sphere’ ... 107 1.9) King Serfoji II ... 111 1.10) Conclusion ... 112 2 Mysore ... 115 2.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 115 2.2) Economy ... 116 2.2.1) Introduction ... 116 2.2.2) Agriculture and Agrarian Social Relations ... 130 2.2.3) Living Conditions ... 165 2.2.4) Commerce and Mercantilism ... 170 2.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 184 2.2.6) Property Rights ... 212 2.3) Administration ... 220 2.3.1) Introduction ... 220 2.3.2) Tipu’s Administration ... 223 2.3.3) Revenues ... 227 2.3.4) Conclusion ... 229 2.4) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 230 2.4.1) Conclusion ... 236 2.5) Military Establishment ... 239 2.5.1) Introduction ... 239 2.5.2) Cavalry ... 244 2.5.3) Infantry and Artillery ... 247 2.5.4) Rocket Technology ... 251 2.5.5) Fortification ... 255 2.5.6) Marine ... 256 2.5.7) Conclusion ... 272 2.6) Education ... 279 2.6.1) Conclusion ... 285 2.7) Foreign Relations and Semi-Modernization ... 285 2.7.1) Introduction ... 285 2.7.2) Missions to France and the Ottoman Empire ... 289 2.7.3) Afghanistan, Persia and the Conspiracies of European Powers ... 299 2.7.4) Conclusion ... 307 2.8) Political Structure – towards the Establishment of an Islamic Theocracy ... 308 2.8.1) Conclusion ... 334 2.9) Resistance and the British Invasion ... 336 2.9.1) Conclusion ... 349 2.10) General Conclusion ... 350 3 Gujarat ... 361 3.1) Preliminary Remarks ... 361 3.2) Economy ... 363 3.2.1) Introduction ... 363  3.2.2) Agriculture ... 380 3.2.3) Food, Housing, Consumption and Natural Calamities ... 391 3.2.4) Powerful Merchants and Commerce during the 17th and 18th Centuries ... 401 3.2.5) Manufacture and Technology ... 454 3.3) Mobility, Transport and Infrastructure ... 476 3.3.1) Conclusion ... 480 3.4) The State, Property Rights and Commercial Rules and Regulations ... 481 3.4.1) Conclusion ... 492 3.5) Legal Practice – Civil and Criminal Penalties, Rules and Regulations ... 493 3.5.1) Conclusion ... 501 3.6) The Status of Women ... 502 3.6.1) Conclusion ... 510 3.7) The Impact of Caste and Religion ... 510 3.7.1) Conclusion ... 515 3.8) Education ... 515 3.8.1) Conclusion ... 521 3.9) Political Structure ... 522 3.9.1) General Structures of Power ... 522 3.9.2) Decentralization and the Difficulties of the Company’s Consolidation of Power ... 527 3.9.3) Independent Chieftains, Predation, Naval Warfare and Piracy ... 530 3.10) Early Impact of British Rule ... 545 3.10.1) Conclusion ... 552 3.11) General Conclusion ... 553 4 Epilogue – Transition from Middle to Late Modernity ... 557 Appendix ... 577 Bibliography ... 579 Index of Persons ... 646 Index of Places ... 653 Index of Subjects ... 656

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Book SynopsisIn Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History the editors Jeannine Bischoff and Saul Mullard present a collection of studies of the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Social regulations controlled, shaped and perpetuated Tibetan societies, but close analyses of these historical processes are rarely to be seen in ‘event history’ writing. The contributions to this volume explore the theme of social regulation from the perspectives of religion, politics and administration, while addressing issues of morals and values. Covering a wide range of Tibetan societies, the geographical scope of this volume extends from the Central Tibetan area to the southeastern Tibetan borderlands and the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Sikkim. Contributors are: Alice Travers, Berthe Jansen, Charles Ramble, Fernanda Pirie, Jeannine Bischoff, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Kensaku Okawa, Nyima Drandul, Peter Schwieger, Saul Mullard, Yuri KomatsubaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Saul Mullard: Regulating Sikkimese Society: The Fifteen-clause Domestic Settlement (Nang ’dum) of 1876 Charles Ramble and Nyima Drandul: Reason against Tradition: An Attempt at Cultural Reform in a Tibetan-speaking Community in Panchayat-Era Nepal Berthe Jansen: Monastic Guidelines (bCa’ yig): Tibetan Social History from a Buddhist Studies Perspective Alice Travers: The lCags stag dmag khrims (1950): A New Development in Tibetan Legal and Military History? Peter Schwieger: On the Exercise of Jurisdiction in Southeast Tibet after the Rise of the Ganden Phodrang Government Jeannine Bischoff: Completely, Voluntarily and Unalterably? – Values and Social Regulation among Central Tibetan Mi ser during the Ganden Phodrang Period Yuri Komatsubara: A Study of the Treaty of the First Tibet-Gorkha war of 1789 Kensaku Okawa: A Study of gTan tshigs: A Genre of Land Tenure Document and its Implication in Tibetan Social History Kalsang Norbu Gurung: Different copies of the Iron-Tiger Land Settlement and their Historical Value as Taxation Manuals Fernanda Pirie: State, Law, and Morality in Traditional Tibet Index

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Book Synopsis“When thinking about modern China’s chemical industry, forget not Fan Xudong,” so declared Mao Zedong publicly after 1949. Although Mao might have united front politics in mind when invoking Fan as a paragon of the national bourgeoisie, why would the chairman praise a champion of private enterprise? How did Fan Xudong and his colleagues build Yongli from scratch into one of the largest industrial conglomerates in modern China amid predatory foreign competition and domestic strife? What were his secrets of success? Drawing from company documents, government archives, and personal correspondences, this book traces Yongli’s birth, growth, nationalization, and how Fan and his colleagues pursued a third path of national development between for-profit private enterprise and state ownership.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Founding Chapter 2: Salt in, Salt out Chapter 3: Tolerable for All? Chapter 4: The Politics and Economics of Ammonium Sulfate Chapter 5: Creative Financing and Reorganization Chapter 6: At War Chapter 7: Dilemmas Chapter 8: Crisis and Nationalization Postscript Appendices Glossary Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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Book SynopsisIn Volume II of his study, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Charles Horner continues his examination of how China’s continuously changing view of its modern historical experience is also changing its understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. He reflects on China's current rise, not as an anomaly, but as part of a long tradition of dramatic transformations and he therefore looks at many different Chinas as they interact with various world systems and ever-changing trends. He sees China’s formation of its future Grand Strategy as a creative intellectual activity which draws on the strategic imagination that can be found in history, literature, art, architecture and urban planning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Volume ii, Horner, Rising China A Note on Romanization and the Pronunciation of Chinese (from Volume i) List of Figures Prologue Chapter 1 Empires Old and New, East and West, Traditional and Modern, and With More to Come Chapter 2 The Multi-Front War for the Chinese Mind: Mapping the Battlefield Chapter 3 Where No Man Has Gone Before: Urban China in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 4 Empire’s Irresistible Lure: Creating a Pre-modern Polity in a Postmodern Age Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the civil wars in China (1925-1928) from the perspective of the often-overlooked "warlords," who fought against the joint forces of the Nationalist and Communist parties. In particular, this work focuses on Zhang Zuolin, the leader of the "Fengian Clique" who was sometimes seen as the representative of the Japanese interest in Manchuria. Using primary and secondary sources from China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, this work tries to revisit the wars during the period from international, political, military, and economic-financial perspectives. It sheds new light on Zhang Zuolin's decision to fight against the Nationalists and the Communists and offers an alternative explanation to the Nationalists (temporary) victory by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations xiii Note on Romanization xiv Introduction: “Northern Expedition,” or the War for Northeast Asia? 1 State Formation and Geopolitics 5 Strategic History as an Approach 9 Northeast Asia and the “Northern Expedition” 11 The Military Factor 16 Structure 19 1 Becoming “The Eastern Three Provinces”: International Conflicts in Manchuria and Northeast Asia, 1850-1920 21 Introduction 21 Northeast Asia: Implications of Geography 22 International Relations of Northeast Asia, 1600-1920 27 China and Manchuria: From Empire to Nation? 35 Fengjin, Migration and Manchurian Society, 1636-1911 35 Manchuria and Mongolia after 1911 41 Regional Economy in Northeast Asia 43 Manchurian Economy before 1890 43 Reorienting the Manchurian Economy 45 The Competing Currencies 48 Concluding Remarks 50 2 Manchuria under Zhang Zuolin and the Fengtian Clique 52 Introduction 52 The Larger Context: Chinese Politics after the Abolition of the Examination System 53 The Ascendancy of Zhang Zuolin and the Fengtian Clique 58 Exploiting the Circumstances 58 Enlisting Elite Support 60 From the Fengtian Clique to Anguojun: Zhang’s Military Supporters 65 Decision-making Mechanism of the Fengtian Clique 67 Military and Economic Build Up and Their Consequences 70 Regionalism and Relations with the Central Government 75 Japanese Connection Revisited 77 Becoming a National Leader: Zhang Zuolin’s Strife for Legitimacy and Political Power 79 Zhang’s Perception of the Nation’s Problems 79 Zhang’s Struggle for Political Legitimacy 83 Concluding Remarks 88 3 The Fengtian Clique’s Strategies and Their Failure, 1925-1931 90 Phase I, January-December 1925 93 Overview 93 Responding to Political Vacuum in North China and the Soviet Design 95 The Anti-Fengtian War of 1925 103 Phase II, January-September 1926 106 The Fengtian Clique’s Attempt to Restore the Beijing Government 106 Improving the Internal and External Situation through Decisive Battle: The Battle of Nankou, 1926 110 Phase III, September 1926-June 1927 113 Seeking Peaceful Resolution through War: The Creation of the Anguojun 113 Increasing Japanese Pressure and Changing British Attitudes 118 The Failure in Henan and Its Impact 121 Phase IV, June 1927-June 1928 122 Responding to Defeats: The Generalissimo Government and Peace Talk with the KMT 122 Cracks in the Beijing-Mukden Regime 129 Manchuria Encircled: The Coming of a Japanese-Soviet Alliance 131 The Final Straw: Military Defeats in Late 1927 and Early 1928 133 Phase V, June 1928-September 1931 135 Strategic Inconsistency of the Fengtian Clique 135 The Decline of the Fengtian Clique’s Cohesion and Authority 137 Deteriorating Internal Condition and Geopolitical Situation 140 Concluding Remarks 142 4 Military Dimension of the “Northern Expedition” 143 Introduction 143 Military Geography and the War in China in the 1920s 144 Warfare in China in the Mid-1920s 145 Anguojun, the National Pacification Army 149 Organization 152 Equipment and Supply 155 Training and Recruitment 156 Cohesion 157 Relations with the People 159 The Henan-Anhui-Jiangsu-Zhejiang Operations, Jan-Jun 1927 160 Disaster of Dispersal: The Shanghai-Nanjing-Anhui Operations 162 The Henan Campaign: Background 166 The Henan Campaign: Mobility, Firepower and Geography 168 The Battles of Xuzhou and Longtan, June-September 1927 176 Situation After the Henan Campaign 176 Operational Success, Strategic Dilemma: The Xuzhou Battle and Prelude to Longtan, Jun-Aug 1927 177 A Strategic Gamble Lost: The Battle of Longtan, Aug-Sep 1927 182 Tipping the Balance: The Autumn and Winter Campaigns of 1927 187 The Situation After Longtan 187 Wrong Priorities: The Shanxi Campaign, Sep-Dec 1927 188 The Second Henan Campaign, Oct-Dec 1927 192 Endgame: The Shanxi-Henan-Shandong Campaign of April 1928 195 Seeking the Decisive Battle 195 An Operational Disaster: The Southern Zhili-Shandong Campaign 197 Concluding Remarks 200 5 The Manchurian Economy and the Northern Expedition, 1925-1928 202 Introduction 202 The Fall of the fengpiao and Its Effects, 1926-1928 204 Financial Limitations Faced by the Fengtian Clique 212 Limited Internal Revenue and High Expenditure 212 Decline of the Value of Silver 216 Japanese and Russian Presence and Their Financial Policies in Manchuria 218 Bankruptcy of the Central Government 220 The Fengtian Clique’s Attempts to Overcome Financial Difficulties 222 Issuing fengpiao 222 Increasing Tax and Manipulating Currencies 223 Issuing Bonds or Borrowing 226 Collecting the Customs Surtax 229 The Financial Collapse of the Fengtian Clique 233 Failure to Secure Shanghai and the Financial Difficulties of Beijing 233 The Succession Crisis and North-South Peace, Jan-June 1928 235 Concluding Remarks 238 Conclusion 240 Appendix 1: Literature Review 245 Appendix 2: A Note on the Sources 249 Appendix 3: Short Biographies of the Anguojun Figures 251 Appendix 4: Glossary 258 Appendix 5: Order of Battle of the Anguojun and the NRA, March 1927-April 1928 262 Bibliography 285 Index 318 327

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Book SynopsisTheology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.Table of ContentsThe Unification of Islamic Thought and the Flowering of Theology 1 Baghdad  1.1 Local Tradition. Madāʾin  1.2 Religious Policy Under al-Manṣūr and al-Mahdī  1.3 The Rise of the Muʿtazila  1.4 The Time Following the Fall of the Barmakids 2 Divided Empire and Civil War  2.1 The Uprising of Abū l-Sarāyā  2.2 Ma‌ʾmūn and ʿAlī al-Riḍā  2.3 Theologians with Ties to al-Ma‌ʾmūn. Thumāma b. Ashras  2.4 The Anti-Caliphate of Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī  2.5 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Return to Baghdad 3 Al-Ma‌ʾmūn in Baghdad. The Flowering of Muʿtazilite Theology  3.1 Ma‌ʾmūn’s Intellectual Profile. Intellectual Life at Court in Baghdad  3.2 The Great Muʿtazilite Systematists  3.3 The miḥna Supplementary Remarks

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume dispel some of the myths concerning the Mongolians and other Inner Asian peoples. This remarkable volume edited by and dedicated to Morris Rossabi challenges the depictions of these mostly nomadic pastoral groups as barbaric plunderers and killers while not denying the destruction and loss of life they engendered. Several essays pioneer in consulting Mongolian and other Inner Asian rather than exclusively Chinese and Persian sources, offering new and different perspectives. Such research reveals the divisions among the Mongolians, which weakened them and led to the collapse of their Empire. Two essays dispel myths about modern Mongolia and reveal the country’s significance, even in an era of superpowers, two of which surround it. Contributors are: Christopher Atwood, Bettine Birge, Michael Brose, Pamela Crossley, Johan Elverskog, Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan, Yuki Konagaya, James Millward, David Morgan, and David Robinson.Trade Review"This book is not only well-researched and well-considered, but is welcome for its ‘deep analytical insight spun out in persuasive, accessible prose, and always favoring an approach that looks, if even slightly, outside the box’ (p. 69)." – Simon Wickhamsmith, in IIAS Newsletter 84 (2019). "Historically minded scholars interested in the Mongol past will, no doubt, greatly enjoy this volume, particularly the wide variety of topics and the close reading and contextualisation of historical sources written in a multitude of languages." – Elizabeth Fox, University College London, in Inner Asia 20 (2018), p. 159–169.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Myths about Mongols and Inner Asians - Morris Rossabi 1 Sagang Sechen on the Tumu Incident - Johan Elverskog 2 What did the Qianlong Court Mean by huairou yuanren 怀柔远人? An Examination of Manchu, Mongol and Tibetan Translations of the Term as it Appears in Chengde Steles, as a Defense of “New Qing History” - James Millward 3 Jochi and the Early Western Campaigns - Christopher Atwood 4 Iran’s Mongol Experience - David Morgan 5 Qipchak Networks of Power in Mongol China - Michael Brose 6 “How the Mongols Mattered: A Perspective from Law” - Bettine Birge 7 Celebrating War with the Mongols - David M. Robinson 8 Flank Contact, Social Contexts, and Riding Patterns in Eurasia, 500–1500 - Pamela Kyle Crossley 9 Modern Origins of Chinggis Khan Worship: The Mongolian Response to Japanese Influences - Yuki Konagaya 10 Mongolia: Addressing the Risks and Promises of the Nuclear Age - Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConfronting Capital and Empire inquires into the relationship between philosophy, politics and capitalism by rethinking Kyoto School philosophy in relation to history. The Kyoto School was an influential group of Japanese philosophers loosely related to Kyoto Imperial University’s philosophy department, including such diverse thinkers as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Nakai Masakazu and Tosaka Jun. Confronting Capital and Empire presents a new perspective on the Kyoto School by bringing the school into dialogue with Marx and the underlying questions of Marxist theory. The volume brings together essays that analyse Kyoto School thinkers through a Marxian and/or critical theoretical perspective, asking: in what ways did Kyoto School thinkers engage with their historical moment? What were the political possibilities immanent in their thought? And how does Kyoto School philosophy speak to the pressing historical and political questions of our own moment?Trade Review"There are no weak essays in the entire volume. The editors did a wonderful job screening for the best material on the subject and one can only hope that this will open up new pathways in comparative continental thought, with more books eventually published in this area to accommodate the new style of East-West" -Dr Bradley Kaye, in Marx&Philosophy Review of Books, 8 July 2019.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Studying the Kyoto School: Philosophy, Intellectual History, and Marx’s Critique of Modernity  Viren Murthy, Fabian Schäfer and Max Ward Part 1: The Kyoto School and the Problem of Philosophy, History, and Politics 1 Philosophy and Answerability: The Kyoto School and the Epiphanic Moment of World History  Harry Harootunian Part 2: Rethinking Nishida Kitarō with Marx 2 The Labor Process and the Genesis of Historical Time: With Marx, With Nishida  William Haver 3 Commodity Fetishism and the Fetishism of Nothingness: On the Problem of Inversion in Marx and Nishida  Elena Louisa Lange 4 Nishida Kitarō and the Antinomies of Bourgeois Philosophy  Christian Uhl Part 3: Tanabe Hajime, Imperialism, and Capitalism 5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism  Naoki Sakai 6 Aleatory Dialectic  Takeshi Kimoto 7 Tanabe Hajime as Storyteller: Or, Reading Philosophy as Metanoetics as Narrative  Max Ward Part 4: The Legacies of the Kyoto School Philosophy 8 The Subjective Drive of Capital: Kakehashi Akihide’s Phenomenology of Matter  Gavin Walker 9 Umemoto Katsumi, Subjective Nothingness, and the Critique of Civil Society  Viren Murthy 10 The “Logic of Committee” and the Newspaper Doyōbi (Saturday): Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Political Praxis  Aaron S. Moore 11 Yanagida Kenjūrō: A Religious Seeker of Marxism  Satofumi Kawamura 12 A Secret History: Tosaka Jun and the Kyoto Schools  Katsuhiko Endo Index

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Book SynopsisMutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860–2010 examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, and the influence of these images on the development of bilateral relations. Unlike earlier research on Japanese-German relations, which focused on the similarity of these countries’ historical trajectories, this publication presents a more nuanced picture. It relativizes perceptions of a special “spiritual relationship” between Japan and Germany as well as their commonalities of “national character” through an exploration of previously untapped historical visual and textual sources. With essays by sixteen leading scholars in the field, this collection is an invaluable contribution to the historiography of modern Japan and Germany, and to the field of international relations. Contributors are: Hans-Joachim Bieber, Fukuoka Mariko, Hakoishi Hiroshi, Iwasa Takurō, Katō Yōko, Kawakita Atsuko, Gerhard Krebs, Kudō Akira, Heinrich Menkhaus, Danny Orbach, Peter Pantzer, Sven Saaler, Satō Takumi, Volker Stanzel, Suzuki Naoko, Tajima Nobuo, Tano Daisuke, and Rolf-Harald Wippich.Trade Review‘The very instructive volume can be recommended to everyone interested in Japan and its relation with Germany.’ Christian W. Spang, Daitō Bunka University, Tokyo, Contemporary Japan, DOI: 10.1080/18692729.2018.1468641Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface - Volker Stanzel Acknowledgments Notes to Readers Introduction: Japanese-German Mutual Images from the 1860s to the Present - Sven Saaler Part I: Early Encounters 1. Prussia or North Germany? The Image of “Germany” During the Prusso-Japanese Treaty Negotiations in 1860–1861 - Fukuoka Mariko 2. Japanese-German Mutual Perceptions in the 1860s and 1870s: The Eulenburg and Bunkyū Missions - Suzuki Naoko 3. The Image of Prussia in Japan during the Boshin War (1868–1869) - Hakoishi Hiroshi Part II: Perceptions of a “Golden Age” of Japanese-German Relations 4. Katsura Tarō’s Experiences in Germany and Kido Takayoshi’s Ideas on a Constitution - Katō Yōko 5. The Image of Japan and the Japanese in the German Satirical Journals Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1853–1914 - Rolf-Harald Wippich 6. Images of Japan Held by German Legal Experts in the Meiji Period - Heinrich Menkhaus 7. Japan in Early Twentieth-century European Picture Postcards - Peter Pantzer Part III: Drifting Apart: Tensions and War 8. The Image of Germany in Japanese Politics and Society, 1890–1914 - Sven Saaler 9. Rathenau and Ludendorff: Two Japanese Images of Germany in World War I - Kudō Akira 10. Images of Japan and East Asia in German Politics in the Early Nazi Era - Tajima Nobuo Part IV: Idealization of “The Other” in the Age of Totalitarianism 11. “Strength Through Joy” in Japan: Mutual Perceptions of Leisure Movements in Germany and Japan, 1935–1942 - Tano Daisuke 12. Images of German-Japanese Similarities and Affinities in National-Socialist Germany (1933–1945) - Hans-Joachim Bieber 13. German Perspectives on Japanese Heroism During the Nazi Era - Gerhard Krebs 14. Colonialism Through the Mirror: Japan in the Eyes of the SS and the German Conservative Resistance - Danny Orbach Part V: Post-war Images 15. Images of Japan in Post-war German Media: How the “Past” is Used to Reinforce Images of Self and Other - Kawakita Atsuko 16. The Consumption of Nazi Images in Post-war Japanese Popular Culture -Satō Takumi 17 German and European Academic Images of Japan: The “Group Model” and the “Cultural Importer Model” from the 1970s to the 1990s - Iwasa Takurō Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn this monograph Philipp Bruckmayr examines the development of Cambodia’s Muslim minority from the mid-19th to the 21st century. During this period Cambodia’s Cham and Chvea Muslims established strong relationships with Malay centers of Islamic learning in Patani, Kelantan and Mecca. During the 1970s to the early 1990s these longstanding relationships came to a sudden halt due to civil war and the systematic Khmer Rouge repression. Since the 1990s ties to the Malay world have been revived and new Islamic currents, including Salafism and Tablighism, have left their mark on contemporary Cambodian Islam. Bruckmayr traces how these dynamics resulted inter alia in a history of local Islamic factionalism, culminating in the eventual state recognition of two separate Islamic congregations in the late 1990s.Trade Review"This highly interesting book deals with the integration of Cambodia’s Muslim minority community [...] into the wider Southeast Asian Muslim scholarly culture through what the author calls Jawization. The core of the book are chapters five and six which together take about half of the entire book (pp. 90–256). These pages belong to the best pieces I have ever read on the Muslim networks, texts, and persons circulating in mainland Southeast Asia and their connections with Mecca around the year 1900, and the only criticism I have is that at times the book is too detailed. All in all, this is an excellent contribution to the study of Islam in Cambodia, which convincingly shows how this history is linked to the more cosmopolitan scholarly Muslim communities in Kelantan and Patani in mainland Southeast Asia, and to the intellectual centers of the Muslim world in Mecca and Cairo in the Middle East." – Nico J.G. Kaptein, Leiden University, in BKI 176.2-3 (2020). "This is a rare book that provides a fascinating account of the Muslims in Cambodia. It is a well-researched book superbly enriched by the author’s extensive field trip and interviews. A must-read for those who are interested to dissect the dynamics of the Islamic journey in Cambodia." – Mayengbam Nandakishwor Singh, National Law University and Judicial Academy, in Asian journal of Social Science 50.2 (2022). "This book is one of the greatest contributions to the field of Cham Studies in relation to the fields of Islamic Studies and Cambodian Studies published in recent English-language scholarship. [...] The detail-driven analysis of Bruckmayr's study is indeed quite refreshing." – Julius Bautista, Kyoto University, in Southeast Asian Studies 10.2.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Spelling and Transliteration Introduction: Religious Change and Intra-Muslim Factionalism 1 Foregrounding the Jawization of Islam in Cambodia  1 Approaches Informing the Concept of Jawization  2 The Concept of Jawization and Similar Processes in the Muslim World 2 On the Eve of Jawization and Colonial Rule  1 Diversity and Uniformity in Panduranga  2 Malay Scholarly Centers and the Patani Network  3 Changing Relationships between Ruler and Religion on the Malay Peninsula  4 The Diversification of Malay Influence in 18th Century Cambodia  5 Conclusion 3 Chams and Malays in Late Pre-Colonial and Early Colonial Cambodia  1 Political and Legal Issues until the Coronation of Ang Duong (1848)  2 Intra-religious Divisions, Rebellion and Resettlement under Ang Duong  3 The Dawn of a New Era: Norodom, the Cham-Malays and the Protectorate  4 Conclusion 4 Observing Structural and Processual Dispositions for Jawization  1 Cham-Malay/Chvea Relations, Settlement and Economic Patterns  2 Cham and Chvea Origins and Traditions  3 Colonial Assumptions about Islam: Cambodia’s “Good” Muslims  4 Curricular Jawization, Script and Language Change, and the Hajj  5 Conclusion 5 Jawization in Cambodia’s Diverse Muslim Landscape of the 1930s  1 Mapping Jawization in the Mekong Delta  2 Jawization and Divergence in the Cham Heartland of Kampong Cham and Kratie  3 More Divergence: Ethnic and Religious Complexities in the Chvea South  4 Factionalism Observed: “Trimeu”, “Kobuol” and “Hyper-Traditionalists”  5 Conclusion 6 Agents, Nodes and Vehicles of Jawization  1 Scholarly Networks of Jawization and Their Nodes  2 Testimonies of Jawization: Fatwas for Cambodian Muslims  3 The Canon of Jawization  4 Conclusion 7 The French Role in Jawization and Factionalism in Cambodian Islam  1 The French Privileging of the jawi Element in Islamic Education  2 The French as Referees in Intra-Muslim Disputes  3 Conclusion 8 The Legacies of Jawization and Anti-Jawization  1 Expansion, Stagnation and Near Obliteration after Independence  2 Contending Paths and the Emergence of a New Factionalism  3 The Institutionalization of Anti-Jawization: the Kan Imam San Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCoping 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, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.Trade Review'Coping with the Future is a landmark study of divination in East Asia, mainly for its depth and breadth of scholarship, but also for the impact it will have in elucidating an esoteric subject for a wider audience. The Käte Hamburger Center, under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, is to be commended for funding the studies published herein and we applaud Michael Lackner for the years of effort he has dedicated to this project. With this groundbreaking work, if not before, he has distinguished himself as a leader in the field.' Stephen L. Field, Trinity University, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.2 (2020).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Michael Lackner Part 1: Divination and Literature: Excavated and Extant 1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination  Marco Caboara 2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du  Bent Nielsen 3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China  Paul W. Kroll 4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China  Vincent Durand-Dastès Part 2: Divination and Religions 5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon  Esther-Maria Guggenmos 6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources  Dominic Steavu* 7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau  Anne C. Klein Part 3: Divination and Politics 8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric  Martin Kern 9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea  Park Kwon Soo Part 4: Divination and Individual 10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge  Liao Hsien-huei 11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination  Kim Yung Sik 12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China  Stéphanie Homola 13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea  Jennifer Jung-Kim Part 5: Mantic Arts: When East Meets West 14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture  Che-chia Chang 15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts  Chu Pingyi 16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China  Li Fan and Michael Lackner 17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea  Jun Yong Hoon Part 6: Reflections on Mantic Arts 18 How to quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China  Andrea Bréard 19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques  Matthias Hayek 20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea  Oh Sanghak Index

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Book SynopsisIn Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology. Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures and Tables Conventions Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historicizing Asian Community-based Emotion Practices  Barbara Schuler India 1 A House for the Nation to Remember: A Correspondence of Emotions between Jawaharlal Nehru and G. D. Birla, 1948  Padma D. Maitland 2 Food and Emotion: Can Emotions be Worked On and Altered in Material Ways?—A Short Research Note on South India  Barbara Schuler 3 From Constant Yearning and Casual Bliss to Hurt Sentiments: An Emotional Shift in the Varkari Tradition (India)  Irina Glushkova 4 Salvation through Colorful Emotions: Aesthetics, Colorimetry, and Theology in Early Modern South Asia  Kiyokazu Okita 5 Loving Śiva’s Liṅga: The Changing Emotional Valences of a Beloved Image in the Tamil-Speaking Śaiva Tradition  Anne E. Monius 6 Contested Emotionality, Religious Icons in Ancient India  Gérard Colas 7 Giving Gifts in Pre-Modern India: The Motivation of the Donors  Katrin Einicke China 8 Seeing Suchness: Emotional and Material Means of Perceiving Reality in Chinese Buddhist Divination Rituals  Beverley McGuire Japan 9 When Sad is Good: Affect among Friends in and out of Japanese Picturebooks  Heather Blair Index

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Book SynopsisThe book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: Space and Setting 1 Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories  Ulrich Theobald 2 Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier: An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan Records  Fei Huang 3 Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining History  John E. Wills, Jr. (†) 4 Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850  Nanny Kim Part 2: Metal and Money 5 Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century Hankou  Roger Greatrex 6 The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper in the Mid-Qing Period  Yang Yuda 7 The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before Mechanisation  Cao Jin Part 3: Trade and Transport 8 Numeric Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins, Weights and Measures in China and East-Asia in Merchants’ Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides (16th–19th Centuries)  Harald Witthöft 9 The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing China  Nanny Kim 10 The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries  Roger Greatrex 11 Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China  Elisabeth Kaske 12 Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou’s Yongchangxiang as a Case Study  C. Pat Giersch Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of Chinese Batavia. The main part of this study is devoted to the annotated translation of a unique historical study of the Chinese community of Batavia (Jakarta) written by an anonymous Chinese author at the end of the 18th century, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji. This historical document and a selection of other Chinese contemporary sources throw new light on a tragic event in the history of Southeast Asia’s overseas Chinese: the massacre of Batavia’s Chinese community in 1740.Trade Review"The volume [...] is to be especially commended for making source material available in Englihs in a fine edition". Philip Reissner, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol.1 (2), 2019.Table of ContentsContents General Series Editor’s Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Part 1: Introductory Material 1 A Historical Sketch of Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 2 A Chinese Urban Society in the Tropics 3 Chinese Sources for the History of the Chinese Community in Batavia 4 Critical Comments on Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Its Genesis 5 A Diachronic Overview of the Contents the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji 6 Editorial Notes on the Sources Kai Ba Lidai Shiji Part 2: The Chinese Annals of Batavia A Chinese Chronicle of the Historical Events at Yaolaoba (Gelapa) Part 3: Accompanying Texts 1 Brief Account of Galaba (噶喇吧紀略), by Cheng Sunwo (程遜我) 2 Selections from the Biography of Cai Xin (蔡新傳) and from Historical Materials in the First Historical Archive of China Concerning the Debates about Banning the Overseas Trade to the Nanyang during the Qianlong Period 3 Selections from The Chinaman Abroad: An Account of the Malayan Archipelago, Particularly of Java, by Ong-Tae-Hae (王大海, Wang Dahai), translated by W.H. Medhurst 4 Jialaba (甲喇吧, Galaba), by Gu Sen (顧森) Appendices Appendix 1: The Appointment of Captain Tsoa Wanjock Appendix 2: Name Lists Appendix 3: Glossary of Malay and Dutch Terms in Kaiba Lidai shiji Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the story of the dancers Giō and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth-century narrative Tale of the Heike. The story of the two love rivals is one of loss, female solidarity, and Buddhist salvation. Since its first appearance, it has inspired a stream of fiction, theatrical plays, and visual art works. These heroines have become the subjects of lavishly illustrated hand scrolls, ghosts on the noh stage, and Buddhist and Shinto goddesses. Physical monuments have been built to honor their memories; they are emblems of local pride and centerpieces of shared identity. Two beloved characters in the Japanese literary imagination, Giō and Hotoke are also models that have instructed generations of women on how to survive in a male-dominated world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  The Giō (and Hotoke) Legend  Overview  A Note to the Reader 1 Women Entertainers in Heian and Medieval Japan: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century  Women Entertainers between Fiction and History   Literary Works by Male Authors   Literary Works by Female Authors   Integrated or Marginalized?  Shirabyōshi   Shirabyōshi Origins in Medieval Literary Sources   The Range of Shirabyōshi Attire   Shirabyōshi in History   The Case of Shizuka Gozen  Shirabyōshi Performance   Singing: imayō   Dancing   Imayō no sho   The Gikeiki   The Engyōbon Heike monogatari   The Towazugatari  Conclusion 2 The Story of Giō in the Heike monogatari  The Story of Giō in the Engyōbon Heike monogatari  Giō in Other Heike Texts   What’s in a Name? Kami vs. Buddha   Irresistible Ladies, Freakish Caprices   Challenging Authority, Saving Each Other: The Bond between Women  Conclusion 3 Still Seeking Salvation: The Transformation of the Giō Story in Noh Theater  Giō as Seed in Zeami’s Sandō  The Plays   Giō   Hotoke no hara (Hotoke’s Field)   Genzai Giō (Present World Gio)   Rō Giō (Giō at the Prison)  Conclusion 4 Giō in Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative, Theater, and Visual Arts  Performance Texts Related to the Legend of the  Man-Made Sutra Island   Kōwaka and Sekkyō   Jōruri   Yomihon  Visual Representations of the Giō-Hotoke Story   The Giō otogizōshi Texts    The Spencer-bon: Giō monogatari    The Ishikawabon: Giō    The Keiōbon: Giō    The Iwasebon: Giō    The Tokudabon: Giō Ginyo monogatari   Tokugawa Prints  Conclusion 5 The Four Graves of Giō: Cultural Heritage Sites and Local Legends  The Temple of Giō in Sagano, Kyoto  Giō’s Hometown in Ōmi Province  Welcome to Haramachi, Hotoke’s Village  The Other Hotoke no Hara in Fukui Prefecture  They Also Lived Here: Giō’s Grave in Fukui Prefecture  Memorial Stupas of Giō and Ginyo in Kobe  Conclusion Epilogue  The Modern Legacy of Giō and Hotoke  Shin Heike monogatari (The New Tale of the Heike)  Jotoku (Women’s Virtues)  When Reality Takes after Fiction: The Life of Takaoka Chishō  In Conclusion Appendix A  Translation of “Giō Ginyo” from the Genpei jōsuiki Appendix B  Translation of Genzai Giō (Present World Giō) a Noh Play Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1583, five Jesuit brothers set out with the intention of founding a new church and mission in India. Their dream was almost immediately, and brutally, terminated by local opposition. When their massacre was announced in Rome, it was treated as martyrdom. Francesco Benci, professor of rhetoric at the Collegium Romanum, immediately set about celebrating their deaths in a new type of epic, distinct from, yet dependent upon, the classical tradition: Quinque martyres e Societate Iesu in India. This is the first critical edition and translation of this important text. The commentary highlights both the classical sources and the historical and religious context of the mission. The introduction outlines Benci’s career and stresses his role as the founder of this vibrant new genre. This volume is the first one for a new subseries in the 'Jesuit Studies' series: 'Jesuit Neo-Latin Library'.Trade Review“Paul Gwynne has produced a superb edition of the Quinque Martyres, the Latin with a fluent English translation on the opposite page and an abundance of footnotes catching every echo of classical precedent.” Alastair Hamilton, The Warburg Institute. In: The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3 (May 2020), p. 526. “Gwynne’s edition is multiple-user-friendly and may be profitably consulted by students of the classical tradition and neo-Latin literature […] as well as of early modern Catholicism and the Asian missions.” Yasmin Haskell, The University of Western Australia. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies Vol. 5, No. 4 (November 2018), pp. 696–698. “This edition of Quinque martyres will be a useful resource for literary scholars and historians of religion. Gwynne’s translation is elegant and highly readable. He has also done excellent editing work, which includes many pages of commentary on the Latin text and a comprehensive introduction that highlights the literary and rhetorical aspects of the poem.” Alejandro Cañeque, University of Maryland. In: Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, Vol. 87, Fasc. 174 (2018-II), pp. 536–539. “masterful presentation” “Situating a readable translation within a detailed network of classical and post-classical references seems to be an effective way of bringing nonspecialist readers as close to the original text as possible.” Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall 2020), pp. 991–992. “The present text […] deserves to be better known, both as a record of early Jesuit missionary endeavour and as a poem in its own right.” Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70, No. 3 (2019), p. 634.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction  The Scope of this Book  A Note on the Text and Commentary  A Note on the Vocabulary Part 1 Francesco Benci and the Heroic Impulse Francesco Benci, Professor of Rhetoric The Portuguese and Jesuits in Goa and Salcete The Five Companions: Talis ab Vrlini coetus se fuderat urbe (QM. 5.606) Synopsis of the Quinque martyres The Quinque martyres and the Epic Tradition Benci and Virgil Amplificatio Benci and Contemporary Neo-Latin Epic: Vida’s Christiad and Barga’s Syrias Ekphrasis in the Quinque martyres The Later Reception of the Quinque martyres Part 2 The Quinque martyres Book 1. Text and Translation Book 2. Text and Translation Book 3. Text and Translation Book 4. Text and Translation Book 5. Text and Translation Book 6. Text and Translation Commentary Appendix 1. Prefatory Letter and Liminary Verses Appendix 2. A Poetic Altercation and Reconciliation Appendix 3. Report of the Massacre by Niccolò Orlandini (Latin) Appendix 4. Report of the Massacre by Alessandro Valignano (Italian) Appendix 5. Verses below the Five Engravings of English Martyrdom Prefaced to Ecclesiae militantis triumphi Bibliography Index of Proper Names Index Locorum Citatorum

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Book SynopsisThe nine contributions in The Trade in Papers Marked with non-Latin Characters initiated by Anne Regourd approach global history through the paper trade in Africa and Asia, mainly in the 19th-20th C. Les neuf contributions de Le commerce des papiers à marques à caractères non-latins, dont Anne Regourd (éd.) est à l'initiative, projette de traiter d'histoire globale par le commerce du papier, principalement en Afrique et en Asie des xixe et xxe s.Trade Review"En conclusion, les points forts de l’ouvrage sont sa méthode, qui érige le sujet d’étude en source, et son sujet, les papiers traités ayant été jusqu’à présent négligés ou inconnus. Les différentes contributions sont clairement rédigées et richement illustrées, agrémentées de nombreux tableaux récapitulatifs, de cartes et de 7 index thématiques, dont des index de filigranes, contremarques et producteurs de papier. Peu de coquilles sont à déplorer. C’est un ouvrage important pour tout chercheur travaillant sur des manuscrits d’époque moderne." Elise Franssen in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 15, 2020. “This edited volume must be considered complementary to research on the trade/movement of paper and papermaking along the Silk Road.” Cagri Erdem, Keimyung University in: Acta Via Serica, Volume 4, No.2 (2022).Table of ContentsContents Foreword Remerciements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Transliteration System for Arabic Introduction: Le papier des manuscrits, une source pour l’histoire du commerce  Anne Regourd 1 ARBIB, YDLIBI and SÙRÙ (HAKURĪ): Three Arabic Script Watermarks in Northern Nigerian Manuscripts  Michaelle Biddle 2 Note on a Dated Tunisian Watermark  Michaelle Biddle 3 Recalling Alikurna: “ليكوريا” Countermarked Paper among Scribes in the Late 19th Century Ottoman Levant  Evyn Kropf 4 Manuscrits de la mer Rouge (première moitié du xxe s.) : papiers Abū Šubbāk du Yémen et d’Éthiopie  Anne Regourd 5 Papiers ‘indiens’ de manuscrits éthiopiens (fin xixe–début xxe s.)  Anne Regourd 6 Note sur les papiers à timbre sec (dry seal) en russe ou en arménien  Francis Richard 7 Un exemple rare de contremarque du viiie/xive siècle en langue et caractères arabes  Alice Shafi-Leblanc 8 Collection of Persian farmāns on Russian Paper in the National Library of Russia  Olga Yastrebova 9 Copy on demand. Abū Šubbāk in Mecca, 1303/1886  Jan Just Witkam Index multiples/Indices

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Book SynopsisThe present volume is a result of an international symposium on the encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Asia and the Americas, which was organized by Boston College’s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College in June 2017. In Asia, Protestants encountered a mixed Jesuit legacy: in South Asia, they benefited from pioneering Jesuit ethnographers while contesting their conversions; in Japan, all Christian missionaries who returned after 1853 faced the equation of Japanese nationalism with anti-Jesuit persecution; and in China, Protestants scrambled to catch up to the cultural legacy bequeathed by the earlier Jesuit mission. In the Americas, Protestants presented Jesuits as enemies of liberal modernity, supporters of medieval absolutism yet master manipulators of modern self-fashioning and the printing press. The evidence suggests a far more complicated relationship of both Protestants and Jesuits as co-creators of the bright and dark sides of modernity, including the public sphere, public education, plantation slavery, and colonialism.Trade Review"The reader interested in Jesuit missions will gain a new perspective on how these missions were perceived over time and by different religious entities. Most any reader will learn from these erudite essays or at the very least be able to use them as helpful reference and bibliographic tools for much needed further research not only of Jesuit missions but those of other orders as well." Thomas J. Santa Maria (Yale) in The Sixteenth Century Journal “The essays in this collection complicate the narrative of animosity, often drawing attention to contexts where cooperation or inheritance were the more compelling markers of Jesuit-Protestant interactions.” Andrew T. Kaiser, in: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (2020), pp. 653–654.Table of ContentsIFigures Introduction: Protestantism and Early Jesuits  Robert Aleksander Maryks Part 1: Asia 1 Introduction  Ronnie Po-chia Hsia 2 We are Not Jesuits: Reassessing Relations between Protestantism, French Catholicism, and the Society of Jesus in Late Tokugawa to Early Shōwa Japan  Makoto Harris Takao 3 Kirishitan Veneration of the Saints: Jesuit and Dutch Witnesses  Haruko Nawata Ward 4 Jesuit and Protestant Use of Vernacular Chinese in Accommodation Policy  Sophie Ling-chia Wei 5 Shaping the Anthropological Context of the “Salus populi Sinensis” Madonna Icon in Xian, China  Hui-Hung Chen 6 Jesuit and Protestant Encounters in Jiangnan: Contest and Cooperation in China’s Lower Yangzi Region  Steven Pieragastini 7 Protestant and Jesuit Encounters in India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  Délio Mendonça 8 Beyond Words: Missionary Grammars and the Construction of Language in Tamil Country  Michelle Zaleski Part 2: The Americas 9 Introduction: Jesuit Liminal Space in Liberal Protestant Modernity  Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 10 José de Acosta, a Spanish Jesuit–Protestant Author: Print Culture, Contingency, and Deliberate Silence in the Making of the Canon  Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra 11 Negotiating the Confessional Divide in Dutch Brazil and the Republic: The Case of Manoel de Morães  Anne B. McGinness 12 A French Jesuit Parish, without the Jesuits: Grand Bay’s Catholic Community and Institutional Durability in British Dominica  Steve Lenik 13 “Tis nothing but French Poison, all of it”: Jesuit and Calvinist Missions on the New World Frontier  Catherine Ballériaux 14 “Americans, you are marked for their prey!” Jesuits and the Nineteenth-century Nativist Impulse  Robert Emmett Curran 15 Wars of Words: Catholic and Protestant Jesuitism in Nineteenth-century America  Steven Mailloux

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Book SynopsisIn World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the “closed” period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.Trade Review"Gunn has contributed a detailed study of Nagasaki trade during Japan’s unification and under the Tokugawa. It is an excellent contribution to global history and a required reference to understand the place of Japan in the world economy of the Modern Era." -Arturo Giráldez, School of International Studies, University of the Pacific, in Journal of Contemporary Asia, 03 Feb 2019.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables and Illustrations Glossary/Abbreviations Note on Weights and Currencies Introduction  Japanese Historiography  The East-Southeast Asian Bullion Trade Zone  The Book 1 Kyushu in the East Asian Trade Networks  Spanish Manila and the Galleon Trade  The Portuguese “Discovery” of the Kyushu Trade Networks  The Ryukyu Tribute Trade  Gold, Silver, and Copper Mines in Japan  Japanese Maritime Trade with China and Korea  The Portuguese Missionary Arrival in Kyushu  Conclusion 2 Merchants and Missionaries in the Foundation of Nagasaki  Nagasaki’s Obscure Origins  The Portuguese Merchant-Missionary Arrival in Nagasaki  Nagasaki under Jesuit Rule  The Manila-Japan Trade Connection  Return to Imperial Rule (1588) and Persecutions  Conclusion 3 Nagasaki and the Silk Trade  Setting the Scene on Silk Production and Procurement  Functional Aspects of the Macau-Nagasaki Silk Trade  The Portuguese Merchant Presence  The VOC Silk Trade with Tonkin  Conclusion 4 The Dutch and English at Hirado  The Dutch Establishment at Hirado (1609–41)  The Dutch and the Contest for Taiwan (1604–61)  The Zheng Family Dynasty  The Dutch Trade at Hirado  The English at Hirado (1613–23)  Conclusion 5 The Shimabara Rebellion (1637–38) Revisited  Background to the Rebellion  The Duarte Correa Manuscript and the First Stirrings of Rebellion  The Battle for Shimabara  Millennial Rebels or Economic Victims?  The Anti-Christian Backlash  Conclusion 6 Nagasaki and the Southeast Asia Trade  Drawing the Contours of the “Red Seal” Trade  The Chinese Junk Trade at Nagasaki in the kai-hentai Records  Status of the Junk Traffic in 1664  Scale and Scope of the Nagasaki-Vietnam Trade  Conclusion 7 The Chinese of Nagasaki and their Social and Commercial Activities  Origins of the Nagasaki Chinese Community under the Ming  Chinese Temple Communities in Nagasaki and their Functional Role  The Zheng Trade with Nagasaki during the Ming-Qing Transition  The Restoration of the China Trade under the Qing  The Seventeenth Century Chinese Legacy in Nagasaki  Conclusion 8 Nagasaki in the Age of Kaempfer  Kaempfer’s Nagasaki  Dutch Trade at Deshima  A Dutch West India Company Account of 1721–23  Carl Peter Thunberg’s Account of 1795  Closed Door under Foreign Pressure  Conclusion 9 Parameters of the Bullion Trade Economy Network  Portuguese Profits on the Silk-for-Silver Trade  Putting a Value on the Dutch and Chinese Bullion Trade  Portuguese and Dutch in the Global Copper Trade  Reassessing the Silver Drain from Japan, the Role of Arai Hakuseki  Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Reprised Conclusion  Global Economy and World System  Stagnant Japan, Rising Japan, or Mid-Tokugawa Crisis?  A Precocious Early Modernization?  Nagasaki’s Pioneer Role in Japan’s Industrialization Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris introduces an extraordinary collection of primary sources covering China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) that allows readers to understand how the Manchu emperors and the multiethnic subjects of the Great Qing Empire experienced this tumultuous period.Trade Review“I continue to be particularly impressed by the way that the questions force readers to analyze the documents. This reader is really set up to create a dialogue between teachers and students as they work through the documents. I am also even more aware after this reading about how this reader may serve a launch pad for research projects by students. This provides a real possibility that students can develop a real primary based investigation. Crucial to this is how the editor also made great efforts to include list of other contemporaneous publications in the readings sections. Having additional documents for the reader available digitally is a great feature. This will extend the advantage of the reader as a whole.” Edward McCord, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Qing Reign Periods Terms of Measurement, Units of Currency, and Bureaucratic Titles Introduction 1 The Macartney Audience, 1793 2 The Last Will and Testament of the Qianlong Emperor, 1799 3 The Case against Heshen, 1799 4 The Downfall of a Governor-General in the White Lotus Rebellion, 1800 5 The Eight Trigrams Rebellion, 1813 6 An English Barbarian Ship, 1832 7 The Opium Debate, 1836 8 The Opium War, 1839–1842 9 Surviving the Taiping Rebellion, 1850–1864 10 The Coup d’état of 1861 11 End of the Miao Rebellions, 1872 12 The Incredible Famine, 1876–1879 13 Imperial Rainmaking Practices, 1875–1879 14 The Dalai Lama and the Qing Empire, 1879–1910 15 Crime and Punishment 16 Honoring Old Age 17 Honoring the Gods 18 The Cult of Female Chastity 19 “True Stories” of Filial Piety 20 “Tribute” Missions to the Qing Empire 21 The Making of Taiwan Province, 1872–1887 22 The Sino-French War, 1884–1885 23 Anti-Missionary Violence, 1891–1899 24 The Sino-Japanese War, 1894–1895 25 The Hundred Days’ Reforms, 1898 26 The Return of the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1898 27 The Boxer Uprising, 1899–1900 28 New Policies Reforms, 1901–1911 29 The 1911 Revolution 30 The Abdication, 1912 Chinese Name List

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Book SynopsisIn Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts of the Qing dynasty, a nexus of encounters between various groups competing for power and space. The frontier landscape bears silent witness to the changes in its people’s daily lives and in their memories and imaginations. The literati, officials, itinerant merchants, commoners and the indigenous people who lived there shaped and reshaped the local landscape by their physical efforts and cultural representations. This book demonstrates how multiple landscape experiences developed among various people in dependencies, conflicts and negotiations in the imperial frontier.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Landscape and the Imperial Frontier  Dongchuan and Northeastern Yunnan  A Landscape Studies Approach  Landscape in the Empire’s Frontier  The Sources  Procedure 1 Paving the Way  Mountain and Road  Inside and Outside of the River  The Jinsha River and the Copper Transports  Conclusion 2 Valley and Mountain  Moving from the Mountains into the Bazi  1700–1730s War: Completing the Bazi  Spatial Network of the Copper Business  Newcomers, Indigenous People and Landscape Transformation  Conclusion 3 The Walled City  The Indigenous Strongholds on the Huize Bazi  Building the Stone-Walled City  Top-Down or Bottom-Up?  The Planning of an Ideal Civilized Walled City  Conclusion 4 Ten Views  The Scenic View Tradition  Sightseeing, the New Gazetteer and the Ten Views  The Ten Views and the Conventional Format  The Ten Views, Local Geography and the Copper Transportation  Conclusion 5 Zhenwu Shrine and Dragon Pool  The Mountain, the Temple and the Shrine  Replacing the Dragon Cult  Praying, Entertaining and Remembering  Conclusion 6 Two Wenchang Temples  Scholastic Good Fortune?  Relocating to Auspicious Sites?  “Huayizhai” or “Wanizhai”?  Preventing Water Disasters  Contesting Space between the Han and the Indigenous People  Conclusion 7 Ancestors, Chieftains and Indigenous Women  The Meng Yan Shrine: An Indigenous General Who Surrendered  Shesai and the Origin of the Lu Surname  “Fake” Han Chinese People or “Fake” Indigenous People  Conclusion 8 The New Mansions  Huiguan Associations in Frontier  Building the Huiguan  Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia presents a unique set of historical perspectives by scholars from two important universities in the East Asian region—The University of Tokyo (Tōdai) and Fudan University, along with East Asian Studies scholars from Princeton University. Two of the essays address the international leanings in the histories of their respective departments in Todai and Fudan. The rest of the essays showcase how such thinking about the global and local histories have borne fruit, as the scholars of the three institutions contributed essays, arguing about the philosophies, methodologies, and/or perspectives of global history and how it relates to local stories. Authors include Benjamin Elman, Haneda Masashi, and Ge Zhaoguang.Table of ContentsList of Contributers Introduction: An Overview, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 1 Is World History Possible? 1 Is There Still Value in National History in the Trend towards Global History?, by Zhaoguang Ge 2 Is a World History of Ideas Possible?, by Federico Marcon Part 2 What Forms of Globalization Took Shape in Traditional East Asia? 3 Conditional Universality and World History in Modern Philosophy in East Asia, by Nakajima Takahiro 4 A New Global History and Regional Histories, by Masashi Haneda 5 A Jointly Regional-Global Approach to Rethinking Early Modern East Asian History, by Benjamin A. Elman Part 3 How Did Internationalism Emerge in Modern Chinese and Japanese Higher Education? 6 Internationalization from Within: 140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo. By Jin Satō 7 Global History in China: Inheritance and Innovation—A Case Study of the Development of World History in the History Department of Fudan University, by Yunshen Gu Part 4 Doing ‘World’ or ‘Global’ History as ‘Transnational’ History 8 From ‘East Asia’ to ‘East Asian Maritime Worlds’: The Pros and Cons of the Construction of a Historical World, by Shaoxin Dong 9 From Sri Lanka to East Asia: A Short History of a Buddhist Scripture, by Norihisa Baba 10 ‘Nobody Changed Their Old Customs’—Tang Views on the History of the World, by Tineke D’Haeseleer 11 The Korean Response to Xue Xuan’s Enshrinement in the Ming Confucian Temples, by Xinlei Wang 12 Literature of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century World, by Yasushi Ōki 13 Tales of an Open World: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty as Dutch Tragedy, Chinese Rumor, and Global News, by Paize Keulemans 14 The Regulation of Sailors in the Maritime Trade between Jiangnan and Nagasaki in Early Qing China, by Zhenzhong Wang 15 The Transnational History of Japanese Thrift, by Sheldon Garon Coda, by Benjamin A. Elman Index

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Book SynopsisThe twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ways of Rethinking Chinese Law and History Part I. Meaning and Practice of Law Chapter 1. Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice – Jianpeng Deng Chapter 2. Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late-Qing and Republican China – Taisu Zhang Chapter 3. Social Practice and Judicial Politics in “Grave Destruction” Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 – Weiting Guo Chapter 4. Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Principle – Janet Theiss Chapter 5. “Law Is One Thing, and Virtue Is Another”: Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai – Bryna Goodman Chapter 6. Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing – Zhao Ma Part II. Production and Application of Legal Knowledge Chapter 7. The Community of Legal Experts in 16th- and 17th-Century China – Yanhong Wu Chapter 8. Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 – Ting Zhang Chapter 9. Contestation over Legal Knowledge and Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China – Li Chen Chapter 10. Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China – Margaret Wan Chapter 11. Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing – Daniel Asen Chapter 12. Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law – Jennifer Altehenger

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Book SynopsisWomen, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan, edited by Karen M. Gerhart, is a multidisciplinary examination of rituals featuring women, in which significant attention is paid to objects produced for and utilized in these rites as a lens through which larger cultural concerns, such as gender politics, the female body, and the materiality of the ritual objects, are explored. The ten chapters encounter women, rites, and ritual objects in many new and interactive ways and constitute a pioneering attempt to combine ritual and gendered analysis with the study of objects. Contributors include: Anna Andreeva, Monica Bethe, Patricia Fister, Sherry Fowler, Karen M. Gerhart, Hank Glassman, Naoko Gunji, Elizabeth Morrissey, Chari Pradel, Barbara Ruch, Elizabeth Self.Trade Review'Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan is an invaluable volume not just for scholars of premodern Japan but also for anyone with an interest in material culture. Whether we acknowledge this or not, it is largely through a carefully constructed symbolic order that we as human beings create and mark our places in the world and navigate our way through life and its many challenges.' - Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland, in: Monumenta Nipponica 74:1 (2019). 'a rare insight into the still largely veiled and thus lesser-known world of rites and rituals concerning women and female deities in premodern Japan.(...) serves therefore as an important pioneer in the field; hence, it is warmly recommended to all students of Japanese religions.' - Lehel Balogh, Hokkaido University, in: Religious Studies Review 45/3 (2019) 'The studies range widely in terms of source material and period; nevertheless,the volume’s clear thematic focus yields a greater degree of cohesion than one often sees in an edited volume. In fact, reading the essays together, as one would a monograph, produces a powerful effect: the chapters reflect and refract each other in subtly provocative ways, such that the entire book enacts a kind of historicist scintillation.(...) To the credit of the publisher, the format for Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects is wonderfully expansive. Ample illustrations, many in full color,provide welcome context and enable readers to follow arguments rooted in visual analysis. Overall, the book is a must-have for libraries and for the individual reader who can afford it. It is an important contribution to Japan studies in the areas of religious history, visual culture, and, of course, women’s history.' - Heather Blair, Journal of Japanese Studies 46:2 (2020)Table of ContentsPreface  Barbara Ruch List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors Introduction  Karen M. Gerhart Part 1 Rituals Related to the Household and Childbirth 1 Women and “Moving-House” Rituals in Mid-Heian Japan  Karen M. Gerhart 2 Devising Esoteric Rituals for Women: Fertility and the Demon Mother in the Gushi nintai sanshō himitsu hōshū  Anna Andreeva 3 Taira no Tokushi’s Birth of Emperor Antoku  Naoko Gunji Part 2 Women and Buddhist Rituals and Icons 4 A Female Deity as the Focus of a Buddhist Ritual: Kichijō Keka at Hōryūji  Chari Pradel 5 The Relic and the Jewel: An Eleventh-Century Miniature Bronze Pagoda to Hold the Bones of a Young Queen  Hank Glassman 6 Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print  Sherry Fowler Part 3 Buddhist Women and Death Memorials 7 Commemorating Life and Death: The Memorial Culture Surrounding the Rinzai Zen Nun Mugai Nyodai  Patricia Fister 8 Of Surplices and Certificates: Tracing Mugai Nyodai’s Kesa  Monica Bethe Part 4 Female Patronage, Portraits, and Rituals 9 Retired Empress and Buddhist Patron: Higashisanjō-in Donates a Set of Icon Curtains in the Illustrated Legends of Ishiyamadera Handscroll  Elizabeth Morrissey 10 Life After Death: The Intersection of Patron and Subject in the Portrait of Jōkō-in  Elizabeth Self Index

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Book SynopsisIn Mughal Occidentalism, Mika Natif elucidates the meaningful and complex ways in which Mughal artists engaged with European art and techniques from the 1580s-1630s. Using visual and textual sources, this book argues that artists repurposed Christian and Renaissance visual idioms to embody themes from classical Persian literature and represent Mughal policy, ideology and dynastic history. A reevaluation of illustrated manuscripts and album paintings incorporating landscape scenery, portraiture, and European objects demonstrates that the appropriation of European elements was highly motivated by Mughal concerns. This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction  Brief Historical Background  Defining Mughal Occidentalism  Christian and European Elements in Islamic Art  Organization of the Book 1 Mughal Tolerance and the Encounters with Europe  Religious Tolerance under Akbar and Jahangir  Mughals and Europeans: The Encounters  The Challenge of Primary Sources  Diplomatic Gifts and “Special” Christian Articles  The Mughal Elite and Pictures of Mary and Jesus 2 Mughal Masters and European Art: Tradition and Innovation at the Royal Workshops  Copying and Innovation at the Imperial Workshops  Repurposing the European Masters 3 European Articles in Mughal Painting  European Prints in Mughal Albums  Visualizing European Articles in Mughal Painting  The Organ: Plato Making Music 4 Landscape Painting as Mughal Allegory: Micro-Architecture, Perspective and ṣulḥ-i kull  The Mughal Interest in Topography  Chronology of Change in Landscape Representation  Images of Urbanism and Agriculture: Diversity and Prosperity  The Virtuous City and the Circle of Justice  European Techniques: Sfumato and Atmospheric Perspective 5 Concepts of Portraiture under Akbar and Jahangir  Mughal Terminology and Praxis  Form, Essence, and Physiognomy  The Politics of Portraiture Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles” Mohamad Reza Ghiasian analyses two extant copies of the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh produced for the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (r. 1405–1447). The first manuscript is kept in Topkapı Palace and the second is widely dispersed. Codicological analysis of these manuscripts not only allows a better understanding of Hafiz-i Abru’s contributions to rewriting earlier history, but has served to identify the existence of a previously unrecognised copy of the Jamiʿ al-tawarikh produced at Rashid al-Din’s scriptorium. Through a meticulous close reading of both text and image, Mohamad Reza Ghiasian convincingly proves that numerous paintings of the dispersed manuscript were painted over the text before its dispersal in the early twentieth century.Trade Review"Through a detailed reading of both text and image, Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles” sets the standard for the codicologically-driven study of Persian illustrated manuscripts." - Yuka Kadoi, University of Vienna, in: Abstracta Iranica 40-41 (2019) "This tightly conceived and clearly written study is, as Charles Melville states in the preface (p. x), a masterpiece of “forensic detective work” in unraveling the complex history of Hafiz-i Abru’s universal chronicle. It will readily interest art historians who work on Iran and its neighbors, from Mongol times onwards. [...] the author's careful study has much information that will also interest historian and historiographers." - Sheila Blair, Boston College, in: Iranian Studies (2019) “The real power of this book is in the brilliant reconstruction of the fragmented or dispersed manuscripts of both Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh and Majmaʿ al-tavārīkh, the translation of sections from Ḥāfiẓ-i Abrū’s text, and the sets of iconographic comparisons. Together these form a solid basis for future studies in the field, and, at the same time, offer an interesting picture of Islamic biblical and prophetic iconography within a specific historical context. “- Rachel Milstein The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in JAOS (2020)Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Introduction  1 Chapter Summary  2 Note on Appendices, Translation, Transliteration and Dates 1 The Political and Cultural Setting  1 Political History  2 The Legitimation of Shahrukh’s Rule  3 Foreign Relations  4 Personal Traits of Shahrukh  5 Art Patronage 2 Book Production under Shahrukh  1 The Surviving Manuscripts  2 Hafiz-i Abru’s Kulliyat-i tarikhi  3 Rashid al-Din’s Jamiʿ al-tawarikh (Hazine 1654)  4 Nizami’s Khamsa of 835/1431 in the Hermitage Museum  5 Nizami’s Khamsa Known as the Cartier Khamsa  6 Jamiʿ al-tawarikh of the Bibliothèque Nationale  7 Miʿrajnama and Tazkirat al-awliya‌ʾ of the Bibliothèque Nationale 3 Majmaʿ al-tawarikh and Its Surviving Illustrated Copies  1 The Life of Hafiz-i Abru  2 Hafiz-i Abru’s Works  3 Majmaʿal-tawarikh  4 Stories of the Prophets and the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh  5 The Surviving Illustrated Copies of the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh  6 Hazine 1653  7 The Illustration Cycle of the Timurid Parts of Hazine 1653  8 Some Remarks on Foreign Relations as Reflected in these Manuscripts  9 The “Divided Manuscript” as a Hitherto Unknown Copy of the Jamiʿ al-tawarikh Produced at the Rabʿ-i Rashidi  10 The Dispersed Manuscript  11 Paintings Added Later to the Dispersed Manuscript  12 Shahrukhi Illustrations of the Dispersed Manuscript 4 Stylistic Analysis  1 Human Figures  2 Architectural Forms and Natural Life  3 Battle Scenes  4 Enthroned Figures Catalogue: The Illustrations of the Prophets  1 Cat. 1: Adam Orders Abel and Cain to Sacrifice  2 Cat. 2: The Ark of Noah  3 Cat. 3: The Prophet Salih and the She-Camel  4 Cat. 4: Abraham in the Fire  5 Cat. 5: Abraham Sacrifices His Son  6 Cat. 6: The Prophet Jacob and His Twelve Sons  7 Cat. 7: Joseph before the Women of Egypt  8 Cat. 8: The Prophet Job’s Distress  9 Cat. 9: Moses Prevails over Pharaoh  10 Cat. 10: Moses and the Israelites Watch the Egyptians Drown in the Sea  11 Cat. 11: Moses Orders the Israelites to Sacrifice a Cow  12 Cat. 12: Moses and Korah  13 Cat. 13: Moses Striking the Giant ʿUj’s Ankle  14 Cat. 14: Solomon among Demons, Fairies, Wildlife and Birds  15 Cat. 15: Jesus Brings Back to Life Shem, the Son of Noah  16 Cat. 16: Jonah and the Whale  17 Cat. 17: Excavation of the Well of Zamzam  18 Cat. 18: The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad  19 Cat. 19: Muhammad’s Call to Prophecy and the First Revelation  20 Cat. 20: The Prophet Converts Abu Bakr Conclusion Appendix 1: Translation of the Illustrated Episodes of the Lives of the Prophets Based on Hazine 1653  1 The Children and the Descendants of Adam  2 Concerning the Life of the Prophet Noah  3 Salih and the People of Thamud  4 The Story of Abraham: From the Birth up to the Beginning of the Migration  5 Abraham Sacrifices His Son  6 Concerning Jacob  7 The Tale of Joseph and Zulaykha  8 The Story of Job  9 Moses’ Coming to Egypt and Delivering the Message to Pharaoh  10 Moses and the Israelites’ Departure from Egypt and the Drowning of Pharaoh and his People  11 The Corpse that was Found among the Israelites  12 Moses and Korah  13 Moses and the People of ʿAd and ʿUj ibn ʿUnuq  14 The Story of Bilqis and the City of Sheba  15 Jesus’ Coming to Jerusalem  16 The Prophet Jonah  17 Excavation of [the Well of] Zamzam  18 The Birth of [the Prophet] Mustafa  19 The First Divine Revelation and the Beginning of the Apostle’s Mission  20 Conversion of the Companions and Disagreement of Scholars about the First One who Converted to Islam Appendix 2: Headings and Illustrations in Hazine 1653  1 Key Appendix 3: Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Second Style) Appendix 4: Location of Paintings so Far Identified as Later Additions in the Dispersed Manuscript (Third Style) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Transnational Cult of Mount Wutai explores the pan-East Asian significance of sacred Mount Wutai from the Northern Dynasties to the present day. Offering novel readings of comparatively familiar visual and textual sources and, in many cases, examining unstudied or understudied noncanonical materials, the papers collected here illuminate the roles that both local actors and individuals dwelling far beyond Mount Wutai’s borders have played in its making and remaking as a holy place for more than fifteen hundred years. The work aims to contribute to our understanding of the ways that sacred geography is made and remade in new places and times.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Figures and Tables Introduction  Susan Andrews and Chen Jinhua Part 1: Court Patronage and State Control  1 From Mount Wutai to the Seven Jewel Tower: Monk Degan and Political Propaganda of the Wuzhou Period  Yinggang Sun  2 Faith and Realpolitik: Tang Dynasty Esoteric Buddhism at Mount Wutai  Geoffrey Goble  3 Monastic Officials on Wutai Shan under the Ming dynasty  Kuan Guang  4 Beyond Seeking for Sacredness: Shedding New Light on the Carving of the Jiaxing Canon on Mount Wutai  Dewei Zhang Part 2: Pilgrims and Sacred Sites  5 A Japanese Pilgrim’s Visit to Wutai in the Winter of  Robert Borgen  6 The Pilgrimage Account of Duke Miγvačir of Alaša to Mount Wutai in  Isabelle Charleux  7 Visions in Translation: A Qing-Gelukpa Guidebook to Mount Wutai  Wen-shing Chou  8 Mount Wutai and Mañjuśrī in Old Uigur Buddhism  Peter Zieme  9 How Important is Mount Wutai? Sacred Space in a Zen Mirror  T.H. Barrett Part 3: Changing Practices at Mount Wutai  10 Lama Nenghai’s imprint on Mount Wutai: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism among the Five Plateaus since the 1930s  Ester Bianchi  11 The Pure Land Teachings of Fazhao and the Mañjuśrī Cult of Mount Wutai  Sheng Kai  12 Fazhao Jin Bifeng, and Constructed Histories of Buddhist Chant and Music at Mount Wutai  Beth Szczepanski Part 4: Replicating Mount Wutai  13 The Legacy of the True Visage: The Mañjuśrī Statues at Zhenrong yuan and Shuxiang si of Mount Wutai  Sun-ah Choi  14 Khotan and Mount Wutai: The significance of Central Asian actors in the making of the mountain cult  Imre Hamar  15 Transnational Mountain Cult, Local Religiopolitical and Economic Concerns: Mount Wutai and the Kamakura period miracle tales of Tōnomine  Susan Andrews  16 The Emergence of the “Five-Terrace Mountain” Cult in Korea  Sangyop Lee  17 Flying Mañjuśrī and Moving Mount Wutai Towards the Xi Xia Period: As Seen from Dunhuang Caves  Wei-Cheng Lin Index

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Book SynopsisThe Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere is among the first books to explore the pre-modern and early modern historical ties among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau, Central Asia, Western Xinjiang, the Indian subcontinent, and southeast Asia, as well as the circumstances that reoriented these regions and helped break up the Persianate ecumene in modern times. Essays explore the modalities of Persianate culture, the defining features of the Persianate cosmopolis, religious practice and networks, the diffusion of literature across space, subaltern social groups, and the impact of technological advances on language. Taken together, the essays reflect the current scholarship in Persianate studies, and offer pathways for future research.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Pathways to the Persianate  Assef Ashraf 1 Remembering the Persianate  Abbas Amanat 2 The Persian Cosmopolis (900–1900) and the Sanskrit Cosmopolis (400–1400)  Richard M. Eaton 3 Living in Marvelous Lands: Persianate Vernacular Literatures and Cosmographical Imaginaires around the Bay of Bengal  Thibaut d’Hubert 4 The Politics of Saint Shrines in the Persianate Empires  A. Azfar Moin 5 From Yarkand to Sindh via Kabul: The Rise of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  Waleed Ziad 6 Lives of the Enikolopians: Multilingualism and the Religious-National Identity of a Caucasus Family in the Persianate World  Hirotake Maeda 7 Inclusion and Exclusion in the “Persianate World”: Views of Baluch People in the Nineteenth Century  Joanna de Groot 8 The Antipodes of “Progress”: A Journey to the End of Indo-Persian  Nile Green Index

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Book SynopsisNot Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen offers a detailed look at a crucial yet sorely neglected figure in medieval Japan. It clarifies Musō’s far-reaching significance as a Buddhist leader, waka poet, landscape designer, and political figure. In doing so, it sheds light on how elite Zen culture was formed through a complex interplay of politics, religious pedagogy and praxis, poetry, landscape design, and the concerns of institution building. The appendix contains the first complete English translation of Musō’s personal waka anthology, Shōgaku Kokushishū.Table of ContentsContents Prologue List of Figures Introduction: Zen in the Generations before Musō: The Growth of the Gozan System in Medieval Japan  1 The Life of Musō Soseki: A Critical Reading  2 Musō’s Early Life: A Turn to Zen  3 Practice and Enlightenment  5 Recluse and Abbot  6 Building a Line Under Emperor Godaigo  7 Association with the Ashikaga and the Northern Court  8 Death and Legacy 1 A Master Defined: Musō Soseki in Muchū mondōshū  1 Muchū Mondōshūand the Tradition of Kana Hōgoon Zen  2 Playing Teacher  3 A License to Critique  4 Calling Little Jade  5 Conclusion 2 Beneath the Ice: Musō Soseki and the Waka Tradition  1 Shōgaku Kokushishū: An Incomplete Textual History  2 Musō and the Way of Waka  3 Affirming the Arts: Musō Soseki and Buddhist Discourse on Waka  4 Ambivalence and Abstraction: Literal and Figurative Representations of Reclusion in SKS  5 New Takes on Old Tropes: Mind Over Lament  6 Rarefying the Pine Wind  7 Elegantly Unconfused  7 Conclusion 3 Blossoms before Moss: Medieval Views of Musō Soseki’s Saihōji  1 A Long and Sacred History in Saihōshōja Engi  2 The Temple and the Blossoms  3 Blooms After Death in Shōgaku Kokushishū  4 When the Shōgun was at Saihōji after the Blossoms had Fallen  5 Zen in Bloom in Musō’s Chronology  6 The Musō Renovations: Musō and Medieval Landscape Design  7 Saihōji as Musō Memorial  8 Harmonizing Pure Land and Zen at Saihōji  9 Conclusion 4 Changing Agendas at Musō Soseki’s Tenryūji  1 Tenryūji: From Imperial Residence to Commercial Center  2 Taiheiki’s Tenryūji: Appearance of an Onryō  3 Tenryūji in 1345: Reunification and the Rise of Buddhism  4 Multiple Reconciliations  5 Securing Imperial Support for Tenryūji  6 Enlightening Godaigo and Other Objectives  7 Tying Tenryūji to Ashikaga Takauji in  8 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix: Shōgaku Kokushishū Bibliography

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Book SynopsisManuscripts, Politics and Oriental Studies commemorates the life and works of Johann Gottfried Wetzstein (1815-1905) as a scholar, manuscript collector, and consul in Berlin and Damascus. Beyond research into Wetzstein's own time, special attention is given to the impact his efforts to acquire manuscripts have had until this day. Several contributions also illustrate contemporary developments that give context to his own career as a scholar and diplomat. The particular focus of this volume allows to explore the history of Oriental scholarship not purely through the lens of academic posts and publications but encourages us to discover lifes such as Wetzstein's, without academic stardom yet laying the material foundations of textual work for generations. Contributors are Kaoukab Chebaro; François Déroche; Faustina Doufikar-Aerts; Alba Fedeli; Ludmila Hanisch †; Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf; Ingeborg Huhn; Robert Irwin; Boris Liebrenz; Astrid Meier; Samar El Mikati El Kaissi; Claudia Ott; Holger Preißler †; Christoph Rauch; Helga Rebhan; Anke Scharrahs; Jan Just Witkam.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Note on Transliteration and Dates 1 Introduction  Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch Part 1 Berlin 2 Johann Gottfried Wetzstein als Forscher  Holger Preißler † 3 Semitic Studies at the University of Berlin during Wetzstein’s Lifetime  Ludmila Hanisch † 4 Growing Collections and Rising Expectations The Endeavour to Catalogue Manuscripts in Arabic Script at the Royal Library in Berlin  Christoph Rauch Part 2 The Wetzstein Collections 5 The Wetzstein Collection at Tübingen University Library Its History, Content, and Reception in Oriental Studies  Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf 6 The Quranic Collections Acquired by Wetzstein  François Déroche 7 Johann Gottfried Wetzstein’s Manuscripts Containing Arabic Popular Stories  Jan Just Witkam 8 The Consul and the King Wetzstein and Alexander  Faustina Doufikar-Aerts 9 Wetzstein in Wonderland Arabian Epic Manuscripts in the Wetzstein Collections  Claudia Ott 10 Arabic Manuscripts and Books from the Bequest of Wetzstein  Boris Liebrenz and Christoph Rauch Part 3 Collecting Oriental Manuscripts 11 Collecting Islamic Manuscripts at the Munich Court Library in the Nineteenth Century An Acquisition History  Helga Rebhan 12 Manuscript Acquisitions and their Later Movements A Further Note about the Case of the Lewis Quranic Manuscript  Alba Fedeli 13 Manuscript Ownership and Readership at the American University of Beirut at the Turn of the Twentieth Century  Kaoukab Chebaro and Samar El Mikati El Kaissi Part 4 Damascus 14 Looking at Man in the State of Nature Johann Gottfried Wetzstein on the Bedouin of the Syrian Steppe  Astrid Meier 15 From Leipzig to Damascus Wetzstein as a Broker of Arabic Prints in Syria  Boris Liebrenz 16 Ergänzungen zu den hinterlassenen Papieren Johann Gottfried Wetzsteins  Ingeborg Huhn 17 Living in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Damascus Insights into the Urban Residences of Foreigners and Locals  Anke Scharrahs 18 Arabist and Consul in Damascus Sir Richard Burton and the Problematic Nature of His Translation of The Thousand and One Nights  Robert Irwin Index

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Book SynopsisScience and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology as practiced in the governments of premodern China and Korea. Contrary to the stereotypical image of East Asian bureaucracy as a generally negative force having hindered free enquiries and scientific progress, this volume offers a more nuanced picture of how science and technology was deployed in the service of state governance in East Asia. Presenting richly documented cases of the major state-sponsored sciences, astronomy, medicine, gunpowder production, and hydraulics, this book illustrates how rulers’ and scholar-officials’ concern for efficient and legitimate governance shaped production, circulation, and application of natural knowledge and useful techniques. Contributors include: Francesca Bray, Christopher Cullen, Asaf Goldschmidt, Cho-ying Li, Jongtae Lim, Peter Lorge, Joong-Yang Moon, Kwon soo Park, Dongwon Shin, Pierre-Étienne WillTable of ContentsContents Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction: Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia   Francesca Bray Part 1: Making State Sciences Work  2 Confucian Statecraft and the Production of Saltpeter and Sulfur in Song Dynasty China   Peter Lorge  3 Song Government and Medicine – the Case of the Imperial Pharmacy   Asaf Goldschmidt  4 Forensic Science and the Late Imperial Chinese State   Pierre-Étienne Will  5 Calendar Publishing and Local Science in Chosŏn Korea   Park Kwon Soo Part 2: State, Science, and Legitimacy  6 “As a Sage-king Reemerges, All Water Returns to Its Proper Path”: Xia Yuanji’s Water Management and the Legitimisation of the Yongle Reign   Cho-ying Li  7 Measuring the Rainfall in an East Asian State Bureaucracy: the Use of Rain-Measuring Utensils in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea   Lim Jongtae林宗台  8 Measures against Epidemics in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea: Reformation or Restoration?   Shin Dongwon  9 Delivering Whose Seasons? Non-state Knowledge of the Heavens in Early Imperial China, and Its Official Appropriation   Christopher Cullen  10 From Local Calendar (hyangnyŏk) to Eastern Calendar (tongnyŏk): the Aspiration for an Independent Calendar of the Kingdom in Late Chosŏn Korea   Moon Joong-Yang Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning the Ming-Qing, Republican, and contemporary periods, its twenty-four original, synthetic chapters ground the mutual construction of “China” and “the human” in concrete historical contexts. As a state-of-the-field survey, a definitive textbook for teaching, and an authoritative reference that guides future research, this book pushes Sinology, comparative cultural studies, and the history of science in new directions.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China  Howard Chiang Part 1: Parameters of Human Life 1 Technology  Francesca Bray 2 Cartography  Alexander Akin 3 Ethnography  Laura Hostetler 4 Historiography  Matthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang 5 Reproduction  Yi-Li Wu 6 Ghostly Encounters  Hsiu-fen Chen Part 2: Formations of the Modern Subject 7 Race  Frank Dikötter 8 Ethnicity  Bin Yang 9 Citizenship  Joshua Hill 10 Class  Stephen A. Smith 11 Sexuality  Howard Chiang 12 Gender  Tani Barlow Part 3: Disciplining Knowledge 13 Economics  Joyman Lee 14 Psychology  Zhipeng Gao 15 Statistics  Andrea Bréard 16 Sociology  Yung-chen Chiang 17 Anthropology  Hsiao-pei Yen 18 Political Science  John Feng Part 4: Deciphering Health 19 Anatomy  David Luesink 20 Forensic Medicine  Daniel Asen 21 Physical Hygiene  Ruth Rogaski 22 Mental Health  Wen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang 23 Psychiatry  Harry Yi-Jui Wu 24 Psychoanalysis  Jingyuan Zhang

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Book SynopsisA History of Russo-Japanese Relations offers an in-depth analysis of the history of relations between Russia and Japan from the eighteenth century until the present day, with views and interpretations from Russian and Japanese perspectives that showcase the differences and the similarities in their joint history, including the territory problem as well as economic exchange.Table of ContentsForeword  Iokibe Makoto Foreword  Anatoliĭ V. Torkunov Preface  Dmitry V. Streltsov and Shimotomai Nobuo Notes to Readers Notes on Contributors The Legacy of the 18th and 19th Centuries: from Hierarchical and Ethnocentric Foreign Relations to a Western Model of Equal International Relations  Ikuta Michiko Russo-Japanese Relations in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Exploration and Negotiation  Sergey V. Grishachev The Diplomatic Dimension of the Russo-Japanese War: the Portsmouth Conference and Its Aftermath  Tosh Minohara Russia and Japan in the Late 19th to 20th Centuries: the Road to War and Peace  Igor V. Lukoyanov Japanese-Russian Relations after the Treaty of Portsmouth: between Friendship and Suspicion  Kurosawa Fumitaka Russo-Japanese Relations from 1905 to 1916: from Enemies to Allies  Yuriĭ S. Pestushko and Yaroslav A. Shulatov World War I, Revolution, and Intervention: from the Perspective of the Japanese Diaspora in Russia  Hara Teruyuki Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War and Japan’s Troops in Russia’s Far East, 1918–1922  Sergey V. Grishachev and Vladimir G. Datsyshen Japanese-Russian Relations in the 1920s: Struggles between Anti-Soviet and Pro-Soviet Forces  Tomita Takeshi Soviet-Japanese Relations in the 1920s: from Hostility to Coexistence  Vladimir A. Grinyuk, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Anastasia S. Lozhkina Japan’s Policy toward the Soviet Union, 1931–1941: the Japanese-Soviet Non-aggression Pact  Tobe Ryōchi  Translated by Radmir Compel Soviet-Japanese Relations after the Manchurian Incident, 1931–1939  Anastasia S. Lozhkina, Yaroslav A. Shulatov and Kirill E. Cherevko Wartime Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union, 1941–1945  Hatano Sumio Issues of Dispute in Soviet-Japanese Relations during World War II: the Origins of Territorial Dispute  Andrey I. Kravtsevich The Reality of the Siberian Internment: Japanese Captives in the Soviet Union and Their Movements after Repatriation  Tomita Takeshi  Translated by Sherzod Muminov The “Маnchurian Blitzkrieg” of 1945 and Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union  Alekseĭ A. Кirichenko From Peace to the Restoration of Diplomatic Relations: Soviet-Japanese Territorial Relations, 1951–1970  Kouno Yasuko and Shimotomai Nobuo  Translated by Robert D. Eldridge Postwar Relations between the USSR and Japan from the Late 1940s to the 1950s  Sergey V. Chugrov Soviet-Japanese Relations and the Principle of the “Indivisibility of Politics and Economics,” 1960–1985  Ozawa Haruko  Translated by Sherzod Muminov Soviet-Japanese Relations from 1960 to 1985: an Era of Ups and Downs  Viktor V. Kuz’minkov and Viktor N. Pavlyatenko The Rise to Power of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Policy of “Expanding Equilibrium”  Shimotomai Nobuo Perestroika and Russian-Japanese Relations, 1985–1991  Konstantin O. Sarkisov From the Tokyo Declaration to the Irkutsk Statement, 1991 to 2001  Tōgō Kazuhiko Russian Policy toward Japan, 1992–2001: from Over-optimism to Realism in Developing Relations  Alexander N. Panov Japanese-Russian Relations in the 21st Century, 2001–2015  Kawaraji Hidetake Russia and Japan at the Beginning of the 21st Century: an Era of Untapped Potential  Oleg I. Kazakov, Valeriĭ O. Kistanov and Dmitry V. Streltsov The “Northern Territories” Problem: a Continuing Legacy of the San Francisco System  Kimie Hara The Territorial Issue in Russian-Japanese Relations: an Overview  Dmitry V. Streltsov List of Names Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to an outstanding architectural monument of medieval Armenia – the church of the Holy Cross, built in the tenth century on the island of Ałt‘amar on Lake Van, and a UNESCO world heritage site. This jewel of architecture has been researched mainly from an art historical perspective. The current multi-author volume offers diverse studies aimed at placing the construction of the church in its proper historical, political, religious, and spiritual context. It explores the intellectual climate in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan during the reign of its founder, King Gagik Arcruni, the Kingdom’s relations with Byzantium and the Abbasids, analyzes local historiography, biblical exegesis, hagiography, veneration of the True Cross, and royal ideology. Novel interpretations of architectural features and sculptural decorations close the volume. Le livre est consacré à l'un des plus importants monuments architecturaux de l'Arménie médiévale, l'église de la Sainte-Croix construite au Xe siècle sur l'île d’Ałt‘amar sur le lac de Van. Elle est inscrite sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. Ce joyau de l'architecture arménienne a été étudié principalement dans la perspective de l’histoire de l’art. Le présent volume multi-auteurs propose une diversité d’approches qui placent la construction de cette église dans le contexte historique, politique, religieux et spirituel. Il étudie l’ambiance intellectuelle du Royaume du Vaspurakan durant le règne de son fondateur, le roi Gagik Arcruni, les relations du Royaume avec Byzance et les Abbassides, il analyse l’historiographie locale, l’exégèse biblique, l’hagiographie, le culte de la Vraie Croix et l’idéologie royale. De nouvelles interprétations des particularités architecturales et des décors sculptés achèvent le volume. Contributors are Krikor Bélédian, Jean-Claude Cheynet, Patrick Donabédian, Bernard Flusin, Tim Greenwood, Gohar Grigoryan, Armen Kazaryan, Davit Kertmenjyan, Sergio La Porta, Jean-Pierre Mahé, Zaroui Pogossian, Robert Thomson (†), Alison Vacca, Edda Vardanyan.Trade Review"The volume offers a selection of essays where an outstandingly important monument of Medieval Armenian art is investigated in its wider cultural and historical context from a definitely multidisciplinary viewpoint. (...) it enables its readers to get a wide-range introduction not only to the relevance of the church of the Holy Cross in Ałtamar for Armenian arts and culture, but also to the specific contribution of the hardly known Kingdom of Vaspurakan to world history." - Michele BACCI, Universität Freiburg/Schweiz, in: Hortus Artium Medievalium 26 (2020)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Préambule  Jean-Pierre Mahé 1 Introduction  Zaroui Pogossian and Edda Vardanyan 2 Historical Tradition, Memory and Law in Vaspurakan in the Era of Gagik Arcruni  Tim Greenwood 3 Byzance et le Vaspurakan au xe siècle  Jean-Claude Cheynet 4 Al-Basfurraǧān and Banū l-Dayrānī: Vaspurakan and the Arcrunik‘ in Arabic Sources  Alison M. Vacca 5 Le culte de la Croix au palais de Constantinople d’après le Livre des cérémonies  Bernard Flusin 6 Relics, Rulers, Patronage: the True Cross of Varag and the Church of the Holy Cross on Ałt‘amar  Zaroui Pogossian 7 La Sainte-Mère-de-Dieu d’Aparank‘ : politique, diplomatie et spiritualité (983–995)  Jean-Pierre Mahé 8 Armenian Biblical Exegesis and the Sculptures of the Church on Ałt‘amar  Robert W. Thomson 9 Beyond Image and Text: Armenian Readings of the Old Testament Scenes on the Church at Ałt‘amar  Sergio La Porta 10 L’invention des images: Une expérience du regard au Vaspurakan  Krikor Beledian 11 Sainte-Croix d’Ałt‘amar. Sens symbolique, architectural et iconographique de la dédicace  Patrick Donabédian 12 The Сhurch of Ałt‘amar: a New Image in the Medieval Architecture  Armen Kazaryan 13 Reflections on the Architecture of the Palace Complex on the Island of Ałt‘amar  David Kertmenjian 14 Les sujets bibliques de la frise de la vigne dans le décor sculpté de l’église de la Sainte-Croix d’Ałt‘amar : le cycle d’Isaac  Edda Vardanyan 15 King Gagik Arcruni’s Portrait on the Church of Ałt‘amar  Gohar Grigoryan  Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Price and Promise of Specialness, Jin Li Lim revises narratives on the overseas Chinese and the People’s Republic of China by analysing the Communist approach to ‘overseas Chinese affairs’ in New China’s first decade as a function of a larger political economy. Jin Li Lim shows how the party-state centred its approach towards the overseas Chinese on a perception of their financial utility and thus sought to offer them a special identity and place in New China, so as to unlock their riches. Yet, this contradicted the quest for socialist transformation, and as its early pragmatism fell away, the radicalising party-state abandoned its promises to the overseas Chinese, who were left to pay the price for their difference.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary of Chinese Terms List of Abbreviations List of Figures Introduction  1 The Political Economy of Overseas Chinese Policy  2 Historiography  3 Structure and Scope  4 Sources 1 Rights and Interests  1 Introduction  2 New Democracy and the Huaqiao  3 To Do Some Good  4 Openness and Sincerity  5 Common Program  6 Conclusion 2 Screaming for Socialism  1 Introduction  2 Like Another Province Overseas  3 If Only 1%  4 All Huaqiao Have Money  5 Conclusion 3 No Complaints, No Escapes, No Shortfalls  1 Introduction  2 They Will Fervently Leap  3 Rather Left than Right  4 More Money, More Problems  5 Conclusion 4 Fourth-Class Socialism  1 Introduction  2 ‘Is the Overseas Chinese Affairs Bureau Your Daddy?’  3 Special Circumstances  4 The Great Debate  5 Conclusion 5 Politics in Command  1 Introduction  2 A Great Leap Forward for Qiaowu  3 Keep Left  4 Conclusion Conclusion  1 Political Economy  2 Contradiction  3 Paradox  4 Caveat Emptor Appendices  Appendix I: Overseas Chinese Remittances to the People’s Republic of China, 1950–1960 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDivining with Achi and Tārā is a book on Tibetan methods of prognostics with dice and prayer beads (mālā). Jan-Ulrich Sobisch offers a thorough discussion of Chinese, Indian, Turkic, and Tibetan traditions of divination, its techniques, rituals, tools, and poetic language. Interviews with Tibetan masters of divination introduce the main part with a translation of a dice divination manual of the deity Achi that is still part of a living tradition. Solvej Nielsen contributes further interviews, a mālā divination of Tārā and its oral tradition, and very useful glossaries of the terminology of Tibetan divination and fortune telling. Appendices provide lists of deities and spirits and of numerous identified ritual remedies and supports that are an essential element of a still vibrant Tibetan culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Dice for Divination—One of Many Tools of Randomization  2 Poetry in the Prophecy  3 Chinese Buddhist Divination Poetry  4 Poetry in the Turkic Irk Bitig  5 Poetry in Turfan Fragments  6 Brief Poetical Elements in the Sanskrit Pāśakakevalī  7 Poetry in a Tibetan Dunhuang Divination Manual  8 Poetry in Mipham’s A ra pa tsa na  9 Structure and Nucleus of the Achi Mo  10 Poetry in the Achi Mo  11 More on the Divinations’ General Prognoses  12 The Detailed Prognoses and Their Categories  13 Ritual Remedies and Supports  14 Remedies in the Book of Consecration  15 Remedies in Tibetan Dunhuang Texts  16 Remedies in the Pāśakakevalī  17 Remedies in Later Tibetan Mo Texts  18 Ritual Proficiency 2 Interviews  1 Interview with Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche  2 Interview with Lho Ontul Rinpoche 3 Translation of the Achi Mo  1 The Sādhana  2 Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Achi 4 Mālā Divination  1 Phreng Mo: A Popular Tibetan Way of Divining with a Mālā  2 Tibetan Text and Translation of the Divination Manual of Tārā  3 Interviews with Khenchen Nyima Rinpoche and Dorzin Dhondrup Rinpoche  4 Explanations from Khenchen Nyima Gyaltsen Rinpoche  5 Explanations from Dorzin Konchog Dhondrup Rinpoche  6 Some Variations and Similarities  7 Special Terminology of Tibetan Divination  8 Terminology of Fortune and Misfortune in Tibetan Buddhist Mo Divination Appendix 1: Glossary of Deities and Spirits Appendix 2: Alphabetical List of Ritual Remedies and Supports Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTravelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, offers an innovative exploration of the issue of heritage in the Indian Ocean world. This collection of essays demonstrates how the heritagization of the past has played a vital role in processes and strategies related to the making of socio-cultural identities, the establishing of political legitimacies, and the pursuit of economic and geopolitical gains. The contributions range from those dealing with the impact of UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention in the Indian Ocean world as a whole to those that address the politics of cultural heritage in various distinct maritime sites such as Zanzibar, Mayotte, Cape Town, the Maldives, Calcutta and Penang. Also examined are the Maritime Silk Road and the Project Mausam initiatives of the Chinese and Indian governments respectively. The volume is an important contribution to the transdisciplinary fields on Indian Ocean Studies.Trade Review"This collection throws ‘light on the issue of “Travelling Pasts” across the Indian Ocean’ (p. 16) by explaining how maritime activity involves considerable complexity, and in doing so contributes to ‘inclusive understanding of maritime cultural heritage cuts across political boundaries’ (p. 57). The book underscores how cultural heritage has and continues to be subject to political influence, and that it is still being used for political ends. It remains to be seen what the future holds for heritage governance in the Indian Ocean, with growing populations and mobility of peoples, and increasingly contested spaces and resources. This book will no doubt will be of considerable value to scholars and researchers working in history, heritage, politics, anthropology and many other areas of past and future Indian Ocean." - Erika Techera, UWA Law School and UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, in: Journal of the Indian Ocean Region [DOI: 10.1080/19480881.2020.1760603]Table of ContentsContents List of Figures, Maps and Tables Notes on Contributors Travelling Pasts: An Introduction  Burkhard Schnepel Part 1: Indian Ocean Cultural Heritage and the ‘World’  1 Global Linkages, Connectivity and the Indian Ocean in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena  Christoph Brumann  2 ‘Project Mausam’. India’s Transnational Initiative: Revisiting UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention  Himanshu Prabha Ray  3 The History of the Hajj as Heritage: Asset or Burden to the Saudi State?  Ulrike Freitag Part 2: (Im-)materialities on the Move  4 Materiality and Mobility: Comparative Notes on Heritagization in the Indian Ocean World  Katja Müller and Boris Wille  5 Ambiguous Pasts: The Indian Ocean World in Cape Town’s Public History  Nigel Worden Part 3: Travelling Pasts in the Eastern Indian Ocean World  6 Temple Heritage of a Chinese Migrant Community: Movement, Connectivity, and Identity in the Maritime World  Tansen Sen  7 The Uses of ‘Chinese Heritage’: Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China in the Contemporary Indo-Pacific World  Geoffrey Wade  8 Heritage Food: The Materialization of Connectivity in Nyonya Cooking  Mareike Pampus Part 4: Travelling Pasts in the Western Indian Ocean World  9 Contradictions in the Heritagization of Zanzibar ‘Stone Town’  Abdul Sheriff  10 The Production of Identities on the Island of Mayotte: A Historical Perspective  Iain Walker Index

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Book SynopsisIn Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia’s Early Independence Period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period. The study looks into the structural and ideological state formation during the so-called Liberal Democracy (1950-1957) and Sukarno’s Guided Democracy (1957-1965). In particular, it analyses how the international technical aid network and the dominant managerialist ideology of the period legitimized a new managerial elite. The book discusses the development of managerial education in the civil and military sectors in Indonesia. The study gives a strongly backed argument that Sukarno’s constitutional reform during the Guided Democracy period inadvertently provided a strong managerial blueprint for the New Order developmentalist state.Trade Review"Fakhi (Gadjah Mada Univ., Indonesia) upsets the conventional view of military interference in politics in a society rooted in dictatorship, detailing how Indonesia’s armed forces were invited, even co-opted, by civil officials and elected politicians to co-govern in a power-sharing arrangement." – E. Pang, Colorado School of Mines, in Choice Connect

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Book SynopsisGlimpses of Tibetan Divination: Past and Present is the first book of its kind, in that it contains articles by a group of eminent scholars who approach the subject matter by investigating it through various facets and salient historical figures. Over the centuries, Tibetans developed many practices of prognostication and adapted many others from neighboring cultures and religions. In this way, Tibetan divination evolved into a vast field of ritual expertise that has been largely neglected in Tibetan Studies. The Tibetan repertoire of divinatory techniques is rich and immensely varied. Accordingly, the specimen of practices discussed in this volume—many of which remain in use today—merely serve as examples that offer glimpses of divination in Tibet. Contributors are Per Kværne, Brandon Dotson, Ai Nishida, Dan Martin, Petra Maurer, Charles Ramble, Donatella Rossi, Rolf Scheuermann, Alexander Smith, and Agata Bareja-Starzynska.Table of ContentsPreface Background History of the Volume On the Contributions Contained in This Volume List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 A Case of Prophecy in Post-imperial Tibet  Per Kværne 2 Three Dice, Four Faces, and Sixty-Four Combinations: Early Tibetan Dice Divination by the Numbers  Brandon Dotson 3 A Preliminary Analysis of Old Tibetan Dice Divination Texts  Ai Nishida 4 Divinations Padampa Did or Did Not Do, or Did or Did Not Write  Dan Martin 5 Landscaping Time, Timing Landscapes: The Role of Time in the sa dpyad Tradition  Petra Maurer 6 Signs and Portents in Nature and in Dreams: What They Mean and What Can Be Done about Them  Charles Ramble 7 Identifying the Magical Displays of the Lords of the World: The Oneiromancy of the gSal byed byang bu  Donatella Rossi 8 Vibhūticandra’s Svapnohana and the Examination of Dreams  Rolf Scheuermann 9 Prognosis, Prophylaxis, and Trumps: Comparative Remarks on Several Common Forms of Tibetan Cleromancy  Alexander Smith 10 The Role of Lamyn Gegeen Blo bzang bstan ’dzin rgyal mtshan in the Dissemination of Tibetan Astrology, Divination and Prognostication in Mongolia  Agata Bareja-Starzynska Index

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