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Book SynopsisAlbert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.
Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Albert Hoffstädt: A Tribute The Editors 1 What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? Alexander Lubotsky 2 India’s Past Reconsidered Johannes Bronkhorst 3 A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ānanda’s Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha’s Teachings Jonathan A.Silk 4 On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas Vincent Eltschinger 5 Size Matters: The Length of Korea’s History and the Size of Its Historical Territory Remco Breuker 6 Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan Martin J.Heijdra 7 Overcoming Distance Richard Bowring 8 Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China Martin Kern 9 Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy Jan De Meyer 10 On Some Verses of Li Bo Paul W.Kroll 11 An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside David R.Knechtges 12 Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation Wendy Swartz 13 Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China Stephen F.Teiser 14 Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880) Beata Grant 15 Chinese Dualism Revisited John Lagerwey 16 An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews Robert Ford Campany 17 Self-Portrait of a Narcissist Pierre-Étienne Will 18 The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles Robert E.Hegel 19 Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju Wilt L.Idema 20 Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry Maghiel van Crevel 21 Horatius Sinensis Michael Lackner 22 The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity Christoph Harbsmeier Index
