{"product_id":"at-the-shores-of-the-sky-asian-studies-for-albert-hoffstadt-9789004432987","title":"At the Shores of the Sky : Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlbert 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents    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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210802913623,"sku":"9789004432987","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/at-the-shores-of-the-sky-asian-studies-for-albert-hoffstadt-9789004432987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}