Welten Ostasiens/Worlds of East Asia/Mondes de l'Extreme-Orient – serie

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1. 

   Monuments, Memory, and Identity

   Constructing the Colonial Past in South Korea

   Av Guy Podoler

   Inbunden, 2011

   768 kr

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   Between 1910 and 1945 Korea was subjected to Japanese colonial rule. Monuments, Memory, and Identity investigates ways how postcolonial South Korea commemorated this difficult past in light of changing political and social conditions, and against the background of the divided nation. By analyzing …

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   Japan as a ‘Global Pacifist State’

   Its Changing Pacifism and Security Identity

   Av Daisuke Akimoto, Wolfgang Behr m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2013

   822 kr

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   This book examines Japan’s changing pacifism and its implications for Japan’s security identity from 1945 to the present. To examine the shift in Japanese pacifism, this research employs the concept of ‘negative pacifism’ (Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution) and ‘positive pacifism’ (the …

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   Seeking the Self

   Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan

   Av Satomi Ishikawa, Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2007

   914 kr

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   This book is about the self in contemporary Japan. In contrast to Euro-American cultures, in which the self is considered to be the essence of personhood, in Japanese culture the self is constantly reconstructed in relation to others. This particular self is studied by examining the ways popular …

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   Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan

   Ategawa no shō 1004-1304

   Av Judith Fröhlich, Eduard Klopfenstein m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2007

   514 kr

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   This book provides new insights into the creation and use of written texts in medieval Japan. Drawing upon lawsuits from Ategawa no shō in central Japan between the early eleventh and early fourteenth centuries, the author analyses the use of writing by various social groups – temple priests, …

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   Contemporary Asian Modernities

   Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity

   Av Yiu Wai Chu, Eva Man Kit Wah

   Inbunden, 2010

   1004 kr

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   This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe …

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   Bokutotsusô

   Studies on the Calligraphy of the Zen Master Musô Soseki (1275-1351)

   Av Ildegarda Scheidegger, Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft

   Inbunden, 2005

   752 kr

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   Musô Soseki (1275-1351), one of the most important Zen patriarchs of the early fourteenth century in Japan, devoted his life to spreading Buddhist wisdom in his writings. As a member of the Gozan movement, he belonged to the literary elite and had a profound knowledge of Chinese und Japanese …

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   Translating Chinese Classics in a Colonial Context

   James Legge and His Two Versions of the "Zhongyong"

   Av Hui Wang, Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft

   Häftad, 2008

   793 kr

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   James Legge’s (1815-1897) translations of the Confucian classics have long been venerated as the peak and standard of sinological translation, with little attention being paid to the traces of missionary and orientalist discourse within these awesome tomes. This book subjects Legge’s Confucian …