The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese …
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Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives
This book showcases recent developments in the field of Japanese applied linguistics. It covers a wide range of current issues and influential theoretical and methodological frameworks, many of which are of concern not only for …
New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan
This volume of proceedings from the Conference on Meiji Studies presents a rare multinational interchange among professors, researchers, and graduate students investigating Japan. The essays reflect both an appreciation of past scholarship and a determination …
Medical Texts and Manuscripts in Indian Cultural History
This book presents a collection of the latest research on ayurveda by an international group of leading historians of medicine and Indian culture. The book begins with papers by C Pecchia and P A Maas …
The Iconography of Hindu Tantric Deities (2 vols.)
Volume I: The Pantheon of the Mantramahodadhi focuses on the iconography of 108 deities described in the sixteenth-century Mantramahodadhi, which addresses topics related to Tantra, and specifically mantraśāstra, like the function and structure of the …
Eighty-four Asanas in Yoga: A Survey of Traditions (with Illustrations)
Physical postures (asanas) are the most important and often the only constituent of modern Yoga. Many practitioners believe that the postures derive from an ancient original set of eighty-four asanas. This book, for the first …
The Life of the Buddha: Buddhist and Saiva Iconography and Visual Narratives in Artists’ Sketchbooks from Nepal
This book describes, analyses and reproduces line drawings from two manuscripts and a related section from a third manuscript. These are: 1) Manuscript M.82.169.2, preserved in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (circa late …
Tonal Prosody in Yongming Style Poems
The book discusses tonal prosody rules in poems of three most important Yongming syle poets Shen Yue, Wang Rong and Xie Tiao. Different from traditional observation with experience, the book uses quantitative research method to …
Phonology-Syntax Interface: Argumentation from Tone Sandhi in Chinese Dialects
This book centers on theoretical issues of phonology-syntax interface based on tone sandhi in Chinese dialects. It uses patterns in tone sandhi to study how speech should be divided into domains of various sizes or …
Japanese Counterculture The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shūji
Explores the significant impact of this countercultural figure of postwar Japan Terayama Shūji (1935–1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative art. In this inventive and revealing …