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 …
Publications
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 …
Social and interactive perspectives on Japanese language proficiency
Assumptions about language, language learning, and language learners affect the design of language textbooks and classroom practices. Three main chapters in this monograph explore the gap between how language is represented in textbooks versus how …
Perceiving Syllables and Contrasts: Second Language Learning Perspectives
My aim in this book is not to redefine ‘Standard Korean’ but rather to delineate which speakers the current study is dealing with, and clarify how they will be sampled. As shown in above definitions …
Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan
Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus …
Alien Kind Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative
To discuss the supernatural in China is “to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts.” Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the …
Discourse and Politeness Ambivalent Face in Japanese
Discourse and Politeness examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. The book seeks to establish an empirically grounded analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating …