Professor Wei Wang's Books

China's Banking Law and the National Treatment of Foreign-Funded Banks

By: Professor Wei Wang

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China's Banking Law and the National Treatment of Foreign-Funded Banks

By: Professor Wei Wang

This book assesses new developments in and reform of China's banking law system following its accession of the WTO. It focuses on the relationship between GATS/WTO national treatment obligations and China's banking law. Tracing the history of national treatment in China, the book compares the treatment of foreign-funded banks with the treatment of Chinese-funded banks and examines the structure and shortcomings of the existing banking law framework in China. Offering suggestions as to how the framework could be restructured and analysing the economic and political bases of an integrated banking law framework, the book argues that reorganization would bring about greater consistency with GATS/WTO national treatment requirements. The book also explores the ambiguous definition of prudential carve-out, the subtle relationship between GATS national treatment and market access based on WTO cases, national treatment clauses in China’s bilateral investment treaties, and special treatment on banking in China’s free trade agreements. This volume is a valuable resource for academics and students as well as professionals and policy-makers working in the field of banking, WTO, Chinese law and foreign trade.

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1472412877

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Shanghai Modern

The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930Ð1945

By: Leo Ou-fan Lee,Oufan Li,Professor of Chinese Literature Leo Ou-Fan Lee

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Shanghai Modern

The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930Ð1945

By: Leo Ou-fan Lee,Oufan Li,Professor of Chinese Literature Leo Ou-Fan Lee

In the midst of ChinaÕs wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this Òtreaty portÓ from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of ShanghaiÕs urban landscapeÑforeign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.

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Harvard University Press

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0674805518

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The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

By: Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University

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The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain

By: Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), the book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being. Written in an ebullient prose, The Hypothetical Mandarin demonstrates how the network that intertwines China, sympathy, and modernity continues to shape the economic and human experience.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199700117

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9780199700110

The Yijing and Chinese Politics

Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127

By: Tze-ki Hon,Professor of History State University of New York at Geneseo Visiting Research Fellow Tze-Ki Hon

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The Yijing and Chinese Politics

Classical Commentary and Literati Activism in the Northern Song Period, 960-1127

By: Tze-ki Hon,Professor of History State University of New York at Geneseo Visiting Research Fellow Tze-Ki Hon

Discusses interpretations of the Yijing (the I Ching or Book of Changes) during the Northern Song period and how these illuminate the momentous changes in Chinese society during this era.

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0791463117

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Mountain Fires

The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938

By: Gregor Benton,Professor Gregor Benton

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Mountain Fires

The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938

By: Gregor Benton,Professor Gregor Benton

A milestone marking a new maturity in studies of Chinese Communist history."--John S. Service, UC, Berkeley "A milestone marking a new maturity in studies of Chinese Communist history."--John S. Service, UC, Berkeley

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0520041585

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9780520041585

Six Dynasties Civilization

By: Albert E. Dien,Professor Albert E Dien

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Six Dynasties Civilization

By: Albert E. Dien,Professor Albert E Dien

The Six Dynasties, also known as the "Dark Age” of Chinese history, was a period of political disunity and conflict but also one of important developments in the arts, religion, and culture. This comprehensive and extensively illustrated book covers the material culture of the Six Dynasties, A.D. 220 to 589. Albert E. Dien, a foremost expert on the period, draws on the archaeological findings of mainland China journals as well as historical and literary sources to clarify and interpret the database of over 1,800 tombs developed for this volume. During the Six Dynasties, the influences of non-Chinese nomads, the flourishing of Buddhism, and increasing numbers of foreign merchants in the capitals brought about widespread change. The book explores what the archaeological artifacts reveal about this era of innovation and experimentation between the Han and Tang dynasties.

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Yale University Press

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0300074042

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9780300074048

Learning for One's Self

Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

By: William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore De Bary,John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De Bary

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Learning for One's Self

Essays on the Individual in Neo-Confucian Thought

By: William Theodore De Bary,Wm. Theodore De Bary,John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De Bary

Well known as a scholar of Asian culture, de Bary examines the concepts of self-understanding and self-cultivation in neo-Confucian thought from the 12th to the 17th centuries, in relation to the social, political, and scholarly roles of educated men in late imperial China. Rejecting the notion that

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0231074263

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The Hsi-Yu-Chi

A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel

By: Glen Dudbridge

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The Hsi-Yu-Chi

A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel

By: Glen Dudbridge

A study of the early versions of the classic Chinese novel known to readers in English as Monkey. Dr Dudbridge examines a long tradition of earlier versions in narrative and dramatic form through which the great episodic cycle slowly took shape. The two main fields of interest are popular culture and folklore and the development of Chinese vernacular literature. Dr Dudbridge provides a very thorough survey of present knowledge about the whole topic and discusses critically a good deal of theorising about it. This is a study for experts. It uses Chinese characters, both in text pages and in the bibliography, which is very extensive. The plates reproduce paintings, carvings and sections of text relevant to the tradition.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521076323

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9780521076326

Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

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Reframing the Social

Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory

By: Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan

Drawing extensively on the research findings of natural and social sciences both in America and Europe, Reframing the Social argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas Luhmann and critical social systems theorists, to challenge the commonly held view that the systems-based approach is holistic in nature and necessarily downplays the role of human agency. Theoretically sophisticated and investigating the work of a theorist whose work has until now received insufficient attention in Anglo-American thought, this book will be of interest to those working in the field of social theory, as well as scholars concerned with philosophy of social science, the project of analytical sociology, and the nature of the relationship between the natural and social sciences.

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1409494349

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Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

By: Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

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Monks, Rulers, and Literati : The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism

By: Asian Religions University of Winnipeg Albert Welter Professor

The Chan (Zen in Japanese) school began when, in seventh-century China, a small religious community gathered around a Buddhist monk named Hongren. Over the centuries, Chan Buddhism grew from an obscure movement to an officially recognized and eventually dominant form of Buddhism in China and throughout East Asia. It has reached international popularity, its teachings disseminated across cultures far and wide. In Monks, Rulers, and Literati, Albert Welter presents, for the first time in a comprehensive fashion in a Western work, the story of the rise of Chan, a story which has been obscured by myths about Zen. Zen apologists in the twentieth century, Welter argues, sold the world on the story of Zen as a transcendental spiritualism untainted by political and institutional involvements. In fact, Welter shows that the opposite is true: relationships between Chan monks and political rulers were crucial to Chan's success. The book concentrates on an important but neglected period of Chan history, the 10th and 11th centuries, when monks and rulers created the so-called Chan "golden age" and the classic principles of Chan identity. Placing Chan's ascendancy into historical context, Welter analyzes the social and political factors that facilitated Chan's success as a movement. He then examines how this success was represented in the Chan narrative and the aims of those who shaped it. Monks, Rulers, and Literati recovers a critical period of Zen's past, deepening our understanding of how the movement came to flourish. Welter's groundbreaking work is not only the most comprehensive history of the dominant strand of East Asian Buddhism, but also an important corrective to many of the stereotypes about Zen.

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019972119X

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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

By: Professor Edward Friedman,Edward Friedman,Friedman Edward,Professor Paul G Pickowicz,Paul Pickowicz,Mark Selden

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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

By: Professor Edward Friedman,Edward Friedman,Friedman Edward,Professor Paul G Pickowicz,Paul Pickowicz,Mark Selden

Drawing on nearly 30 years of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state since the 1960's. The authors bring the countryside to life through personal and poignant accounts of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.

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Yale University Press

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0300108966

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9780300108965

A God's Own Tale

The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong

By: Terry F. Kleeman,Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations Terry F Kleeman

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A God's Own Tale

The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong

By: Terry F. Kleeman,Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations Terry F Kleeman

This scripture was revealed through spirit writing in 1181. It traces Wenchang's development through his many transformations culminating in his apotheosis as director of the Wenchang Palace and custodian of the Cinnamon Record that determines men's and women's fates. The god has since assumed a high position in the Taoist pantheon, has been introduced into the school system and Confucian temples, and now controls the all-important civil service examinations in China. The text translated here provides a unique window into the religious world of Traditional China. Numerous anecdotes of good- and evil-doers reveal the ethical dilemmas facing men and women of the time, from social questions like infanticide and discrimination against women to more purely religious issues such as how evil gods are punished and how China's divergent religious traditions can be reconciled.

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0791420019

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9780791420010

Modern Chinese Real Estate Law

Property Development in an Evolving Legal System

By: Professor Gregory M Stein

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Modern Chinese Real Estate Law

Property Development in an Evolving Legal System

By: Professor Gregory M Stein

With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study uses fieldwork interviews to establish how the Chinese real estate market operates in practice from both legal and business perspectives. It describes how the market functions, which laws are applicable and how they are applied, and how a nation can achieve dramatic economic growth so rapidly while its legal system is so unsettled. The book demonstrates how China is drawing on the world for ideas while retaining a domestic system that remains essentially Chinese, and how the recent revitalization of China's real estate market has confounded the predictions of many developments economists.

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1409497968

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China's Old Dwellings

By: Ronald G. Knapp,Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp

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China's Old Dwellings

By: Ronald G. Knapp,Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp

China's Old Dwellings is the most comprehensive critical examination of China's folk architectural forms in any language. It and its companion volume, China's Living Houses: Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation, together form a landmark study of the environmental, historical, and social factors that influence housing forms for nearly a quarter of the world's population. Both books draw on the author's thirty years of field-work and extensive travel in China as well as published and unpublished material in many languages.

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0824822145

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Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang

By: Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD

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Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang

By: Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD

Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China.

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0791426610

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9780791426616

Sharing the Light

Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China

By: Lisa Ann Raphals,Professor Lisa Raphals

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Sharing the Light

Representations of Women and Virtue in Early China

By: Lisa Ann Raphals,Professor Lisa Raphals

Explores historical and philosophical shifts in the depiction of women and virtue in the early years of the Chinese state. Includes an examination of the history of yin-yang theories.

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0791438554

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Changsheng bulao de yinshi

Guanyu yong bao qingchun, baofali he quansu shenghuo di tupo xing jianjie!

By: Professor Boris Bigalke, MD

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Changsheng bulao de yinshi

Guanyu yong bao qingchun, baofali he quansu shenghuo di tupo xing jianjie!

By: Professor Boris Bigalke, MD

Eating Immortally" reveals the revolutionary link between nutrition and a vital, energized life. Renowned nutrition expert Professor Boris Bigalke, MD, MBA (Oxford, UK), LL.M. presents groundbreaking findings that turn conventional notions of health and vitality on their head. Based on years of research and clinical experience, this book offers a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to live life at full throttle. With a unique mix of science-based information and practical tips, Professor Bigalke shows how a targeted diet and exercise program can help slow the aging process, regenerate cells and boost energy to explosive levels. From superfoods to 50 selected recipes for different stages of life, "Eating Immortally" offers concrete guidance on how to optimize your diet and lifestyle and how to unlock your body's full potential. But this book is more than just a guide to healthy eating. Professor Bigalke goes beyond this and examines the deeper connections between food, mind and body. He explains how lifestyle may not only affect our physical state, but can also influence our mental clarity, emotional stability and spiritual development. "Eating Immortally" makes it clear that a life of vitality and youthfulness is attainable for anyone who is willing to recognize and harness the power of proper nutrition and a sensible lifestyle. This book is an essential companion for anyone seeking the key to a life of full-throttle, tireless energy.

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3759730175

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China's Living Houses

Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation

By: Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp,Ronald G. Knapp

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China's Living Houses

Folk Beliefs, Symbols, and Household Ornamentation

By: Professor and Chairman Department of Geography Ronald G Knapp,Ronald G. Knapp

It has been said that for the Chinese "a house is a living symbol," one endowed with meaning and the result of conscious action. China's Living Houses is the first book in any language to explore comprehensively the extraordinarily complex links among folk beliefs and household ornamentation across time, space, and social class. Well-written and copiously illustrated, it reveals dwellings as dynamic entities that express the vitality of Chinese families as each journeys through life.

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0824820797

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Aesthetics beyond the Arts

New and Recent Essays

By: Professor Arnold Berleant

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Aesthetics beyond the Arts

New and Recent Essays

By: Professor Arnold Berleant

Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways. They reinvigorate our understanding of such arts as music and architecture; they range across the natural landscape to the urban one; they reassess the place of beauty in the modern environment and reassess the significance of the contributions to aesthetic theory of Kant and Dewey; and they broach the kinds of meanings and larger understanding that aesthetic engagement with the human environment can offer. Written over the past decade, these original and innovative essays lead to a fresh encounter with the possibilities of aesthetic experience, one which has constantly evolved, moving in recent years in the direction of what Berleant terms 'social aesthetics', which enhances human-environmental integration and sociality.

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1409483770

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Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering V

By: Professor Dr. Y. P. S. Bajaj

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Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering V

By: Professor Dr. Y. P. S. Bajaj

In continuation of Volumes 8, 9, 22, and 23, this new volume deals with the regeneration of plants from isolated protoplasts and genetic transformation in various species of Actinidia, Allocasuarina, Anthurium, Antirrhinum, Asparagus, Beta, Brassica, Carica, Casuarina, Cyphomandra, Eucalyptus, Ipomoea, Larix, Limonium, Liriodendron, Malus, Musa, Physcomitrella, Physalis, Picea, Rosa, Tagetes, Triticum, and Ulmus. These studies reflect the far-reaching implications of protoplast technology in genetic engineering of plants. The book contains a wealth of useful information for advanced students, teachers, and researchers in the field of plant tissue culture, molecular biology, genetic engineering, plant breeding, and general biotechnology.

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3540574476

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9783540574477

How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts

A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun

By: John P. Keenan,Assistant Professor of Religion John P Keenan,Mou-Tzu

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How Master Mou Removes Our Doubts

A Reader-Response Study and Translation of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun

By: John P. Keenan,Assistant Professor of Religion John P Keenan,Mou-Tzu

This is the first English translation of the earliest Chinese Buddhist text, but it is more than a translation. Keenan shows that Mou-tzu's Treatise on Alleviating Doubt is a Buddhist hermeneutic on the Chinese classics. Using a reader-response method of examining the text, Keenan shows how the rhetoric convinces readers that one can remain culturally Chinese yet be a Buddhist. The Introduction explains the reader-response methodology, develops the movement of the dialogue in terms of this method, and clarifies the rhetorical impact of Master Mou's argument. The Introduction is followed by the thirty-seven articles of the text. Each article is first translated into English, then the contextual images and ideas are unpacked for each, and finally each article is subjected to a reader-response critique that shows what the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps.

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0791422038

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Eating Immortally

Groundbreaking insights for eternal youth, explosive energy and a life at full throttle!

By: Professor Boris Bigalke, MD

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Groundbreaking insights for eternal youth, explosive energy and a life at full throttle!

By: Professor Boris Bigalke, MD

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3757890302

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Critical Geographies of Cycling

History, Political Economy and Culture

By: Professor Glen Norcliffe

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Critical Geographies of Cycling

History, Political Economy and Culture

By: Professor Glen Norcliffe

Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle, the Cyclists’ Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different settings.

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1472439112

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Visions of Sukhavati

Shan-tao's Commentary on the Kuan wu-liang-shou-Fo ching

By: Julian F. Pas,Professor of Religious Studies Julian F Pas,Shan-Tao-Ta-Shih

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Visions of Sukhavati

Shan-tao's Commentary on the Kuan wu-liang-shou-Fo ching

By: Julian F. Pas,Professor of Religious Studies Julian F Pas,Shan-Tao-Ta-Shih

One of the masters of Pure Land Buddhism shows how to have a vision of the Land Sukhavati and its Lord by using the sutra as a manual of visualization.

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0791425193

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9780791425190

Criminal Justice in China

A History

By: Klaus Mu_hlhahn,Professor Klaus M?hlhahn

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Criminal Justice in China

A History

By: Klaus Mu_hlhahn,Professor Klaus M?hlhahn

In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, including executions, were generally carried out in public. After 1905, in a drive to build a strong state and curtail pressure from the West, Chinese officials initiated major legal reforms. Physical punishments were replaced by fines and imprisonment. Capital punishment, though removed from the public sphere, remained in force for the worst crimes. Trials no longer relied on confessions obtained through torture but were instead held in open court and based on evidence. Prison reform became the centerpiece of an ambitious social-improvement program. After 1949, the Chinese communists developed their own definitions of criminality and new forms of punishment. People's tribunals were convened before large crowds, which often participated in the proceedings. At the center of the socialist system was reform through labor, and thousands of camps administered prison sentences. Eventually, the communist leadership used the camps to detain anyone who offended against the new society, and the crime of counterrevolution was born. Muhlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.

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0674054334

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9780674054332

Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions

By: Christopher Key Chapple,Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology Christopher Key Chapple

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Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions

By: Christopher Key Chapple,Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology Christopher Key Chapple

This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

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0791414973

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The Earth and Its Peoples

A Global History to 1200

By: Richard W. Bulliet,Pamela Kyle Crossley,Daniel R. Headrick,Professor of Social Sciences and History Daniel R Headrick,Steven W. Hirsch,Lyman L. Johnson,David Northrup

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The Earth and Its Peoples

A Global History to 1200

By: Richard W. Bulliet,Pamela Kyle Crossley,Daniel R. Headrick,Professor of Social Sciences and History Daniel R Headrick,Steven W. Hirsch,Lyman L. Johnson,David Northrup

The Earth and Its Peoples was one of the first texts to present world history in a balanced, global framework, shifting the focus away from political centers of power. This truly global text for the world history survey course employs a fundamental theme, the interaction of human beings and the environment, to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology (in its broadest sense) and how technological development underlies all human activity. Highly acclaimed in their fields of study, the authors bring a wide array of expertise to the program. A combination of strong scholarship and detailed pedagogy gives the book its reputation for rigor and student accessibility. The Fourth Edition features extensive new coverage of world events, including globalization in the new millennium. Coverage of China has also been extensively reorganized and rewritten.

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Houghton Mifflin

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ISBN 10

0618771522

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9780618771523

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