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This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi’s principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese psychiatry (1955) and concluding with ‘Are Psychological ...
€120.00$171.00
Designed primarily as a key to an understanding of the terms and terminology employed in Anglo-Chinese society at the turn of the twentieth century. Subjects as diverse as the origin of words (such as Amok and Chop), practices such as footbinding, consideration of the thoughts of Confucius, and ...
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Now in English, this important new contribution from a distinguished Korean historian on the history of twentieth-century Korea covers: first, the Japanese colonial period, including detailed accounts of the anti Japanese independence movements, followed by the liberation of Korea, the Korean ...
€21.00$27.00
First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese ...
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First study in English on Japanese Buddhism by a distinguished scholar in the field of Religious Studies will be widely welcomed.The main focus is on the tradition of the monk (o-bo-san) as the main agent of Buddhism, together with the historical processes by which monks have developed Japanese ...
€85.00$117.00
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book provides an in-depth analysis of Takarazuka’s history, educational traditions and theatrical ethos viewed from the prism of Japan’s modernization and globalization in the twentieth century. Its relationship to Japanese popular culture, especially ...
€43.00$56.00
Korea's traditional love poetry is little known in the West. This anthology contains examples of all genres: vernacular to long lyrical poems. A witty informative commentary links the poems and sets them in context.
€70.00$96.00
This book addresses the controversial issue of the "national ownership" of the history of the ancient Northeast Asian kingdom of Parhae (Ch. Bohai; 699-926) by examining in detail the kingdom's political history, ethnic makeup, relations with other states, and cultural development.
€81.00$105.00
Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow’s Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period’s most notable travellers. This important research on how the Japanese discovered their own country and cultural identity has ...
€69.00$89.00
The first part is a new translation of Hearn’s wife’s reminiscences of life with Hearn. Subsequent chapters consider Setsu’s early life and the end of samurai culture following Japan’s decision to modernize, her early encounter with Hearn, marriage and her children’s later life.