Critical Readings

Brill’s Critical Readings publications are a one-stop reference resource in English for faculty, students and researchers, presenting high quality scholarship on one subject area assembled by experts in the field. By selecting the best material published to-date from a huge bank of sources, and contextualizing it thematically, the editor creates a unique tool for rapid access not only to seminal works but also to less familiar (and easily overlooked) texts.
Published as multi-volume sets, the Critical Readings publications are fully indexed, and include a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor placing the selected works in their historical and intellectual context.

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Asian Studies - General

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Encyclopaedias & reference works

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Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan (2 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings in the Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan (2 Vols. SET)

W.J. Boot, Leiden University

This volume of Critical Readings provides an overview of recent scholarship about Japanese thought, as it took shape during the Edo Period (1600-1867). It contains articles about all participants in the intellectual debate: Buddhism, Confucianism, National Studies, and Dutch Learning.

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9789004232587

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Critical Readings on Ageing in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on Ageing in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Sarah Harper (University of Oxford)

The three volumes of this collection concentrate on ageing in East Asia. The publication features recently published essays from various disciplinary and methodological approaches. Per region attention is given to health care; ageing and society; and ageing and economy.

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9789004235090

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Critical Readings on Chinese Religions (4 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on Chinese Religions (4 Vols. SET)

Vincent Goossaert, Societies-Religions-Secularisms Institute (GSRL, Paris)

The anthologized articles showcase how scholars from different disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds make sense of the variety of religious practices and beliefs to analyze the place of religion in Chinese societies.

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9789004208797

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Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics (4 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics (4 Vols. SET)

Jeff Kingston, Temple University (Japan Campus)

Critical Readings on Contemporary Japanese Politics is an interdisciplinary collection that examines various aspects of 21st century Japan ranging from elections, policymaking and foreign policy to history, nationalism, identity, civil society and the March 11, 2011 disasters.

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9789004235199

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Critical Readings on Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japan

Critical Readings on Ethnic Minorities and Multiculturalism in Japan

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9789004208605

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Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on Food in East Asia (3 Vols. SET)

Edited by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Leiden University

The culinary cultures of contemporary East Asia (Greater China, Korea and Japan) are a mixture of long-standing traditions and the turbulent transformations of the last century. This selection brings together high-quality scholarship that illuminates key issues in this process.

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9789004229709

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Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism (4 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism (4 Vols. SET)

Edited by John A Tucker, East Carolina University

Critical Readings on Japanese Confucianism advances more in-depth understandings of the multifaceted nature of Confucianism in Japan by bringing together important studies from the humanities and works in translation, offering a vision of Confucianism as a dynamic cultural force.

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9789004208759

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Critical Readings on North and South Korea (3 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on North and South Korea (3 Vols. SET)

Edited by Jim Hoare

This publication features a wide range of articles concentrating on the Korean peninsula since 1945. The articles are brought together in 3 volumes, which are organized chronologically and thematically. Among the themes discussed are: period from Pacific War until start of Korean war; the Korean ...

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9789004229662

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Critical Readings on the Colonial Period of Korea 1910-1945 (4 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on the Colonial Period of Korea 1910-1945 (4 Vols. SET)

Edited by Hyung-Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia

There has been a rapid accumulation of new scholarship on colonial Korea in particular and comparative colonialism in general within the last ten years. This volume gathers these articles from a variety of venues to allow researchers, students, and readers to access the most important ...

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9789004208865

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Critical Readings on the Emperors of Japan (4 Vols. SET)

Critical Readings on the Emperors of Japan (4 Vols. SET)

Edited by Ben-Ami Shillony

This publication concentrates on the emperors of Japan and brings together in 4 volumes the scholarship of a variety of authors addressing Ancient and Medieval Japan; Early Modern Japan; Imperial Japan and Postwar Japan. Brill's Critical Readings publications are a one stop reference resource in ...

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