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Chinese City And Urbanism: Evolution And Development

Chinese City And Urbanism: Evolution And Development

ByVictor F. S. Sit

2010 • 355 pages

Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist

Dogen Kigen: Mystical Realist

ByHee-Jin Kim

1975 • 1 Reader • 324 pages

The Philosophy of the Kyoto School

The Philosophy of the Kyoto School

ByRobert Chapeskie(Translator),John W. M. Krummel(Translator)

2018 • 1 Reader • 273 pages

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Interreligious Affinities

Interreligious Affinities: Encounters with the Kyoto School and the Religions of Japan

ByJan Van Bragt

2014 • 1 Reader

Shinto

ByHelen Hardacre

2016 • 2 Readers • 720 pages • 5

Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School

Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School

ByBret W. Davis

2010 • 1 Reader • 347 pages

Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan

Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan

ByHelen Hardacre

1984 • 1 Reader • 267 pages

Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan

Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan

ByHarumi Osaki

2019 • 1 Reader • 306 pages

Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy

Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy

ByViren Murthy(Editor and Contributor),Fabian Schäfer(Editor)

2017 • 1 Reader • 395 pages

Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School

Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School

ByJames W. Heisig

2001 • 1 Reader • 380 pages

Overcoming Modernity: East Asian Community and the Kyoto School

Overcoming Modernity: East Asian Community and the Kyoto School

ByNaoki Sakai

2011 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

The Buddha Eye

ByFrederick Franck

The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit

The Kyoto School's Takeover of Hegel: Nishida, Nishitani, and Tanabe Remake the Philosophy of Spirit

ByPeter Suares

2010 • 1 Reader • 234 pages

Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy

ByChristopher Goto Jones

2006 • 1 Reader

Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

#4 of 2 in Zen and Western Thought

Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

ByMasao Abe

2003 • 1 Reader • 189 pages

Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

#2 of 2 in Zen and Western Thought

Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

ByMasao Abe

1995 • 1 Reader • 276 pages

Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?

Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?

BySteven Heine

2007 • 1 Reader • 228 pages

Study of Dōgen: His Philosophy and Religion

Study of Dōgen: His Philosophy and Religion

ByMasao Abe

1991 • 1 Reader • 251 pages

Zen and Comparative Studies: Part Two of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

Zen and Comparative Studies: Part Two of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought

BySteven Heine

1996 • 1 Reader • 271 pages

The Kyoto School: An Introduction

The Kyoto School: An Introduction

ByRobert E. Carter

2013 • 1 Reader

Dogen and Soto Zen

Dogen and Soto Zen

BySteven Heine(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 319 pages

The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts

ByDale S. Wright

2004 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace

The Zen Poetry of Dogen: Verses from the Mountain of Eternal Peace

ByDōgen,Steven Heine(Translator)

1997 • 1 Reader • 183 pages

Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes

Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes

ByLisa Yoneyama

2016 • 1 Reader

The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism

BySteven Heine(editor)

2000 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture

Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist Religion and Culture

ByEsben Andreasen

1997 • 1 Reader • 220 pages

Listening to Shin Buddhism: Starting Points of Modern Dialogue

Listening to Shin Buddhism: Starting Points of Modern Dialogue

ByMichael Pye

2012 • 1 Reader

Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism

Interpreting Amida: History and Orientalism in the Study of Pure Land Buddhism

ByGalen Amstutz

1997 • 1 Reader • 268 pages

Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture

ByElisabetta Porcu

2008 • 1 Reader • 275 pages

Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan

Pure Land Buddhist Studies

Jodo Shinshu: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan

ByJames C. Dobbins

1989 • 1 Reader • 266 pages

The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism

The Social Dimension of Shin Buddhism

ByUgo Dess(Editor)

2010 • 1 Reader • 292 pages

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Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810

Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790-1810

ByDian H. Murray

1987 • 1 Reader

Asian Godfathers

Asian Godfathers

BySouth-east Asia

2007 • 4 Readers • 328 pages • 5

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

ByLouise P. Edwards

2016 • 1 Reader • 285 pages

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

The Manuscript Found in Saragossa

ByJan Potocki

1794 • 26 Readers • 933 pages • 3

The Mimic Men

ByV.S. Naipaul

1967 • 2 Readers • 292 pages • 4

Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire

Asian Connections

Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire

ByDavid R Ambaras

2018 • 1 Reader • 301 pages

Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War

ByLaura Madokoro

2016 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937

ByZhang Zhen

2005 • 1 Reader • 525 pages

Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel

Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel

ByZhang Henshui

1997 • 1 Reader • 276 pages

Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire

Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire

ByKris Alexanderson

2019 • 1 Reader • 315 pages

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline

Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline

ByDavid Leheny

2018 • 1 Reader • 246 pages

Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai'i

Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai'i

ByCandace Fujikane(editor),Jonathan Y. Okamura(Editor)

2008 • 1 Reader • 318 pages

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad

ByManu Karuka

2019 • 2 Readers • 318 pages

Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980

Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820–1980

ByGregor Benton,Liu Hong

2018 • 288 pages

The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800: An Interpretive History

The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800: An Interpretive History

ByPamela Kyle Crossley

2010 • 1 Reader • 307 pages

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

A Cultural History of Modern Science in China

ByBenjamin A. Elman

2006 • 1 Reader

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War

Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan: The Performing Body During and After the Cold War

ByAdam Broinowski

2014 • 1 Reader • 281 pages

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History

The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History

ByJoanna Waley-Cohen

1999 • 1 Reader • 331 pages

The Chinese Typewriter: A History

The Chinese Typewriter: A History

ByThomas S. Mullaney

2017 • 9 Readers • 683 pages • 4

The Cambridge World History, Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1. Foundations

#6 of 1 in The Cambridge World History

The Cambridge World History, Volume 6: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1. Foundations

ByJerry H. Bentley(editor),Sanjay Subrahmanyam(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 514 pages

Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia

Fashion, Identity, and Power in Modern Asia

ByKyunghee Pyun(Editor),Aida Yuen Wong(Editor)

2018 • 1 Reader • 414 pages

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan

#356 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan

BySho Konishi

2013 • 1 Reader

Zainichi

Global, Area, and International Archive

ByJohn Lie

2008 • 1 Reader • 244 pages • 4

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Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945

Modern War Studies

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940-1945

BySamuel Hideo Yamashita

2015 • 1 Reader

Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

BySunil Amrith

1 Reader

Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945

Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945

ByDavid G. Marr

1981 • 1 Reader • 450 pages

Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture

#70 of 10 in Studies on Southeast Asia

Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture

ByJennifer L. Gaynor

2016 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan

#358 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan

ByMichael Wert

2013 • 1 Reader

Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty

ByHo-fung Hung

2011 • 1 Reader • 284 pages

It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea

It's Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea

ByTheodore Jun Yoo

2016 • 1 Reader • 242 pages

The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937

#339 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937

ByMichael Schiltz

2012 • 1 Reader

The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio

#363 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

The Undiscovered Country: Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio

ByMelek Ortabasi

2014 • 1 Reader

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Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture

Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture

ByJohn Stewart Bowman

2000 • 1 Reader

Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan

#348 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan

ByDarryl E. Flaherty

2012 • 1 Reader

Visible Cities

ByLeonard Blussé

2008 • 1 Reader • 156 pages

Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History

Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History

ByJason G. Karlin

2014 • 1 Reader • 328 pages

Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

#382 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan

ByMiri Nakamura

2015 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Imperial Alchemy

Imperial Alchemy

ByAnthony Reid

2008 • 2 Readers • 263 pages

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Law and Colonial Cultures

Studies in Comparative World History

Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900

ByLauren A. Benton

1998 • 1 Reader

Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan

#364 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

Lost and Found: Recovering Regional Identity in Imperial Japan

ByHiraku Shimoda

2014 • 1 Reader

There Are No Grown-Ups A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story

Language and Colonial Power: The Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo 1880-1938

ByPamela Druckerman

1986 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

ByIyko Day

2016 • 3 Readers • 264 pages

Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950

ByHaiyan Lee

2006 • 1 Reader • 364 pages

Asia's cauldron

Asia's cauldron

ByRobert D. Kaplan

4 Readers

Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

ByChristopher J. Lee(Editor)

2010 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan

#361 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

A Sense of Place: The Political Landscape in Late Medieval Japan

ByDavid Spafford

2013 • 1 Reader

The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128

Studies in Environment and History

The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128

ByLing Zhang

2016 • 1 Reader • 339 pages

Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings

Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings

ByD.R. SarDesai

2005 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Baroque Science

Baroque Science

ByOfer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris

2012 • 1 Reader • 348 pages

The house of government - a saga of the Russian revolution

The house of government - a saga of the Russian revolution

ByYuri Slezkine

2017 • 23 Readers • 1,096 pages • 5

Underground Airlines

Underground Airlines

ByWinters

2016 • 117 Readers • 320 pages • 3.9

Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics

Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics

ByBan Wang(Editor)

2017 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

Egypt's Young Rebels: "Young Egypt," 1933-1952

Egypt's Young Rebels: "Young Egypt," 1933-1952

ByJames P. Jankowski

1975 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "savage Border," 1874-1945

1 Asia Pacific Modern

Outcasts of Empire: Japan's Rule on Taiwan's "savage Border," 1874-1945

ByPaul D. Barclay

2017 • 1 Reader • 328 pages

Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Mobilizing Shanghai Youth: CCP Internationalism, GMD Nationalism and Japanese Collaboration

ByKristin Mulready-Stone

2014 • 1 Reader • 208 pages

Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea

Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea

ByHyaeweol Choi

2009 • 280 pages

Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium

ByTomasz Kamusella

2014 • 1 Reader • 153 pages

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story

ByAngela Saini

2017 • 99 Readers • 226 pages • 4.1

Prose of the Romantic Period: 1780-1830

Prose of the Romantic Period: 1780-1830

ByRaymond Wright(Editor)

1956 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

Trauma and Recovery

Trauma and Recovery

ByJudith Lewis Herman

1992 • 33 Readers • 247 pages • 4.1

Inventing the Enemy: Essays

Inventing the Enemy: Essays

ByUmberto Eco

2011 • 2 Readers • 222 pages • 3

Robledo

ByDaniele Zito

2017 • 1 Reader • 267 pages

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City

BySiddhartha Sen

2017 • 1 Reader • 248 pages

The Sympathizer

#1 of 2 in The Sympathizer

The Sympathizer

ByViet Thanh Nguyen

2015 • 402 Readers • 384 pages • 4

On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan

#349 of 56 in Harvard East Asian Monographs

On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan

ByJeffrey Paul Bayliss

2012 • 1 Reader

Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

Mobilizing without the Masses: Control and Contention in China

ByDiana Fu

2017 • 1 Reader • 211 pages

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

ByTa-Nehisi Coates

2015 • 725 Readers • 166 pages • 4.6

Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party

Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party

ByA. James McAdams

2017 • 1 Reader • 584 pages

The Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad

ByColson Whitehead

2016 • 684 Readers • 306 pages • 4.1