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Living on Your Own
(April 2014)
Single Women, Rental Housing, and Affect in Contemporary South Korea
Jesook Song - Author
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Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian Empire
(December 2013)
Liang Cai - Author
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Contests long-standing claims that Confucianism came to prominence under China’s Emperor Wu.
When did Confucianism become the reigning political ideology of imperial China? A pervasive narrative holds it was during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty (141–87 BCE). In this book, Liang Cai maintains that such a date would have been too early and provides a new account of this transformation. A hidden narrative in ...(Read More) |
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Beyond Oneness and Difference
(November 2013)
Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents
Brook Ziporyn - Author
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Continues the author’s inquiry into the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism.
Beyond Oneness and Difference considers the development of one of the key concepts of Chinese intellectual history, Li. A grasp of the strange history of this term and its seemingly conflicting implications—as oneness and differentiation, as the kno...(Read More) |
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The Hidden Lives of Brahman
(November 2013)
Sankara's Vedanta through His Upanisad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice
Joël André-Michel Dubois - Author
Christopher Key Chapple - Foreword by
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Uses both textual and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that in Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate.
Śaṅkara’s thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman, the ultimate reality transcending all particular manifestations, words, and ideas. It is generally considered that the transcendent brahman ca...(Read More) |
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Family in Buddhism
(August 2013)
Liz Wilson - Editor
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A wide-ranging exploration of Buddhism and family in Asia—from biological families to families created in monasteries.
The Buddha left his home and family and enjoined his followers to go forth and “become homeless.” With a traditionally celibate clergy, Asian Buddhism is often regarded as a world-renouncing religion inimical to family life. This edited volume counters this view, showing how Asian Buddhists in a...(Read More) |
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These Bones Shall Rise Again
(August 2013)
Selected Writings on Early China
David N. Keightley - Author
Henry Rosemont Jr. - Edited and with an intro. By
Henry Rosemont Jr. - Edited and with an introduction by
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David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of Chinese society are brought together in one volume.
These Bones Shall Rise Again brings together in one volume many of David N. Keightley’s seminal essays on the origins of early Chinese civilization. Written over a period of three decades and accessible to the non-specialist, these essays provide a wealth of information and insights on the Shang dynasty, ...(Read More) |
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Ecology Is Permanent Economy
(July 2013)
The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna
George Alfred James - Author
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Explores the nonviolent philosophy and environmental activism of India’s Sunderlal Bahuguna.
For decades, Sunderlal Bahuguna has been an environmental activist in his native India, well known for his efforts on behalf of the Himalayas and its people. In the 1970s, he was instrumental in the successful Chipko (or “hug”) movement during which local people hugged trees to prevent logging for outside concerns. He was...(Read More) |
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Lost in Transition
(June 2013)
Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China
Yiu-Wai Chu - Author
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Looks at the fate of Hong Kong’s unique culture since its reversion to China.
In this timely and insightful book, Yiu-Wai Chu takes stock of Hong Kong’s culture since its transition to a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China in 1997. Hong Kong had long functioned as the capitalist and democratic stepping stone to China for much of the world. Its highly original popular culture was w...(Read More) |
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The Way of Complete Perfection
(June 2013)
A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology
Louis Komjathy - Selected, translated, and with an introduction by
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An anthology of English translations of primary texts of the Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) school of Daoism.
Originating about 1163 CE, Quanzhen (Complete Perfection) Daoism is one of the most important Daoist movements in Chinese history. It remains the dominant form of monastic Daoism in the modern world, especially in its Longmen (Dragon Gate) lineage. This landmark anthology provides complete or partial translations of twen...(Read More) |
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