The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811205702 |
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
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Author | : Thomas Merton |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780811205702 |
"This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
Author | : Charlotte Y. Salisbury |
Publisher | : New York : Scribner |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Asia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Campbell |
Publisher | : Collected Works of Joseph Camp |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781608685042 |
A tour of the Far East, narrated by the world's preeminent mythologist
Author | : Carolyn Brown Heinz |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2018-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1478637641 |
The Second Edition of Asian Cultural Traditions expands our understanding of the bewildering diversity that has existed and continues to exist in the cultures of South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. In a single volume, the authors pull together some of the major cultural strands by which people in Asian societies have organized their collective life and made their lives meaningful. With new sections on Central Asia, Islam, Korea, and Insular Southeast Asia, this first survey of its kind draws on multiple disciplines to contextualize the interplay of culture, historical events, language, and geography to promote better understanding of a realm often misunderstood by Westerners. The skillful synthesis of a vast amount of information, boxed items featuring popular culture or current events, abundant in-text illustrations, and vivid color plates make Asian Cultural Traditions, 2/E an outstanding introduction to Asian cultures. The Second Edition welcomes the editorial collaboration of Jeremy Murray and is sure to have continued broad classroom appeal.
Author | : Joe Simmons |
Publisher | : Publishamerica Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781451220575 |
Author | : Joseph Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781577312369 |
A previously unpublished sequel to Baksheesh and Brahman reports on the author's travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan in the 1950s, during which he experienced local culture and witnessed the area's struggles with Cold War tensions and western values. 20,000 first printing.
Author | : Asia McClain Chapman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1682611582 |
"When This American Life's Serial podcast by Sarah Koenig was first released in 2014 no one could have known it would become one of the most listened to of all time with over 175 million downloads. The story of a possibly innocent man convicted of murder gripped listeners all over the world. Now, in Confessions of a Serial Alibi, Asia McClain Chapman shares her memories of the victim Hae Min Lee, accused murderer Adnan Syed and witness Jay Wilds as well as her private conversations with Sarah Koenig and prosecutor Kevin Urick, among others. She openly and honestly addresses many of the questions that have been directed toward her as well as sharing personal insight into her actions." -- Dust jacket.
Author | : Na Man’gap |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231552238 |
Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack. Partly composed as a narrative of quotidian events during the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Na describes military campaigns along the northern and western regions of the country, the capture of the royal family, and the Manchu treatment of prisoners, offering insights into debates about Confucian loyalty and the conduct of women that took place in the war’s aftermath. His work sheds light on such issues as Confucian statecraft, military decision making, and ethnic interpretations of identity in the seventeenth century. Translated from literary Chinese into English for the first time, the diary illuminates a traumatic moment for early modern Korean politics and society. George Kallander’s critical introduction and extensive annotations place The Diary of 1636 in its historical, political, and military context, highlighting the importance of this text for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian as well as Korean history.
Author | : Sugawara no Takasue no Musume |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0231546823 |
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader’s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō’s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author’s deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators’ commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work.
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0231151462 |
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writers -- including Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taiko -- and the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vividly, though privately, expressed. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, the author reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. These entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.