Kategoria BISAC: History >> Asia - General

This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers will encounter artists, psychologists, social workers, part-time priests, healers, and librarians as well as charlatans, hucksters, profiteers, and rabble-rousers--all whose lives reflect changes in modern Buddhism even as they themselves shape the course of these changes.

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Critical theory and popular wisdom are rife with images of surveillance as an intrusive, repressive practice often suggestively attributed to eastern powers and opposed to western liberalism. Hollywood-dominated global media has long promulgated a geopoliticized east-west axis of freedom vs. control. This book focuses on Asian and Asia-based films and cinematic traditions obscured by lopsided western hegemonic discourse and more specifically probes these films treatments of a phenomenon that western film often portrays with neo-orientalist hysteria. Exploring recent and historical movies...

Grand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form.

As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major...

Le 9 novembre 1989 au soir s'ouvrait le Mur de Berlin. Vingt-huit ans durant, il avait divise la ville, l'Allemagne, l'Europe et meme le monde en deux blocs rivaux. Il devint l'un des emblemes majeurs de la guerre froide. Erige pour mettre fin a la fuite vers l'Ouest des Allemands de l'Est, il fut a l'origine de la mort de plus de 130 personnes, soulevant emotions et indignation internationales. L'ouverture puis la demolition du Mur ont ete vecues par les contemporains comme un veritable changement d'epoque, mettant fin a l'ordre bipolaire. En une quinzaine de chapitres, cet ouvrage...

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while viewing each of them from a global perspective, examining both historical and generic connections between meditative practices from numerous...

This syllabus was prepared as a two-semester (thirty-week) course containing fifty-four outlines covering major topics in Inner Asian history. Suggestions for further reading are provided, together with some practical advice concerning matters of possible interest to instructors.

Das Buch analysiert aus historischer Perspektive das Verhaltnis zwischen Staat und Provinz im sudostlichen Europa. Die internationalen Beitrage erweitern die Ideen des Vorgangerbandes Provinz als Denk- und Lebensform um die historische Erforschung von Provinz. Die BeitragerInnen decken einen zeitlichen Bogen vom letzten Drittel des 17. bis ins 21. Jahrhundert und einen raumlichen Horizont vom Sudwesten der Habsburgermonarchie bis in die europaischen Randzonen des Osmanischen Reiches ab. Durch den spezifischen Blickwinkel von unten werden die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Provinz und Staat...