Asian Studies

Highlights the mix of traditional Chinese thought, especially Confucianism and western ideas as well as the personal experiences of the two key thinkers in Modern Chinese History, enabling him to reassess the transition of China’s cultural tradition and its modern fate in a world-wide perspective...

Applies Dogen Kigen's religious philosophy and the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro to the philosophical problem of personal identity, probing the applicability of the concept of non-self to the philosophical problems of selfhood, otherness, and temporality which culminate in the conundrum of personal i..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Containing some 1500 entries, this new bibliography will be widely welcomed for its comprehensive brief, and for the sub-section profiling principal NRMs convering history, beliefs and practices, main publications, braches worldwide and membership...

Examines the place of body practices and the management of emotions in Japanese preschools. Early childhood socialization is explored as a set of 'body projects': a series of practices undertaken (over time) to design the body according to prevailing cultural definitions and images...

Presents a framework for incorporating an Islamic and historically contextualised philosophy into a continuum of world philosophers...

The book examines the traditional topics of systematic theology - such as the existence and nature of God, revelation and reason, religious ethics and human practice, the relation of God to the world - and allows these topics to grow in conversation with India and to change according to dialogical i..

This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as finance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both si..

This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as finance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both si..

This fourth volume in the Japan Library Biographical Portraits series is devoted to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations...

A further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, Alexander Shand, Lafcadio Hearn, Rev. Dr. John Batchelor and, more recently, Shigeru Yoshida and Christmas Humphreys...

This book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention...