Asian Studies

For some three hundred years the city of Edo/Tokyo was the centre of arts, both sacred and secular. This book presents a thoroughly researched and documented study of music, theatre, recitation, and dance in Edo/Tokyo. It goes beyond outlining the nature of the performances to explore the vast compl..

This collection of essays by Ma Jianzhong, a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official Li Hong-zhang between 1878 and 1890, add to the late nineteenth-century Chinese discourse on the state and the economy, and provides a deeper understanding of the origins and circulation of reform ide..

In this examination of the Suhraward sufi order from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, the book discusses ways of thinking about the sufi hermeneutics of the Qur'an and its contribution to Islamic intellectual and spiritual life...

Contact between Turkic and non-Turkic languages is examined here in this text on language contact which also investigates the social and structural factors involved in the phenomenon...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

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

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Emphasizes the inner life as a constant moving on and the mover as a pilgrim travelling along an ancient Way. This Way to ultimate Reality was called by Gautama the Buddha the Middle Way, the path between the introverted life of contemplation and the extrovert life of action in the world of men...