The dynamics of cultural counterpoint in Asian studies / edited by David Jones and Michele Marion.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, David Edward, editor.

Marion, Michele, editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Asian studies development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Asia--Civilization.

Asia.

Civilization.

Group identity--Asia.

Physical Description:

xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Summary:

Contributors give contemporary presence to Asian studies through a variety of themes and topics in this multidisciplined and interdisciplinary volume. In an era of globalization, scholars trained in Western traditions increasingly see the need to add materials and perspectives that have been lacking in the past. Accessibly written and void of jargon, this work provides an adaptable entrée to Asia for the integration of topics into courses in the humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, and global studies. Guiding principles, developed at the East-West Center, include noting uncommon differences, the interplay among Asian societies and traditions, the erosion of authenticity and cultural tradition as an Asian phenomenon as well as a Western one, and the possibilities Asian concepts offer for conceiving culture outside Asian contexts. The work ranges from South to Southeast to East Asia. Essays deal with art, aesthetics, popular culture, religion, geopolitical realities, geography, history, and contemporary times. Book jacket.

Contents:

Philosophical issues in Japanese gardens : in reality, literature and film / Mara Miller

Feeling as form in Indian aesthetics / Harriette D. Grissom

Images of what never was to suggest what might be : Japanese popular culture and Japaneseness / Paul E. Dunscomb

Korean p'ansori and the blues : art for communal healing / Katharine C. Purcell and E. Taylor Atkins

Mosques and Muslim identity along China's trade routes / Lawrence E. Butler

Dynamics of religion and politics in South Asia / Aslam Syed

First contact : the earliest western views of daoism in Matteo Ricci's journals / Ronnie Littlejohn

Considering Asia and teaching the daoist way : understanding identity, community, and ecology in connection, perspective, and practice / Shudong Chen

Cultural counterpoint and hidden assumptions : Confucianism, feminist theory, and revealing the cultural complexity of foot binding / Xiufen Lu

The North Korean nuclear weapons threat, Japanese reactions, and the possibility of a Northeast Asian nuclear arms race / George P. Brown

Bhutan in the middle : in between in the powers' game / Kelly Long

The "Sea of Malayu" : an ocean perspective on early Southeast Asian history / Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Y. Andaya.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Miller, Mara, 1952- Philosophical issues in Japanese gardens.

ISBN:

9781438451916

1438451911

9781438451923

143845192X

OCLC:

852488653