How Asia found herself : a story of intercultural understanding / Nile Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Nile, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Asia--Relations.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

A pioneering history of cross-cultural knowledge that exposes enduring fractures in unity across the world's largest continent.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

A Note on Names and Spellings

Introduction

1. Learning through Polemics in the Bay of Bengal

2. The Muslim Discovery of Buddhism

3. Lessons from Japan between India and Iran

4. The Constraints of a Muslim Japanology

5. Interpreting China across Maritime Asia

6. China in the Mirrors of Buddhism and Islam

Conclusions: “Asia Finds Herself”

Notes

Bibliography of Primary Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Green, Nile How Asia Found Herself

ISBN:

9780300268652

OCLC:

1350183433