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Asian Studies catalog 2020/2021
Jesuit Mission and Submission

                                                                                                                  ASIAN STUDIES
Qing Rulership and the Fate of Christianity in China, 1644-1735
Litian Swen

Jesuit Mission and Submission explains how                regarding Chinese Rites Controversy (1705-1721),
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the Jesuits entered the Manchu world after the            and shows that the Jesuits, although a group of
Manchus conquered Beijing in 1644. Supported by           foreign priests, had close access to Kangxi and were

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Qing court archives, the book discovers the Jesuits’      a trusted part of the Imperial circle. This book also
Manchu-style master-slave relationship with the           redefines the rise and fall of the Christian mission
Kangxi emperor. Against the backdrop of this rela-        in the early Qing court through key events, such as
tionship, the book reconstructs the back and forth        the Calendar Case and Yongzheng’s prohibition of
negotiations between Kangxi and the Holy See              Christianity.

R E A DE R S H I P: All interested in Christian oversea mission, Jesuit mission to China, Qing history, Manchu
rule in China, interactions between East and West, early modern world history, Emperor Kangxi and
Emperor Yongzheng.

March 2021
Hardback
ISBN 9789004447004
Price € 39 / US$ 47
E-ISBN 9789004447011
E-Price € 39 / US$ 47
East and West, 9
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Arabic Medicine in China                Middle East and                      Unveiling the Hidden—
                          Tradition, Innovation,                  North Africa                         Anticipating the Future
                          and Change                              Climate, Culture, and Conflicts      Divinatory Practices Among
                          Paul D. Buell, University               Edited by Eckart Ehlers,             Jews Between Qumran and
                          of North Georgia, and                   University of Bonn, and              the Modern Period
ASIAN STUDIES

                          E.N. Anderson, University               Katajun Amirpur, University
                                                                                                       Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas,
                          of California at Riverside              of Cologne
                                                                                                       Westfälische Wilhelms-
                                                                                                       Universität, Münster, and
                                                                                                       Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum,
                                                                                                       University of Wales, Trinity Saint
                                                                                                       David

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                          The Huihui Yaofang was an ency-         Middle East and North Africa:        Unveiling the Hidden—
                          clopaedia of Near Eastern medi-         Climate, Culture, and Conflicts –    Anticipating the Future inves-
                          cine compiled under the Mongol          too hot to handle? The volume        tigates the Jewish components
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                          Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of         offers an account of ideas, his-     of Jewish divination, showing
                          themselves and Chinese medical          torical case studies and current     practitioners and their practices
                          establishments. We translate the        debates on climate change and        within their cultural and intel-
                          surviving material and context it       its consequences from perspec-       lectual contexts, along with their
                          in the history and ethnobiology         tives of eco-theology, archeology,   fears, wishes, and anxieties,
                          of the medicine described.              history, geography, political sci-   drawing from original sources in
                                                                  ence and technology.                 Hebrew, Aramaic, and Judaeo-
                                                                                                       Arabic.

                          R E AD E R S HIP : This is a work for   READERSHIP: All interested in cli-   REA D ERS HI P : All interested in
                          specialists in the history of Asian     mate, culture and conflicts in the   Jewish cultural history, especially
                          medicine. It will have wide ap-         Middle East and North Africa,        in its intersections with religion,
                          peal to those interested in Near        and anyone concerned with its        intellectual history, law, politics,
                          Eastern or Chinese medicine and         causes and consequences.             Biblical and Talmudic studies,
                          in Mongol history.                                                           as well as prognostication, divi-
                                                                                                       nation, and hidden or esoteric
                                                                                                       knowledge.
                          March 2021                              January 2021                         February 2021
                          Hardback (approx. 300 pp.)              Hardback (approx. 250 pp.)           Hardback (approx. 425 pp.)
                          ISBN 9789004445796                      ISBN 9789004444454                   ISBN 9789004445062
                          Price € 175 / US$ 210                   Price € 105 / US$ 126                Price € 127 / US$ 153
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                          Crossroads - History of Interactions    Climate and Culture, 6               Prognostication in History, 5
                          across the Silk Routes, 3
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Ricci Dictionary of Chinese Law,                       Ricci Dictionary of Chinese Law,
Chinese-English, French / Dictionnaire                 Chinese-English, French / Dictionnaire
Ricci du droit chinois, chinois-anglais,               Ricci du droit chinois, chinois-anglais,
français / 利氏中国法律辞典(汉英法)                               français / 利氏中國法律辭典(漢英法)
Simplified Chinese                                     Traditional Chinese

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Edited by Hubert Bazin                                 Edited by Hubert Bazin

The Ricci Dictionary of Chinese Law (in Simplified     The Ricci Dictionary of Chinese Law (in Traditional    5
Chinese) includes approximately 24,000 Chinese         Chinese) includes approximately 24,000 Chinese
legal terms used by Chinese and foreign lawyers        legal terms used by Chinese and foreign lawyers

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in mainland China, transcribed into pinyin and         in mainland China, transcribed into pinyin and
translated into English and French. It was prepared    translated into English and French. It was prepared
between 2006 and 2018 by a team of French and          between 2006 and 2018 by a team of French and
Chinese lawyers, as well as American, Canadian,        Chinese lawyers, as well as American, Canadian,
English and Australian contributors, under the         English and Australian contributors, under the
guidance of the Ricci Association, in order to         guidance of the Ricci Association, in order to
complete and supplement the “Grand dictionnaire        complete and supplement the “Grand dictionnaire
Ricci de la langue chinoise” (also named “Grand        Ricci de la langue chinoise>” (also named “Grand
Ricci”, a dictionary published in 2001 encompassing    Ricci”, a dictionary published in 2001 encompassing
more than 300,000 terms). The Ricci Dictionary of      more than 300,000 terms). The Ricci Dictionary of
Chinese Law aims to provide a tool for translators     Chinese Law aims at providing a tool for translators
of Chinese legal documents, but it is also aimed       of Chinese legal documents, but it is also aimed
at researchers, academics, students, attorneys and     at researchers, academics, students, attorneys and
lawyers who have an interest in Chinese law.           lawyers who have an interest in Chinese law.

              A useful tool for translators of Chinese legal documents, as well as researchers, academics,
R E A DE R S H I P :
students, attorneys and lawyers who have an interest in Chinese law.
December 2020                                          June 2020
Hardback (xviii, 926 pp.)                              Hardback (xviii, 926 pp.)
ISBN 9789004390362                                     ISBN 9789004390379
Price € 289 / US$ 348                                  Price € 289 / US$ 348
Asian Studies catalog 2020/2021
Women, Too,                          Zhipan’s Account                    Improving Village
                          Were Blessed                         of the History of                   Governance in
                          The Portrayal of Women               Buddhism in China                   Contemporary China
                          in Early Christian                   Volume 2: Fozu tongji,              He Xuefeng, Wuhan University
                          Armenian Texts                       juan 39-42: From the Sui
ASIAN STUDIES

                          David Zakarian,                      Dynasty to the Wudai Era
                          University of Oxford                 Thomas Jülch

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                          In Women, Too, Were Blessed          With his carefully annotated        Based on an in-depth inves-
                          David Zakarian examines the          translation of Fozu tongji, juan    tigation of different regions
                          representation of women in the       39-42, Thomas Jülch enables an      of China’s vast countryside,
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                          fifth-century Armenian literature    in-depth understanding of a key     Improving Village Governance in
                          and historiography revealing         text of Chinese Buddhist histori-   Contemporary China vividly de-
                          the church’s vision of the role      ography.                            scribes rural governance mecha-
                          of women in society as well as                                           nisms against the background of
                          some aspects of women’s lived                                            China’s rapid urbanization.
                          experience.

                                        Everyone interested
                          R E ADE R S HIP :                    READERSHI P:  All interested in     REA D ERS HI P : Scholars and stu-
                          in women’s history and gender        medieval Chinese Buddhism,          dents on China and general read-
                          studies within the early Christian   or sinologists with a wider         ers interested in China.
                          Armenian literary and historio-      interest, as Zhipan’s historiog-
                          graphical tradition.                 raphy also refers to Daoism and
                                                               Confucianism.

                          January 2021                         March 2021                          March 2021
                          Hardback (xviii, 234 pp.)            Hardback (approx. 300 pp.)          Hardback
                          ISBN 9789004444416                   ISBN 9789004445918                  ISBN 9789004448278
                          Price € 95 / US$ 114                 Price € 115 / US$ 138               Price € 193 / US$ 232
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                          Armenian Texts and Studies, 4                                            The Social Sciences of Practice, 7
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“At the Shores of the Sky”

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Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt
Edited by Paul W. Kroll and Jonathan A. Silk

This collection of essays on East and South Asian             discernment and insight in academic publishing.
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humanities is offered in tribute and gratitude to             He has also become a personal friend to many of
Albert Hoffstädt, for 25 years the editor chiefly re-         his authors. A subset of these authors here offers

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sponsible for Asian Studies at Brill and a dominant           to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various
influence on the field as a whole.                            topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on
Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and                premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean
polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25               literature, history, and religion, extending also
years been the editor chiefly responsible for the             into the modern and contemporary periods. They
development and acquisition of manuscripts in                 display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstädt's interests
Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has              while presenting some of the most outstanding
shepherded over 700 books into print and has                  scholarship in Asian Studies today.
distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional
R E A DE R S H I P :   All interested in Asian humanities, premodern or modern.

October 2020
Hardback (x, 313 pp.)
ISBN 9789004432987
Price € 89 / US$ 99
E-ISBN 9789004438200
E-Price OPEN ACCESS
Sinica Leidensia, 151
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Body and Cosmos                       Music of the Baduy People           Justice in Print:
                          Studies in Early Indian               of Western Java                     Discovering Prefectural
                          Medical and Astral Sciences           Singing is a Medicine               Judges and Their Judicial
                          in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk           Wim van Zanten,                     Consistency in Late-Ming
                          Edited by Toke Lindegaard             Leiden University                   Casebooks
ASIAN STUDIES

                          Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen                                             Ka-chai Tam,
                          and Sara Speyer                                                           Hong Kong Baptist University

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                          Body and Cosmos presents a            In Music of the Baduy People of     In Justice in Print: Discovering
                          series of articles by renowned        Western Java Wim van Zanten         Prefectural Judges and Their
                          Indological scholars on the           describes the music and dance of    Judicial Consistency in Late-Ming
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                          early Indian medical and astral       the ethnic minority group of the    Casebooks, Ka-chai Tam argues
                          sciences. It is published on the      Baduy, who try to live an ascetic   that the prefectural judge in the
                          occasion of the 70th birthday of      life in western Java according to   judiciary of the Ming dynasty
                          Professor Emeritus Kenneth G.         the ancestral rules.                (1368–1644) became crucial to
                          Zysk.                                                                     upholding justice in Chinese
                                                                                                    society.

                                                                READERSHI P: Ethnomusicologists     REA D ERS HI P : Scholars and
                                                                and anthropologists, especially     students of Chinese history con-
                                                                those interested in ethnic mi-      cerned with legal casebooks, the
                                                                nority groups. It is also meant     administering of justice and the
                                                                for scholars, NGOs and admin-       development of legal profession-
                                                                istrators of intangible cultural    alism in late imperial China.
                                                                heritage and people of Baduy
                                                                descent.
                          September 2020                        December 2020                       September 2020
                          Hardback (xiv, 433 pp.)               Hardback                            Hardback (xiv, 187 pp.)
                          ISBN 9789004436695                    ISBN 9789004424401                  ISBN 9789004442764
                          Price € 127 / US$ 153                 Price € 165 / US$ 198               Price € 116 / US$ 140
                          E-ISBN 9789004438224                  E-ISBN 9789004444478                E-ISBN 9789004442849
                          E-Price € 127 / US$ 153               E-Price € 165 / US$ 198             E-Price € 116 / US$ 140
                          Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 20   Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk   The Social Sciences of Practice, 6
                                                                Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en
                                                                Volkenkunde, 313
New
                             Series

Women, Islam and                           Kanbunmyaku                              Letters Without Capitals:
Familial Intimacy in                       The Literary Sinitic Context             Text and Practice in Kim
Colonial South Asia                        and the Birth of Modern                  Mun (Yao) Culture
Asiya Alam,                                Japanese Language                        Jacob Cawthorne,
Louisiana State University                 and Literature                           University of Melbourne

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                                           Mareshi Saitō, University of Tokyo
                                           Edited by Ross King,
                                           University of British Columbia, and
                                           Christina Laffin, University
                                           of British Columbia

Women, Islam and Familial                  In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary             In Text and Practice in Kim Mum          9
Intimacy in Colonial South Asia            Sinitic Context and the Birth of         Culture: Letters without Capitals,
offers an account of Muslim fem-           Modern Japanese Language and             Jacob Cawthorne demonstrates

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inism in an age of nationalism             Literature, Saito Mareshi demon-         how the Chinese script is not
and reform, and how it shaped              strates the centrality of kanbun         only central to Kim Mun (Yao)
debates on family, morality and            and kanshi in the creation of            cultural and religious practices,
society.                                   modern literary Japanese and             but also that it is an active vehi-
                                           problematizes the modern an-             cle for Kim Mun self-expression
                                           tagonism between kanbun and              and community representation.
                                           Japanese.

R E A DE R S H I P: Anyone interested      READERSHI P: Specialists in the          REA D ERS HI P : All interested in the
in the history of feminism in              history of East Asian textual tra-       study of borderland communi-
Muslim societies; will be valuable         ditions, especially students and         ties and cultures of China and
for libraries, specialists, students       scholars of the interplay between        Southeast Asia, Daoist studies,
as well as lay readers.                    cosmopolitan and vernacular,             literary cultures, and intangible
                                           literary modernization and ver-          cultural heritage (in particular
                                           nacularization.                          for the extensive use of primary
                                                                                    sources).
December 2020                              October 2020                             December 2020
Hardback (approx. 300 pp.)                 Hardback (approx. 250 pp.)               Hardback
ISBN 9789004421103                         ISBN 9789004433465                       ISBN 9789004442214
Price € 105 / US$ 126                      Price € 49 / US$ 59                      Price € 135 / US$ 162
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Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia, 1   Language, Writing and Literary Culture   Brill’s Southeast Asian Library, 9
                                           in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, 2
NOW
                                                                                        Available in
                                                                                         Paperback

                      John Fryer and                        The Tale of Tea                            New Approaches to
                      The Translator’s                      A Comprehensive History                    Ilkhanid History
                      Vade-mecum                            of Tea from Prehistoric Times              Edited by Timothy May,
                                                                                                       Dashdondog Bayarsaikhan,
                      New Perspectives on                   to the Present Day
                                                                                                       and Christopher P. Atwood
                      the History of Modern                 George van Driem,
ASIAN STUDIES

                      Chinese Scientific and                University of Bern

                      Technical Lexicon
                      Gabriele Tola,
                      Sapienza University of Rome

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                      In John Fryer and The Translator’s    The Tale of Tea presents a com-            New Approaches to Ilkhanid
                      Vade-mecum, Tola offers for the       prehensive history of tea from             History examines moves the
                      first time a comprehensive study      prehistoric times to the present           study of the Ilkhanate beyond
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                      of the collection of scientific       day in a single volume, covering           the court of the Ilkhan as well as
                      and technical glossaries, with        the fascinating social history of          considers new source material.
                      English-Chinese parallel transla-     tea and the origins, botany and
                      tion, compiled by the English         biochemistry of this singularly
                      scholar John Fryer (1839–1928).       important cultigen.

                      R E ADE R S HIP : All interested in   READERSHI P: All laymen and                REA D ERS HI P : All interested in the
                      missionary linguistics, the his-      specialists interested in tea,             history of the Mongol Empire,
                      tory of scientific translation,       institutes, academic and public            the Mongol Ilkhanate, medieval
                      Eastern and Western cultural ex-      libraries, students of economics,          Middle Eastern or Central Asian
                      changes, Protestant missions in       history, politics and ethnobotany,         history, and Islamic history.
                      China and the broader scholarly       people involved in the tea trade
                      readership of historians, as well     and tea industry.
                      as Asianists.
                      December 2020                         November 2020                              November 2020
                      Hardback (approx. 500 pp.)            Paperback (xx, 904 pp., ca. 450 illus.)    Hardback (xii, 440 pp., 16 images)
                      ISBN 9789004442207                    ISBN 9789004444720                         ISBN 9789004437395
                      Price € 143 / US$ 172                 Price € 99 / US$ 99                        Price € 138 / US$ 166
                      E-ISBN 9789004443211                                                             E-ISBN 9789004438217
                      E-Price € 143 / US$ 172                                                          E-Price € 138 / US$ 166
                      Studies in the History of                                                        Brill’s Inner Asian Library, 39
                      Christianity in East Asia, 4
The Mardzong                          Divination in Exile                   Hidden Lands in
Manuscripts                           Interdisciplinary Approaches          Himalayan Myth
Codicological and Historical          to Ritual Prognostication in          and History
Studies of an Archaeological          the Tibetan Bon Tradition             Transformations of sbas yul
Find in Mustang, Nepal                Alexander Kingsbury Smith,            through Time

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Agnieszka Helman-Ważny,               Friedrich-Alexander-University
                                                                            Edited by Frances Garrett,
University of Warsaw, Poland/         Erlangen-Nuremberg
                                                                            Elizabeth McDougal and
University of Hamburg, Germany,                                             Geoffrey Samuel
and Charles Ramble, Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes,
France

In The Mardzong Manuscripts           In Divination in Exile, Alexander     Hidden Lands in Himalayan Myth
                                                                                                                  11
Agnieszka Helman-Ważny and            K. Smith offers the first compre-     and History showcases recent
Charles Ramble recount the            hensive scholarly introduction to     scholarship, photo essays, maps,

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discovery of a cache of Bön and       the performance of divination in      and translations about hid-
Buddhist manuscripts, some            Tibetan speaking communities,         den lands (sbas yul) across the
over seven centuries old, in          both past and present.                Himalaya, from historical and
the remote Mardzong caves in                                                contemporary perspectives.
Mustang, Nepal, and subsequent
research on the collection.

R E A DE R S H I P: All interested    READERSHI P: All interested in        REA D ERS HI P : Scholars and stu-
in Himalayan history and              general Tibetan studies, Tibetan      dents in Tibetan and Himalayan
archaeology, Tibetan literature,      ritual, and the history of the        studies, Buddhist studies, reli-
regional manuscript production        Bon tradition, as well as anyone      gious studies and anthropology.
and use, as well as methods           interested in social scientific
of decoding the identity,             approaches to the study of divi-
provenance and history of             nation.
manuscripts of this region.
December 2020                         October 2020                          December 2020
Hardback (approx. 300 pp.)            Hardback (viii, 195 pp.)              Hardback (approx. 320 pp.)
ISBN 9789004443662                    ISBN 9789004438194                    ISBN 9789004437494
Price € 116 / US$ 140                 Price € 94 / US$ 113                  Price € 110 / US$ 132
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Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 48   Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 47   Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 46
A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life
ASIAN STUDIES

                      Kai Sheng, Tsinghua University
                      Translated by Jeffrey Kotyk, Matt Orsborn, and Gina Yang and edited by Jinhua Chen

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                      The goal of this book is to study the ways in which           The book examines cases such as repentance,
                      Chinese Buddhists expressed their religious faiths            vegetarianism, charity, scriptural lecture, the act
                      and how Chinese Buddhists interacted with society             of releasing captive animals, the Bodhisattva faith,
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                      at large since the Northern and Southern dynasties            and mountain worship, from multiple perspectives
                      (386-589), through the Ming (1368-1644) and the               such as textual evidence, historical circumstances,
                      Qing (1644-1911), up to the Republican era (1912-             social life, as well as the intellectual background at
                      1949). The book aims to summarize and present the             the time.
                      historical trajectory of the Sinification of Buddhism
                      in a new light, revealing the symbiotic relationship
                      between Buddhist faith and Chinese culture.

                      R E AD E R S H IP :   All interested in East Asian religions, Especially East Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism.

                      July 2020
                      Hardback (x, 596 pp.)
                      ISBN 9789004431522
                      Price € 160 / US$ 192
                      E-ISBN 9789004431775
                      E-Price € 160 / US$ 192
                      Studies on East Asian Religions, 3
Detecting Chinese                           Physiognomy in                      Hua Yan (1682-1756)
Modernities                                 Ming China                          and the Making of the
Rupture and Continuity                      Fortune and the Body                Artist in Early Modern
in Modern Chinese Detective                 Xing Wang                           China
Fiction (1896–1949)                                                             Kristen Loring Chiem,

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Yan Wei, Lingnan University                                                     Pepperdine University

In Detecting Chinese Modernities,           In Physiognomy in Ming China:       Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the          13
Yan Wei assesses the rise and               Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang     Making of the Artist in Early
development of detective fiction            provides an extensive reading of    Modern China explores the

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in the first half of the twentieth          the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts    relationships between the art-
century in China.                           of a well-known body divination     ist, local society, and artistic
                                            technique ‘xiangshu’ (physiogno-    practice during the Qing dynasty
                                            my), and investigates its unique    (1644–1911).
                                            ‘somatic cosmology’ in Ming reli-
                                            gious and intellectual context.

R E ADE R S H I P : All interested in the   READERSHI P: Readers inter-         REA D ERS HI P : All interested in
history of Chinese detective fic-           ested in Chinese divination,        the histories of Chinese painting,
tion, and anyone concerned with             Chinese Buddhism and Neo-           and anyone concerned with cul-
the topic of the production of              Confucianism, Chinese medi-         ture and society in early modern
popular fiction in global context.          cal history, history of the body,   China.
                                            anthropological theories of the
                                            body, history of magic and witch-
                                            craft.
May 2020                                    March 2020                          May 2020
Hardback (viii, 283 pp.)                    Hardback (x, 326 pp.)               Hardback (xvi, 224 pp.)
ISBN 9789004431270                          ISBN 9789004429543                  ISBN 9789004427631
Price € 138 / US$ 166                       Price € 105 / US$ 126               Price € 110 / US$ 132
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Sinica Leidensia, 150                       Sinica Leidensia, 149               Sinica Leidensia, 148
Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations                               The Neo-Buddhist Writings
                      Texts and Histories                                                          of Lafcadio Hearn
                      Katrine Wong, University of Macau                                            Light from the East
                                                                                                   Antony Goedhals,
                                                                                                   University of Pretoria
ASIAN STUDIES

         14           A product of east-west studies crossed with adaptation studies: it           The Neo-Buddhist Writings of
                      goes beyond evaluation of cultural interactions and discussion of            Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the
                      forms and manners of adaptation. This volume brings together criti-          East by Antony Goedhals reveals
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                      cal discourses from various cultural locales which have developed            the discourses of vastness, emp-
                      from and thrived on the notion of “East meets West” or “West meets           tiness, and oneness – founded in
                      East”. The 10 chapters trace and investigate cross-, trans- or multi-        Buddhism – hidden, for genera-
                      cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that      tions of critics and biographers,
                      feature people and events in cities and regions which thrive, or have        at the heart of this misunder-
                      thrived, as East-West hubs, thereby expounding multiple layers of            stood Victorian writer’s work.
                      relationship between source texts and new texts. An allegorical play,
                      The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now pub-
                      lished as appendix in this volume.
                      R E ADE R S H IP : This cross-disciplinary volume will interest anyone who   REA D ERS HI P : Anyone interested
                      work in East-West Studies and literary studies, in particular those          in Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi
                      involved in adaptation studies, Asian American Literature, theatrical        Yakumo), Meiji Japan, Buddhism,
                      studies and creative writing.                                                Buddhist modernism, Victorian
                                                                                                   literature and culture, literary
                                                                                                   bio-criticism, post-colonialism,
                                                                                                   or the history of science.

                      October 2020                                                                 May 2020
                      Hardback                                                                     Hardback (xviii, 248 pp.)
                      ISBN 9789004437401                                                           ISBN 9789004430327
                      Price € 165 / US$ 198                                                        Price € 121 / US$ 146
                      E-ISBN 9789004437418                                                         E-ISBN 9789004430334
                      E-Price € 165 / US$ 198                                                      E-Price € 121 / US$ 146
                      East and West, 8                                                             East and West, 7
Overseas Chinese                           Chinese in Dubai                     Cultural Renewal
Christians in                              Money, Pride,                        in Cambodia
Contemporary China                         and Soul-Searching                   Academic Activism
Religion, Mobility,                        Yuting Wang, American                in the Neoliberal Era
and Belonging                              University of Sharjah                Philippe Peycam, International

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Sin Wen Lau, University of Otago                                                Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS)

Overseas Chinese Christians in             Chinese in Dubai tells the fasci-    This book narrates the establish-       15
Contemporary China offers a                nating story of the Chinese in the   ment of a cultural project in
study into how overseas Chinese            most prominent global city of        post-war Cambodia. It depicts a

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in Shanghai are changing the               the Arabian Gulf—their history,      country at the crossroads of con-
way they understand themselves             struggles and contributions—         flicting imaginaries, and shows,
in relation to China through               against the backdrop of a shifting   through the Centre for Khmer
their Christian faith.                     global political economic order      Studies’ story, how the neoliberal
                                           with the rise of China.              agenda of ‘northern’ academic
                                                                                institutions effectively constrain
                                                                                alternative ‘southern’ visions of
                                                                                development.

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studies, transnational studies, as         Chinese, China-Arabian Gulf/         tional development in education,
well as overseas Chinese intellec-         Middle East relations, and the       in intercultural social studies,
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                                                                                Philanthropy.
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Engendering the                         The Jewel of                           The East Asian
                      Woman Question                          Annual Astrology                       Modern Girl
                      Men, Women, and Writing in              A Parallel Sanskrit-                   Women, Media, and
                      China’s Early Periodical Press          English Critical Edition of            Colonial Modernity
                      Zhang Yun, Nanyang                      Balabhadra’s Hāyanaratna               in the Interwar Years
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                      Technological University                Translated and edited by Martin        Edited by Sumei Wang,
                                                              Gansten, University of Lund            National Chengchi University,
                                                                                                     Taipei, Taiwan

         16
                      In Engendering the Woman                Authored in 1649 CE by Mughal          The East Asian Modern Girl in-
                      Question, Zhang Yun examines            court astrologer Balabhadra            cludes original studies on the
                      the early Chinese women’s               Daivajña, The Jewel of Annual          modern girl in East Asia during
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                      periodical press as a mixed-            Astrology is an encyclopaedic          the 1910s-1930s. It reveals differ-
                      gender public space to explore          treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized     entiated forms of colonial mo-
                      men’s and women’s gender-               Perso-Arabic astrology. Martin         dernity, influences of global me-
                      specific approaches to a series of      Gansten’s scholarly edition and        dia and the struggles of women
                      prominent topics central to the         translation is the first ever of a     at the time.
                      Chinese “woman question.”               Tājika text.

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                      print culture in modern China.          reception of Perso-Arabic astral       Asia.
                                                              sciences, or intellectual history in
                                                              early modern South Asia.

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Differentiating the Pearl             Xiong Shili’s                       Confucian Concord
from the Fish-Eye                     Understanding of Reality            Reform, Utopia and
Ouyang Jingwu and the                 and Function, 1920-1937             Global Teleology in
Revival of Scholastic                 SANG Yu                             Kang Youwei’s Datong Shu
Buddhism                                                                  Federico Brusadelli,

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                                                                          Friedrich-Alexander University
Eyal Aviv, George Washington
University

In Differentiating the Pearl from     In Xiong Shili’s Understanding of   In Confucian Concord, Federico
                                                                                                                 17
the Fish-Eye, Eyal Aviv offers an     Reality and Function, 1920-1937,    Brusadelli offers an intellectual
account of Ouyang Jingwu, a           SANG Yu presents a detailed         analysis of Kang Youwei’s post-

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revolutionary Buddhist thinker        examination and analysis of how     humous utopian masterpiece,
and educator. The book surveys        Xiong Shili gradually established   the Datong Shu.
the life and career of Ouyang and     his philosophical system of
his influence on modern Chinese       Reality (ti) and Function (yong),
intellectual history.                 a key conceptual polarity in tra-
                                      ditional Chinese philosophy.

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Scholars of Buddhism, especially      and also those concerned with       history of ideas in the 19th and
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East Asian Buddhist Philosophy, 1     Modern Chinese Philosophy, 21       Ideas, History, and Modern China, 24
Conflicting Memories                    Alfonso Vagnone’s Tongyou Śaivism and the
                      Tibetan History under                   Jiaoyu (On the Education  Tantric Traditions
                      Mao Retold                              of Children, c. 1632)     Essays in Honour of
                      Edited by Robert Barnett,               The Earliest Encounter                   Alexis G.J.S. Sanderson
                      SOAS, University of London,             between Chinese and                      Edited by Dominic Goodall,
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                      University, and Françoise Robin,
                                                              European Pedagogy                        Shaman Hatley,
                                                                                                       Harunaga Isaacson,
                      INALCO Paris                            Giulia Falato
                                                                                                       and Srilata Raman

         18
                      Conflicting Memories is a study         In Alfonso Vagnone’s Tongyou             This book is a collection of
                      of historical rewriting about           jiaoyu (On the Education of              essays in honour of Alexis G.
                      Tibetans’ encounter with the            Children, c. 1632) Giulia Falato         J. S. Sanderson, a pioneering
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                      Chinese state during the Maoist         examines the text’s literary value       Indologist and historian of reli-
                      era. Combining case studies             and its contribution to the intro-       gion. The essays shed new light
                      with translated documents, it           duction of Renaissance pedagogy          on the tantric traditions, reli-
                      traces how that experience has          into late-Ming China.                    gious art and architecture, and
                      been reimagined by Chinese and                                                   Sanskrit belles lettres.
                      Tibetan authors and artists since
                      the late 1970s.

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                      of Tibet and China, and in issues       relations, missionary linguistics,       The book will be essential read-
                      of memory, ethnicity, religion, or      and readers interested in moral          ing to specialists and advanced
                      politics in the region.                 philosophy.                              students of Śaivism and Tantric
                                                                                                       Buddhism.
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                                                              in East Asia, 3
Chinese Research           Crossroads of Cuisine                                 Chinese Research
Perspectives on Population The Eurasian Heartland, the                           Perspectives on the
and Labor, Volume 6        Silk Roads and Food                                   Environment,
New Economy and Innovation                Paul D. Buell, University of           Special Volume
in Employment                             North Georgia, E.N. Anderson,
                                                                                 Environmental Security

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                                          University of California at
Edited by Zhang Juwei, Chinese            Riverside, Montserrat de Pablo         in China
Academy of Social Sciences,               Moya, University of Castilla-La        ZHANG Xiao, Chinese Academy
Yang Weiguo, Renmin University            Mancha, Spain, Moldir Oskenbay,        of Social Sciences
of China, and Gao Wenshu,                 University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Chinese Academy
of Social Sciences

This volume reviews China’s new           Crossroads of Cuisine offers histo-    Environmental Security in China           19
economy and new employment.               ry of food and cultural exchanges      provides readers an overview of
Featured reports cover topics             in and around Central Asia. It         issues China faces in environ-

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including economic growth,                discusses geographical base,           mental security. Contributors
employee resettlement, labor              and offers historical and cultural     examine what air, water, soil
relations, innovative industries          overview. A photo essay binds it       pollution, grassland degradation,
and others.                               all together. The book offers new      GM food, climate change, and
                                          views of the past.                     energy dependence mean for
                                                                                 China’s national security.

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and Labor, 6                                                                     on the Environment, 10
Critical Readings on Pure land Buddhism,
                      3 volume set
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                      Edited by Galen Amstutz

                      Pure Land was one of the main fields of mytho-            of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism.
         20
                      poesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist             Special attention is given to the traps into which
                      traditions, and in Japan of central cultural impor-       Western observers may fall, the role of the large
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                      tance from the Heian period right up to the pres-         True Pure Land (Jōdoshinshū) school, and the rich-
                      ent. However, its range, inconsistency, variability,      ness of Tokugawa and twentieth-century develop-
                      and complexity have tended to be misevaluated.            ments. These selections of previously published
                      The pieces reproduced in this set, organized both         articles will serve as an essential starting point for
                      chronologically and thematically, have been cho-          anyone interested in this perhaps underestimated
                      sen as linchpin works accentuating the diversity          area of Buddhist studies.

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‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage

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Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age
Paul Bevan

In Intoxicating Shanghai Paul Bevan explores the          the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dis-          21
work of a number of Chinese modernist figures             semination of literature and art during the 1930s.
in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with     The research locates the work of these artists and

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an emphasis on the literary group the New-                writers within the context of wider literary and art
sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai         production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature,
art world, examining the work of these figures as         cinema, music, and dancehall culture, with a spe-
it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes         cific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.
a detailed examination into the significance of

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China Studies, 41
Fou Lei                                Finding Allies and                  Men in Metal
                      An Insistence on Truth                 Making Revolution                   A Topography of Public Bronze
                      Mingyuan Hu,                           The Early Years of the              Statuary in Modern Japan
                      Humboldt University Berlin             Chinese Communist Party             Sven Saaler, Sophia University,
                                                             Tony Saich, Harvard University      Tokyo, Japan
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         22
                      In Fou Lei, the first critical study   In Finding Allies and Making        Men in Metal examines the pub-
                      of one of modern China’s most          Revolution, Tony Saich shows        lic statuary of modern Japan as
                      significant public intellectuals,      how a Dutchman helped launch        a central site of the nation’s his-
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                      Mingyuan Hu investigates the           the Chinese Communist Party         torical memory. This publication
                      critic-translator’s Shanghai-Paris     and devised the key strategy of     will shed light on how the elites
                      trajectory and his moral and           the united front to work with the   of the nation-state constructed
                      existential resistance against cul-    nationalists to promote revolu-     an iconography of national he-
                      tural and political barbarism.         tion.                               roes that served their agenda of
                                                                                                 mass indoctrination.

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                      Sino-European communication            the development of the Chinese      the modern nation-state, nation-
                      in interwar Paris, and in cross-       Communist Party and the role of     alism, and public statuary as a
                      lingual relations, cultural studies,   the Comintern.                      significant genre of “political art.”
                      and biography.

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Nonprofit Finance:                      Korean Nonprofit/                    Periodicals, Readers and
A Synthetic Review                      Non-Government                       the Making of a Modern
Thad D. Calabrese,                      Sector Research                      Literary Culture: Bengal
New York University
                                        A Literature Review                  at the Turn of the
                                        and Analysis                         Twentieth Century

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                                        Sung-Ju Kim, North Carolina State    Samarpita Mitra, Jadavpur
                                        University, and Jin-Kying Jung,      University, Kolkata
                                        Kwangwoon University

In Nonprofit Finance: A Synthetic       In Korean Nonprofit/Non-             Periodicals, Readers and the         23
Review Thad D. Calabrese                Government Sector Research,          Making of a Modern Literary
reviews the current state of re-        the authors review the various       Culture is a study of literary pe-

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search on nonprofit finance. The        natures of the nonprofit sector in   riodicals and the Bengali public
book comprehensively addresses          South Korea.                         sphere at the turn of the twenti-
core finance topics with a focus                                             eth century, the variety of inter-
on those issues that differentiate                                           ests and concerns that animated
nonprofit finance from tradi-                                                this domain and how literary
tional finance.                                                              relations were seen to constitute
                                                                             new social solidarities.

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as well as managers and board           sion of the third sector in South    Gender Studies interested in the
members of nonprofit organiza-          Korea, and anyone understand         histories of print cultures, mod-
tions will find the book a neces-       contemporary issues for the non-     ern vernacular public spheres,
sary resource.                          profit sector in South Korea.        the social histories of reading
                                                                             and readerships and nationalism.
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Brill Research Perspectives             Brill Research Perspectives          Brill’s Indological Library, 52
Seeking Justice at                         Chinese Religion                      Foreign Devils
                      the Court of the Khans                     in Malaysia                           and Philosophers
                      of Khiva                                   Temples and Communities               Cultural Encounters between
                      (19th - early 20th Centuries)              Tan Chee-Beng, Sun Yat-sen            the Chinese, the Dutch, and
                      Paolo Sartori, Austrian                    University                            Other Europeans, 1590-1800
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                      Academy of Sciences,                                                             Edited by Thijs Weststeijn,
                      and Ulfat Abdurasulov,                                                           Utrecht University
                      Austrian Academy of Sciences

         24
                      In Seeking Justice at the Court            This informative book describes       Foreign Devils and Philosophers
                      of the Khans of Khiva, Sartori             Chinese Religion in Malaysia and      explores cultural interchanges
                      and Abdurasulov show that in               contributes to an understand-         between Europe and China dur-
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                      Khorezm prior to Sovietization             ing of Chinese migration and          ing the first period of intensive
                      the dispensation of justice ac-            settlement, religion and identity     contact. Based on rare Chinese
                      cording to Islamic law depended            politics as well the significance     and Western sources (especially
                      mostly on a group of officials             of religion to both individuals       in Dutch), it highlights the recip-
                      representing the dynasty in                and communities.                      rocal dynamic of aversion and
                      power, and lacking specialised                                                   admiration.
                      legal training.

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                                                                 the sociological significance of      a global perspective.
                                                                 religion to individuals and com-
                                                                 munities.

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                      Brill’s Inner Asian Library, 38            Chinese Overseas, 12                  East and West, 6
Visualising Ethnicity in                Mapping the Pāśupata                 Remembering May Fourth
the Southwest Borderlands               Landscape                            The Movement and its
Gender and Representation               Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva      Centennial Legacy
in Late Imperial and                    Imaginary in Early Medieval          Carlos Yu-Kai Lin, City University
Republican China                        North India                          of Hong Kong, and Victor H. Mair,

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                                                                             University of Pennsylvania
Jing Zhu, University of Warwick/        Elizabeth A. Cecil, Florida State
Humboldt University                     University

This book examines how gen-             In Mapping the Pāśupata              Remembering May Fourth: The
                                                                                                                    25
der helps to translate the daily        Landscape Elizabeth A. Cecil         Movement and its Centennial
lives of non-Han peoples in the         presents a spatial and material      Legacy discusses a wide range of

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Southwest of China into images,         history of the Pāśupata tradition    issues concerning the relations
and the ways in which the non-          and examines the formation of a      between politics and memory,
Han were visually known by Han          Śaiva religious landscape in Early   writing and ritualizing, fiction
Chinese from late imperial to           Medieval India.                      and reality, and theory and prac-
Republican China.                                                            tice within the context of the
                                                                             May Fourth movement.

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the representation of ethnic            history of Hinduism, and par-        ested in modern Chinese history,
minorities in late imperial and         ticularly the worship of the god     language, literature, culture.
Republican China, and anyone            Śiva, in premodern India; schol-
concerned with the intersections        ars of early medieval history and
of visuality, gender and empire.        society in South Asia, and those
                                        interested in the study of text
                                        and material culture.
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Emotions and States of Mind in East     Gonda Indological Studies, 21        Ideas, History, and Modern China, 23
Asia, 9
Islam in South Asia
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                      Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition
                      Jamal Malik

         26
                      Islam in South Asia: Revised, Enlarged and Updated        use of the latest academic works and historical ma-
                      Second Edition traces the roots and development           terials, including first-hand accounts ranging from
                      of Muslim presence in South Asia. Trajectories of         official statements to poetry, Malik convincingly
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                      normative notions of state-building and the man-          argues that these texts provide sufficient evidence
                      agement of diversity are elaborated in four clusters,     to arrive at an interpretation of quite a different
                      augmented by topical subjects in excursuses and           character. With major and substantial revisions,
                      annexes offering an array of Muslim voices. The           changes, abridgements and additions follow the
                      enormous time span from 650 to 2019 provides for          academic literature produced during the last de-
                      a comprehensive and plural canvas of the religious        cades.
                      self-presentation of South Asian Muslims. Making

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                      Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 37
Brill’s Encyclopedia of Religions
of Indigenous People of South Asia

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Editor-in-Chief: Marine Carrin

Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous   aspects of morality, symbolism, identity formation,
                                                                                                                 27
People of South Asia Online strives to reflect the        environmental concerns, and art. The approach
diversity of indigenous cultures of South Asia with       is contemporary and not a reconstruction of an

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its many language groups and religious traditions.        anterior state, though this does not exclude talking
Religion is taken in a broad sense and includes           about historical processes.

June 2020
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 36
Moulding the                            Chinese Visions of                   The East Asian
                      Socialist Subject                       Progress, 1895 to 1949               Modern Girl
                      Cinema and Chinese                      Thomas Fröhlich, Hamburg             Women, Media, and Colonial
                                                              University, and Axel Schneider,
                      Modernity (1949-1966)                                                        Modernity in the Interwar
                                                              University of Göttingen
                      Xiaoning Lu, SOAS,                                                           Years
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                      University of London                                                         Edited by Sumei Wang,
                                                                                                   National Chengchi University,
                                                                                                   Taipei, Taiwan

         28
                      In Moulding the Socialist Subject,      Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895    The East Asian Modern Girl in-
                      Xiaoning Lu discusses how a di-         to 1949 offers a panoramic study     cludes original studies on the
                      versity of film genres, movie star      of Chinese reflections on “prog-     modern girl in East Asia during
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                      culture, and film exhibition prac-      ress,” its multifaceted expres-      the 1910s-1930s. It reveals differ-
                      tices contributed to the Chinese        sions, contesting interpretations,   entiated forms of colonial mo-
                      Communist Party’s political             highly optimistic implications,      dernity, influences of global me-
                      project of shaping ideal social-        but also the criticism it encoun-    dia and the struggles of women
                      ist citizens in the early People’s      tered.                               at the time.
                      Republic.

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                      ent levels, as well as general audi-    modern Chinese ideas on prog-        the modern girl and mass media,
                      ences interested in film studies,       ress, and anyone concerned with      consumption and globalization
                      Chinese cinema, and history and         the transformation of Chinese        and the history of interwar East
                      culture in Mao’s China.                 notions of time and history in       Asia.
                                                              the 20th century.

                      January 2020                            June 2020                            June 2020
                      Hardback (xii, 200 pp.)                 Hardback                             Hardback (224 pp., 89 illus.)
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                      Ideas, History, and Modern China, 22    Leiden Series in Comparative
                                                              Historiography, 13
Becoming Human                            Fate and Prognostication              Chinese Character
Li Zehou’s Ethics                         in the Chinese Literary               Manipulation in Literature
Jana S. Rošker,                           Imagination                           and Divination
University of Ljubljana                   Edited by Michael Lackner,            The Zichu by Zhou Lianggong
                                          Kwok-kan Tam,
                                                                                (1612–1672)

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                                          Monika Gaenssbauer and
                                          Terry Siu-han Yip                     Anne Schmiedl

This book offers a critical intro-        The essays collected in Fate and      In Chinese Character                29
duction of Li Zhou’s ethics. Li,          Prognostication in the Chinese        Manipulation in Literature and
who is among the most influen-            Literary Imagination deal with        Divination, Anne Schmiedl

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tial contemporary Chinese phi-            the issues hidden in the Chinese      analyses the historical develop-
losophers, takes Chinese ethics           conception of fate as represented     ment and linguistic properties of
as a basis for his elaborations on        in literary texts and films, with a   Chinese character manipulation,
Western ideas, aiming to develop          focus placed on human efforts to      focusing on a late imperial work
a new global ethics.                      solve the riddles of fate predic-     on this subject, the Zichu by
                                          tion.                                 Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672).

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Chinese and comparative phi-              braries, specialists, students.       philosophy, religion, and divi-
losophy; a broader public reader-                                               nation and particularly those
ship interested in contemporary                                                 involved in work concerning the
China; Chinese Taiwanese and                                                    manipulation and interpretation
Hong Kong academic libraries.                                                   of Chinese characters.
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Modern Chinese Philosophy, 20             Prognostication in History, 4         Prognostication in History, 3
Text and Context in                       Confucian Academies                    Dionysus on
                      the Modern History of                     in East Asia                           the Other Shore
                      Chinese Religions                         Edited by Vladimír Glomb,              Gao Xingjian’s Theatre
                                                                Freie Universität Berlin,
                      Redemptive Societies                      Eun-Jeung Lee, Freie Universität
                                                                                                       of the Tragic
                      and Their Sacred Texts                                                           Letizia Fusini, SOAS University
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                                                                Berlin, and Martin Gehlmann,
                      Philip Clart, Leipzig University,         Freie Universität Berlin               of London
                      David Ownby, Université
                      de Montréal, and
                      Wang Chien-Chuan, Southern
                      Taiwan University of Science
                      and Technology

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                      Text and Context in the Modern            Confucian Academies in East Asia       In Dionysus on the Other Shore,
                      History of Chinese Religions is           is a first comprehensive look at       Letizia Fusini re-examines Gao
                      an edited volume (Philip Clart,           the history and legacy of these        Xingjian’s post-1987 theatre as a
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                      David Ownby, and Wang Chien-              unique institutions in China,          form of tragedy.
                      ch’uan) offering essays on the            Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, and
                      modern history of redemptive              both Koreas.
                      societies in China and Vietnam,
                      with a particular focus on their
                      textual production.

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                      history and the contemporary              in the fields of East Asian educa-     in contemporary Chinese and
                      state of Chinese religion, particu-       tion, philosophy, and cultural         diasporic theatre, comparative
                      larly the history of redemptive           heritage.                              literature and drama, transcul-
                      societies during the Republican                                                  tural studies, aesthetics of mod-
                      period.                                                                          ern tragedy, as well as sinologists
                                                                                                       and theatre specialists.

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                      Religion in Chinese Societies, 16         Science and Religion in East Asia, 3   Sinica Leidensia, 147
Powerful Arguments

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Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China
Edited by Martin Hofmann, Heidelberg University,
Joachim Kurtz, Heidelberg University, and Ari Daniel Levine, University of Georgia

The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the           of inference, and the criteria by which some argu-
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standards of validity underlying argumentative             ments were judged to be more persuasive than
practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese         others, the contributions recreate distinct cultures

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discourses, from the Song through the Qing dynas-          of reasoning. Together, they lay the foundations for
ties. The fourteen case studies analyze concrete           a history of argumentative practice in one of the
arguments defended or contested in areas ranging           richest scholarly traditions outside of Europe and
from historiography, philosophy, law, and religion         add a chapter to the as yet elusive global history of
to natural studies, literature, and the civil examina-     rationality.
tion system. By examining uses of evidence, habits

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the global histories of historiography, philosophy, science, religion, law, reasoning, and argumentation.

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