Download or read book The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton written by Thomas Merton and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1975 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is quintessential Merton."--The Catholic Review.
Download or read book Asian Journals written by Joseph Campbell and published by Collected Works of Joseph Camp. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tour of the Far East, narrated by the world's preeminent mythologist
Download or read book The Asia Diaries written by Joe Simmons and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Diaries written by Heinz Wolfgang Arndt and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asian Diary written by Charlotte Y. Salisbury and published by New York : Scribner. This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asia Diaries written by Joseph William Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sake Satori written by Joseph Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A previously unpublished sequel to Baksheesh and Brahman reports on the author's travels through east Asia and his five-month stay in Japan in the 1950s, during which he experienced local culture and witnessed the area's struggles with Cold War tensions and western values. 20,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Sarashina Diary written by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader’s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Itō’s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author’s deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators’ commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work.
Download or read book So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible defeat. Nevertheless, until the end of the war, many Japanese continued to believe in the invincibility of their country. But in the diaries of well-known writers -- including Nagai Kafu, Takami Jun, Yamada Futaru, and Hirabayashi Taiko -- and the scholar Watanabe Kazuo, varying doubts were vividly, though privately, expressed. Weaving archival materials with personal recollections and the intimate accounts themselves, the author reproduces the passions aroused during the war and the sharply contrasting reactions in the year following Japan's surrender. These entries communicate the reality of false victory and all-too-real defeat.
Download or read book The Diary of 1636 written by Na Man’gap and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Manchu. When a Chosŏn faction realigned Korea with the Ming, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, shattering the Chosŏn-Ming alliance and forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Man’gap (1592–1642) recorded the second Manchu invasion in his Diary of 1636, the only first-person account chronicling the dramatic Korean resistance to the attack. Partly composed as a narrative of quotidian events during the siege of Namhan Mountain Fortress, where Na sought refuge with the king and other officials, the diary recounts Korean opposition to Manchu and Mongol forces and the eventual surrender. Na describes military campaigns along the northern and western regions of the country, the capture of the royal family, and the Manchu treatment of prisoners, offering insights into debates about Confucian loyalty and the conduct of women that took place in the war’s aftermath. His work sheds light on such issues as Confucian statecraft, military decision making, and ethnic interpretations of identity in the seventeenth century. Translated from literary Chinese into English for the first time, the diary illuminates a traumatic moment for early modern Korean politics and society. George Kallander’s critical introduction and extensive annotations place The Diary of 1636 in its historical, political, and military context, highlighting the importance of this text for students and scholars of Chinese and East Asian as well as Korean history.
Download or read book Beyond the Book written by Jidong Yang and published by Association for Asian Studies. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Book is the first book dedicated to studies of rare East Asian materials collected by individuals and institutions in North America. It sheds new light on the two centuries of cultural exchanges between East Asia and North America and provides fresh clues for East Asian studies scholars in their hunt for raw research materials.
Download or read book Forever Foreigners Or Honorary Whites written by Mia Tuan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the meaning of ethnicity for later-generation Chinese and Japanese Americans, and asks how the racialized ethnic experience differs from the white ethnic experience. Material is based on interviews with 95 middle-class Chinese and Japanese Californians, who respond to questions on experiences with Chinese and Japanese culture, current lifestyle and emerging cultural practices, experiences with racism and discrimination, and attitudes on immigration. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book How Asia Works written by Joe Studwell and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed.” —Bill Gates, “Top 5 Books of the Year” An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said “should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business.” In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research into the economies of nine countries—Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China—into an accessible, readable narrative that debunks Western misconceptions, shows what really happened in Asia and why, and for once makes clear why some countries have boomed while others have languished. Studwell’s in-depth analysis focuses on three main areas: land policy, manufacturing, and finance. Land reform has been essential to the success of Asian economies, giving a kick-start to development by utilizing a large workforce and providing capital for growth. With manufacturing, industrial development alone is not sufficient, Studwell argues. Instead, countries need “export discipline,” a government that forces companies to compete on the global scale. And in finance, effective regulation is essential for fostering, and sustaining growth. To explore all of these subjects, Studwell journeys far and wide, drawing on fascinating examples from a Philippine sugar baron’s stifling of reform to the explosive growth at a Korean steel mill. “Provocative . . . How Asia Works is a striking and enlightening book . . . A lively mix of scholarship, reporting and polemic.” —The Economist
Download or read book The Pacific Century written by Frank Gibney and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 000545853 - 99/615 A Robert Stewart book.
Download or read book Asia Journal of Global Studies written by Derrick M. Nault and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia Journal of Global Studies (AJGS) is the official journal of the Japan-based Asia Association for Global Studies (AAGS). The journal features research articles on Asia and other world regions from an Asian regional perspective. AJGS' other regular offerings include guest columns by global studies experts in Asia, reader commentaries, and book reviews. Multidisciplinary in scope, AJGS accepts contributions from authors with backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences. The journal encourages historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, philosophers and others to submit their work for consideration. It particularly welcomes research that dissolves academic boundaries, looks beyond traditional notions of the nation state, and aims for a holistic view of the past, present and future.
Download or read book Uncontrollable Love written by Asia Monique and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alayla and Jahe: An Uncontrollable Love, Alayla James set the tone. Her story introduced us to her six brothers. Hendrix made his debut in Allow Me to Love You: Hendrix and Ruby's Story, giving us a deeper look into the James' siblings lives. Now, it's time to meet the rest of those incomparable men...After losing his high sweetheart to gun violence, Tahj James buried himself in work and family matters. Five years later, business is booming, his family is thriving, and he couldn't be happier. After meeting the beautiful, Amila Hampton, he gets back what he lost all those years ago, in the form of another woman-in the form of love.Newly single, Amir James, is conflicted between giving his ex another chance, or moving on with his life. The clash of what he needs and what he wants ends when the soft spoken, Emily Williams, enters the picture. Emily gives Amir hope, while he unknowingly provides the same for her.Isaiah James finds himself lost more times than he would like to admit. A challenge from a barista by the name of, Luna Devonshire, gives him a different outlook on life - an outlook he never imagined. Luna opens his heart to a love he never suspected he needed. Allen James Jr, is a believer of fate, love, and all that comes with it. When he meets Pia Hamilton-a blue eyed goddess-on a trip to Vegas, he believes fate brought them together. In this instance, what happens in Vegas, didn't stay there.
Download or read book Body Music written by Alexander Loudon and published by On The Traveler's Road Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of Korea and Japan during the FIFA World Cup, the Asian Games, a devastating typhoon, and political turmoil, "Body Music" chronicles the journey of North American martial arts expert Alexander Loudon as she follows her dream--to study martial arts in Asia. She came to study the internationally respected sport of Judo in its heartland, the land of Olympic champions. What she found, through discipline, commitment, dedication and a fortuitous encounter with the Grand Master of Judo, was the chance of a lifetime. With everything on the line, her entry into the all-male Korean-only national competition to earn black belt certification brough a history-making opportunity, and enormous challenges. This book is for the die-hard martial artist, the sports fan, the wandering soul and the armchair traveler alike. The perfect Hollywood ending--Asian style. See author's website at www.alexanderloudon.com and email for free excerpts.
