Publications

Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading edited and co-translated by Ross King (2021)

Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading edited and co-translated by Ross King (2021)

Publication title: Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading Publication year: 2021 Author: Edited and co-translated by Ross King About the book In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the history of reading technologies referred to as kundoku 訓讀 in Japanese, hundok in Korean and xundu in Mandarin. Rendered by […]

Chosŏn Hugi Yugyo wa Ch’ŏnjugyo ŭi Taerip [The Confucian Confrontation with Catholicism in the Latter Half of the Chosŏn Dynasty] by Donald L. Baker (1997)

Chosŏn Hugi Yugyo wa Ch’ŏnjugyo ŭi Taerip [The Confucian Confrontation with Catholicism in the Latter Half of the Chosŏn Dynasty] by Donald L. Baker (1997)

Korean Spirituality by Donald L. Baker (2008)

Korean Spirituality by Donald L. Baker (2008)

Publication title: Korean Spirituality Publication year: 2008 Author: Donald L. Baker About the book Korea has one of the most dynamic and diverse religious cultures of any nation on earth. Koreans are highly religious, yet no single religious community enjoys dominance. Buddhists share the Korean religious landscape with both Protestant and Catholic Christians as well as […]

Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea by Donald L. Baker with Franklin Rausch (2017)

Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea by Donald L. Baker with Franklin Rausch (2017)

Publication title: Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Chosŏn Korea Publication year: 2017 Author: Donald L. Baker with Franklin Rausch About the book Korea’s first significant encounter with the West occurred in the last quarter of the eighteenth century when a Korean Catholic community emerged on the peninsula. Decades of persecution followed, resulting in the deaths of […]

Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin (2020)

Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin (2020)

Publication title: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature Publication year: 2020 Author: Edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin About the book In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and […]

Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020)

Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020)

Publication title: Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020) Publication year: 2020 Author: Sunera Thobani About the book The current political standoffs of the ‘War on Terror’ illustrate that the interaction within and between the so-called Western and Middle Eastern civilizations is constantly in flux. A recurring theme […]

A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan by Dagmar Schwerk (2020)

A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan by Dagmar Schwerk (2020)

Publication title: A Timely Message from the Cave: The Mahāmudrā and Intellectual Agenda of dGe-bshes Brag-phug-pa dGe-’dun-rin-chen (1926–1997), the Sixty-Ninth rJe-mkhan-po of Bhutan Publication year: 2020 Author: Dagmar Schwerk About the book This book addresses the long-lasting debate about the Mahāmudrā doctrine and meditative system that was first elicited through Sakya Paṇḍita (1182–1252)’s systematic critique in […]

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States, contributed by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker (2020)

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States, contributed by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker (2020)

Publication title: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States Publication year: 2020 Author: Contributions by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker About the book From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number […]

One Left, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton (2020)

One Left, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-chan Fulton (2020)

Publication title: One Left Publication year: 2020 Author: Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton About the book During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived […]

Mind and Body in Early China by Edward Slingerland (2018)

Mind and Body in Early China by Edward Slingerland (2018)

Publication title: Mind and Body in Early China Publication year: 2018 Author: Edward Slingerland About the book Mind and Body in Early China critiques Orientalist accounts of early China as the radical, “holistic” other. The idea that the early Chinese held the “strong” holist view, seeing no qualitative difference between mind and body, has long been contradicted […]