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Historical Background of Wang Yang-ming’s Philosophy of Mind = From the Per…
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Ping Dong

This open access book offers comprehensive information on Wang Yang-ming’s life, helping readers identify and grasp the foundations on which his philosophy was established. Though a great man, Wang had an extremely difficult life, full of many hardships. Based on various official histories, Wang’s own writings, and his disciples’ records, the book explores the legendary life of this ancie…

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9789811530364
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X, 199 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Environmental Humanities in India
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Debajyoti Biswas, John C. Ryan

This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…

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978-981-97-3932-5
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Asia in Transition
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X, 234
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Queering Gender, Sexuality, and Becoming-Human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai
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Thomas William Whyke

This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to contemporary debates around identity and power. Depictions of porous boundaries between humans and animals, transformations between g…

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978-981-99-4258-9
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Gender
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305.3
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A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-Tamil
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BESCHI,C.G.B. G. Babington

Published in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common Tamil. While the latter enabled the student to speak the language, this reissue offers a way into reading Tamil's classical literature with its complexity of thought and technique. One of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of…

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9781139505918
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Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society
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