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Asian Studies
catalog 2020/2021
Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
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Jesuit Mission and Submission
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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
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East and West, 9
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
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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.)
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Crossroads - History of Interactions Climate and Culture, 6 Prognostication in History, 5
across the Silk Routes, 3
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
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
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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
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Armenian Texts and Studies, 4 The Social Sciences of Practice, 7
“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
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Sinica Leidensia, 151
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
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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.)
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Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 20 Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk The Social Sciences of Practice, 6
Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en
Volkenkunde, 313New
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
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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, 2NOW
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,
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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
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Studies in the History of Brill’s Inner Asian Library, 39
Christianity in East Asia, 4The 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
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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.)
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Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 48 Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 47 Brill’s Tibetan Studies Library, 46A History of Chinese Buddhist Faith and Life
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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
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Studies on East Asian Religions, 3Detecting 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.)
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Sinica Leidensia, 150 Sinica Leidensia, 149 Sinica Leidensia, 148Eastern 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
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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.)
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East and West, 8 East and West, 7Overseas 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.
R E A D E R S H I P: Students and schol- READERSHI P: Scholars, political REA D ERS HI P : All those interested
ars in the fields of anthropology, and business analysts, and those in the economy of knowledge in
overseas Chinese studies, Asian in the general public with inter- Southeast Asia and the Global
studies, China studies, migration ests in topics covering overseas South, with emphasis on interna-
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,
tuals, and Christian intellectuals. implications of China’s rise. the social role of Academia and
Philanthropy.
September 2020 September 2020 August 2020
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Chinese Overseas, 16 Chinese Overseas, 15Engendering 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
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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.
R E ADE R S HIP : All interested in READERSHI P: Anyone interested REA D ERS HI P : All interested in
women’s and gender history in in the history of Indian astrology, the modern girl and mass media,
China, and anyone concerned the transmission of horoscopic consumption and globalization
with the periodical press and astrology generally, the Indian and the history of interwar East
print culture in modern China. reception of Perso-Arabic astral Asia.
sciences, or intellectual history in
early modern South Asia.
November 2020 August 2020 June 2020
Hardback Hardback (approx. 850 pp.) Hardback (224 pp., 89 illus.)
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Women and Gender in China Studies, 12 Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, 19New
Series
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
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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.
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Tibetan History under Jiaoyu (On the Education Tantric Traditions
Mao Retold of Children, c. 1632) Essays in Honour of
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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-
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been reimagined by Chinese and Sanskrit belles lettres.
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in East Asia, 3Chinese Research Crossroads of Cuisine Chinese Research
Perspectives on Population The Eurasian Heartland, the Perspectives on the
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in Employment North Georgia, E.N. Anderson,
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3 volume set
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Pure Land was one of the main fields of mytho- of what evolved under this heading of Buddhism.
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poesis and discourse among the Asian Buddhist Special attention is given to the traps into which
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tance from the Heian period right up to the pres- True Pure Land (Jōdoshinshū) school, and the rich-
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and complexity have tended to be misevaluated. ments. These selections of previously published
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Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age
Paul Bevan
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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,
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China Studies, 41Fou 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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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
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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
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Review Thad D. Calabrese Government Sector Research, Making of a Modern Literary
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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-
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Brill Research Perspectives Brill Research Perspectives Brill’s Indological Library, 52Seeking 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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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
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representing the dynasty in and communities. rocal dynamic of aversion and
power, and lacking specialised admiration.
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Brill’s Inner Asian Library, 38 Chinese Overseas, 12 East and West, 6Visualising Ethnicity in Mapping the Pāśupata Remembering May Fourth
the Southwest Borderlands Landscape The Movement and its
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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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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
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Emotions and States of Mind in East Gonda Indological Studies, 21 Ideas, History, and Modern China, 23
Asia, 9Islam in South Asia
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Revised, Enlarged and Updated Second Edition
Jamal Malik
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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
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a comprehensive and plural canvas of the religious cades.
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 37Brill’s Encyclopedia of Religions
of Indigenous People of South Asia
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of the Religions of the Indigenous aspects of morality, symbolism, identity formation,
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its many language groups and religious traditions. anterior state, though this does not exclude talking
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia, 36Moulding 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
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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-
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project of shaping ideal social- but also the criticism it encoun- dia and the struggles of women
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Ideas, History, and Modern China, 22 Leiden Series in Comparative
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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
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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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Modern Chinese Philosophy, 20 Prognostication in History, 4 Prognostication in History, 3Text 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
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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
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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.
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Religion in Chinese Societies, 16 Science and Religion in East Asia, 3 Sinica Leidensia, 147Powerful 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
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to natural studies, literature, and the civil examina- rationality.
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