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Russian Translation of Professor Denecke’s Book Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons is published!
Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons Ever since Karl Jaspers’s “axial age” paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book compares the dynamics between the…
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Prototyping a Comparative Global Humanities”: History of Humanities publishes a special issue on Shared Pasts for Shared Futures(co-edited by Wiebke Denecke, Alexander Forte, and Tristan Brown)
History of Humanities, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 2024 THEME: SHARED PASTS FOR SHARED FUTURES; PROTOTYPING A COMPARATIVE GLOBAL HUMANITIES This volume argues for a comparative and global reimagination of the humanities in their intellectual, disciplinary, and larger institutional forms. We seek to expand the geographical scope and temporal depth of inquiry while challenging Eurocentric…
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Fengshui in the Qing Dynasty Courtroom
Brown has written a new book about this rich and overlooked past, “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China,” published this month by Princeton University Press. In it, he examines the place of fengshui in Chinese society, specifically as a doctrine of knowledge used to inform legal cases and public…
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Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations was published (November 2023)
The book “Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations,” edited by Michael Stanley-Baker, was published in November 2023. This book tackles how health was desired or restored in Asia historically, placing healing practices into the hands of the actors who wielded the practices, materials, tools and spirits of healing and their lore. …
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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine ranked 1st among the Top Ten Open Access Social Science Books from Routledge
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine, edited by Michael Stanley-Baker and published on June 20, 2022 by Routledge, ranked 1st among the Top Ten Open Access Social Science Books from Routledge. This handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary guide to traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region. It covers various aspects such as Longue…