"At the Shores of the Sky"
Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstaedt
Published on 8. October 2020
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-90-04-43298-7 (ISBN)
Description
Albert Hoffstaedt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished himself as a figure of exceptional discernment and insight in academic publishing. He has also become a personal friend to many of his authors. A subset of these authors here offers to him in tribute and gratitude 22 essays on various topics in Asian Studies. These include studies on premodern Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Korean literature, history, and religion, extending also into the modern and contemporary periods. They display the broad range of Mr. Hoffstaedt's interests while presenting some of the most outstanding scholarship in Asian Studies today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-43298-7 (9789004432987)
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Persons
Paul W. Kroll, Ph.D. (1976, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely on medieval Chinese literature and cultural history, and is the author of A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill, 2014; rev. ed. 2017).
Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).
Jonathan A. Silk, Ph.D. (1994, Univ. of Michigan), has published widely, mainly on Indian and Buddhist literature, and is the founding editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2 vols. to date, 2015, 2019).
Content
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Albert Hoffstaedt: A Tribute
?The Editors
?1?What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?
?Alexander Lubotsky
?2?India's Past Reconsidered
?Johannes Bronkhorst
?3?A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ananda's Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha's Teachings
?Jonathan A.Silk
?4?On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas
?Vincent Eltschinger
?5?Size Matters: The Length of Korea's History and the Size of Its Historical Territory
?Remco Breuker
?6?Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan
?Martin J.Heijdra
?7?Overcoming Distance
?Richard Bowring
?8?Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China
?Martin Kern
?9?Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy
?Jan De Meyer
?10?On Some Verses of Li Bo
?Paul W.Kroll
?11?An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside
?David R.Knechtges
?12?Lu Ji's Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation
?Wendy Swartz
?13?Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China
?Stephen F.Teiser
?14?Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826-1880)
?Beata Grant
?15?Chinese Dualism Revisited
?John Lagerwey
?16?An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews
?Robert Ford Campany
?17?Self-Portrait of a Narcissist
?Pierre-Etienne Will
?18?The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles
?Robert E.Hegel
?19?Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju
?Wilt L.Idema
?20?Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry
?Maghiel van Crevel
?21?Horatius Sinensis
?Michael Lackner
?22?The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity
?Christoph Harbsmeier
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Albert Hoffstaedt: A Tribute
?The Editors
?1?What Language Was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex?
?Alexander Lubotsky
?2?India's Past Reconsidered
?Johannes Bronkhorst
?3?A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: Why Ananda's Lack of Understanding Makes Him a Reliable Witness to the Buddha's Teachings
?Jonathan A.Silk
?4?On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugas
?Vincent Eltschinger
?5?Size Matters: The Length of Korea's History and the Size of Its Historical Territory
?Remco Breuker
?6?Polyglot Translators: Chinese, Dutch, and Japanese in the Introduction of Western Learning in Tokugawa Japan
?Martin J.Heijdra
?7?Overcoming Distance
?Richard Bowring
?8?Beyond Nativism: Reflections on Methodology and Ethics in the Study of Early China
?Martin Kern
?9?Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: Notes on Death and Alcohol in Chinese Poetry and Philosophy
?Jan De Meyer
?10?On Some Verses of Li Bo
?Paul W.Kroll
?11?An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside
?David R.Knechtges
?12?Lu Ji's Theory of Reading and Writing: Medieval Chinese Anxieties about Literary Creation
?Wendy Swartz
?13?Terms of Friendship: Bylaws for Associations of Buddhist Laywomen in Medieval China
?Stephen F.Teiser
?14?Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826-1880)
?Beata Grant
?15?Chinese Dualism Revisited
?John Lagerwey
?16?An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews
?Robert Ford Campany
?17?Self-Portrait of a Narcissist
?Pierre-Etienne Will
?18?The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles
?Robert E.Hegel
?19?Making Up for a Loss: The Tragedy of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai in Modern Zaju
?Wilt L.Idema
?20?Transgression as Rule: Freebooters in Chinese Poetry
?Maghiel van Crevel
?21?Horatius Sinensis
?Michael Lackner
?22?The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: An Essay on Conceptual Biodiversity
?Christoph Harbsmeier
Index