By Haruo Shirane
ISBN-10: 0231144148
ISBN-13: 9780231144148
This abridged version of Haruo Shirane's well known anthology, Early smooth eastern Literature, keeps the basic texts that experience made the unique quantity this kind of necessary source. The booklet introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, together with dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric photograph books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It additionally gains poetic genres akin to waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and performs starting from Chikamatsu's puppet performs to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will proceed to profit from the anthology's collection of major essays, treatises, literary feedback, folks tales, and different noncanonical works, in addition to the various prints that observed those works. they're going to additionally locate Shirane's introductions and important observation, which consultant the reader in the course of the allusive and infrequently elliptical nature of those magnificent selections.
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E. L. , Cambridge, 1993). 3 In perhaps the most arresting recent formulation of such views, Jack Goldstone argues that the steam engine, which he sees as the central prerequisite for industrialization and modernity itself, derived not from general European culture, but from a confluence of specifically British factors in the late 1600s. 5 The sine qua non for European exceptionalism’s intellectual appeal – an appeal, by the way, that extended well beyond colonial sympathizers to many 3 4 5 David S.
850 and 1300/1350 shared a number of defining features. e. but that intensified toward the close of the first and at the start of the second millennium. C. , Southeast Asia in the 9th to 14th Centuries (Singapore, 1986), 1–22. Evidence for territorial transitions of this sort is weaker for Champa, although the shift of capital from Indrapura to Vijaya in 1000 may have reflected not only Vietnamese pressure, the usual explanation, but a determination to tap growing maritime trade. In the Irrawaddy basin the latest evidence from Upper Burma, summarized in Hudson, “Origins of Bagan”; idem and Lustig, “Communities of the Past”; 15 Strange Parallels have begun in the 6th or 7th century, not until Pagan’s conquest of the south coast in the mid-1000s was the Irrawaddy basin unified.
What was the relation, for example, between agrarian growth, long-distance trade, technological diffusion, and interstate pressures – and how did those relations change by time and place? 19 How shall we relate European, mainland Southeast Asian, and Japanese patterns to the experience of China, Southwest Asia, South Asia, and island Southeast Asia, in all of which integration relied more heavily on external agency and in most cases followed a different chronology? In brief, in what ways and to what extent can we regard premodern Eurasia as a coherent ecumene?
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