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  • The Global Japanese Restaurant

    Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics

    by Professor James Farrer, David Wank, Monica R. de Carvalho, Christian Hess, Chuanfei Wang, Lenka Vyletalova ...
    Series series Food in Asia and the Pacific
    With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and capital, Japanese cuisine spread and adapted to international tastes. But this expansion is also entangled in culinary politics, ranging from authenticity claims and status competition among restaurateurs ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Space of Religion

    Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China

    by Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2024 Francis H.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian AnthropologyThe Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Space of Religion

    Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China

    by Yoshiko Ashiwa, David L. Wank ...
    Series series The Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies
    Finalist, 2024 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionHonorable Mention, 2024 Francis H.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian AnthropologyThe Nanputuo Temple in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen has been a cherished site for the worship of the bodhisattva Guanyin for centuries. It was a center of modernizing Buddhism ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Metamorphosis of Buddhism in China’s New Era

    Between State, Culture, and Religion

    Edited by David L. Wank, Ji Zhe, Yoshiko Ashiwa ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    The metamorphosis of Buddhism synchronizing with alterations in political ideology, rapideconomic growth, and evolving societal demands in China's new era is the focus of thisbook. It traces the metamorphosis to 2002 when the Communist Party of China declaredupholding traditional Chinese culture, including Buddhism, to be essential to its leadership.The chapters offer rich case studies of updated ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Voice for the Voiceless

    Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People

    by Dalai Lama ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this unique book offering personal, spiritual, and historical reflections—some never shared before—His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People’s Republic of China for about his entire life. He was sixteen years old when ... Read more

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  • The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

    Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

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  • Confucius

    And the World He Created

    by Michael Schuman ...
    Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius's influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius's ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Feng Shui

    by Ole Bruun ...
    Series series Introduction to Religion
    Feng Shui has been known in the West for the last 150 years but has mostly been regarded as a primitive superstition. During the modern period successive regimes in China have suppressed its practice. However, in the last few decades Feng Shui has become a global spiritual movement with professional associations, thousands of titles published on the subject, countless websites devoted to it and ... Read more

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  • The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

    From Outside to Inside the Circle

    by Arlene Chan ...
    The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastward in search of employment and a more welcoming place.In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered fifty. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve what has ... Read more

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  • The Religious Question in Modern China

    by Vincent Goossaert, David A. Palmer ...
    Recent events—from strife in Tibet and the rapid growth of Christianity in China to the spectacular expansion of Chinese Buddhist organizations around the globe—vividly demonstrate that one cannot understand the modern Chinese world without attending closely to the question of religion. The Religious Question in Modern China highlights parallels and contrasts between historical events, political ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Community in Toronto

    Then and Now

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    Sam Ching, a laundryman, is the first Chinese resident recorded in Toronto's city directory of 1878. A few years later, in 1881, there were 10 Chinese and no sign of a Chinatown. Today, with no less than seven Chinatowns and half a million people, Chinese Canadians have become the second-largest visible minority in the Greater Toronto Area.Stories, photographs, newspaper reports, maps, and charts ... Read more

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