James Cahill, Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China
Reviewed by Michael G. Chang, 299
Ralph Sawyer, Ancient Chinese Warfare
Reviewed by Peter Lorge, 303
Yunnan: Periphery or Center of an International Network? (reviewing Bin Yang, Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan [Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE])
Reviewed by Michael C. Brose, 305
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 17, no. 3 (2010)”
Editors’ Preface
Don Baker & Seong-nae Kim, 5
In this second issue in volume two of the Journal of Korean Religions, we continue our exploration of Korea’s complex religious culture while continuing to interrogate the meaning of “religion” in a Korean cultural context.
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The five articles in this issue, dealing as they do with Confucians, Christians, Buddhists, and mudang, reflect the diversity of religious life on the peninsula. Moreover, they challenge attempts to impose a simplified definition of religion on Korea’s religious complexity, to dig unbridgeable trenches separating Korea’s various religious communities from one another, or even to distinguish between real religions and pseudo-religions in Korea. We hope this issue will stimulate further scholarly discussion of how the term “religion” has been used in a Korean context as well as of how best to represent and analyze the complex phenomena that form Korea’s religious culture.
Continue reading “Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011): Korean Religions in Inter-Cultural Contexts”
In Search of “Korean-ness” in Korean Religions through Border-crossing: A Comparative Approach
Nam-lin Hur, 5
What elements make Korean religions distinctive? This is an issue that has attracted a lot of attention from many scholars in the field. What would be an effective avenue to approach the ways in which external religions are adapted or transformed to Korean society and culture? In this article, Hur suggests that the task of tackling this question can benefit from a border-crossing approach, particularly through comparison with Japanese religions that offer a range of contrasting features. In order to illustrate this, Hur offers two examples that sharply distinguished Korean religions from Japanese religions in early modern times. One is the value of filial piety which dominated Korean Confucianism but was almost invisible in Japanese Confucianism. The other is Buddhism’s role in funerary rituals and ancestor worship: Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea was kept at bay from the dominant ritual arena of ancestor-related rituals; in contrast, Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan was the central agent of funerary rites and ancestor worship rituals. Hur suggests that border-crossing, comparative approaches that involve Japanese cases can contribute to de-localizing Korean religions and, at the same time, to localizing Korean-ness found in Korean religions in the context of society and culture.
Keywords: filial piety, ancestor worship, funerary rituals, Confucianism, Buddhism
Continue reading “Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 2, no. 1 (2011)”
Guest Editor: Eun-Young Jung
Rethinking Korean Identity in Music: Editor’s Introduction
Eun-Young Jung, 1
‘‘Fusion’’ and Questions of Korean Cultural Identity in Music
R. Anderson Sutton, 4
Editors’ Preface
Seong-nae Kim & Don Baker, 5
Korea offers both challenges and opportunities for scholars of religion. The opportunity it presents comes from its religious diversity. The Republic of Korea is the only country in the world in which both Buddhists and Christians each claim between 20% and 30% of the population. It also has what may be the most visible community of practicing shamans in the industrialized world. There are more Confucian shrines per capita in Korean today than in any other nation on earth. And Korea is home to a large assortment of new religious movements, ranging from the Unification Church to Daesoon Jinrihoe. In addition, close to half of the South Korean people say they have no particular religious affiliation. There is, therefore, much for a scholar of religion to study in Korea.
Continue reading “Journal of Korean Religions, vol. 1, nos. 1&2 (2010): Problematizing ‘‘Korean Religions’’”
David R. McCann
Editor’s Note, 7
Kim Aeran
Flugdatenschreiber, 11
Mouthwatering, 33
Pit-a-pat, My Life, 59
Jamie Chang
Interview with Kim Aeran, 79
Choi Ho-Cheol
Cartoons: Images of Seoul
Continue reading “Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture, vol. 5 (2012)”
The Existential Moment: Rereading Dōgen’s Theory of Time
Rein Raud, 153
This article argues for a new way to interpret Dōgen’s theory of time, reading the notion of uji as momentary existence, and shows that many notorious difficulties usually associated with the theory can be overcome with this approach, which is also more compatible with some fundamental assumptions of Buddhist philosophy (the non-durational existence of dharmas, the arbitrariness of linguistic designations and the concepts they point to, the absence of self-nature in beings, etc.). It is also shown how this reading leads to an innovative treatment of the concept of selfhood, viewing the self as the active openness of an existent to the surrounding world, with which it is able to identify through a mutual relation with other existents within the existential moment. This argument is supported by an alternative translation in the “momentary mode” of those extracts of the fascicle that introduce or elaborate on Dōgen’s key concepts.
Continue reading “Philosophy East and West, vol. 62, no. 2 (2012)”
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Introduction
Peter Bleed, 227
This serves as an introduction to eight articles on Japanese Palaeolithic archaeology that illustrate the types of research issues recently addressed and the kinds of archaeological data currently available on Pleistocene deposits in Japan. The articles also show how Japanese researchers are setting out to explain Palaeolithic variability at various scales, including the regional level. Perhaps, most importantly, given the recriminations following the relatively recent exposure of faked “early and middle Palaeolithic” artifacts in Japan, these papers show how Palaeolithic archeologists working in Japan have recognized the importance of presenting reliable archaeological and paleoenvironmental data in the context of clear research methodology.
Keywords: Palaeolithic, Japan, Pleistocene, lithic technology.
Continue reading “Asian Perspectives, vol. 49, no. 2 (2010)”
A New Study of Peasants without the Party (reviewing Lucien Bianco, Wretched Rebels: Rural Disturbances on the Eve of the Chinese Revolution)
Reviewed by Xiaorong Han, 197
Speaking of Cao Cao (reviewing Rafe de Crespigny, Imperial Warlord: A Biography of Cao Cao 155–220 A.D.)
Reviewed by David A. Graff, 201
China and Russian Literature in Historical Perspective (reviewing Mark Gamsa, The Reading of Russian Literature in China: A Moral Example and Manual of Practice; Mark Gamsa, The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature: Three Studies)
Reviewed by Alison Dray-Novey, 204
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 17, no. 2 (2010)”
Jay Taylor Finds Rehabilitating Chiang Kai-shek’s Reputation No Small Task (reviewing Jay Taylor, The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China)
Reviewed by David D. Buck, 1
Being What We Read: Perennialism in Chinese Islamic Studies (reviewing Sachiko Murata, William C. Chittick, and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms)
Reviewed by James D. Frankel, 8
Eternal Questions (reviewing Yuri Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Era)
Reviewed by Dennis Grafflin, 13
Continue reading “China Review International, vol. 17, no. 1 (2010)”
Contributions to LD&C are now published upon acceptance. Here are all the contributions accepted for volume 5.
Integrating Documentation and Formal Teaching of Kari’nja: Documentary Materials as Pedagogical Materials
Racquel-María Yamada, pp. 1–30
Continue reading “Language Documentation & Conservation, vol. 5 (2011)”
