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SECOND EDITION Asian Cultural Traditions Carolyn Brown Heinz California State University, Chico Jeremy A. Murray California Stat ...

To Chloe, Bella, Emily, and Zoe, and to all of our students For information about this book, contact: Wavela n d P r ess, I n c. ...

v CONTENTS Preface xi ...

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- Land and Language PART I 1 Asia as Cultured Space “The Great Collision” and Asian Landforms Rivers The Outer Ring of Isl ...

xi PREFACE It has been almost twenty years since the first edition of Asian Cultural Tra- ditions was published in 1999. In many ...

xii Preface tion of Korean, and we have followed his advice. Above all, we are grateful to the hundreds of students who have rea ...

1 Part I Land and Language 1 Asia as Cultured Space 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts ...

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3 The Study of Asia If ever there was a time when Asia could be ignored, that time is not the present. At the end of the twentie ...

4 Part I: Land and Language West as a plural place, but the Japanese playwright, Masakazu Yamazaki (Yamazaki 1996), looking at t ...

Part I: Land and Language 5 Far more, even than Europe, the regions of Asia we focus on in this book are places of extraordinary ...

6 Part I: Land and Language The search for sacred texts, which occupied Chinese, Japanese, and South- east Asian intellectuals f ...

Part I: Land and Language 7 Culture Areas of Asia The terms we have been using—South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia—are fai ...