Heinz-Murray 2E.book

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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 Islands



    • Monsoon Asia and Rice Adaptations

      • Rice, Dry and Wet

      • Origins of Rice Cultivation

      • Two Rice Cultures

      • Rice and the Green Revolution



    • Early Asians

    • ■ REFERENCES CITED



  • 2 Tongues, Texts, and Scripts

    • Voices from the Past

      • Making Family Connections: The Indo-Europeans

      • East Asian Homelands

      • Austroasiatic

      • Austro-Tai

      • Sino-Tibetan



    • Te x t s

      • “You Are Hurting My Language”

      • The Search for Sacred Texts



    • Scripts vi Contents

      • South Asian Scripts

      • Written Chinese

      • Korean and Japanese



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED

      • Outsiders PART II





  • 3 Central Asia, Xinjiang, and Tibet

    • The Silk Roads

      • Silk and Steeds

      • Travelers

      • Religions along the Silk Road



    • Barbarians

      • Women on the Steppe

      • The Xiongnu and the Mongols

        • the Mongol Empire Genghis Khan (Chinggis Qa’an) and





    • Xinjiang and Tibet

      • “New Dominion”

      • “Western Treasure-House”



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED



  • 4 Tribal People

    • Self-Governing People and Expansionary States

    • Ethnic Identity

    • The Colonial Theory of Ethnicity

    • Hmong: A Case Study

      • Who Are the Miao?

      • Hmong in Thailand

      • The Transitory Community

      • Adaptation and Response: Opium

      • Fathers and Sons

      • “Silver Celebrates the Worth of Women”

      • Spirits, Domestic and Wild



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED

      • South Asia PART III





  • 5 India

    • A Forgotten Past

      • Puzzles of Indian Origins: The First Civilizations

      • Indus Valley Civilization (2500–1500 B.C.E.)



    • Brief Outline of Indian History

      • The Vedic Age (1500–450 B.C.E.)

      • The Mauryan-Guptan Empires (323 B.C.E.–550 C.E.)

      • Medieval Period (550–1210 C.E.)

        • Nineteenth Centuries) The Indo-Islamic Period (Twelfth to

        • Twentieth Centuries) British Colonial Period (Eighteenth to



      • Era of Independence



    • The Caste System

      • Ancient Sources on the Caste System

      • Economics of Caste: The Jajmani System

        • a North Indian Village Case Study: Two Hundred Years of Caste in

        • and Scheduled Tribes Social Justice: Reservations for Scheduled Castes





    • The Dharma of Women

      • Patriarchy

      • A Woman’s Life Cycle

      • Two Social Problems



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED



  • 6 Religions of South Asia

    • Early Core Ideas

      • New Ideas Emerge: Upanishadic Thought

      • The Proliferating Gods



    • The Hindu-Buddhist Traditions

      • Life in Society: Clean and Unclean in Caste Society

      • Life In and Out of Society: Having It Both Ways

      • Te m p l e Wo r s h i p a n d Bhakti

      • Pilgrimage to Buddhist India

      • The “Three Jewels” of Buddhism

      • The Four Periods of Buddhism



    • Islam viii Contents

      • Sufis, Saints, and Shahs

      • Sunnis and Shias in Colonial India

      • The Umma and the Independence Movement



    • Sikhism

    • ■ REFERENCES CITED

      • East Asia PART IV





  • 7 China

    • The Beginnings: Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin

      • “The Ruins of Yin”

      • The Uses of Bronze

      • Communicating with Heaven

      • Idealized Zhou Feudalism

      • Two Sages: Confucius and Laozi (Lao Tsu)

      • The First Emperor and the Unification of China



    • Emergence of the Confucian Elite (Shenshi)

      • The Buddhist Challenge to Confucian Civilization

      • Neo-Confucianism



    • The Confucian Model for Kinship and Gender

      • Ancestor Worship

      • Wealth, Power, and Morality in the Large Lineage

      • The Family in the Twentieth Century

      • Women in Confucian China



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED



  • 8 Japan

    • The Yamato State

      • Chinese and Early Japanese Sources

      • Shinto, Folk and Imperial

      • Asuka, Nara, and Heian Periods The China Connection:

        • Buddhism Comes to Japan

        • The Failure of the Centralized State

        • Romance at Court



      • Warrior Culture in Feudal Japan Contents ix

        • The Shogunate

        • The Samurai Class

        • Zen Buddhism and Samurai Culture

        • The Practice of Zen

        • Zen Buddhism’s Institutions

        • Zen Culture: Zen and the Arts



      • ■ REFERENCES CITED



    • 9 Korea

      • Religion, Ritual, and Korean Culture

        • Myths of Origin

        • Korean Shamanism



      • Three Kingdoms Period (378 B.C.E.–935 C.E.)

      • Koryo Dynasty (918–1392)

      • Neo-Confucianism in Choson Dynasty (1392–1897)

        • Neo-Confucianism and Scholar-Officials

        • Writing the Korean Language

        • Turmoil in Late Choson: The Tonghak Movement



      • Korea as Japanese Colony

      • Challenges of Modern Korea

      • ■ REFERENCES CITED

        • Southeast Asia PART V







  • 10 Mainland and Insular Southeast Asia

    • Four Stages of Southeast Asian History

      • The Prehistoric Period 2500–150 B.C.E.

      • Period of Indian Cultural Influence 100 C.E.–1300 C.E.

      • The Period of Chinese and Islamic Influence, 1300–1750



    • Theravada Buddhism and the Thai State

      • The Buddhist Ramayana



    • Buddhism and Popular Religion

      • The Soul and Other Spirit Entities

      • The Monkhood

      • Women in Theravada Buddhism



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED



  • 11 Insular Southeast Asia x Contents

    • Borneo

      • Haddon in Borneo

      • Death in Borneo



    • Head-Hunting in the Philippines

    • Romanticized Bali

      • Trance and Dance in Bali

      • The Balinese Cockfight



    • ■ REFERENCES CITED

      • European Empires in Asia PART VI





  • 12 The Colonial Period

    • Trade in the Precolonial Period

    • European Empires in Asia

      • Portuguese Port Cities and Priests

      • English and Dutch Merchant Companies

      • Britain’s Indian Empire

      • China: Opium Wars and the Treaty Century

      • “Below the Winds”—Colonizing the Islands

      • Burma and Thailand

      • Vietnam

      • Cambodia



    • The Meiji Era

    • ■ REFERENCES CITED

    • Index



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