Heinz-Murray 2E.book

     - 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
  
  
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• 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    • 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”
    
    
    
    
  
  
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• 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    • 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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• 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
  
  
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    • 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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• 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
      
      
      
      
    
    
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  • 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
    
    
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      • 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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• 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
    
    
    
    
  
  
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    • 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
  
  
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  • Index