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Australia: Sydney University Press. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 042400013X Harback Hardback. (From the library of George Rude, Author and Historian, signed by him to inside cover). Slightly sunned spine to D/J. The literary and historical essays by nine distinguished scholars which comprise this volume are concerned wsith how biographical writing in its broadest sense reveals ideas about the place of the individual in society in three regions, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Asia. They suggest that individuality was never the theme in traditional Asian biography but what was more relevant was how the Self was portrayed for example, the inner and outer self, the quiescent and creative self, the private and public self. The tendency in Asia was for biographies to stress the public roles their subjects played. What was important was merely the type, the model or the negative example. The essays were first presented…
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- Date 1975
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