Search Results: Asian history from 64 Books

Near fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket. Writing on first page else clean and unmarked, 226 pp, english language.
Korean elite/higher education has been affected by historic factors. The significant religious and philosophical elements influencing Korean elite/higher education have been Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto-Confucianism, Christianity and Western thoughts. In particular, the traditional thoughts such as Buddhism and Confucianism have affected a spiritual side, whereas the grafted ideas such as Christianity and Western thoughts have contributed to a formal side. The characteristics of contemporary Korean higher education have maintained the hierarchically closed organizational structure and culture with formal authoritarian interaction patterns.

Good condition softcover with creased spine, chip out of head of spine and small stains on fore-edge, text unmarked, 199 pp. This second volume of studies in the historical musicology of Asian music includes a transcription by J. Conduit in mensural notation of a fifteenth-century Korean score; article by L.E.R. Picken and Mitani Yoko on zither finger-techniques in Heian times; early Indian musical inscription by D.R. Widdess; and articles by Muriel C. Williamson on Burmese poet Mya-wadi , and on an eighteenth-century Burmese song.

No dustjacket, near fine condition hardcover, clean and unmarked, 339 pp.
This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new… Read More