The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies: A Critique 9783110799118, 9783110799033

The Encounter of Chinese and Western Philosophies: A Critique 9783110799118, 9783110799033

This book revisits the encounter between Chinese and Western philosophy while unfolding questions about the way "co

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Americans and Chinese Communists, 1927–1945: A Persuading Encounter 9781501743337

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Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine 0813330165, 9780813330167

This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diag

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Laughter in Eastern and Western Philosophies: Proceedings of the Académie du Midi 9783495860380, 9783495483855

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Chinese Students Encounter America 9780295803548, 9780295981819

An instant bestseller upon its publication in China in 1996, Chinese Students Encounter America (Liuxue Meiguo) appealed

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A Critique of Western Buddhism: Ruins of the Buddhist Real 9781474283557, 9781474283588, 9781474283571

What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary well

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Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory: An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents 9781501516948, 9781501516931

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in Chi

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A Global Enlightenment: Western Progress and Chinese Science 0226825760, 9780226825762

A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.  

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Encounter, Transformation, and Identity: Peoples of the Western Cameroon Borderlands, 1891-2000 9781845459345

Bringing together key historical and innovative ethnographic materials on the peoples of the South-West Province of Came

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Chinese Annals in the Western Observatory: An Outline of Western Studies of Chinese Unearthed Documents 9781501516948, 9781501516931

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of documents of all sorts have been unearthed in Chi

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