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Beating devils and burning their books : views of China, Japan and the West / edited by Anthony E. Clark.

Contributor(s): Series: Asia past & present ; no. 6.Publication details: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Association for Asian Studies, c2010.Description: 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780924304606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 092430460X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/25101821 22
LOC classification:
  • DS740.4 .B43 2010
Contents:
Contending representations : East-West / Anthony E. Clark -- The Chinese macabre in missionary publications and horror fiction / Eric Reinders -- Rape, baptism, and the 'pig' religion : Chinese images of foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth century / Anthony E. Clark -- In search of a Chinese picturesque : William Alexander, George Chinnery, and the visual image of China in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Pagani -- China and the confluence of cultures : overcoming the East-West mind-set / Lionel M. Jensen -- (Mis)conceiving the self in early China : memory and truth in early Chinese autobiographical writing / Matthew Wells -- From beat to hardcore : a new twist on phony Zen / Eric P. Cunningham -- The elusive middle : between romanticism and condemnation in the Buddhist imaginary / Mark T. Unno.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks DS740.4 .B43 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Library copy is autographed by author. TBC00002876

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index.

Contending representations : East-West / Anthony E. Clark -- The Chinese macabre in missionary publications and horror fiction / Eric Reinders -- Rape, baptism, and the 'pig' religion : Chinese images of foreign missionaries during the late nineteenth century / Anthony E. Clark -- In search of a Chinese picturesque : William Alexander, George Chinnery, and the visual image of China in nineteenth-century Britain / Catherine Pagani -- China and the confluence of cultures : overcoming the East-West mind-set / Lionel M. Jensen -- (Mis)conceiving the self in early China : memory and truth in early Chinese autobiographical writing / Matthew Wells -- From beat to hardcore : a new twist on phony Zen / Eric P. Cunningham -- The elusive middle : between romanticism and condemnation in the Buddhist imaginary / Mark T. Unno.

Library copy is autographed by author.

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