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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenneth R Stunkel |
| ISBN: | 9780765625403 0765625407 0765625415 9780765625410 |
| OCLC Number: | 658810879 |
| Notes: | "An East Gate book." |
| Description: | xiii, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I. Journey to the East: -- Learning from unfamiliar cultural traditions. Discovering cultural universals ; Understanding historical uniqueness -- Symbols, styles, and meanings. Symbols ; Styles ; Meanings ; Notes -- Part II. India: India's historical foundation. Indus Valley prelude ; The Aryan overlay ; The long silence ; Ways of Kingship ; A cultural summit -- Society and thought stabilize -- India's social net -- India's cosmology -- Ideas in Hindu literature. Sankhya-Yoga ; Vaishesika-Nyaya ; Purva Mimamsa-Vedanta ; Charvaka (Also called Lokayata, or "World," implying olny the world exists -- India's traditions of thought. Vedic Brahmanism ; Upanishads ; Jainism ; Buddhism ; Hinduism ; Four ends of life ; Four stages of life -- India's religion and mythology -- India's way of thinking -- India's ideals of beauty. Sculpture ; Architecture ; Temples in Indian life ; Notes -- Part III. China: -- China's historical foundation. The land ; Dynastic system ; Village economy ; Language ; Scholar-Gentry- Literati (shen-shih- shenshi) ; Foreigners and the tribute system -- China's social net -- China's cosmology -- China's ideas in literature. The classics ; Ssu-ma Ch'ien (Sima Qian) and history -- China's traditions of thought. Taoism ; Lao-tzu (Laozi) ; Neo-Taoism ; Buddhism ; Confucianism. Confucius ; Mencius (Mengzi) ; Hsun-tzu (Xunzi) ; Han Dynasty Confucianism ; Sung Dynasty Neo-Confucianism -- China's Religion and Mythology -- China's way of thinking -- China's ideals of beauty. Symbolism ; Architecture. Tradition ; Symbolism ; Naturalism ; Structure ; Style ; The forbidden city ; Gardens ; Calligraphy ; Landscape painting. The brushstroke ; Scholarship and the "Perfections" ; Neo-Confucian cosmology ; The private realm ; Tradition ; Aesthetic theory ; Style in landscape painting ; Sung Realism ; Yuan subjectivity ; Ming traditionalsim ; The Ch'ing endgame -- The tradition ossifies ; Landscape painting, man, and nature ; Notes -- Part IV. Japan. Japan's historical foundation. Land of the gods ; Clans, civil monarchy, and feudalism ; Language ; Aristograts, Daimyo, and Samurai -- Japan's social net -- Japan's cosmology -- Japan's ideas in literature. The tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) ; The pillow book (Makura no Soshi) ; Shinkokinshu (New collection of ancient and modern poetry) ; Hojoki (An account of my Hut) ; The book of five rings (Go rin no sho) ; Haiku ; Noh theater ; Saikaku, Kiseki, and the "Floating world" -- Japan's traditions of thought. Buddhism. The Nara sects ; The Heian sects ; Zen Buddhism ; The Confucian revival -- Japan's religion and mythology. Shinto ("The way of the gods") ; Devotional Buddhism ; Mythical themes -- Japan's way of thinking -- Japan's ideals of beauty. Recurrent principles of art (Five aesthetic preferences). Naturalness ; Natural material ; Asymmetry ; Untrammeled space ; Confort and extremes ; The Chinese connection ; The Heian aesthetic ; Te Zen aesthetic ; The urban aesthetic ; Notes -- Part V. A summing up: -- India -- China -- Japan. |
| Responsibility: | Kenneth R. Stunkel. |
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