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Provides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Pure Land Buddhism has previously received very little attention from western scholars. Charles B. Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.
The first in-depth English-language work to present regional traditions of Chinese architecture based on a detailed study of the timber construction system. Lala Zuo presents case studies of twenty buildings along the Yangtze River built during the Yuan, often considered a transitional phase in Chinese architectural history.
Presents aspects of Hawaii and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook's naturalist, aepkahaaeia, lexicographer Noah Webster, philologists in New England, missionary-linguists and their Hawaiian consultants, and many minor players.
Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist scholarship, the book adds to an emerging literature on cities in the ""Global South"" as sites of oppression, but also resistance, aspiration, and activism.
A workbook to accompany the thoroughly revised third edition of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, the first volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean.
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