Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 0804745331, 9780804745338

Performing the Visual: The Practice of Buddhist Wall Painting in China and Central Asia, 618-960 9781503620261

Performing the Visual explores the practice of wall painting in China from a new perspective. Relying on rare, virtually

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China And East Asia: After The Wall Street Crisis : After the Wall Street Crisis 9789814407274, 9789814407267

This book examines the need for greater East Asian cooperation and the challenges to this grand endeavor. With differing

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Buddhist Practice and Visual Culture: The visual rhetoric of Borobudur 9780415780988, 9780203829813

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The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform 9780804797641

China's rise has elicited envy, admiration, and fear among its neighbors. Although much has been written about this

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Early Buddhist art of China and Central Asia, Volume 2: The Eastern Chin and Sixteen Kingdoms Period in China and Tumshuk, Kucha and Karashahr in Central Asia 9004114998, 9789004114999

Volume two of Marylin Rhie's widely acclaimed and formative multi-volume work presents a comprehensive, scholarly a

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Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864-1877 9780804767231

In July 2009, violence erupted among Uyghurs, Chinese state police, and Han residents of Ürümqi, the capital city of Xin

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Russia and Nationalism in Central Asia: The Case of Tadzhikistan

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The Buddhist Revival In China 0196266904, 9780196266909

Based partly on unpublished documents and oral information obtained from monks who headed major monasteries on mainland

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Roman Provincial Wall Painting of the Western Empire 9780860541714, 9781407328485

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The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China 0824824946, 2002000245

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