Tag: Central Asia

• Forthcoming: Buddhist Transformations and Interactions

  The following is an announcement from Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of  Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. “It is with great pleasure that I announce the forthcoming publication of Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte (Cambria Press, 2017). …

  Cambria Press

  July 22, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, Religious Studies

  Antonino Forte, Buddhist, Buddhological research, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese, East Asia, India, Japan, Khitan, Korea, maya, nirvana, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Vietnam

• Interview with Wilt Idema on his new book, “The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu”

  The following is an interview with Cambria Press author Dr. Wilt Idema (Harvard University) whose new book has just been released. In addition to the many honors he has earned, Dr. Idema is one of twenty Sinologists this year to win the 9th Special Book Award of China, a national-level award was set up by General…

  Cambria Press

  October 8, 2015

  Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, China, Literary History, Religious Studies

  AAS, Asian Studies, baojuan, Book Award, Buddhist, Cambria author, Cambria book, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese dialect, Chinese popular culture, colloquial, comparative literature, Harvard University, intangible cultural heritage, literary history, May Fourth, Ming dynasty, Mongol, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, religious studies, Shanghai, Sinologist, sinology, Sinophone, sutra, The Precious Scroll of Kalpa Survival, The Precious Scroll of Liu Quan Presenting Melon, The Precious Scroll of the Mouse, The Precious Scroll of the Parrot, translation, vernacular, Victor Mair, Western Gansu, Wilt Idema

• Cambria Press New Book from the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)!

  NEW from the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)! “This book represents the future of Asian studies. A thoroughly transcultural perspective that characterizes the volume sheds new lights on issues that have been studied only within the framework of East Asian modern nation states. At the same time, it…

  Cambria Press

  August 14, 2014

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Book Review, Culture, History, New Scholarly Books

  academic publisher, Buddhism, Cambria Press, Central Asia, China, Chinese civilization, Chinese history, Chinese-Japanese, Christianity, Dorothy C. Wong, East Asia, Eurasia, Gustav Heldt, Han Dynasty, Islam, Manichaenism, Medieaval Eurasia, Nara court, Nestorianism, Northeast Asia, Sinophone, Sogdian, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tang dynasty, Victor Mair, Zoroastrianism