In the early 19th century Ruhai Xiancheng 如海顯承 (fl. 1800-1826) wrote a route book describing itineraries to China's most popular pilgrimage sites for the use of his fellow monks: "Knowing the Paths of Pilgrimage"…
This talk will introduce Kano’s recently published volume, Japanese Feminist Debates: A Century of Contention on Sex, Love, and Labor (University of Hawai’i Press, 2016). This book argues for the importance…
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| Class of '55 Conference Room, 2nd Floor Van Pelt Library
The discussion of the place of Islam in the Qing Empire has largely been carried on without confronting the question of what “Islam” meant to the Qing – a non-European, non-confessional empire, …
“館史資料からみた東京国立博物館と外国博物館との文化財交換 (The History of the Exchanges of the Cultural Objects between the Tokyo National Museum and the Museums in Foreign Counties)”
There were a variety of currencies in premodern society, but coins were widely used due to their intrinsic values in the metal itself. However, a large-scale national plan was needed since the material supply was…
