David Jones is Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University and Professor of Philosophy at Kennesaw State University. His books include Asian Texts - Asian Contexts: Encounters with Asian Philosophies and Religions (coedited with E. R. Klein), also published by SUNY Press. Michele Marion is Director of the Center for International Studies at Paradise Valley Community College.

Acknowledgments

Editor's Introduction
David Jones and Michele Marion

Introduction
Roger T. Ames, Peter D. Hershock, and Elizabeth Buck

1. Philosophical Issues in Japanese Gardens: In Reality, Literature, and Film
Mara Miller

2. Feeling as Form in Indian Aesthetics
Harriette D. Grissom

3. Images of What Never Was to Suggest What Might Be: Japanese Popular Culture and Japaneseness
Paul E. Dunscomb

4. Korean P'ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing
Katharine C. Purcell and E. Taylor Atkins

5. Mosques and Muslim Identity along China's Trade Routes
Lawrence E. Butler

6. Dynamics of Religion and Politics in South Asia
Aslam Syed

7. First Contact: The Earliest Western Views of Daoism in Matteo Ricci's Journals
Ronnie Littlejohn

8. Considering Asia and Teaching the Daoist Way: Understanding Identity, Community, and Ecology in Connection, Perspective, and Practice
Shudong Chen

9. Cultural Counterpoint and Hidden Assumptions: Confucianism, Feminist Theory, and Revealing the Cultural Complexity of Foot Binding
Xiufen Lu

10. The North Korean Nuclear Weapons Threat, Japanese Reactions, and the Possibility of a Northeast Asian Nuclear Arms Race
George P. Brown

11. Bhutan in the Middle: In Between in the Powers' Game
Kelly Long

12. The "Sea of Malayu": An Ocean Perspective on Early Southeast Asian History
Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Y. Andaya

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