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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Culture Areas of Asia | |
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| Asia As Cultured Space | |
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| The "Great Collision" and Asian Landforms | |
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| Rivers | |
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| The Outer Ring of Islands | |
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| Monsoons | |
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| Monsoon Asia and Rice Adaptations | |
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| Origins of Rice Cultivation | |
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| Two Rice Cultures | |
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| Rice and the Green Revolution | |
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| Early Asians | |
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| Notes | |
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| Tongues, Texts, and Scripts | |
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| Voices from the Past | |
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| Making Family Connections: The Indo-Europeans | |
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| East Asian Homelands | |
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| Austroasiatic | |
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| Austro-Tai | |
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| Sino-Tibetan | |
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| Texts | |
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| "You Are Hurting My Language" | |
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| The Search for Sacred Texts | |
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| Scripts | |
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| Written Chinese | |
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| Korean and Japanese | |
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| Notes | |
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| Tribal Peoples | |
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| Tribe, State, and Ethnic Group | |
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| Ethnic Identity | |
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| The Colonial Theory of Ethnicity | |
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| How the Thai Became an Ethnic Group | |
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| The Premodern and Modern State | |
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| The Hmong of Thailand | |
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| Who Are the Miao? | |
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| Homong in Thailand | |
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| The Transitory Community | |
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| Adaptation and Response: Opium | |
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| Fathers and Sons | |
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| "Silver Celebrates the Worth of Women" | |
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| Spirits, Domestic and Wild | |
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| India | |
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| An "Empire of the Spirit"? | |
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| The Moral Society | |
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| Dharma: The Moral Order of the Cosmos | |
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| The First Civilizations | |
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| Indus Valley Civilization (2300-1750 B.C.) | |
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| The Vedic Age (1500-450 B.C.) | |
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| A Tale of Two Kings: The Premodern Hindu State | |
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| From Dan to Tax Collection | |
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| The Caste System | |
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| The Varna System | |
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| Pure and Impure | |
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| The Castes of Mithila | |
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| The Jajmani System | |
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| Dangerous Exchange of Substances | |
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| The Dharma of Women | |
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| Hinduism | |
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| Upanishadic Thought | |
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| Buddhism | |
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| Rediscovering Buddhism | |
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| The Four Periods of Buddhism | |
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| The Three Jewels of Buddhism | |
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| Islamic Civilization in India | |
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| The Islamic Conquerors | |
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| Notes | |
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| Southeast Asia | |
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| Four Stages of Southeast Asian History | |
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| The Prehistoric Period 2500-150 B.C. | |
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| Period of Indian Cultural Influence A.D. 100-1300 | |
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| The Period of Chinese and Islamic Influence, 1300-1750 | |
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| Theravada Buddhism and the Thai State | |
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| The Buddhist Ramayana | |
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| Buddhism and Popular Religion | |
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| The Soul and Other Spirit Entities | |
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| The Monkhood | |
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| Women in Theravada Buddhism | |
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| Notes | |
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| China | |
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| The Beginnings: Shang, Zhou, and Qin | |
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| "The Ruins of Yin" | |
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| The Uses of Bronze | |
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| Communicating with Heaven | |
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| Idealized Zhou Feudalism | |
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| Two Sages: Confucius and Laozi (Lao Tzu) | |
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| The First Emperor and the Unification of China | |
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| Emergence of the Confucian Elite (Shenshi) | |
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| The Buddhist Challenge to Confucian Civilization | |
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| Neo-Confucianism | |
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| The Confucian Model for Kinship and Gender | |
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| Ancestor Worship | |
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| Wealth, Power, and Morality in the Large Lineage | |
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| The Family in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Women in Confucian China | |
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| Japan | |
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| The Yamato State | |
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| Shinto, Folk and Imperial | |
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| The China Connection: Asuka, Nara, and Heian Periods | |
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| Buddhism Comes to Japan | |
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| The Failure of the Centralized State | |
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| Romance at Court | |
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| Warrior Culture in Feudal Japan | |
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| The Shogunate | |
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| The Sumurai Class | |
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| Zen Buddhism and Samurai Culture | |
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| The Practice of Zen | |
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| Zen Buddhism's Institutions | |
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| Zen Culture: Zen and the Arts | |
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| The Colonial Period | |
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| Trade in the Precolonial Period | |
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| European Empires in Asia | |
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| Portuguese Port Cities and Priests | |
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| English and Dutch Merchant Companies | |
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| Britain's Indian Empire | |
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| China: Opium Wars and the Treaty Century | |
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| "Below the Winds"--Colonizing the Islands | |
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| Burma and Thailand | |
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| Vietnam | |
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| Cambodia | |
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| The Meiji Era | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |