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Editor's note.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2007; ... We are pleased to present our readers with the seventh volume of East-West Connections. The contents of this issue continue to reflect the interests of our readers by offering scholarly articles on both content and pedagogical topics. These articles stretch across regions and the spectrum ...
Images for iconoclasts: images of Confucius in the Cultural Revolution.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Confucius died and was buried in 479 bce, and he was never seen again. (1) Or so one would think. "You may forget me as I once was," Confucius reminds us in the Zhuangzi, "but there is something unforgettable about me that will still live on." (2) Confucius's physical frame was concealed ...
The idea of the Islamic State.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... The phantom of an Islamic State has haunted the Musalman throughout the ages and is a result of the memory of the glorious past .... that makes the Musalman of today live in the past and with the dead weight of centuries on his back, frustrated and bewildered and hesitant to turn to one ...
Feeling as form in Indian aesthetics.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... To speak of feeling as a source of formal coherence is a strange idea from a Western perspective. Feelings are believed to be formless, chaotic, explosive, corrosive, ungovernable, irrational, and delusive. In Western aesthetic and philosophical traditions, form and feeling are most often ...
Japanese gardens as texts and contexts.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Why teach Japanese gardens and philosophy? In an earlier essay, I outlined reasons for teaching Japanese aesthetics. Many of these reasons apply to the teaching of Japanese gardens as well. (1) Since Japanese gardens give direct experience of the culture, they contribute ...
The humanizing voice and vision of place in jazz and Daoism.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... What do we want to emphasize while teaching humanities regarding its values? What do we expect our students, in other words, to learn from their humanities courses? In regard to those of us who teach in the humanities, do we encourage our students to see, feel, and understand humanity in ...
"Have you eaten?" heterogeneity and identity through food.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2007; ... This article examines how food contributes to identity. The informality of food and food-sharing is often the first step to appreciating heterogeneity and in creating cohesion within a changing or changed society. These contributions are explored through a curriculum module, based on my ...
Comparing Chinese guanxi with American networking for foreign-born Chinese job seekers in the U.S.(Report)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Guanxi is a key term for the Chinese and Asian cultures. This paper compares the meaning and power of guanxi in the Chinese context with networking in the American context for job seeking purposes. Building upon Granovetter's well-known study on job search behaviors of white males, this ...
Sim, May. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Sim, May. Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 219 pp. Hardback. As I read the introduction to May Sim's treatise Remastering Morals With Aristotle and Confucius, I became mildly anxious that she intended to row turbulent ...
Yu, Jiyuan. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Yu, Jiyuan. The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue. New York: Routledge, 2007. xii + 276 pp. Hardback. Aristotle famously described friends to be like mirrors, wherein a person may see himself more truly. Jiyuan Yu employs this image in his comparative study of ...
Kitchen.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2007; ... Kitchen. By Yoshimoto Banana. Translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus. New York: Grove Press, 1993. 152 Pages. Yoshimoto Banana's work delicately balances between popular culture and serious literature. In Kitchen (1988), her topics are atypical, concerning the perishable, ...
National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program.(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2007 ... March 16-19, 2006 Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel Host Institution: Belmont University ASDP is a joint program of the University of Hawai'i and The East-West Center The 12th Annual Meeting of the National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program ...
Editor's note.
Jan 01, 2006; ... We are pleased to present our readers with the sixth volume of East-West Connections. The contents of this issue continue to reflect the interests of our readers by offering scholarly articles on both content and pedagogical topics. These articles stretch across regions and the spectrum of ...
Guest editor's note.
Jan 01, 2006 ... It has once again been an honor and privilege to serve as guest editor for Fast-West Connections. In this capacity, I have had the opportunity to read a variety of exceptional papers, while at the same time enjoy extensive conversations and exchanges throughout the editing process. I am ...
In this issue.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2006 ... Jim Deitrick opens this volume with an essay exploring the pedagogical and ethical issues surrounding the teaching of meditation in the classroom. Given our mission in religious studies of providing objective, non-sectarian coverage of the world's traditions, does the introduction and ...
Should students meditate in courses on Asian philosophy and religion?
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Given the importance of mediation in many Asian philosophies and religions, many college professors advocate engaging students in the practice of meditation when teaching about these traditions. There are relatively obvious reasons for doubting the ethicality of this ...
De-centering the self: teaching philosophy, religion, and culture.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Teaching Notions of Self More often than not, when one speaks of Western philosophical foundations for religious study one uncovers the following notions: mind-body problem, the existence or not of the soul, God, will, nature/ essences, and an ethical or virtuous self ....
Of unswerving horses and immortal souls: a comparison of Confucius' use of the Book of Songs and Socrates' appeal to poets in the Meno.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Confucius' repeated appeals to the Book of Songs to establish and defend a moral point seem strikingly at odds with the argumentative and discursive methods of classical Western philosophers such as Plato. Easy contrasts on this point, however, are challenged when ...
Searching for a voice of silence across cultures: does silence speak?
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract With [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (dayinxisheng) of Daodejing (41) and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (huishihousu) of the Analects (3:8) as the focused points of departure, this paper discusses the crucial ways that make silence communicative. It attempts to ...
Sacred Earth: Daoism as a preserver of environment in Chinese landscape painting from the song through the Qing Dynasties.
Jan 01, 2006; ... Abstract Like the Chinese garden, landscape painting can be understood as the artist's interpretation of a microcosmic view of the macrocosm of the universe, The Chinese term for landscape painting (shawhui hua), "mountains and water," implies the ancient Daoist balance between ...