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Ames, Roger T., and David L. Hall
Focusing the Familiar; A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2001
Required
Doniger, Wendy
Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities
Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 1987
Recommended
Embree, Ainslie T., et al. eds.
Sources of Indian Tradition
New York : Columbia University Press, 1988
Michell, George
Hindu Art and Architecture
New York : Thames & Hudson, 2000
Required
Rawson, Jessica, ed.
The British Museum Book of Chinese Art
New York : Thames and Hudson, 1993
Read: Chapters 1,3,4-6< br/>
Thorp, Robert L. and Richard Ellis Vinograd
Chinese Art & Culture
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2006
Read: Chapters 1-7
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Required
Murashige, Stanley.
"Xie He's 'Six Model Methods for Painting Practice,'"
Essay in progress.
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Clunas, Craig
Art in China
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
Or
Tregear, Mary
Chinese Art
New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
Cahill, James
The Painter's Practice; How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China
New York : Columbia University Press, c1994
Required
Ames, Roger T. and Henry Rosemont, trans.
The Analects of Confucius; A Philosophical Translation
New York : Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998
Plato
The Trial and Death of Socrates; Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Death Scene from Phaedo
Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., c2000
Recommended
Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics : ;
Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c1999
Aristotle
Poetics I
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c1987
Jullien, Francois
In Praise of Blandness; Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics
New York : Zone Books, 2004
Plato
Republic
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c1992
Plato
Symposium
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c1989
Tzu, Hsun
Basic writings
New York : Columbia University Press, c1996
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Danto, Arthur Coleman
The Abuse of Beauty; Aesthetics and the Concept of Art
Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2003
Read: Chapter 1
Danto, Arthur Coleman
Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art. Art Journal 63,2, (Summer 2004). pp. 25-35.
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Gadamer, Hans Georg
Gadamer Reader
Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2007
Read: Chapter 9, The Artwork in Word and Image: 'So True, So Full of Being!' (1993)
Gadamer, Hans Georg
Truth and Method
London New York : Continuum, 2004
Read: Elements of a Theory of hermeneutical Experience, Second part of part II
Heidegger, Martin
Being and Time ; A Translation of Sein und Zeit
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1996
Read: Paragragh 32, Understanding and Interpretation
Recommended
Gadamer, Hans Georg
Gadamer Reader
Evanston : Northwestern University Press, 2007
Read: Chapter 2, Classical and Philosophical Hermeneutics
Gadamer, Hans Georg
The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986
Read: The Relevance of the Beautiful (1974)
Heidegger, Martin
Basic Writings; From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964)
[San Francisco, Calif.] : HarperSanFrancisco, c1993
Read: The Origin of the Artwork
Required
Keene, Donald
World Within Walls; Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1976
Read: Chapter 5, Haikai Poetry: Matsuo Basho -- 1644-1694
Recommended
Addiss, Stephen, Gerlad Gromer, and J. Thomas Rimer, eds.
Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture; An Illustrated Sourcebook
Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2006
Matsuo, Basho
Basho's Haiku; Selected Poems by Matsuo Basho
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004
Matsuo, Basho
Basho's Journey; The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho
New York, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005
Keene, Donald
World Within Walls; Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1976
Kerkham, Eleanor
Matsuo Basho's Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Shirane, Haruo
Early Modern Japanese Literature; An Anthology, 1600-1900
New York : Columbia University Press, 2002
Shirane, Haruo
Traces of Dreams; Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c1998
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Atkins, E. Taylor
Blue Nippon; Authenticating Jazz in Japan
Durham : Duke University Press, 2001
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Parkes, Graham. Thinking Rocks, Living Stones: Reflections on Chinese Lithophilia, Diogenes 52:4, 2005, pp 75-87.
Recommended
Chen, Jianxing
Suzhou yuan lin / Gardens of Suzhou
Beijing: China Travel and Tourism Press, 2002
Hay, John
Kernels of Energy, Bones of Earth: The Rock in Chinese Art
New York: China House Gallery, 1985
Ji, Ching
The Craft of Gardens
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988
Liu, Dunzhen
Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou
New York : McGraw-Hill, c1993
Yu, Yali
Gardens in Suzhou =;Gaerten in Suzhou
Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, 2003
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Gokulsing, K. Moti and Wimal Dissanayake
Indian Popular Cinema; A Narrative of Cultural Change
Stoke-on-Trent Sterling, USA : Trentham, 2004
Read: Chapter 4, "Religion, Ethnicity and Caste in Indian Cinema
Dissanayake, Wimal. Globalization and Cultural Narcissism: Note on Bollywood Cinema, Asian Cinema. 15:1, Spring/Summer, 2004
Recommended
Barnouw, Erik and S. Krishnaswamy
Indian Film
New York : Columbia University Press, 1963
Chakravarty, Sumita S.
National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1993
Dissanayake, Wimal and Malyi Sahai
Sholay, A Cultural Reading
New Delhi : Wiley Eastern, c1992
Dissanayake, Wimal
Cinema and Cultural Identity
Lanham : University Press of America, 1988
Dwyer, Rachel and D. Patel
Cinema India; The Visual Culture of Hindi Film
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002
Gokulsing, K. Moti and Wimal Dissanayake
Indian Popular Cinema; A Narrative of Cultural Change
Stoke-on-Trent Sterling, USA : Trentham, 2004
[Mishra, Vijay
Bollywood Cinema; Temples of Desire
New York : Routledge, 2002
Nandy, Ashis
The Secret Politics of Our Desires; Innocence, Culpability, and Indian Popular Cinema
London : Zed Books, c1998
Prasad, M. Madhava
Ideology of the Hindi Film; A Historical Construction
Delhi New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
Vasudevan, Ravi
Making Meaning in Indian Cinema
New Delhi Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002
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Parkes, Graham ed.
Heidegger and Asian Thought
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1990, c1987
May, Reinhard
Heidegger's Hidden Sources; East Asian Influences on His Work
London New York : Routledge, 1996
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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch; The Text of the Tun-huang Manuscript with Translation, Introduction, and Notes
New York : Columbia University Press, [1996?]
Concordance to the Record of Linji
1993
Recommended
Hershock, Peter D
Chan Buddhism
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005
Read: Chapters 1-4
Required
Han, Kuo-Huang. The Modern Chinese Orchestra. Asian Music, 11:1, 1-40, 1979.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
New York : Garland Pub., 1998-2002
Read: The Introduction of Western Music in Modern Times.373-378
Recommended
Teng, Ssu-Yu
China's Response to the West; A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1979
Thrasher, Alan R
Chinese Musical Instruments
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
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Access the full-texts or abstracts of the following articles:
Preface by Chung-Ying Cheng
Theoretical Links between Kant and Confucianism: Preliminary Remarks by Chung-Ying Cheng
Leibniz’s Positive View of China by Wenchao Li and Hans Poser
The European China – Receptions from Leibniz to Kant by Thomas Fuchs, translation by Martin Schönfeld
Categorically Denied: Kant’s Criticism of Chinese Philosophy by Gregory M. Reihman
From Confucius to Kant – The Question of Information Transfer by Martin Schönfeld
The First Western Pragmatist, Immanuel Kant by Sidney Axinn
Beauty in Kant and Confucius: A First Step by Christian Helmut Wenzel
Kant’s Material Dynamics and the Field View of Physical Realityby Jeffrey Edwards and Martin Schönfeld
Mou Zongsan’s Transformation of Kant’s Philosophy by Wing-Cheuk Chan
Aspects of the Chinese Reception of Kant by Martin Müller
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