At the Shores of the Sky Asian Studies for Albert Hoffstädt

• Main Authors: Kroll, Paul W, Silk, Jonathan A
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2020; Brill
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Asia; History; History and Archaeology; Middle East Studies; Middle Eastern history; thema EDItEUR

Albert Hoffstädt, a classicist by training and polylingual humanist by disposition, has for 25 years been the editor chiefly responsible for the development and acquisition of manuscripts in Asian Studies for Brill. During that time he has shepherded over 700 books into print and has distinguished h...

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• Front Matter Table of Contents Contributors Albert Hoffstädt: CHAPTER 1: What Language was Spoken by the People of the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex? CHAPTER 2: India’s Past Reconsidered CHAPTER 3: A Trust Rooted in Ignorance: CHAPTER 4: On the Early History of the Brahmanical Yugash CHAPTER 5: Size Matters: CHAPTER 6: Polyglot Translators: CHAPTER 7: Overcoming Distance CHAPTER 8: Beyond Nativism: CHAPTER 9: Taking Horace to the Yellow Springs: CHAPTER 10: On Some Verses of Li Bo CHAPTER 11: An Early Medieval Chinese Poem on Leaving Office and Retiring to the Countryside CHAPTER 12: Lu Ji’s Theory of Reading and Writing: CHAPTER 13: Terms of Friendship: CHAPTER 14: Women in the Religious and Publishing Worlds of Buddhist Master Miaokong (1826–1880) CHAPTER 15: Chinese Dualism Revisited CHAPTER 16: An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: CHAPTER 17: Self-Portrait of a Narcissist CHAPTER 18: The Mask of Comedy in A Couple of Soles CHAPTER 19: Making Up for a Loss: CHAPTER 20: Transgression as Rule: CHAPTER 21: Horatius Sinensis CHAPTER 22: The Hazards of the Use of English as a Default Language in Analytic Philosophy: Index