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Thursday, September 10, 2015

Shifting Tides: Culture in Contemporary China

Cultural immersion–learning all the facets of what Chinese means–is an integral part of language learning for serious students of Chinese. This book presents intermediate students with the cultural context that will enable them to better understand and communicate with Chinese people. Texts are based on excerpts from recent Chinese television shows that highlight specific aspects of contemporary culture. Each text is accompanied by notes that clearly explain how to incorporate new vocabulary, idioms, and grammar patterns into everyday speech. Shifting Tides may be preceded by Crossing Paths: Living and Learning in China, or used independently. Simplified characters, with explanations/examples in English and vocabulary examples in characters with pinyin.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View (Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Strategy)

Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View (Studies in Contemporary Maritime Policy and Strategy) by Virginia Gamba-Stonehouse

English | Oct. 19, 1989 | ISBN: 0861870174 | 256 Pages | PDF | 8.16 MB

Strategy in the Southern Oceans: A South American View

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Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan

Barbara R. Ambros, "Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan"

ISBN: 082483626X, 082483674X | 2012 | PDF | 280 pages | 23 MB

Since the 1990s the Japanese pet industry has grown to a trillion-yen business and estimates place the number of pets above the number of children under the age of fifteen. There are between 6,000 to 8,000 businesses in the Japanese pet funeral industry, including more than 900 pet cemeteries. Of these about 120 are operated by Buddhist temples, and Buddhist mortuary rites for pets have become an institutionalised practice. In Bones of Contention , Barbara Ambros investigates what religious and intellectual traditions constructed animals as subjects of religious rituals and how pets have been included or excluded in the necral landscapes of contemporary Japan. Pet mortuary rites are emblems of the ongoing changes in contemporary Japanese religions. The increase in single and nuclear-family households, marriage delays for both males and females, the falling birthrate and graying of society, the occult boom of the 1980s, the pet boom of the 1990s, the anti-religious backlash in the wake of the 1995 Aum Shinriky incident–all of these and more have contributed to Japan"s contested history of pet mortuary rites. Ambros uses this history to shed light on important questions such as: Who (or what) counts as a family member? What kinds of practices should the state recognise as religious and thus protect financially and legally? Is it frivolous or selfish to keep, pamper, or love an animal? Should humans and pets be buried together? How do people reconcile the deeply personal grief that follows the loss of a pet and how do they imagine the afterlife of pets? And ultimately, what is the status of animals in Japan? Bones of Contention is a book about how Japanese people feel and think about pets and other kinds of animals and, in turn, what pets and their people have to tell us about life and death in Japan today.

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