Conjuring Asia : Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World

Chris Goto-Jones

ISBN 10: 1107433827 / ISBN 13: 9781107433823

Editore: Cambridge University Press Jul 2016, 2016

Neuware - This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West. Codice articolo 9781107433823

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This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.

Informazioni sull?autore: Chris Goto-Jones was educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Keio, and Oxford. He is the Inaugural Chair Professor of Comparative Philosophy and Political Thought at Universiteit Leiden, Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Modern Japan Studies, Director of the Modern East Asia Research Centre, Leiden, and Founding Dean of Leiden University College, The Hague. In addition, he is an Associate of the Inner Magic Circle. He is co-founder of the 'Political and Philosophical Arts Initiative' and a 'VICI' laureate of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He has published widely in the fields of political thought, comparative philosophy, and Asian studies; in terms of popularizing publications, he is author of A Very Short Introduction to Modern Japan (2009), which has been translated into many languages worldwide.

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Titolo: Conjuring Asia : Magic, Orientalism, and the...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press Jul 2016
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu