《Beating Devils and Burning Their Books》是AAS Publications出版的圖書，作者是Anthony E. Clark, ed.
基本介紹
- 中文名：Beating Devils and Burning Their Books
- 作者：Anthony E. Clark, ed.
- 出版社：AAS Publications
- 頁數：258 頁
- 定價：25.00 美元
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780924304606
內容簡介
Beating Devils and Burning Their Books considers several topics germane to today’s social and intellectual climate. Is religio-cultural conflict innate in religious belief? Is “difference” necessarily an antecedent of conflict? And on a purely expository level, how have governments, intellectuals, and religious devotees represented Asia or the West, and how did they distort tho...(展開全部) Beating Devils and Burning Their Books considers several topics germane to today’s social and intellectual climate. Is religio-cultural conflict innate in religious belief? Is “difference” necessarily an antecedent of conflict? And on a purely expository level, how have governments, intellectuals, and religious devotees represented Asia or the West, and how did they distort those images in order to present diminutive representations of “the Other”? Following works such as Edward Said’s Orientalism and John Dower’s War Without Mercy, this important volume seeks to continue needed dialogue regarding how China, Japan, and the West have historically viewed and represented each other.
