Utopias from Asia
Subtitle: An International and Interdisciplinary Symposium in Santiniketan on the Occasion of the 150th Birthday Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore
By: edited by Konrad Meisig
Series: East Asia intercultural studies -- 8 = -- Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien -- 8
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9783447067942
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Congresses; Civilization; Study and teaching; Anthropology
Description: On the 16th and 17th November 2011, the Institute of Indology of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in collaboration with the ASIATICUM ‒ Association for the Promotion of Studies East and West, and the Visva Bharati University, organised an international and interdisciplinary symposium on “Utopias from Asia” in Santiniketan, India, on the occasion of the 150th birthday anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. This congress was the third in a series of symposia and workshops which are financed according to the wishes of the Japanese entrepeneur Momoyo Okura, a committed sponsor of international cultural events in humanities, who died in 2008. The present volume contains the papers read on that occasion, supplemented by the papers of the German-Asiatic workshop on “Myths from Asia” in Mainz on the 20th and 21st February 2012, the fourth symposium in memoriam of Momoyo Okura. The papers combine disciplines as different as Japanology and History of Japanese Art, Indology, South Asian Anthropology, Vedic and Iranistic Studies, Chinese Studies, Buddhology, Modern Bengali and Urdu Literature, Sinhalese Studies, Tibetology, Film Studies, and Political Studies.
Notes: International conference proceedings.

16 English, 3 German contributions.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with three contributions in German.
Table of contents: title: Editor’s Preface
pagenum: IX; title: Messages of Greeting
pagenum: XIII; title: Udaya Narayana Singh: Inaugural Talk
pagenum: XVII; title: Masako Satō: Seeking Utopia Beyond Modernization: A Movement in the Asian Structural Change in the 20th Century
pagenum: 1; title: Konrad Meisig: Utopia — A Definition
pagenum: 7; title: Kumkum Bhattacharya: Utopias in Praxis: Rabindranath’s Rural Reconstruction
pagenum: 11; title: Kasturi Dadhe: The concept of a feminine-self: Veiled and unveiled in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’, ‘Padmarag’ and ‘Abarodhbasini’
pagenum: 19; title: Swati Ganguly: Santiniketan and Sriniketan: Tagore’s Utopia ‘beyond nationalist frames’
pagenum: 33; title: Luang Van Ke: From Utopia to Reality: Some Characteristics of the Political Transformation in Vietnam since 1990
pagenum: 45; title: Soumik Nandy Majumdar: Utopia visualised: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore
pagenum: 53; title: Konrad Meisig: Buddhist Utopias
pagenum: 59; title: Marion Meisig: Unity of Politics and Nature: The Appearance of the Mythical Beast Qilin in China
pagenum: 69; title: Ivo Ritzer: Against the Modern World: The ninkyō eiga as Nostalgic Utopia
pagenum: 75; title: Marcus Stiglegger: Kaijū eiga: Utopias and Dystopias in Japanese Cinema
pagenum: 89; title: Sonja Wengoborski: Exploring the Space Between the Possible and the Impossible: Observations from Contemporary South Asian Literature
pagenum: 99; title: Supplement Section: Myths from Asia; title: Kasturi Dadhe: Cross-Ethnic Influences on Indigenous Myths: The Bhils and their Creation Myth
pagenum: 111; title: Almuth Degener: Ein Mythos in Qurratulain Hyders „Āg kā Daryā“?
pagenum: 119; title: Ivo Ritzer: Legends of the Fist: Trans\Nationalismus in filmischen Superhelden-Mythen zwischen China und Hongkong
pagenum: 135; title: Hans Ruelius: Licchavikathā: The Myths of the Origin of the Yaksas in the Sinhalese Yak Tovil (‘Devil Dances’)
pagenum: 147; title: Masako Satō: Traditioning of a Spider-Symbol in the Japanese Written Culture: Appearance and Reception of a Myth-Motif
pagenum: 159; title: Marcus Stiglegger: Avalon 2.0: Die Mythopoetik von Marnoru Oshii
pagenum: 175; title: Illustrations
pagenum: 187