Asian freedoms : the idea of freedom in East and Southeast Asia /
Inspired (and goaded) by Orlando Patterson's theory of freedom as a particularly western outgrowth of classical slavery, this book argues that authentic conceptions of freedom are found throughout the Asian region, where they have emerged in complex ways from local institutions and practices. A...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | Cambridge Asia-Pacific studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Freedom
- a Eurasian mosaic / David Kelly
- Buddhism and freedom / Ian Mabbett
- Freedom and freehold : space, people and state simplification in Southeast Asia / James C. Scott
- China and freedom / W.J.F. Jenner
- The Chinese search for freedom as a universal value / David Kelly
- Freedom and the family : gendering Meiji political thought / Vera Mackie
- Merdeka : the concept of freedom in Indonesia / Anthony Reid
- Slavery and modernity : freedom in the making of modern Siam / Thanet Aphornsuvan
- The idea of freedom in Burma and the political thought of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi / Josef Silverstein
- Freedom and élite political theory in Vietnam before the french / Alexander Woodside.