Most Recent Articles from East-West Connections

• Editor's note 

  We are pleased to present our readers with the seventh volume of East-West Connections. The contents of this issue continue to reflect the...

  01/01/07 by David Jones · More from publication

• Images for iconoclasts: images of Confucius in the Cultural Revolution 

  Confucius died and was buried in 479 bce, and he was never seen again. (1) Or so one would think. "You may forget me as I once was," Confucius...

  01/01/07 by Deborah Sommer · More from publication

• The idea of the Islamic State 

  The phantom of an Islamic State has haunted the Musalman throughout the ages and is a result of the memory of the glorious past.... that makes the...

  01/01/07 by Muhammad Aslam Syed · More from publication

• Feeling as form in Indian aesthetics 

  To speak of feeling as a source of formal coherence is a strange idea from a Western perspective. Feelings are believed to be formless, chaotic,...

  01/01/07 by Harriette D. Grissom · More from publication

• Japanese gardens as texts and contexts 

  Why teach Japanese gardens and philosophy? Why teach Japanese gardens and philosophy? In an earlier essay, I outlined reasons for teaching...

  01/01/07 by Mara Miller · More from publication

• "Have you eaten?" heterogeneity and identity through food 

  This article examines how food contributes to identity. The informality of food and food-sharing is often the first step to appreciating...

  01/01/07 by Michele Marion · More from publication

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