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Item A biography of Dr. Richard J. Smith(Rice University) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Richard J. Smith is George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. Professor Smith's areas of expertise and research interest are Chinese intellectual and social history, as well as comparative history (China and Japan). Professor Smith's current research focuses primarily on Chinese "encyclopedias of daily use" (riyong leishu) in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynastiesItem ASIA 211 Syllabus from 2015: Introduction to Asian Civilizations(Rice University, 2015) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Collaborative Learning Exercises from 1996(Rice University, 1996) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Engaging Asia: Some Issues and Approaches (published 2008)(Rice University, 2008) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Fathoming the Cosmos Glossary A (name of people, places and things)(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Fathoming the Cosmos Glossary B (titles of books and other documents)(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Fathoming the Cosmos Glossary C (terms and expressions)(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Glossary of some divination related terms(Rice University, 1/13/2012) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Glossary of some Yijing-related terms(Rice University, 1/13/2012) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Hexagram Glossary - alphabetical(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Hexagram Glossary - received text order(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item History 341 Syllabus from 2014: Pre-Modern Chinese History(Rice University, 2014) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item History 342 Syllabus from 2015: Modern Chinese History(Rice University, 2015) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item History 495 Syllabus from 2015: Comparative Modernization of China and Japan(Rice University, 2015) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item History 577 Syllabus from 2007: Pedagogy Seminar(Rice University, 2007) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item How the Book of Changes Arrived in the West(Middlebury College, 2012) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-In several respects the transmission of the i ching (or book of changes) to the West parallels the process by which Buddhism and Daoism traveled to Europe and the Americas. In each case Western “missionaries” played a part in the process, and in each case there were varied responses over time, ranging from blind indifference to rational knowledge, romantic fantasy, and existential engagement. But in nearly every instance, as in East Asia, there was an effort, often quite self-conscious, to assimilate and domesticate the classic. As with the Koreans, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Tibetans, Westerners sent missions to China, and they brought back all kinds of useful information. But compared to their East Asian counterparts, these Western missions proceeded from very different motives and had a very different focus. Moreover, in contrast to the premodern spread of the Yijing and other texts to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, where elites were completely comfortable with the classical Chinese script, in the West the Changes required translation, raising issues of commensurability and incommensurability that are still hotly debated today.Item Jesuit Interpretations Of The Yijing (Classic Of Changes) In Historical And Comparative Perspective(Rice University, 2001-10) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-This essay, based on research for a series of scholarly studies on the Yijing (I Ching or Classic of Changes), argues that the use of the Changes by the Jesuits in eighteenth century China, like the "accomodation strategy" of the Society of Jesus more genItem Knowing the Self and Knowing the 'Other': The Epistemological and Heuristic Value of the Yijing (Classic of Changes) (published 2006)(Rice University, 2006-12) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-; WileyItem Mawangdui Hexagram Glossary - alphabetical(Rice University, 2020) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-Item Meditation, Divination and Dream Interpretation - Chan-Zen Buddhism, the I Ching (Book of Changes), and Other Chinese Devices for Jungian Self-Realization(Rice University, 2006-09) Smith, Richard J. (Richard Joseph), 1944-