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Jao Tsung-i was China's last great traditional man of letters,
polymath, and pioneer of comparative humanistic inquiry during Hong
Kong's global heyday. Dunhuang is China's traditional northwest
frontier and overland conduit of exchange with the Old World. In
this volume, Jao proposes an entirely new school of Chinese
landscape painting, reconsiders Dunhuang's oldest manuscripts as
its newest research field, and explores topics ranging from
comparative religion to medieval multimedia.
India's Punjab is the land of the five rivers, five (Punj) rivers
(Aab) - Ravi, Satluj, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum. It is also the
birthplace of Max Kandhola's family, who historically were
landowners, with connections to farming, agriculture and also to
the military. Max Kandhola decided to go back to Punjab after
completing his project "Illustration of Life" (2002) in which he
documented his father's last moments of life, and reflected on
issues within Sikh ritual, immortality and death. Over the last
four years, he has visited the region as part of a continuing
project to map family history through an odyssey of ancestral
narratives, exploring memory, diaspora and identity. For him it is
a land which is unfamiliar, yet it provides both a context and a
beginning. Kandhola's journey began in Nurmahal, in the district of
Jalandhar, from which most of his family originally came. Using
this as a starting point he travelled from the centre of Punjab
outwards.
This book of humorous, philosophical, allegorical and nature-loving
poetry with its beautiful original illustrations came about through
a son's love for his mother. The poems in this book should paint
meaningful pictures in your mind. As you read them I hope you are
prompted to think deeply and explore their resonance for you, but
also to laugh out loud.
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