Yuasa Yasuo is Professor of Japanology and Director of International Studies at Obirin University in Japan. He is the author of many books in Japanese, and the translation of his The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory is also published by SUNY Press.

• Translator's Introduction Author's Preface to the English Version PART I: EASTERN MIND-BODY THEORY AND THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD 1. Eastern Mind-Body Theory I. IntroductionII. The Eastern Tradition of Self-Cultivation and Western Mind-Body DualismIII. Meditation in Stillness and in MotionIV. Meditation and PsychotherapyV. Meditation and Mind-Body OnenessVI. Self-Cultivation and ArtistryVII. Characteristics of the Japanese Martial Arts 2. Beyond the Contemporary Period I. From Disjunctive Mind-Body Dualism to Correlative Mind-Body DualismII. Three Information Systems in the BodyIII. Conditioned Reflex and Control of the Autonomic NervesIV. A Methodological Reflection PART II. KI AND THE BODY: MARTIAL ARTS, MEDITATION METHODS, AND EASTERN MEDICINE 3. Ki and the Body in the Martial Arts and Meditation Methods I. IntroductionII. Unifying Mind and Ki-EnergyIII. Meditation Training Transforms KiIV. The Transformation of KiV. Aspects of Inner Image Experiences Accompanying the Transformation of KiVI. The Meaning of Knowledge in Eastern Thought: An Intermediary Methodological Investigation 4. Ki and the Body in Eastern Medicine I. IntroductionII. Fundamental Characteristics of Eastern Medicine's Theory of the BodyIII. The Relationship Between Ki and Emotion in the MeridiansIV. The Unconscious Quasi-Body's Function Directed Toward the External WorldV. Memory and the Lived Body PART III. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE SCIENCE OF KI 5. The Science of Ki and Its View of Human Being I. IntroductionII. Ki-Energy and Its Relation to the External WorldIII. Transportational Synchronization of Ki and the Problem of Technology 6. Ki and the Problem of Paranormal Phenomena I. IntroductionII. Problems of the DisputeIII. An Assessment of ParapsychologyIV. The Need for an Epistemological Critique of Modern ScienceV. Beyond Causality 7. Toward an East-West Dialogue I. Teleology and ScienceII. Objectivistic Science and Subjectivisitc ScienceIII. Concluding Remarks: Mind, Life, and Matter Postscript Notes Glossary Index

"Among Japan's contemporary philosophers, Yuasa is one of the most provocative and far-reaching. His work critiques in a fruitful way the foundational ideas in Asian and Western philosophy, science, medicine, and the study of religion. He not only shows how ideas are culturally embedded, but also suggests how we can work across those cultural lines to make our theories more universal and more efficacious. Of his works available in English, this is not only his latest, but perhaps his most accessible." — Thomas P. Kasulis, The Ohio State University