About - Antonino FORTE

Antonino FORTE

was professor of East Asian religions and thought at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, and was director of the Italian School of East Asian Studies in Kyoto. He was a member of the École française d'Extrême-Orient in 1976-1985. He is the author of Political Propaganda and Ideology in China at the End of the Seventh Century (Napoli, 1976), Mingtang and Buddhist Utopias in the History of the Astronomical Clock (Roma and Paris, 1988), The Hostage An Shigao and his Offspring (Kyoto, 1995), and of the recent A Jewel in Indra 's Net (Kyoto, 2000). He has also edited Tang China and Beyond (Kyoto, 1988) and other books