Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture – serie
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Lhasa
Streets with Memories
Häftad, 2010
315 kr
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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new …
Sōseki
Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist
Av John Nathan
Inbunden, 2018
1101 kr
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Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to …
World Turned Upside Down
Medieval Japanese Society
Inbunden, 2001
2293 kr
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In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil wars, and warriors from the Kanto Plain rose up to restore the military regime of their shogun, Yoritomo. The whole of this intermediary period came …
World Turned Upside Down
Medieval Japanese Society
Häftad, 2003
635 kr
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In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil wars, and warriors from the Kanto Plain rose up to restore the military regime of their shogun, Yoritomo. The whole of this intermediary period came …
Comfort Women
Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military During World War II
Häftad, 2002
326 kr
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Available for the first time in English, this is the definitive account of the practice of sexual slavery the Japanese military perpetrated during World War II by the researcher principally responsible for exposing the Japanese government's responsibility for these atrocities. The large scale …
Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star
A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2004
746 kr
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In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover. What made her do it? And why was she found guilty of murder yet sentenced to only six years in prison? Why have this woman and her crime remained so famous for so long, and …
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2003
1192 kr
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Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a …
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2006
299 kr
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Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a …
Lhasa
Streets with Memories
Inbunden, 2006
1245 kr
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There are many Lhasas. One is a grid of uniform boulevards lined with plush hotels, all-night bars, and blue-glass-fronted offices. Another is a warren of alleyways that surround a seventh-century temple built to pin down a supine demoness. A web of Stalinist, rectangular blocks houses the new …
Modern Murasaki
Writing by Women of Meiji Japan
Av Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi
Inbunden, 2006
1588 kr
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The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and …
Modern Murasaki
Writing by Women of Meiji Japan
Av Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi
Häftad, 2006
403 kr
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The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and …
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2010
312 kr
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible …
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Inbunden, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
1192 kr
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Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This …
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy
The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
Häftad, 2017
263 kr
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Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This …
Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon
A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
Inbunden, 2012
2293 kr
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From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and …
Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon
A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop
Häftad, 2012
316 kr
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From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and …
Winter Sun Shines In
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2013
995 kr
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Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from …
Winter Sun Shines In
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2016
568 kr
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Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from …
Sōseki
Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist
Av John Nathan
Häftad, 2019
281 kr
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Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to …
Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts
From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao
Inbunden, 2016
582 kr
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The idea that Japanese art is produced through rote copy and imitation is an eighteenth-century colonial construct, with roots in Romantic ideals of originality. Offering a much-needed corrective to this critique, Michael Lucken demonstrates the distinct character of Japanese mimesis and its …
The Japanese and the War
Expectation, Perception, and the Shaping of Memory
Inbunden, 2017
670 kr
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Memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over Japan's culture and society. In The Japanese and the War, Michael Lucken details how World War II manifested in the literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform of the time. Concentrating on the years immediately before and …
First Modern Japanese
The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2016
345 kr
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Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad …
Merchant's Tale
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
Inbunden, 2017
1157 kr
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chuemon left his old life behind. Chuemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan's 1853 "opening" …
Merchant's Tale
Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan
Häftad, 2020
290 kr
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In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners in the aftermath of Japan’s 1853 “opening” …
Uneven Moments
Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Inbunden, 2019
1422 kr
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Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of …
Uneven Moments
Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Häftad, 2019
361 kr
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Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of …
Global Easts
Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing
Av Jie-Hyun Lim
Inbunden, 2022
1245 kr
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South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities …
Global Easts
Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing
Av Jie-Hyun Lim
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities …
Frog in the Well
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2006
345 kr
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Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exile, Kazan's life and work reflected a turbulent period in Japan's history. He was a famous artist, a …
