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Kingdom of Beauty
Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Av Kim Brandt
Häftad, 2007
323 kr
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A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim …
Ontology of Production
Three Essays
Häftad, 2012
286 kr
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Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō (1870–1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver. While previous translations of his writings have framed Nishida within Asian or Oriental philosophical traditions, Haver's …
Global/Local
Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
Av Rob Wilson, Wimal Dissanayake
Inbunden, 1996
1402 kr
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This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping …
Global/Local
Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
Av Rob Wilson, Wimal Dissanayake
Häftad, 1996
440 kr
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This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping …
Borders of Chinese Civilization
Geography and History at Empire's End
Av D.R. Howland
Häftad, 1996
552 kr
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Borders of Chinese Civilization
Geography and History at Empire's End
Inbunden, 1996
1516 kr
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D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented …
Phantasmatic Indochina
French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature
Häftad, 1997
352 kr
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This reflection on colonial culture argues for an examination of “Indochina” as a fictive and mythic construct, a phantasmatic legacy of French colonialism in Southeast Asia. Panivong Norindr uses postcolonial theory to demonstrate how French imperialism manifests itself not only through physical …
Civilization and Monsters
Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Av Gerald Figal
Häftad, 2000
384 kr
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Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the “stuff” of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in …
Uncovering Heian Japan
An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription
Inbunden, 2000
473 kr
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The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a linguistically homogeneous and ethnically pure “Japaneseness” has been integral to the construction of a modern Japanese nation, especially during …
Kurosawa
Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Häftad, 2000
378 kr
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The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes …
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Av Rey Chow
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group …
Women on the Verge
Japanese Women, Western Dreams
Av Karen Kelsky
Häftad, 2001
384 kr
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Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan’s most enthusiastic “internationalists,” investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country’s oppressive corporate and family structures. Drawing …
Learning Places
The Afterlives of Area Studies
Av Masao Miyoshi, Harry Harootunian
Häftad, 2002
651 kr
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Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors undertake. In the aftermath of World War II, area …
Staging the World
Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2002
1358 kr
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In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese …
Staging the World
Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2002
395 kr
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In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China’s defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this historical moment a growing Chinese …
Parallax Visions
Making Sense of American-East Asian Relations at the End of the Century
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings-a leading historian of contemporary East Asia-provides a nuanced understanding of how the United States has loomed over the modern history and culture of East Asia. By …
Flash of Capital
Film and Geopolitics in Japan
Av Eric Cazdyn
Häftad, 2002
384 kr
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The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that …
Postcolonial Vietnam
New Histories of the National Past
Häftad, 2002
395 kr
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New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the …
Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation
Av Zhen Ni
Häftad, 2003
407 kr
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After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubine, Yellow Earth, Raise the Red Lantern, and other international successes. Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy tells the riveting story of this …
Chinese Reportage
The Aesthetics of Historical Experience
Häftad, 2002
440 kr
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Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reportage literature, while sharing traditional journalism’s commitment to the accurate, nonfictional portrayal of experience, was largely produced by …
New Japanese Woman
Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
Av Barbara Sato
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from the …
Before the Nation
Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Häftad, 2003
384 kr
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Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of …
Before the Nation
Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2003
1263 kr
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Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of …
Gender and National Literature
Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity
Av Tomiko Yoda
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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Boldly challenging traditional understandings of Heian literature, Tomiko Yoda reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts. Renowned for the wealth and sophistication of women’s writing, the literature …
Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
Häftad, 2004
384 kr
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In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular, …
Text and the City
Essays on Japanese Modernity
Häftad, 2004
505 kr
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Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical thought, Maeda was a brilliant, insightful …
Policing Chinese Politics
A History
Häftad, 2005
440 kr
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Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores the question of revolutionary violence and the political passion that propels it. “Who are our …
Two Dreams in One Bed
Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria
Av Hyun Ok Park
Häftad, 2005
395 kr
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Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the history of modern Manchuria examine the turbulent relations of the Chinese state and imperialist Japan in political, military, and economic terms. Park …
Japan After Japan
Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present
Av Tomiko Yoda, Harry Harootunian
Inbunden, 2006
1501 kr
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The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology, …
Japan After Japan
Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present
Av Tomiko Yoda, Harry Harootunian
Häftad, 2006
453 kr
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The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abroad, reshaping not only the country’s economy but also its politics, society, and culture. In Japan After Japan, scholars of history, anthropology, …
