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Bicycle Citizens
The Political World of the Japanese Housewife
Häftad, 1999
280 kr
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While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side streets on a simple bicycle. In this first ethnographic study of the politics of the average female citizen in Japan, Robin LeBlanc argues that this …
Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography
Häftad, 2000
288 kr
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The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military …
Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities
A Reader
Av Susan Brownell, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Häftad, 2002
457 kr
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The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical …
Country of Memory
Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam
Häftad, 2001
412 kr
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The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. "The Country of Memory" fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, …
Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953
Inbunden, 2003
794 kr
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free …
Republican Beijing
The City and Its Histories
Inbunden, 2003
753 kr
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Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong …
Mapping Early Modern Japan
Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868
Inbunden, 2003
753 kr
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This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's …
Hygienic Modernity
Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Av Ruth Rogaski
Inbunden, 2004
753 kr
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Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single …
Marrow of the Nation
A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China
Inbunden, 2004
1058 kr
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By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic contests? When will China be able to invite all the world to Peking for an International Olympic contest? Nearly a century later, on the eve of …
Millennial Monsters
Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination
Av Anne Allison
Häftad, 2006
306 kr
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From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute …
Vicarious Language
Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan
Av Miyako Inoue
Häftad, 2006
443 kr
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This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako Inoue …
After the Massacre
Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai
Av Heonik Kwon
Häftad, 2006
306 kr
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Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My - a village where South Korean troops committed an …
Tears from Iron
Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
Inbunden, 2008
753 kr
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This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China's most severe disasters and provides …
Japan in Print
Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period
Häftad, 2007
315 kr
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A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, …
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Ethnic Classification in Modern China
Inbunden, 2010
1058 kr
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China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of …
Speaking to History
The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
Häftad, 2010
280 kr
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The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans - even students and specialists of this era - have never heard of Goujian. In "Speaking to History", Paul A. Cohen …
Recreating Japanese Men
Av Sabine Frühstück, Anne Walthall
Häftad, 2011
306 kr
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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. "Recreating Japanese Men" examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and …
Fabricating Consumers
The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2011
731 kr
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Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change …
Selling Women
Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan
Av Amy Stanley
Inbunden, 2012
1058 kr
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This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nineteenth-century countryside. Drawing on legal codes, diaries, town registers, petitions, and criminal records, it describes how the work of "selling …
Nature of the Beasts
Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo
Inbunden, 2013
823 kr
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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution - at once museum, laboratory, and prison - of the zoological …
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Inbunden, 2012
940 kr
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How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources -- during their …
Anyuan
Mining China's Revolutionary Tradition
Häftad, 2012
315 kr
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How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists' creative development and deployment of cultural resources - during their …
Imaging Disaster
Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923
Inbunden, 2012
579 kr
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Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation - the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923 - this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural …
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
Av Shawn Bender
Inbunden, 2012
1156 kr
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With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, …
Taiko Boom
Japanese Drumming in Place and Motion
Av Shawn Bender
Häftad, 2012
263 kr
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With its thunderous sounds and dazzling choreography, Japanese taiko drumming has captivated audiences in Japan and across the world, making it one of the most successful performing arts to emerge from Japan in the past century. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among taiko groups in Japan, …
Mabiki
Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950
Inbunden, 2013
753 kr
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This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and …
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Ethnic Classification in Modern China
Häftad, 2010
315 kr
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China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of China recognizes just 56 ethnic nationalities, or minzu, as groups entitled to representation. This controversial new book recounts the history of …
Malleable Map
Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912
Av Kären Wigen
Häftad, 2012
332 kr
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Karen Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d'etat of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. …
Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
Inbunden, 2013
1156 kr
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"The Missionary's Curse" tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic …
Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village
Häftad, 2013
306 kr
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"The Missionary's Curse" tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between its history, the globalizing church, and the nation. Harrison recounts the popular folk tales of merchants and peasants who once adopted Catholic …
