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31 produkter
Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea
Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945
Inbunden, 2008
1058 kr
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This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the …
Frontier Constitutions
Christianity and Colonial Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Philippines
Inbunden, 2009
759 kr
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"Frontier Constitutions" is a pathbreaking study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), and indigenous colonial subjects in the Philippines during the crisis of colonial hegemony in the nineteenth century and the social …
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense
The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times
Häftad, 2009
324 kr
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This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses …
Race for Empire
Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II
Inbunden, 2011
759 kr
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"Race for Empire" offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war. In parallel case studies - of Japanese Americans mobilized to serve in the United States Army and of Koreans recruited or drafted into the Japanese …
Colonial Project, National Game
A History of Baseball in Taiwan
Inbunden, 2010
782 kr
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In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game's social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, …
Tropics of Savagery
The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
Inbunden, 2010
1058 kr
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"Tropics of Savagery" is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed …
Gender of Memory
Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Inbunden, 2011
759 kr
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What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group - rural women - at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and …
Passion for Facts
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949
Av Tong Lam
Inbunden, 2011
1027 kr
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In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes …
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The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan
Inbunden, 2012
1027 kr
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At the height of state censorship in Japan, more indexes of banned books circulated, more essays on censorship were published, more works of illicit erotic and proletarian fiction were produced, and more passages were Xed out than at any other moment before or since. As censors construct and …
Assimilating Seoul
Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Inbunden, 2014
449 kr
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Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial …
Gender of Memory
Rural Women and China's Collective Past
Häftad, 2014
316 kr
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What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group--rural women--at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and …
Working Skin
Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Inbunden, 2014
1156 kr
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Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of …
Working Skin
Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
Häftad, 2014
264 kr
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Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of …
Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea
Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945
Häftad, 2014
456 kr
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This study examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. Theodore Jun Yoo shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy new positions outside the home, they encountered the …
Imperial Genus
The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan
Häftad, 2015
456 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press' open access publishing program for monographs. Imperial Genus begins with the turn to world culture and ideas of the generally human in Japan's cultural policy in Korea in 1919. How were concepts of the …
Assimilating Seoul
Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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Assimilating Seoul, the first book-length study written in English about Seoul during the colonial period, challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital. Through microhistories of Shinto festivals, industrial …
Sanitized Sex
Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Intimacy in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Av Robert Kramm
Inbunden, 2017
626 kr
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Sanitized Sex analyzes the development of new forms of regulation concerning prostitution, venereal disease, and intimacy during the American occupation of Japan after the Second World War, focusing on the period between 1945 and 1952. It contributes to the cultural and social history of the …
Outcasts of Empire
Japan's Rule on Taiwan's Savage Border, 1874-1945
Häftad, 2017
316 kr
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Outcasts of Empire probes the limits of modern nation-state sovereignty by positioning colonial Taiwan …
In Search of Our Frontier
Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire
Inbunden, 2019
316 kr
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In Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese America with Japan’s colonial empire through the exchange of migrant bodies, expansionist ideas, colonial expertise, and capital in the Asia-Pacific basin before …
Provincializing Empire
Omi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora
Av Jun Uchida
Häftad, 2023
316 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered …
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution
Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965
Av Andre Schmid
Inbunden, 2024
759 kr
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When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in …
North Korea’s Mundane Revolution
Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965
Av Andre Schmid
Häftad, 2024
316 kr
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When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in …
State's Sexuality
Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea
Inbunden, 2024
1523 kr
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The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork …
State's Sexuality
Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea
Häftad, 2024
316 kr
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The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork …
In the Global Vanguard
Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan
Av James Lin
Häftad, 2025
316 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the …
Narrowing Sea
Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region
Inbunden, 2025
847 kr
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In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial port, the other a …
Narrowing Sea
Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region
Häftad, 2025
316 kr
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In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial port, the other a …
Bibliotactics
Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam
Häftad, 2026
316 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet …
Bibliotactics
Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam
Inbunden, 2026
847 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Libraries in French colonial Vietnam functioned as symbols of Western modernity and infrastructures of colonial knowledge. Yet …
History of Timelessness
Constructing Authenticity at the Ise Shrines
Av Jordan Sand
Inbunden, 2026
1537 kr
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Every twenty years for over a millennium, the Ise shrines have been rebuilt from the ground up, and hundreds of shrine treasures replaced. At Ise, the aspiration to timelessness that is the essence of all monuments has been pursued through endless repetition rather than construction in durable …
