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67 produkter
Growing up Untouchable in India
A Dalit Autobiography
Av Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt m. fl.
E-bok, 2002
548 kr
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There is much in Vasant Moon''s story of his vasti, his childhood neighborhood in India, that would probably be true of any ghetto anywhere in the world. There is hunger and deprivation, to be sure, but also a sense of community, an easy acceptance of petty crime and violence, the saving grace of …
Sweet and Sour
Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
Av Scott Simon
E-bok, 2004
656 kr
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Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in …
Rowing the Eternal Sea
The Story of a Minamata Fisherman
Av Keibo Oiwa, Ogata Masato m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
633 kr
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In the early 1950s fisherfolk and other villagers around Minamata Bay on the western coast of Kyushu, Japan, began to suffer from mysterious and often fatal symptoms of what came to be known as Minamata disease. It was not until 1968 that the government acknowledged its cause—organic mercury …
Unbroken Spirits
Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag
Av Suh Sung
Häftad, 2001
592 kr
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This is the remarkable and wrenching memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for nineteen years as a political prisoner. The updated English-language edition traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his …
Growing up Untouchable in India
A Dalit Autobiography
Av Vasant Moon, Gail Omvedt m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
818 kr
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There is much in Vasant Moon's extraordinary story of his vasti, his childhood neighbourhood in India, that would probably be true of any urban ghetto anywhere in the world. But there is much that is peculiarly and vividly Indian. In this first autobiography of a so-called Untouchable, we learn …
Moral Politics in a South Chinese Village
Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance
Av Hok Bun Ku
Häftad, 2003
784 kr
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Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation and economic development of a south China village during the first tumultuous decade of reform. Drawing on a wealth of intimate detail, Ku explores the new sense of risk and mood of insecurity …
Voicing Concerns
Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry
Häftad, 2001
707 kr
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Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of …
Red Is Not the Only Color
Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
Häftad, 2001
641 kr
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The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, …
Sweet and Sour
Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
Av Scott Simon
Häftad, 2003
614 kr
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Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in …
Identity and Resistance in Okinawa
Häftad, 2002
784 kr
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The keystone of U.S. security in East Asia, Okinawa is a troubled symbol of resistance and identity. Ambivalence about the nature of Okinawan identity lies behind relations between Japan, the United States, and Okinawa today. Fully one-fifth of Okinawa's land is occupied by a foreign military power …
Sisters and Lovers
Women and Desire in Bali
Häftad, 2002
600 kr
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The Balinese devotion to their temples is both legendary and conspicuous, but the ways in which they enshrine their innermost desires have long been hidden. This ethnography draws back the veil by focusing on the romantic experiences of women in a rural village (Punyanwangi) in North Bali from …
Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age
Häftad, 2005
855 kr
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Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from marginal workers to those whose sexuality has long been overlooked. This volume, with its combination of fieldwork in the gay and lesbian communities and the use of historical sources such as journals …
Thousand Miles of Dreams
The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters
Inbunden, 2006
305 kr
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A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her …
Exodus to North Korea
Shadows from Japan's Cold War
Inbunden, 2007
1753 kr
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Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a …
Exodus to North Korea
Shadows from Japan's Cold War
Häftad, 2007
662 kr
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Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world as a …
I'm Married to Your Company!
Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
Av Masako Itoh
Inbunden, 2007
1561 kr
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This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority," the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this work tells the stories of ordinary women in their own voices. An …
I'm Married to Your Company!
Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
Av Masako Itoh
Häftad, 2007
544 kr
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This approachable and absorbing book offers a unique window into Japanese culture and language. Highlighting the overlooked world of the "silent majority," the housewives and mothers who are the mainstay of Japanese society, this work tells the stories of ordinary women in their own voices. An …
Subject of Gender
Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
Inbunden, 2007
1561 kr
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Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity …
Subject of Gender
Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
Häftad, 2007
629 kr
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Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity …
Scars of War
Tokyo during World War II: Writings of Takeyama Michio
Inbunden, 2007
1608 kr
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Takeyama Michio, the author of Harp of Burma, was thirty-seven in 1941, the year of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Husband, father of children born during the war, and teacher at Japan’s elite school of higher education in Tokyo, he experienced the war on its home front. His essays provide us …
Dancing in Shadows
Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia
Häftad, 2007
667 kr
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This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN …
Voices Carry
Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform
Av Ying Ruocheng, Claire Conceison
Häftad, 2008
662 kr
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Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng, beloved Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator, and high-ranking politician as vice minister of culture from 1986–1990. One of twentieth-century China's most prominent citizens, Ying was imprisoned during the …
China Ink
The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
Häftad, 2008
560 kr
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This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and …
Tiananmen Moon
Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989
E-bok, 2009
717 kr
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This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account …
War and Conscience in Japan
Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
Av Nambara Shigeru, Richard H. Minear
Inbunden, 2010
1462 kr
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One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936–1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University …
War and Conscience in Japan
Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
Av Nambara Shigeru, Richard H. Minear
E-bok, 2010
1570 kr
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One of Japan''s most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan''s war. His poetic diary (1936–1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo …
Women in Early Imperial China
Av Bret Hinsch
Häftad, 2010
618 kr
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After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were …
Behind the Silence
Chinese Voices on Abortion
Av Jing-Bao Nie
E-bok, 2005
675 kr
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Behind the Silence is the first in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world''s most ambitious and intrusive family planning program. Bringing to light the range of Chinese views and …
China Ink
The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
E-bok, 2008
629 kr
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This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China''s media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and …
Hiroshima
The Autobiography of Barefoot Gen
Häftad, 2015
489 kr
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This compelling autobiography tells the life story of famed manga artist Nakazawa Keiji. Born in Hiroshima in 1939, Nakazawa was six years old when on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb. His gritty and stunning account of the horrific aftermath is powerfully told through the …
