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37 produkter
China's Unequal Treaties
Narrating National History
Av Dong Wang
Inbunden, 2005
1279 kr
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This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese …
Culture of Fengshui in Korea
An Exploration of East Asian Geomancy
Häftad, 2008
784 kr
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The term Fengshui, which literally means 'wind and water,' is the ancient Chinese art of selecting an auspicious site to provide the most harmonious relationship between human and earth. The term is generally translated as "geomancy," and has had a deep and extensive impact on Korean, Chinese, and …
Yoko Tawada
Voices from Everywhere
Häftad, 2007
821 kr
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Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential …
Tommy's Sunset
Häftad, 2008
707 kr
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Tommy's Sunset is a translation of the acclaimed Japanese novel about the journey of a mother and her autistic child. Drawing from her own personal life story, Hisako Tsurushima has provided a definitive work about the problems and surprising joys for the autistic and those who love them. Readers …
Lake of Heaven
An Original Translation of the Japanese Novel by Ishimure Michiko
Inbunden, 2008
1796 kr
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Lake of Heaven is the story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to retain their traditional culture—including their stories, dances, music, mythology, and dreams—in the …
Lake of Heaven
An Original Translation of the Japanese Novel by Ishimure Michiko
Häftad, 2008
642 kr
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Lake of Heaven is the story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to retain their traditional culture—including their stories, dances, music, mythology, and dreams—in the …
Water
The Looming Crisis in India
Av Binayak Ray
Häftad, 2010
714 kr
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Water: The Looming Crisis in India analyzes the key issues in developing national freshwater policies for the mainland countries of the South Asian sub-continent. Ray suggests that freshwater policy must cover all aspects of physical environment and human life, by noting that food and drought …
Japan in the World: Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War
Volume 1
Häftad, 2009
808 kr
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The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between …
Windows on the Chinese World
Reflections by Five Historians
Inbunden, 2008
1390 kr
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Each chapter of this collection addresses a problem in Chinese history that is both interesting and important, as well as offering new ideas and interpretations, plus a methodological example that might inspire other scholars. There is a wide temporal span among the chapters, which take in early, …
China's Unequal Treaties
Narrating National History
Av Dong Wang
Häftad, 2008
714 kr
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This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese …
Precious Steppe
Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralists in Pursuit of the Market
Av Ole Bruun
Häftad, 2008
714 kr
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Ole Bruun focuses on a community of nomadic livestock herders in present-day Mongolia. He depicts their transition from a contained, Soviet-era collective to modern times and addresses the most essential conditions for their continued survival and prosperity in the age of the market: the …
Rising from the Flames
The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
Inbunden, 2009
2045 kr
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On August 15, 1945, when the war ended, almost all of Tokyo and Osaka's theaters had been destroyed or heavily damaged by American bombs. The Japanese urban infrastructure was reduced to dust, and so, one might have thought, would be the nation's spirit, especially in the face of nuclear bombing …
Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens
Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan
Häftad, 2009
735 kr
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Lincicome offers a new perspective on Japanese educational debates and policy reforms that have taken place under the guise of internationalization since the mid-1980s. By contextualizing these developments within a historical framework spanning the entire twentieth century, he challenges the …
Chinese in Cuba, 1847-Now
Av Mauro García Triana, Pedro Eng Herrera
Inbunden, 2009
1609 kr
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This book deals with Chinese immigrants' role in the struggle for Cuban liberation and in Cuba's twentieth-century revolutionary social movement; the history of the Chinese economy in Cuba; and the Chinese contribution to Cuban music, painting, food, sport, and language. The centerpiece of the book …
Japan in the World
Shidehara Kijuro, Pacifism, and the Abolition of War, Volume 2
Häftad, 2009
808 kr
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The twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between …
Matter of Honour
Being Chinese in South Africa
Inbunden, 2009
1421 kr
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The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with people of mixed …
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb
Häftad, 2010
714 kr
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From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the …
Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China
Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner
Av Catherine Lynch, Robert B. Marks m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1609 kr
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This volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through very differently conceived and contested visions of the future. In the context of early twenty-first century problems and the failures of global capitalism, is China's …
Localized Culture of Welfare
Entitlements, Stratification, and Identity in a Chinese Lineage Village
Inbunden, 2012
1421 kr
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Hong Kong has undergone rapid and substantial social, economic, political and demographic changes since the 1970s. This book examines critically the real impact of these changes on a single surname village in rural Hong Kong. It draws on anthropological fieldwork conducted during the late 1990s and …
Malay Kingship in Kedah
Religion, Trade, and Society
Inbunden, 2012
1390 kr
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The book probes and examines traditional sources of royal power and control, as well as indigenous socio-political systems in the Malay world. It is focused on the north-western Malaysian Sultanate of Kedah which is acknowledged as the oldest unbroken independent kingship line in the ‘Malay and …
Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya
Av Nanyan Guo
Inbunden, 2014
1552 kr
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This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired …
Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya
Av Nanyan Guo
Häftad, 2014
821 kr
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This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired …
"Other" Karen in Myanmar
Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms
Häftad, 2013
969 kr
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The “Other” Karen in Myanmar looks at the “other” or “quiet” minorities, who are members of ethnic groups associated with well-known armed resistance organizations, but who pursued non-violent approaches to promote their individual and collective interests. This is the first in-depth study to …
Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea
Crossing the Divide
Av Nan Kim
Inbunden, 2016
1463 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Scott Bills Memorial Prize for Outstanding First Book in Peace History.Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the history and tells the story of the emotionally charged meetings that took place among family members who, after having lost …
Yokohama Street Life
The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer
Av Tom Gill
Häftad, 2016
616 kr
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Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks …
Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present
Narrating Japanese Nationality
Inbunden, 2016
1393 kr
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This book is a collection of interwoven historical narratives that present an intriguing and little known account of the Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago and its inhabitants. The narratives begin in the seventeenth century and weave their way through various events connected to the ambitions, hopes, …
Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present
Narrating Japanese Nationality
Häftad, 2017
649 kr
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This book is a collection of interwoven historical narratives that present an intriguing and little known account of the Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago and its inhabitants. The narratives begin in the seventeenth century and weave their way through various events connected to the ambitions, hopes, …
Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea
Crossing the Divide
Av Nan Kim
Häftad, 2018
620 kr
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Winner of the 2019 Scott Bills Memorial Prize for Outstanding First Book in Peace History.Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea: Crossing the Divide explores the history and tells the story of the emotionally charged meetings that took place among family members who, after having lost …
Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan
Pal's Dissenting Judgment at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
Inbunden, 2016
1466 kr
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Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar …
Neonationalist Mythology in Postwar Japan
Pal's Dissenting Judgment at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
Häftad, 2017
737 kr
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Radhabinod Pal was an Indian jurist who achieved international fame as the judge representing India at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and dissented from the majority opinion, holding that all Japanese “Class A” war criminals were not guilty of any of the charges brought against them. In postwar …
