Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University – serie
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181 produkter
Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963
Av Hoàng Phong Tuan, Cindy Nguyen m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
309 kr
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Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese communists. But this preoccupation has …
Planning for Empire
Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State
Häftad, 2017
428 kr
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Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the project of remaking the Japanese state along technocratic and fascistic lines and creating a self-sufficient Asian bloc centered on Japan and its …
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity
Häftad, 2016
298 kr
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Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of …
Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Häftad, 2017
386 kr
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Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called …
Invention of Madness
State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Av Emily Baum
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the …
Invention of Madness
State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China
Av Emily Baum
Inbunden, 2018
1073 kr
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Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the …
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods
The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912
Av Sarah Thal
Häftad, 2005
496 kr
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When people create new societies, economies, and nations—both now and in the past—they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what seem to be some of the most timeless and sacred sites in the world have been shaped, reshaped, and reinterpreted by countless people to produce oases …
House United, House Divided
The Chinese Family in Taiwan
Av Myron Cohen
Inbunden, 1976
1307 kr
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Through a study of the Chinese joint family in Yen-liao, a farming village in southwestern Taiwan, House United, House Dividedgives a new view of the forces that keep Chinese families together or encourage them to divide. While all major forms of the traditional Chinese family are well represented …
Origins of the Cultural Revolution
The Great Leap Forward, 1958–1960
Häftad, 1987
951 kr
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The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chines from the mid-1950s to he mid-1960s, this volume tells the story of the Great Leap Forward-Mao's utopian attempt to propel China economically and socially into the twenty-fist century …
Kim Il Sung
The North Korean Leader
Av Dae-Sook Suh
Häftad, 1995
736 kr
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This book is especially important now with Kim Il Sung's death, the ending of the nuclear crisis between North Korea and the United States, and the obscured emergence of a successor regime ostensibly headed by Kim Il Jong, Sung's son. Suh's book investigates the impact of Kim Il Sung on the history …
China's Crisis
Dilemmas of Reform and Prospects for Democracy
Häftad, 1991
324 kr
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Nathan explored the roots of the Tiananmen tragedy in Deng Xiaoping's ten-year reform. How will cultural values and attitudes shape China's political development? What will be the impact of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the West? Drawing on ground-breaking empirical research, Nathan measures the …
The Logic of Japanese Politics
Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Inbunden, 1999
2227 kr
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Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in …
The Logic of Japanese Politics
Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Häftad, 2000
617 kr
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Widely recognized both in America and Japan for his insider knowledge and penetrating analyses of Japanese politics, Gerald Curtis is the political analyst best positioned to explore the complexities of the Japanese political scene today. Curtis has personally known most of the key players in …
Origins of the Cultural Revolution
The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961–1966
Häftad, 1999
1030 kr
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This is the final volume in a trilogy that examines the politics, personalities, economics, culture, and international relations of China from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. It seeks to answer the central question: Why did Chairman Mao Zedong launch the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), which plunged …
Leprosy in China
A History
Inbunden, 2009
1267 kr
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Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political …
The Dawn That Never Comes
Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism
Inbunden, 2003
1503 kr
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A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a …
The Merchants of Zigong
Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
Inbunden, 2006
2135 kr
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At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War in …
Merchants of Zigong
Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War in …
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945
History, Culture, Memory
Av Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang
Inbunden, 2006
1267 kr
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The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of …
Election Campaigning Japanese Style
Häftad, 2009
648 kr
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Running for public office in postwar Japan requires the endorsement of a political party and a sophisticated system of organizational support. In this volume, Gerald L. Curtis provides a detailed case study of the campaign of Sato Bunsei, who in 1967 ran for the Lower House of Japan's parliament as …
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Av Guobin Yang
Inbunden, 2016
1064 kr
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Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin …
The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China
Av Guobin Yang
Häftad, 2017
271 kr
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Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin …
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Av Paul Cohen
Inbunden, 2010
1240 kr
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Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today. Cohen critiques the …
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Av Paul Cohen
Häftad, 2010
315 kr
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Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today. Cohen critiques the …
Behind the Gate
Inventing Students in Beijing
Av Fabio Lanza
Inbunden, 2010
668 kr
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On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology …
When the Future Disappears
The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea
Av Janet Poole
Inbunden, 2014
1415 kr
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Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed …
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang
Unrest in China's West
Inbunden, 2016
1977 kr
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Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the …
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang
Unrest in China's West
Häftad, 2020
271 kr
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Despite more than a decade of rapid economic development, rising living standards, and large-scale improvements in infrastructure and services, China's western borderlands are awash in a wave of ethnic unrest not seen since the 1950s. Through on-the-ground interviews and firsthand observations, the …
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Av Li Chen
Inbunden, 2015
2609 kr
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How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious …
Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics
Av Li Chen
Häftad, 2018
359 kr
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How did American schoolchildren, French philosophers, Russian Sinologists, Dutch merchants, and British lawyers imagine China and Chinese law? What happened when agents of presumably dominant Western empires had to endure the humiliations and anxieties of maintaining a profitable but precarious …
