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Hideyoshi
Häftad, 1989
234 kr
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Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan.Hideyoshi—peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan—is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan’s …
History of the Early Korean Kingdom of Paekche, together with an annotated translation of The Paekche Annals of the Samguk sagi
Inbunden, 2005
535 kr
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This volume presents two histories of the early Korean kingdom of Paekche (trad. 18 BCE–660 CE). The first, written by Jonathan Best, is based largely on primary sources, both written and archaeological. This initial history of Paekche serves, in part, to introduce the second, an extensively …
Love after The Tale of Genji
Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince
Inbunden, 2007
400 kr
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The eleventh-century masterpiece The Tale of Genji casts a long shadow across the literary terrain of the Heian period (794-1185). It has dominated critical and popular reception of Heian literary production and become the definitive expression of the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of life in …
Taiwan’s Imagined Geography
Chinese Colonial Travel Writing and Pictures, 1683–1895
Häftad, 2006
227 kr
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Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a "land beyond the seas," a "ball of mud" inhabited by "naked and tattooed savages." The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only …
Time of Crisis
Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization
Av Kerry Smith
Inbunden, 2001
377 kr
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This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking …
Word Embodied
The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art
Av Halle O’Neal
Inbunden, 2018
648 kr
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In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on formal analysis and iconographic study of their narrative vignettes. This has marginalized the …
Korean Buddhist Empire
A Transnational History, 1910–1945
Inbunden, 2018
391 kr
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In the first part of the twentieth century, Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own identities—to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the …
Anarchist Modernity
Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan
Av Sho Konishi
Inbunden, 2013
447 kr
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Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetus for future global progress. Acting outside imperial encounters, they initiated underground transnational networks with Japan. Prominent intellectuals …
Zhou Zuoren and an Alternative Chinese Response to Modernity
Inbunden, 2000
356 kr
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This book explores the issues of nation and modernity in China by focusing on the work of Zhou Zuoren (1885–1967), one of the most controversial of modern Chinese intellectuals and brother of the writer Lu Xun. Zhou was radically at odds with many of his contemporaries and opposed their …
Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan
Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society
Av Nam-lin Hur
Inbunden, 2000
366 kr
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The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensōji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the “degenerate Buddhism” of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensōji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in …
Constructing “Korean” Origins
A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories
Av Hyung Il Pai
Inbunden, 2000
465 kr
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In this wide-ranging study, Hyung Il Pai examines how archaeological finds from throughout Northeast Asia have been used in Korea to construct a myth of state formation. This myth emphasizes the ancient development of a pure Korean race that created a civilization rivaling those of China and Japan …
State and Economy in Republican China
A Handbook for Scholars, Volumes 1 and 2
Av William C. Kirby, Man-houng Lin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
695 kr
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This manual for students focuses on archival research in the economic and business history of the Republican era (1911–1949). Following a general discussion of archival research and research aids for the Republican period, the handbook introduces the collections of archives in the People’s Republic …
Unfinished Business
Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.–Japan Relations, 1937–1953
Av Haruo Iguchi
Inbunden, 2003
359 kr
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Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880–1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan’s efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. Despite his close association with the Japanese government …
Competing Discourses
Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
Inbunden, 2001
396 kr
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In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close …
Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
Inbunden, 2001
396 kr
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In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late …
Writing Margins
The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan
Inbunden, 2001
396 kr
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In texts from the mid-Heian to the early Kamakura periods, certain figures appear to be “marginal” or removed from “centers” of power. But why do we see these figures in this way?This study first seeks to answer this question by examining the details of the marginalizing discourse found in these …
Re-examining the Cold War
U.S.–China Diplomacy, 1954–1973
Av Robert S. Ross, Changbin Jiang
Häftad, 2002
227 kr
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The twelve essays in this volume underscore the similarities between Chinese and American approaches to bilateral diplomacy and between their perceptions of each other’s policy-making motivations. Much of the literature on U.S.–China relations posits that each side was motivated either by …
Colonial Modernity in Korea
Av Kyeong-Hee Choi, Henry H. Em m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
255 kr
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The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation versus Korean resistance that has dominated the study of Korea’s colonial period (1910–1945) by adopting a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations …
Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea
Av JaHyun Kim Haboush, Martina Deuchler
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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Investigating the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, this work looks at the shifting boundaries between the Choson state and the adherents of Confucianism, Buddhism, Christianity, and popular religions. Seeking to define the meaning and constitutive elements of the hegemonic group and a …
In Pursuit of Status
The Making of South Korea’s “New” Urban Middle Class
Häftad, 2002
183 kr
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In this ethnography of the everyday life of contemporary Korea, Denise Lett argues that South Korea's contemporary urban middle class not only exhibits upper-class characteristics but also that this reflects a culturally inherited disposition of Koreans to seek high status. Lett shows that Koreans …
Minamata
Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan
Häftad, 2002
271 kr
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Nearly forty years after the outbreak of the “Minamata Disease,” it remains one of the most horrific examples of environmental poisoning. Based on primary documents and interviews, this book describes three rounds of responses to this incidence of mercury poisoning, focusing on the efforts of its …
Appropriation of Cultural Capital
China’s May Fourth Project
Av Milena Doleželová-Velingerová, Oldřich Král
Inbunden, 2002
391 kr
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For much of the twentieth century, the May Fourth movement of 1919 was seen as the foundational moment of modernity in China. Recent examinations of literary and cultural modernity in China have, however, led to a questioning of this view. By approaching May Fourth from novel perspectives, the …
Making of Shinkokinshū
Inbunden, 2002
494 kr
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This study of the Japanese imperial court in the early thirteenth century focuses on the compilation of one of Japan’s most important poetry collections, Shinkokinshū. Using personal diaries, court records, poetry texts, and literary treatises, Robert N. Huey reconstructs the process by which …
Patterned Past
Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
Inbunden, 2002
499 kr
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In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth century BCE among the followers of …
Inklings of Democracy in China
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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Since 1979 China’s leaders have introduced economic and political reforms that have lessened the state’s hold over the lives of ordinary citizens. By examining the growth in individual rights, the public sphere, democratic processes, and pluralization, the author seeks to answer questions …
On Sacred Grounds
Culture, Society, Politics, and the Formation of the Cult of Confucius
Inbunden, 2003
391 kr
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The sacred landscape of imperial China was dotted with Buddhist monasteries, Daoist temples, shrines to local deities, and the altars of the mandarinate. Prominent among the official shrines were the temples in every capital throughout the empire devoted to the veneration of Confucius. Twice a year …
People’s Emperor
Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945–1995
Häftad, 2003
227 kr
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Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant both as a political and as a cultural institution.This comprehensive study analyzes numerous issues, including the role of individual emperors in …
Technology of Empire
Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945
Av Daqing Yang
Inbunden, 2011
447 kr
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Nearly half a century ago, the economic historian Harold Innis pointed out that the geographical limits of empires were determined by communications and that, historically, advances in the technologies of transport and communications have enabled empires to grow. This power of communications was …
Fu Shan’s World
The Transformation of Chinese Calligraphy in the Seventeenth Century
Av Qianshen Bai
Inbunden, 2003
552 kr
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For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303–361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style modeled on the rough, broken epigraphs of ancient bronzes and stone artifacts brought a revolution in calligraphic taste. By the eighteenth century, this …
Alien Kind
Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative
Inbunden, 2004
391 kr
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To discuss the supernatural in China is “to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts.” Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, foxes were both immoral succubi and good …
