New Directions in East Asian History – serie
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Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan
Inbunden, 2018
848 kr
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This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nation’s embrace of the idea …
Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International Order
Inbunden, 2019
904 kr
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Fully utilizing the latest archival material, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and nuanced understanding of the Tokyo Tribunal by delving into the temporal aspects that extended the relevance and reverberations of the Tribunal beyond its end in 1948. With this as a backdrop, …
Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia
The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism
Inbunden, 2019
1352 kr
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This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system in East Asia. It argues that events on the ground in Taiwan show the Japanese government intended …
Student Radicalism and the Formation of Postwar Japan
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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This book offers a timely and multifaceted reanalysis of student radicalism in postwar Japan. It considers how students actively engaged the early postwar debates over subjectivity, and how the emergence of a new generation of students in the mid-1950s influenced the nation’s embrace of the idea …
Narrating Southern Chinese Minority Nationalities
Politics, Disciplines, and Public History
Av Guo Wu
Inbunden, 2019
848 kr
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Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production. It argues that Chinese ideology on minority nationalities is rooted in modern China's quest …
League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920–1946
Inbunden, 2020
686 kr
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Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations’ works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the trafficking of women and the work …
League of Nations and the East Asian Imperial Order, 1920–1946
Häftad, 2021
686 kr
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Well-grounded on abundant Japanese language sources which have been underused, this book uncovers the League of Nations’ works in East Asia in the inter-war period. By researching the field of social and other technical issues, namely, the trade in narcotics, the trafficking of women and the work …
Japanese Investment and British Trade Unionism
Thatcher and Nissan Revisited in the Wake of Brexit
Inbunden, 2020
568 kr
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This book revisits the long contested negotiation between the Thatcher administration and Nissan for the latter's first green-field plant in Europe. From the very beginning, the plant took Britain’s EC/EU membership and tariff-free access to the single market as a token. A considerable amount of …
Japanese Investment and British Trade Unionism
Thatcher and Nissan Revisited in the Wake of Brexit
Häftad, 2021
568 kr
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This book revisits the long contested negotiation between the Thatcher administration and Nissan for the latter's first green-field plant in Europe. From the very beginning, the plant took Britain’s EC/EU membership and tariff-free access to the single market as a token. A considerable amount of …
Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond
Inbunden, 2022
1576 kr
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This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary …
Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond
Häftad, 2023
1576 kr
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This book tackles the question of border control in and around imperial Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific focus on its documentation regime. It explores the institutional development, media and literary discourses, and on[1]the-ground practices of documentary …
East Asians in the League of Nations
Actors, Empires and Regions in Early Global Politics
Av Christopher R. Hughes, Hatsue Shinohara
Inbunden, 2023
1576 kr
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This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations. It breaks new ground by drawing on extensive sources in East Asian languages to show how actors from the region played significant roles …
East Asians in the League of Nations
Actors, Empires and Regions in Early Global Politics
Av Christopher R. Hughes, Hatsue Shinohara
Häftad, 2024
1576 kr
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This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations. It breaks new ground by drawing on extensive sources in East Asian languages to show how actors from the region played significant roles …
From Allies to Enemies
Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II
Inbunden, 2023
1464 kr
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To understand the turnaround in Spain’s stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of …
From Allies to Enemies
Spain, Japan and the Axis in World War II
Häftad, 2024
1464 kr
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To understand the turnaround in Spain’s stance towards Japan during World War II, this book goes beyond mutual contacts and explains through images, representations, and racism why Madrid aimed at declaring war on Japan but not against the III Reich -as London ironically replied when it learned of …
China’s War in Korea
Strategic Culture and Geopolitics
Av Xiaobing Li
Inbunden, 2019
1016 kr
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This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what became the war’s common name in …
China’s War in Korea
Strategic Culture and Geopolitics
Av Xiaobing Li
Häftad, 2020
1016 kr
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This book re-visits the history of the Korean War of 1950-1953 from a Chinese perspective, examining Chinese strategy and exploring why China sent three million troops to Korea, in Mao’s words, to “defend the homeland and safeguard the country”—giving rise to what became the war’s common name in …
Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan
Inbunden, 2024
1240 kr
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This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot police had flooded the campus to end the students’ year-long occupation of the university. The trial, which was the largest in Japanese legal history and was remarkable for being …
Tokyo University Trial and the Struggle Against Order in Postwar Japan
Häftad, 2025
1240 kr
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This book explores the trial of over 600 students arrested at the University of Tokyo in 1969 after thousands of riot police had flooded the campus to end the students’ year-long occupation of the university. The trial, which was the largest in Japanese legal history and was remarkable for being …
