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Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods
The arts of reinvention
Av Morgan Pitelka, Alice Y. Tseng
Häftad, 2019
772 kr
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The city of Kyoto has undergone radical shifts in its significance as a political and cultural center, as a hub of the national bureaucracy, as a symbolic and religious center, and as a site for the production and display of art. However, the field of Japanese history and culture lacks a book that …
Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia
Häftad, 2011
772 kr
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Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and …
Constitution-making in Asia
Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire
Häftad, 2018
817 kr
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Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in …
Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan
Making Local Justice
Av Quinn Javers
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Exploring local practices of dispute resolution and laying bare the routine role of violence in the late-Qing dynasty, Conflict, Community, and the State in Late Imperial Sichuan demonstrates the significance of everyday violence in ordering, disciplining, and building communities. The book …
Lord Salisbury and Nationality in the East
Viewing Imperialism in its Proper Perspective
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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This study explains how Salisbury viewed cultural conflicts between the East and the West, how he treated Oriental nationality and nationalist aspirations in British dominions in the East, and how he directed British policy in the Eastern world in a time when the Western Powers were plunging into a …
Cold War Cities
The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s
Av Tze-ki Hon
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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This book is a dynamic study of the range of experiences of the Cold War in Europe, East Asia and Southeast Asia in the 20th century.Comprised of ten chapters from a diverse team of scholars from Europe, East Asia, and North America, this edited volume furthers the study of the Cold War in two …
Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan
Staging the Resistance
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Performing the Politics of Translation in Modern Japan sheds new light on the adoption of concepts that motivated political theatres of resistance for nearly a century and even now underpin the collective understanding of the Japanese nation. Grounded in the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration in …
Ulysses S. Grant and Meiji Japan, 1869-1885
Diplomacy, Strategic Thought and the Economic Context of US-Japan Relations
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Ulysses S Grant, besides being the General-in-Chief of the Union armies at the time of the Union victory in the American Civil War, was also President, 1869–1878, at a time when the United States was undergoing significant transformations, both economically and strategically, and growing in …
Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018
Disease, Society and the State
Inbunden, 2019
2586 kr
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Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggles of colonial and post-colonial governments to cope with widespread disease and to establish …
Public Health and the Modernization of China, 1865-2015
Av Liping Bu
Häftad, 2020
742 kr
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This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in …
Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire
Wartime Intellectuals and the Korea Question, 1931–1945
Av Seok-Won Lee
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan’s war, 1931–1945. As Japan invaded China and conducted a full-scale war against the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several versions of a Pan-Asian empire were presented …
Korean National Identity under Japanese Colonial Rule
Yi Gwangsu and the March First Movement of 1919
Av Michael Shin
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Modern Korean nationalism has been shaped by the turbulent historical forces that shook and transformed the peninsula during the twentieth century, including foreign occupation, civil war, and division. This book examines the emergence of the nation as the hegemonic form of collective identity …
Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea
Humanity and Nature, 1706-1814
Av Sang-ho Ro
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and …
Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation
Wounds, Scars, and Healing
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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This book brings together discussions of leading aspects and repercussions of the Asia-Pacific War, which still have huge relevance today. From the development of war guilt to the vivid effect of art on bringing alive the realities of the war, it analyses a diversity of post-war issues in the …
Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao
Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910
Av Luman Wang
Inbunden, 2020
2826 kr
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This book examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and …
Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia
Touring Diaspora, 1900s–1970s
Av Beiyu Zhang
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia.Focusing on five different kinds of theatre troupes from China and their respective travels in Singapore, …
Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72
Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize
Inbunden, 2020
2826 kr
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This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours …
Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72
Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours …
Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao
Banking, State, and Family, 1720-1910
Av Luman Wang
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism.Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and …
Japan's "New Deal" for China
Propaganda Aimed at Americans before Pearl Harbor
Av June Grasso
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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In the decade leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, at a time when Japan was expanding its influence in Asia, several Japanese institutions set about trying to convince Americans to support Tokyo’s plans and ambitions for China. This book seeks to analyze the original publications produced by …
United States and Southeast Asian Regionalism
Collective Security and Economic Development, 1945–75
Av Sue Thompson
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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The Nixon or Guam Doctrine of 1969 stressed the importance of progress towards regional cooperation and Asian collective security, indicating that Asian countries themselves should take the initiative in creating programs in which the United States could participate. This book analyses the …
Southeast Asian Education in Modern History
Schools, Manipulation, and Contest
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approach to the provision of education? Inquiry into these questions has significant consequences for our understanding of the current state of education in …
Newspapers and the Journalistic Public in Republican China
1917 as a Significant Year of Journalism
Av Qiliang He
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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Offering an entirely new approach to understanding China’s journalism history, this book covers the Chinese periodical press in the first half of the twentieth century.By focusing on five cases, either occurring in or in relation to the year 1917, this book emphasizes the protean nature of the …
Colonisation and Settlement of Taiwan, 1684–1945
Land Tenure, Law and Qing and Japanese Policies
Av Ruiping Ye
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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The dispossession of indigenous peoples by conquest regimes remains a pressing issue. This book, unlike most other books on the subject, contrasts two different colonial administrations – first the Chinese Qing Empire, then, from 1895, the Japanese. It shows how, under the Chinese legal system, the …
English Language Teaching during Japan's Post-war Occupation
Politics and Pedagogy
Av Mayumi Ohara, John Buchanan
Häftad, 2020
672 kr
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In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government. This scholarly book is based on in-depth interviews with people, now …
Britain's Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931
Av Phoebe Chow
Häftad, 2020
742 kr
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Britain’s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of Britain’s own commercial interests. This book, however, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that in Britain …
British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922
The Origins and Course of an Unlikely Alliance
Av Antony Best
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. …
Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside
Leisure in British Hong Kong
Inbunden, 2022
2586 kr
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A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong.British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial …
Power and Politics at the Colonial Seaside
Leisure in British Hong Kong
Häftad, 2024
633 kr
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A study of the complex role of the seaside as a leisure space in colonial Hong Kong.British sports were in many respects more meaningful in the empire than literature, music, art, or religion. They served as an instrument of cultural association and later of cultural change, promoting imperial …
Competing Imperialisms in Northeast Asia
New Perspectives, 1894-1953
Av Aglaia De Angeli, Peter Robinson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2586 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. In the process, they contested and at the same time adopted many of the physical and rhetorical features of Old-World imperialism, mitigated …
