Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute – serie
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Fuji
A Mountain in the Making
Inbunden, 2025
306 kr
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A panoramic history of Japan’s iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the presentMount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought …
Making Time
Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan
Av Yulia Frumer
Inbunden, 2018
430 kr
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What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything--it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as …
Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Av Victor Seow
Inbunden, 2022
359 kr
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A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening …
Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Av Victor Seow
Häftad, 2023
280 kr
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A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine.The coal-mining town of Fushun in China’s Northeast is home to a monstrous open pit. First excavated in the early twentieth century, this pit grew like a widening …
Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism
Av Alan Tansman
Inbunden, 2009
1181 kr
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In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War …
Beyond the Metropolis
Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan
Av Louise Young
Inbunden, 2013
756 kr
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In "Beyond the Metropolis", Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wide …
Beyond the Steppe Frontier
A History of the Sino-Russian Border
Inbunden, 2020
474 kr
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A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by …
Beyond the Steppe Frontier
A History of the Sino-Russian Border
Häftad, 2021
324 kr
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A comprehensive history of the Sino-Russian border, one of the longest and most important land borders in the worldThe Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, has received scant attention in histories about the margins of empires. Beyond the Steppe Frontier rectifies this by …
Growth Idea
Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan
Inbunden, 2009
477 kr
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Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O'Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of …
One Hundred Million Philosophers
Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan
Av Adam Bronson
Inbunden, 2016
683 kr
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After the devastation of World War II, journalists, scholars, and citizens came together to foster a new culture of democracy in Japan. Adam Bronson explores this effort in a path-breaking study of the Institute for the Science of Thought, one of the most influential associations to emerge in the …
