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The story of viet nam
For those who are looking for a very well informed introduction to Viet Nam—from its semi-mythical beginnings some 5,000 years ago all the way up to the twenty-first century—this is the book. Covering politics and war, society and economics, culture and relationships, it provides the essential st...
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Japan on american tv
Japan on American TV explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions of Japan on U.S. television comedies and the programs they inspired. The book examines six main categories of television portrayals representing different genres and comedic forms.
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Japan and imperialism, 1853-1945
Revised and Expanded Second Edition. This lively narrative tells the story of Japan’s experience with imperialism and colonialism, looking first at Japan’s responses to Western threats in the nineteenth century, then at Japan’s activities as Asia’s only imperialist power. Using a series of human ...
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Caste in india
A clear and compelling introduction to one of the world’s most complex and misunderstood social systems. This volume offers an exhaustive overview of the anthropology and history of caste based on extensive reading and over two decades of ethnographic research in rural South India. It also speaks...
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The arts of japan
This exciting new volume focuses on the arts of Japan through the lens of creativity and innovation.
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Living with gandhi
Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa.
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Modern indian history
India, as a nation-state, is a relatively new concept. Modern Indian History is a chronological historical narrative starting in the 16th century and ending in the present, that considers political, economic, and social developments on the Indian subcontinent.
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Japanese government and politics
This book is a comparative approach to Japanese politics. Grounded in a discussion of democracy’s historical development since the Meiji period, each chapter encourages readers to think critically and comparatively about political processes and their outcomes, situating Japan regionally and as a ...
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Who is the asianist?
Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian studies through the lens of positionality and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. This book insists that change within Asian studies will occur only when it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, ge...
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New threats to academic freedom in asia
New Threats to Academic Freedom in Asia examines the increasingly dire state of academic freedom in Asia. Using cross-national data and in-depth case studies, the authors shed light on the multifaceted nature of academic censorship and provide reference points to those working in restrictive acad...
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Animal care in japanese tradition
This book provides a historical overview of Japan’s relationship with animals from ancient times to the 1950s. Departing from existing scholarship on the subject, the book also connects Japan’s much-maligned record of animal exploitation with its strong adherence to contextual, needs-based moral ...
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Burmese haze
Burmese Days, Burmese Haze provides a unique—and personal—perspective on the historical events and foreign ties that shaped Myanmar and its relationship with the United States. Former intelligence analyst Erin Murphy tells the story of a remarkable political transition and subsequent collapse, ex...
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Shinran's gospel of pure grace
The central aim of this study of Shinran's thought is to make a systematic presentation of his cardinal ideas which, though well known in general studies of Buddhism, have not been given the detailed attention they merit. It is therefore hoped that this presentation will fill a need in Buddhist s...
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Global anti-asian racism
This volume illuminates the multifaceted nature of global anti-Asian racism and the resilience of Asians across the world to resist and counter this bigotry and bias.
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South asian texts in history
South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock’s work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge the...
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Traditional china in asian and world history
Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how—from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia—the Chinese were constantly ...
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Memory, violence, queues
Memory, Violence Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China takes a new look at the writer whose name is synonymous with the radical newness of modern Chinese literature. It identifies key moments in Lu Xun’s creative development and places them in the context of the turbulent era in which China became a re...
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The fifty years that changed chinese religion, 1898–1948
This book demonstrates that transformative processes occurred in Chinese religions during the last decade of the Qing dynasty and the entire Republican period. Focusing on Shanghai and Zhejiang, it delves into the workings of social structures, religious practices, and personal commitments as the...
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Confucius in east asia
Jeffrey L. Richey has written an engaging and well-crafted book that clearly delineates the oftentimes fitful development of Confucianism in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
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Japanese literature: from murasaki to murakami
This book provides a concise introduction to the literature of Japan that traces its origins in the seventh century and explores its cultural contexts. Coverage extends to the present day with a focus on the complex twists and turns that mark Japan’s literature in the modern period.
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Japan since 1945
Concisely rendered, engagingly written, and thoughtful in its judgments, this short book is a most valuable interpretation of Japan’s remarkable history since the end of World War II. It surveys the dramatic changes in Japan’s society, politics, economy, international relations, and culture from ...
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Teaching japanese popular culture
Interest in Japanese popular culture is high among students at all levels, driving enrollment in Japanese Studies programs. However, there has been little reflection on the pedagogy of teaching Japanese popular culture. Now is the time for critical reflection on teaching practices related to teac...
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To die and not decay
To Die and Not Decay is the only book-length study to date on early Chinese autobiographical writing and the cultural issues surrounding this particular genre. While other studies have regarded texts of the Han (206 BCE–220 CE) and early medieval period (220–589 CE) as antecedents for later autho...
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Marketing and social structure in rural china
This three-part study, originally published in consecutive issues of the Journal of Asian Studies, has become a classic in the field of Asian studies and has been used in classrooms for over 50 years.
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Tribe and state in asia through twenty-five centuries
This book analyzes how the word “tribe” has morphed and spread through the centuries. It goes behind the label to bring out the social, military, and environmental settings that gave it its various meanings.
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Changing lives
CHANGING LIVES: The ‘Postwar’ in Japanese Women’s Autobiographies and Memoirs presents the reader with substantial translations from memoirs and autobiographies by Japanese women. The women who appear in the book are far from household names in Japan: Okabe Itsuko (nonfiction writer and cultural ...
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Korea in world history
Donald Clark does a masterful job of situating the entire sweep of Korean history in its global context thus belying the shop worn stereotype of Korea as a hermit nation. Clark uses his mastery of both medieval and modern history to vividly describe the often ignored contributions of this fascina...
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The war for chinese talent in america
This book documents China and America's battle over technology and scientists and how this fight undermined Sino-American scientific collaboration and triggered the outflow of some top Chinese talent from America and back to China.
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Prescribing colonization
An essential book for scholars of East Asian history, Prescribing Colonization addresses the impact of Western-influenced Japanese medicine on medical practices in Taiwan during Japanese colonial rule and examines the role colonial medicine played in Japanese empire building.Taiwan was Japan’s fi...
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East meets east
Through the lives of Chinese diplomats and their careers, East Meets East explores three important dimensions of modern Chinese history: Chinese discovery of the modern world in Japan; reports on Japan suppressed by higher authorities because of their insistent objectivity and non-Sinocentric per...
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Murakami haruki on film
This book offers a timely look at the cinematic adaptations of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki’s fiction over the past forty years. These films demonstrate the way adaptations are fundamentally creative works that say something new about the different cultural contexts in which they appear.
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The dream of east asia
This book presents a framework for understanding contemporary Northeast Asia, focusing on the countries that comprise the conventional understanding of East Asia—China, Taiwan, Japan, and the two Koreas. In so doing, John Lie illuminates regional economic, political, and cultural dynamics.
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Tools of culture
This important collection addresses aspects of Japanese human and material interactions in East Asia from the late eleventh through the late sixteenth centuries, a period coincident with Japan’s late classical and medieval eras. The collection broadens our understanding of Japanese history, by de...
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The mongol empire in world history
In a thoroughly comprehensive manner, Helen Hundley successfully demonstrates the complex legacy of the Mongol presence in medieval history, when Mongol warriors created a vast political organism facilitating interethnic and intercontinental economic and cultural exchange. Hundley offers the read...
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Teaching about asia in a time of pandemic
Teaching About Asia in a Time of Pandemic presents many lessons learned by educators during the COVID-19 outbreak. The volume consists of two sections, one discussing how to teach using examples and case studies emerging from the pandemic and the other focusing on pedagogical tools and methods be...
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Beating devils and burning their books
Beating Devils and Burning Their Books considers several topics germane to today’s social and intellectual climate. Is religio-cultural conflict innate in religious belief? Is “difference” necessarily an antecedent of conflict? And on a purely expository level, how have governments, intellectuals...
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The pandemic
This collection of essays provides analyses of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. It includes interpretations by leading scholars in anthropology, food studies, history, media studies, political science, and visual studies, who examine the political, social, economic, and cultural impact of COVID-19 ...
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The great smog of china
The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses an...
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Women in japanese studies
This Book brings together trailblazing women scholars from diverse disciplines in Japanese Studies to reflect on their careers and offer advice to colleagues.
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Eco-disasters in japanese cinema
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first book dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema.
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Modern short fiction of southeast asia
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, Modern Short Fiction of Southeast Asia surveys the historical and cultural significance of modern short fiction in nine Southeast Asian nations—Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Written in an...
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Drinking bomb and shooting meth
Jeffrey W. Alexander examines how Western alcohol and innovative pharmaceuticals became so popular, available, and fashionable in Japan. He considers the people who brewed, distilled, synthesized, and marketed these products and explores what their advertising campaigns say about Japan’s shifting...
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Modern chinese history
Modern Chinese History provides a concise narrative of Chinese history from the period 1644 to the present. It can easily supplement any history, international studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies course. It can also provide valuable background information necessary to understand contempor...
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Global india circa 100 ce
By focusing on traders, missionaries, warriors, and adventurers—the four types of agents who are responsible for globalizing processes— this highly accessible volume brings analytical coherence and clarity to an unwieldy subject matter. In addition to excellent coverage of more familiar topics su...
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Gender, sexuality, and body politics in modern asia
Peletz’s book addresses topics of the highest significance for multiple disciplines, effectively linking gender issues and gendered identities to many other matters of current and enduring import across Asia — including public health, violence, industrialization, and media. Peletz has made an ext...
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The transpacific flow
This is the first book-length account of university-based creative writing programs in China.
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The turn against the modern
The Turn Against the Modern is a biography of the late Meiji social and cultural critic Taoka Reiun (1870–1912) who was known for his fierce attack on modernity. Reiun was convinced that the western conception of modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was based on an overly ...
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Scattered goddesses
Scattered Goddesses: Travels with the Yoginis is a book about the lost home, the new homes, and the journeys in between of nineteen sculptures that now reside in at least twelve separate museums across North America, Western Europe, and South India. After piecing together what these goddesses and...
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