Hygienic Modernity

Ruth Rogaski

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 9
• Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the... Lees meer

Speaking to History

Paul A Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 16
• The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twent... Lees meer

Go Nation

Marc L. Moskowitz

• Hardcover | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic g... Lees meer

Mapping Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 7
• This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes-including maps and mapmaking, poetry, trav... Lees meer

Coming to Terms with the Nation

Thomas Mullaney

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 18
• China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of... Lees meer

Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 4
• The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the ... Lees meer

Anyuan

Elizabeth Perry

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 24
• How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? A... Lees meer

Hygienic Modernity

Ruth Rogaski

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 9
• Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the... Lees meer

Moral Nation

Miriam Kingsberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 29
• This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations a... Lees meer

Marrow of the Nation

Andrew D Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 10
• By 1907, staff at the Tianjin YMCA were rallying their Chinese charges with the cry: When will China be able to send a winning athlete to the Olympic ... Lees meer

Anyuan

Elizabeth Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 24
• How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? A... Lees meer

Imaging Disaster

Gennifer Weisenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 22
• Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation--the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surround... Lees meer

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 31
• Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had... Lees meer

Recreating Japanese Men

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 20
• The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanes... Lees meer

The Nature of the Beasts

Ian Jared Miller

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 27
• It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-stat... Lees meer

An Artistic Exile

Geremie Randall Barme

• Hardcover | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• A blend of biography and criticism, this work tells the story of Feng Zikai (1898-1975), one of the most gifted and important artists to emerge from t... Lees meer

The Nature of the Beasts

Ian Jared Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 27
• It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-stat... Lees meer

Vicarious Language

Miyako Inoue

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 11
• This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gend... Lees meer

Go Nation

Marc L Moskowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 28
• Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic g... Lees meer

Coming to Terms with the Nation

Thomas Mullaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 18
• China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of... Lees meer

Japan in Print

Mary Elizabeth Berry

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 12
• A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the m... Lees meer

A Malleable Map

Karen Wigen

• Hardcover | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Examines regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title argues that both th... Lees meer

A Malleable Map

Kären Wigen

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 17
• Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration ( ishin ) in modern Japanese history. As developed here,... Lees meer

The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village

Henrietta Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 26
• The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between i... Lees meer