Chinese Reportage

Charles A Laughlin

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reporta... Lees meer

The New Japanese Woman

Barbara Sato

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Presenting a vivid social history of "the new woman" who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images o... Lees meer

Parallax Visions

Bruce Cumings

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings--a leading historian o... Lees meer

Kingdom of Beauty

Kim Brandt

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intel... Lees meer

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World

Rebecca E Karl

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal exp... Lees meer

The Culture of Japanese Fascism

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• This bold collection of essays demonstrates the necessity of understanding fascism in cultural terms rather than only or even primarily in terms of po... Lees meer

Dancing with the Dead

Christopher T Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, an... Lees meer

Cinema of Actuality

Yuriko Furuhata

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media ev... Lees meer

Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Edward Mack

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishin... Lees meer

The Sublime Perversion of Capital

Gavin Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory... Lees meer

The Flash of Capital

Eric Cazdyn

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan's capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film... Lees meer

Backward Glances

Fran Martin

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Backward Glances reveals that the passionate love one woman feels for another occupies a position of unsuspected centrality in contemporary Chinese ma... Lees meer

Public Properties

Noriko Aso

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museum... Lees meer

Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

Rey Chow

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transfor... Lees meer

Borders of Chinese Civilization

Douglas Howland

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• D. R. Howland explores China's representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural a... Lees meer

Ontology of Production

Nishida Kitaro

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), translated for the first time into En... Lees meer

Bad Water

Robert Stolz

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's soci... Lees meer

Ontology of Production

Nishida Kitaro

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitarō (1870-1945), translated for the first time into En... Lees meer

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

Jesook Song

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response t... Lees meer

Two Dreams in One Bed

Hyun Ok Park

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Rethinking a key epoch in East Asian history, Hyun Ok Park formulates a new understanding of early-twentieth-century Manchuria. Most studies of the hi... Lees meer

Troubadours, Trumpeters, Troubled Makers

Gregory B Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• How have the lyrics of poets and songwriters, traditionally voices of protest against domination and exploitation in Chinese society, responded to the... Lees meer

Parallax Visions

Bruce Cumings

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In a work that synthesizes crucial developments in international relations at the close of the twentieth century, Bruce Cumings--a leading historian o... Lees meer

Text and the City

Ai Maeda

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book o... Lees meer

Thought Crime

Max M Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution ... Lees meer