Women on the Verge

Karen Kelsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan's most enthusiastic "internationalists," investing in study or work abroad,... 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

The Proletarian Gamble

Ken C Kawashima

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destituti... Lees meer

Two Dreams in One Bed

Hyun Ok Park

• Hardcover | 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

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

Envisioning Taiwan

June Yip

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island--with its complex history of colonization-... 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

Uncovering Heian Japan

Thomas Lamarre

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• The poetry of the Heian court of Japan has typically been linked with the emergence of a distinct Japanese language and culture. This concept of a lin... Lees meer

Japan After Japan

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• The prolonged downturn in the Japanese economy that began during the recessionary 1990s triggered a complex set of reactions both within Japan and abr... 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

Kingdom of Beauty

Kim Brandt

• Hardcover | 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

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

Chinese Reportage

Charles A Laughlin

• Hardcover | 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 Great Enterprise

Henry Em

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In The Great Enterprise , Henry H. Em examines how the project of national sovereignty shaped the work of Korean historians and their representations ... Lees meer

The Limits of Okinawa

Wendy Matsumura

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "South," both spatia... Lees meer

Writing Taiwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• W riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century... Lees meer

Policing Chinese Politics

Michael Dutton

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultura... 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

Painting the City Red

Yomi Braester

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Painting the City Red illuminates the dynamic relationship between the visual media, particularly film and theater, and the planning and development o... Lees meer

Cinema of Actuality

Yuriko Furuhata

• Paperback | 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

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

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

Civilization and Monsters

Gerald Figal

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are rega... 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