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

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

The Proletarian Gamble

Ken C Kawashima

• Paperback | 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

Civilization and Monsters

Gerald Figal

• Paperback | 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

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

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

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

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

Writing Taiwan

• Paperback | 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

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

Before the Nation

Susan L Burns

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close exami... Lees meer

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy

Zhen Ni

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubin... Lees meer

Japan's Holy War

Walter Skya

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war. Bringing to light a wealth of new i... Lees meer

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis

Jesook Song

• Paperback | 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

The Sublime Perversion of Capital

Gavin Walker

• Paperback | 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

Bad Water

Robert Stolz

• Paperback | 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

Global/Local

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization-the ways in whic... Lees meer

Money, Trains, and Guillotines

William Marotti

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William... Lees meer

Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy

Zhen Ni

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou transformed Chinese cinema with Farewell My Concubin... Lees meer

The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema

Kyung Hyun Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
• In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has ... 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

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

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