Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens

Mark Lincicome

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book offers a new perspective on Japanese educational policy reforms that have been enacted under the guise of internationalization since the lat... Lees meer

The Culture of Fengshui in Korea

Hong-Key Yoon

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• Hong-Key Yoon's book explores the nature of geomantic principles (fengshui) and the culture of practicing them in Korean cultural contexts. He clearly... Lees meer

A Matter of Honour

Yoon Jung Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• A Matter of Honour examines the shifting social, ethnic, racial, and national identities of Chinese South Africans over time. Park's study breaks away... Lees meer

Rising from the Flames

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• This is the first book to describe the way in which the traditional and modern forms of Japanese theater responded to Japan's defeat in World War II. ... Lees meer

China's Unequal Treaties

Dong Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• China's Unequal Treaties offers a study, based on primary sources, of the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression 'Unequal Treatie... Lees meer

The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present

David Chapman

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book examines the social and cultural history of the Bonin Islands and its inhabitants from the first settlements in the early nineteenth century... Lees meer

Visualizing Modern China

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book is a teaching textbook for both lower and upper level courses on modern Chinese history and/or modern visual culture. With fourteen chapters... Lees meer

Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future

Robert Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the... Lees meer

Japan in the World

Klaus Schlichtmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld | nr. 2
• Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Japan in the World examines the life and diplomatic work of Shidehara Kijuro (1872-1951), situati... Lees meer

Yoko Tawada

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Ysko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of... Lees meer

The Culture of Fengshui in Korea

Hong-Key Yoon

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• Hong-Key Yoon's book explores the nature of geomantic principles (fengshui) and the culture of practicing them in Korean cultural contexts. He clearly... Lees meer

Yokohama Street Life

Tom Gill

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book is a one-man ethnography that seeks to understand life at the bottom of Japanese society through the personality of day laborer and street-p... Lees meer

Japan in the World

Klaus Schlichtmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld | nr. 1
• Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Japan in the World examines the life and diplomatic work of Shidehara Kijuro (1872-1951), situati... Lees meer

Malay Kingship in Kedah

Maziar Mozaffari Falarti

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• The Kedah Sultanate is the oldest unbroken independent kingship lines in the "Malay world" with 1,000 years of history, and arguably one of the oldest... Lees meer

Japan in the World

Klaus Schlichtmann

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld | nr. 1
• Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Japan in the World examines the life and diplomatic work of Shidehara Kijuro (1872-1951), situati... Lees meer

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea

Nan Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• Focusing on regional geopolitics, social dynamics, watershed political rituals, and family narratives, this book explores the cultural process of movi... Lees meer

Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature

Nanyan Guo

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book deepens our understanding of the dynamics between nature and culture in Japanese thought and feeling. The author provides a detailed study o... Lees meer

Poetry and Terror

Peter Dale Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• The book explores, in interview format, issues raised but not fully explored by Scott's poem Coming to Jakarta on the 1965 Indonesian massacre. In add... Lees meer

Lake of Heaven

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• Lake of Heaven is a tale of the people, culture, and environment of a Japanese mountain village that is sunk to build a dam. As Gary Snyder comments, ... Lees meer

Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens

Mark Lincicome

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• This book offers a new perspective on Japanese educational policy reforms that have been enacted under the guise of internationalization since the lat... Lees meer

Precious Steppe

Ole Bruun

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• Ole Bruun's work depicts the life of a community of Mongolian livestock herders as they begin to adjust to life outside of their contained Soviet-styl... Lees meer

Memory, Reconciliation, and Reunions in South Korea

Nan Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld
• Focusing on regional geopolitics, social dynamics, watershed political rituals, and family narratives, this book explores the cultural process of movi... Lees meer

Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Nobuko Adachi

• Hardcover | Engels | Asiaworld
• This study is an anthropological examination of an ethnic Japanese diaspora community living in an agricultural commune in Brazil. It analyzes the gro... Lees meer

Tommy's Sunset

Hisako Tsurushima

• Paperback | Engels | Asiaworld | nr. 1
• Tommy's Sunset is a translation of the acclaimed Japanese novel about the journey of a mother and her autistic child. Lees meer