Strange Tales from EDO

William D Fleming

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• In Strange Tales from Edo , William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600-1868... Lees meer

The People's Emperor

Kenneth J Ruoff

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 211
• Few institutions are as well suited as the monarchy to provide a window on postwar Japan. The monarchy, which is also a family, has been significant b... Lees meer

Hong Kong Takes Flight

John D Wong

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Commercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. Rather than accepting air travel as an inevitability in the... Lees meer

A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese

Paul Rouzer

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 276
• Forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese are taken from a number of pre-Han an... Lees meer

Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019

Kenneth J Ruoff

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 432
• With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People's Emperor, his study of t... Lees meer

Negotiating Urban Space

Si-Yen Fei

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 320
• Urbanization was central to development in late imperial China. Yet its impact is heatedly debated, although scholars agree that it triggered neither ... Lees meer

Computers, Inc.

Marie Anchordoguy

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 144
• This account of efforts to build a domestic Japanese computer industry is enlivened with quotations from industrial leaders commenting on the stages t... Lees meer

Unreal Houses

Edith Sarra

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 429
• The Tale of Genji (ca. 1008), by noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, is known for its sophisticated renderings of fictional characters' minds and its critica... Lees meer

Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame

Grace C Huang

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Once a powerful figure who reversed the disintegration of China and steered the country to Allied victory in World War II, Chiang Kai-shek fled into e... Lees meer

Neo-Confucianism in History

Peter K Bol

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 307
• Where does Neo-Confucianism--a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understood the world a... Lees meer

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan

Seth Jacobowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 387
• Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of medi... Lees meer

Vietnam

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs
• In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During th... Lees meer

The Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan

Andrew Gordon

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 117
• The century-long process by which a distinct pattern of Japanese labor relations evolved is traced through the often turbulent interactions of workers... Lees meer

Breaking Barriers

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 163
• Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho , and travel per... Lees meer

Tears of Longing

Christine R Yano

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 206
• Enka , a sentimental ballad genre, epitomizes for many the nihonjin no kokoro (heart/soul of Japanese). To older members of the Japanese public, who c... Lees meer

Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea

Soon-Won Park

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 181
• This book is a study of labor relations and the first generation of skilled workers in colonial Korea, a subject crucial to the understanding of moder... Lees meer

Orthodox Passions

Maram Epstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 425
• In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a t... Lees meer

Manga from the Floating World

Adam L Kern

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 279
• Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi , a genre of woodblock-printed comic book widely read in late-... Lees meer

A Continuous Revolution

Barbara Mittler

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 343
• Cultural Revolution Culture, often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, was liked not only in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continu... Lees meer

Sailor Diplomat

Peter Mauch

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 333
• As Japan's pre-Pearl Harbor ambassador to the United States, Admiral Nomura Kichisaburō (1877-1964) played a significant role in a tense and turbulent... Lees meer

Osaka Modern

Michael P Cronin

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 403
• Images of the city in literature and film help constitute the experience of modern life. Studies of the Japanese city have focused on Tokyo, but a ful... Lees meer

Defining Engagement

Robert I Hellyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 326
• Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challeng... Lees meer

China During the Great Depression

Tomoko Shiroyama

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 294
• The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is ... Lees meer

Japan's Local Pragmatists

Neil L Waters

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 105
• Japanese local history is used as an ingredient in historiographical theories designed to prove that the rapid pace of change in Japan led either to p... Lees meer