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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Introduction to Chinese Poetry

Michael A Fuller

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 408
• This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead bri... 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

Opportunity in Crisis

Steven B Miles

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 441
• Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of... Lees meer

Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

Micah S Muscolino

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 325
• Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing. Coming to grips with ... Lees meer

The Home Base of American China Missions, 1880-1920

Valentin H Rabe

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 75
• During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, approximately two dozen Protestant mission societies, which since 1812 had been sending American... Lees meer

Localities at the Center

Richard Belsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 258
• A visitor to Beijing in 1900, Chinese or foreign, would have been struck by the great number of native-place lodges serving the needs of scholars and ... Lees meer

Economic Planning and Organization in Mainland China

Kuo-Chün Chao

• Paperback | Engels | Harvard East Asian Monographs | nr. 7
• This is the second volume expanding Agrarian Policies of Mainland China: A Documentary Study, 1949-1956 . It presents key documents emanating from Pek... Lees meer