Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan

Alan Stephen Wolfe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer... Lees meer

Pacific Basin Industries in Distress

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Presents case studies of how North American, Asian, and Oceanic governments have intervened to help ailing industries, and the impact their actions ha... Lees meer

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

Dennis C Washburn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• This book looks at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westerni... Lees meer

Teachers and Politics in Japan

Donald R Thurston

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politic... Lees meer

The Study of Change

James Reardon-Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, "the study of change." ... Lees meer

Human Rights in Contemporary China

R Randle Edwards, Louis Henkin, Andrew J Nathan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• A study of the East Asian Institute and of the Center for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University--Prelim. p. 1. Lees meer

Japan's Modern Myths

Carol Gluck

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute | nr. 1
• Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to... Lees meer

How the Conservatives Rule Japan

Nathaniel Bowman Thayer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Dr. Thayer, who was American press attaché in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he make... Lees meer

The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo

Hosea Hirata

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who ... Lees meer

How the Conservatives Rule Japan

Nathaniel Bowman Thayer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Dr. Thayer, who was American press attaché in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he make... Lees meer

A Chinese Pioneer Family

Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of ge... Lees meer

The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo

Hosea Hirata

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the East Asian Institute
• This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who ... Lees meer