The Origins of the Cultural Revolution

Roderick Macfarquhar

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• The second volume in a trilogy which examines the politics, economics, culture and international relations of Chines from the mid-1950s to he mid-1960... Lees meer

Narratives of Civic Duty

Aram Hur

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In Narratives of Civic Duty , Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibilit... Lees meer

Occupying Power

Sarah Kovner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on t... Lees meer

Revolution Goes East

Tatiana Linkhoeva

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various ... Lees meer

The Fascist Effect

Reto Hofmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In The Fascist Effect , Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian... Lees meer

Resurrecting Nagasaki

Chad R Diehl

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In Resurrecting Nagasaki , Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individ... Lees meer

Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier

Benno Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier , Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decad... Lees meer

The Origins of the Cultural Revolution

Roderick Macfarquhar

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised st... Lees meer

The Battle for Fortune

Charlene Makley

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans' encounters with... Lees meer

Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural ... Lees meer

Planning for Empire

Janis A Mimura

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the pr... Lees meer

The Merchants of Zigong

Madeleine Zelin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousand... Lees meer

Socialist Cosmopolitanism

Nicolai Volland

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world lite... Lees meer

Divorce in Japan

Harald Fuess

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Historians have paid little attention to divorce in Japan, even though until the mid-twentieth century Japan had one of the highest divorce rates in t... Lees meer

Behind the Gate

Fabio Lanza

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Sq... Lees meer

Residual Futures

Franz Prichard

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago.... Lees meer

Isolating the Enemy

Tao Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In the crucial moment after the Korean War, the United States and the People's Republic of China circled each other warily. They shifted between confr... Lees meer

The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950

Charles K Armstrong

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Char... Lees meer

Afterlives of Letters

Satoru Hashimoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Honorable Mention, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, Modern Language Association When East Asia opened itself to the world ... Lees meer

Kinship, Contract, Community, and State

Myron L Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• This book examines major areas of late imperial Chinese culture, and their relation to Chinese culture today, focusing on the competence and sophistic... Lees meer

Forging the Golden Urn

Max Oidtmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In 1995, the People's Republic of China resurrected a Qing-era law mandating that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified... Lees meer

Planning for Empire

Janis A Mimura

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Japan's invasion of Manchuria in September of 1931 initiated a new phase of brutal occupation and warfare in Asia and the Pacific. It forwarded the pr... Lees meer

Homecomings

Yoshikuni Igarashi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and servicemen who had been posted overseas returned home. H... Lees meer

Learning to Rule

Daniel Barish

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
• In the second half of the nineteenth century, local leaders around the Qing empire attempted to rebuild in the aftermath of domestic rebellion and imp... Lees meer