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Book SynopsisSouth Asia's diaspora is among the world's largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There are 3 million South Asians in the UK and approximately the same number resides in North America. South Asians are an extremely significant presence in Southeast Asia and Africa, and increasingly visible in the Middle East. Now available in paperback, this inter-disciplinary handbook on the South Asian diaspora brings together contributions by leading scholars and rising stars on different aspects of its history, anthropology and geography, as well as its contemporary political and socio-cultural implications. The Handbook is split into five main sections, with chapters looking at mobile South Asians in the early modern world before moving on to discuss diaspora in relation to empirTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Mobile South Asians in the early modern world 1. The world of the Indian Ocean 2. The market for military labour in early modern north India 3. Scribal migrations in early modern India 4. Mobile artisans 5. Hawala and Hundi: vehicles for the long-distance transmission of value Part 2: Diaspora and empire 6. South Asian business in Empire and beyond 7. Indenture: Experiment and Experience 8. Wrecking homes, making families: Women’s recruitment and indentured labour migration from India 9. The age of the lascar. South Asian seafarers in the times of imperial steam shipping 10. South Asians in Britain up to the mid-nineteenth century 11. Warriors, workers, traders, and peasants: The Nepali/Gorkhali diaspora since the nineteenth century Part 3: Diaspora and nation 12. Seeking empire, finding nation: Gandhi and Indianness in South Africa 13. South Asian migration to the United States: Diasporic and national formation Part 4: Diaspora, nation states and the neighbourhood 14. From imperial Subjects to national citizens: South Asians and the international migration regime since 1947 15. The production of illegality in migration and diaspora: State policies and human trafficking from Pakistan 16. Out of India: Deobandi Islam, radicalism and the globalization of ‘South Asian Islam’ 17. Nationalising a diaspora: The Tibetan government-in-exile in India 18. Sri Lanka’s diasporas Part 5: Diaspora, globalisation and culture 19. Brain Drain, exchange and gain: ‘Hi-skill’ migrants and the developed economies 20. Transnationalism and the tranformation of ‘home’ by ‘abroad’ in Sylhet, Bagladesh 21. Indians abroad: Mixing it up 22. Bengalis in Britain: Migration, state controls and settlement 23. The Pakistani Diaspora: US and UK 24. Hinduism in the diaspora 25. Ritual, religion and aesthetics in the Pakistani and South Asian Diaspora 26. Europe’s Muslim passions 27. Diasporic cities in Britian: Bradford, Manchester, Leicester, London 28. Dis/Locating diaspora: South Asian youth cultures in Britain 29. Dress and the South Asian diaspora 30. Marriages of convenience and capitulation: South Asian marriage, family and intimacy in the Diaspora 31. Literatures of the South Asian Diaspora 32. Indian food in the USA: Adapting to culinary eclecticism 33. Bollywood’s Empire: Indian Cinema and Diaspora

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Book SynopsisThis book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud â one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It considers the nature of the rebel hero in Franceâs founding historical narratives (revolution, insurrection, resistance) while asking what contributions such a hero might make to debates on national identity today. Through a series of narrative close-ups, the book offers perspectives on major chapters in nineteenth- and twentieth-century French history through the eyes of activists who experienced them: the Revolution of July 1830 and the 1851 insurrection against Napoleon, as experienced by Riffaudâs ancestor Edme Liron, and the French Resistance, the Vietnam War and FrenchâAlgerian conflict as experienced by Riffaud herself. The book aims to explore the kinds of choices individuals face when their beliefs set them at odds with the state, and to suggest that there is a place for individual action in a global arena where state boundaries are becoming increasingly less relevant.Trade Review"In this book I found the Madeleine I know so well: dynamic, acerbic and as rebellious as ever. Chiaroni presents an unvarnished portrait of Madeleine Riffaud. As well as being an anti colonialist, poet, résistante, and war correspondent, Riffaud is also a thoroughly contemporary rebel who could be considered exemplary by all who seek to fight against injustice and inequality - these are our real enemies in a conflicted world."Philippe Rostan Filmmaker and Director, award winning director of Les Trois Guerres de Madeleine Riffaud (2010)"This work has entirely achieved its objective. It offers readers a biography without descending into hagiography, and succeeds in making the links between one individual’s story and the greater story of history. It is also a pleasure to read."Olivier Wieviorka, scholar of Second World War History and professor of history at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, author of : Histoire de la Résistance: 1940-1945, Perrin, 2013 (prix François-Joseph Audifred de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et politiques, novembre 2013, prix Eugène Colas de l’Académie française, juin 2014)Table of ContentsIntroduction: portrait of a rebel Dramatis personae Defining features: Riffaud and the Résistance Vietnam: a love story Algeria and France: a crime passionnel Poetry as a weapon of war: 'L'arme pour l'homme désarmé' Edme Liron: the ancestral portrait The portrait revisited: Rainer or Riffaud? Index

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Book SynopsisStudies of the escalating tensions and competing claims in the South China Sea overwhelmingly focus on China and its increasingly assertive approach, while the position of the other claimants is overlooked. This book focuses on the attitude of Vietnam towards the South China Sea dispute. It examines the position from a historical perspective, shows how Vietnam's position is affected by its wish to maintain good relations with China on a range of issues, and outlines how Vietnam has occasionally made overtures to both the United States and Japan in order to bolster its position, and considered the possibility, so far resisted, of taking China to formal arbitration under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The book concludes by assessing the future prospects for Vietnam's position in the dispute.Trade Review"The work of Do Thanh Hai offers us insights into the contradictory motivations that guide and constrain the Vietnamese leadership. Hai’s account demonstrates that the choices Vietnam makes in its foreign relations can be deeply ideological, and not simply the result of impersonal forces acting on a monolithic state."Bill Hayton, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, East Asian History and Culture Review, No. 25, December 2017Table of ContentsIntroduction Under the Shadow of the Dragon Vietnam’s claims in the South China Sea Befriending with the Dragon, 1986-1995 ASEANizing the South China Sea issue, 1995-2002 Shaping Regional Balance of Influence, 2003-2007 Riding on Nationalism, 2007-2009 Internationalising the South China Sea issue, 2009-2011 Navigating Big Power Politics, 2011-2015 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisPresenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural forces that have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund provide a comprehensive overview of the structural pattern of Indian history, covering each historical period in equal depth. Fully revised throughout, the sixth edition of this highly accessible book has been brought up to date with analysis of recent events such as the 2014 election and its consequences, and includes more discussion of subjects such as caste and gender, Islam, foreign relations, partition, and the press and television.This new edition contains an updated chronology of key events and a useful glossary of Indian terms, and is highly illustrated with maps and photographs. Supplemented by a companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/kulke), it is a valuable resourTrade Review"This book is one of the few available examples of its kind that succeeds in presenting a broad scale approach to India's complex histories. It achieves this while combining a useful chronological framework with key themes covering not just political events, but also economic contexts, constitutional reform, and cultural transformations. In this sense it is of enormous value as both an introduction to India and as a reference point for those revisiting its politics, culture, society and economy."William Gould, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsList of illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: History and the Environment. 1. Early Civilisations of the Northwest 2. The Great Ancient Empires 3. The Regional Kingdoms of Early Medieval India 4. Religious Communities and Military Feudalism in the late Middle Ages 5. The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Empire 6. The Period of Colonial Rule 7. The Freedom Movement and the Partition of India 8. The Republic. Perspectives. Glossary of Indian terms. Chronology. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the ''Sepoy Mutiny'' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire which embodied the central tenets of sacrifice, fortitude, and military prowess that underpinned Britain''s imperial project. Since independence, however, these sites have been rededicated in honour of the ''First War of Independence'' and are thus sacred to the memory of those who revolted against colonial rule, rather than those who saved it. The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration tells the story of these and other commemorative landscapes and uses them as prisms through which to view over 150 years of Indian history. Based on extensive archival research from India and Britain, Sebastian Raj Pender traces the ways in which commemoration responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the eventTrade Review'This well-researched book charts the changing commemorative landscape of the 1857 Indian Uprising from post-Mutiny reconciliation efforts to the rise of identity politics in post-colonial India. The result is a fascinating exploration of the intersections between history, memory, and culture.' Jill C. Bender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro'As much as it was a crucial historical event, the so-called 'Mutiny' of 1857 was a defining narrative and key motif of commemoration in the British imperial imagination. Pender skilfully writes the history of the Raj through the management of both memory and memorial sites, revealing the true significance of the rallying cry 'Remember Cawnpore!' Kim Wagner, Queen Mary, University of LondonTable of Contents1. 'Remember Cawnpore!': British counterinsurgency and the memory of massacre; 2. 'Forget Cawnpore!': Commemorating the mutiny, 1857-77; 3. Negotiating fear: Celebration, commemoration and the 'Mutiny pilgrimage'; 4. The Mutiny of 1907: Anxiety and the mutiny's golden jubilee; 5. The war of Indian independence: A struggle for meaning, memory, and the right to narrate; 6. Remembering the mutiny at the end of empire: 1947-1972; 7. Celebrating the first war of independence today: caste, gender, religion.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. John D. Wong examines the dynamics of global exchange configured around nineteenth-century Canton, illustrating how the Chinese economy was integrated with global networks well before the Opium Wars.Trade Review'John D. Wong's superbly researched study of Houqua brings together a vast array of disparate sources that show clearly how this remarkable global trader effectively outwitted the prevailing commercial politics.' Paul A. Van Dyke, Sun Yat-sen University, ChinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A study of the structural context: the colliding worlds in Canton; 2. Lodging in an existing institution: taming the lion at home; 3. Weaving a trading network: breaking free with the eagle; 4. Sustaining trust: overcoming business uncertainties through time and space; 5. To reorganize or to be recognized? Reconstituting business in the reconfigured world of global business; 6. Houqua's 'Swiss account' in America: the legacy of a farsighted entrepreneur; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first study of Ayutthaya, placed alongside China and India as one of the great powers of Asia, from its emergence in the thirteenth century until its fall in 1767. This book is essential reading for all those interested in the history of Southeast Asia and the early modern world.Trade Review'Cast out for more than two hundred years as a failure of the aristocratic conceit and overlooked by modern historians, Ayutthaya comes alive again by these two superb scholars and writers. The book is full of original scholarship on the four centuries of dynamic Ayutthaya as a trans-Asian entrepot with enormous land-based resources, an imperial power with complex but fragile political infrastructure, and an open society with rich and creative culture that made Siam distinctive as a country. With thorough research and examination, and exquisite articulation, the book will not be surpassed for years, perhaps decades to come.' Thongchai Winichakul, Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian History, University of Wisconsin, Madison'Scholars of Southeast Asia have waited a long time for a detailed study of the great Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, but A History of Ayutthaya will exceed all their expectations. The authors have demonstrated a masterly knowledge of the historical sources, and have given us a readable, insightful and scholarly analysis. Setting a new benchmark for studies of premodern Thai history, this outstanding book will enrich our understanding of the dynamics of early modern states in Asia more generally and of the global interactions that characterize the period in which Ayutthaya flourished.' Barbara Watson Andaya, University of Hawaii 'This book is a well-researched and long-awaited comprehensive history of the most important ancient Siamese kingdom: Ayutthaya, the forerunner of modern Thailand. It will remain the standard history for anyone wishing to understand pre-modern Thailand and Southeast Asia.' Charnvit Kasetsiri, Thammasat University, Bangkok'Pasuk and Baker's extraordinarily comprehensive history of Ayutthaya offers an essential re-vision of that kingdom's past. It centers Ayutthaya within a vibrant early modern Asia, revealing the dynamic interaction among domestic, regional and transnational politics, culture, trade, and religion.' Tamara Loos, Cornell University'A remarkable work of scholarship. A History of Ayutthaya will help restore this former Thai kingdom to its rightful place as one of the pivotal countries of early modern Asia.' Patrick Jory, University of Queensland'For those who see the history of Thailand as the history of peasants and Bangkok, this book will open their eyes to another Siam, richer and more complex than ever imagined. For those who want to understand the evolution of states and societies on mainland Southeast Asia over a longer period than the myopia induced by nationalism, this book is a must.' Robert H. Taylor, Journal of Contemporary Asia'Baker and Phongpaichit's A History of Ayutthaya could very reasonably be added to an upper-division course on world history and most definitely to the first semester of a two-semester course on Southeast Asia. The book could even be used in any number of graduate courses focusing on early urbanization, trade, or ethnic and cultural identity … the book could be useful as a reference for instructors who wish to bring Thai variants to their world history survey courses.' Paul A. Rodell, World History Connected'This book makes use of an impressive Thai-language bibliography and, in particular, literary works and important legal texts, [which] the … authors … sometimes … [translate into] English …' Jean Baffie, translated from Moussons'… this is a book that can be recommended, nay urged, to read for anyone who is or should be interested in Ayutthaya and the larger region … an excellent book.' Wolfgang Drechsler, Asian AffairsTable of ContentsList of maps; List of illustrations; Preface: Ayutthaya in history; 1. Before Ayutthaya; 2. Ayutthaya rising; 3. An age of warfare; 4. Peace and commerce; 5. An urban and commercial society; 6. Ayutthaya falling; 7. To Bangkok; Appendix: lists of kings; Glossary; Notes on some major sources; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present.Trade Review"An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the history and agendas of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) through its activities in South Asia. Focusing on interactions between American Y' workers and the local population, representatives of the British colonial state, and a host of international actors, it assesses their impact on the making of modern India. In turn, it shows how the knowledge and experience acquired by the Y in South Asia had a significant impact on US foreign policy, diplomacy and development programs in the region from the mid-1940s.Exploring the secular' projects launched by the YMCA such as new forms of sport, philanthropic efforts and educational endeavours, The YMCA in Late Colonial India addresses broader issues about the persistent role of religion in global modernization processes, the accumulation of American soft power in Asia, and the entanglement of American imperialism with other colonial empires. It provides an unusually rich case study to explore h

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive but concise narrative of China since the eighteenth century builds its story around the delicate relationship between central government and local communities. Rejects the traditional view of China as a wholly harmonious society based on principles of stability the Unwobbling Pivot of Ezra Pound''s translation of the Chinese classic Zhongyong Provides an original interpretation, arguing that developments can be explained through an understanding of China's surprising swings between centralization and decentralization, between local initiative and central authoritarianism Serves as an introduction to the subject, while readers with a background in Chinese history will find the book offers a personal perspective and addresses long-standing interpretive issues Supported by a variety of timelines, maps, illustrations, and extensive notes for further reading Places China's history within the context of global chTrade Review“Finding a fresh angle to a familiar story is a challenge, one that this book has dealt with creatively and convincingly.” (English Historical Review, 1 June 2014 "As a textbook, The Wobbling Pivot is accessible, complete and readable, and as a synthesis of twentieth century Chinese history, it is both original and provocative, and a valuable introduction to the perennial issues that China poses in the undergraduate classroom.” (The China Quarterly, 1 September 2012) "[A] lively survey ... .It sheds considerable light on contemporary Chinese dilemmas." (Shanghaiist, December 2010)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Maps viii Foreword and Acknowledgments ix Prelude xi Timeline xv 1 The Wobbling Pivot 1 2 Sources of Order Under the Qing Empire 21 3 Sources of Disorder Under the Qing Empire 44 4 Essay: Strategic Borders 66 5 Qing and the World 70 6 Essay: Rebel Heroines 98 7 Visionaries 100 8 Essay: Hunan Takes the Lead 126 9 Essay: Water 129 10 Beiyang Ascendancy 133 11 Cultural Revolution 155 12 Essay: Manchus as Minorities 177 13 War 180 14 The Ubiquitous Center 207 15 Essay: Minerals 240 16 Essay: Health Risks 243 17 Gravity 246 Bibliography 274 Index 295

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Book SynopsisSpanning a full century, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the Gilded Age, The New Middle Kingdom is a vivid look at the Far East through Western eyes, one that highlights the importance of China in antebellum US culture.Trade ReviewThe New Middle Kingdom is at its core an account of those who shaped the US’ early relationship with China. By examining these figures through their own works and their national context, Johnson crafts a remarkable argument about the intricacies of both the China trade, and, more challengingly, the roots of American empire to be found there.—American Literary History. . . in exploring, in so much depth and so persuasively, the “romance of free trade,” Johnson has prepared the way for further explorations of how different approaches to American political economy intersected with US-China relations, as well as provided a basis for interrogating why—and how—there could have been such ideological and narrative continuity amid such significant change in this complex relationship.—H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue Introduction Chapter 1. Characterizing the American China Trader: The Global Geography of Opium Traffic in Josiah Quincy's The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw (1847) Chapter 2. Captain Amasa Delano, China Trader: Slavery, Sealskins, and Herman Melville's Dollar Signs of the Canton Trade Chapter 3. The Troubled Romance in Harriett Low's Picturesque Macao: Transnational Family Fortunes and the Rise of Russell & Company Chapter 4. The Sacred Fount of the ABCFM: Free Press, Free Trade, and Extraterritorial Printing in China 132Chapter 5. Caleb Cushing's Print Trail of Legal Extraterritoriality: A Confederated Christendom of Commerce, from the Far East to the Far West Chapter 6. Extraterritorial Burial and the Visual Aesthetics of Free-Trade Imperialism in Commodore Matthew Perry's Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan (1856) Chapter 7. Passages to India from the Newly United States: Revising The Middle Kingdom (1883) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.Before Identity represents the first attempt to provide a comprehensive examination of the methodological ground of Japan studies. At its most basic level, the field presupposes the immediate empirical existence of an entity known as the "Japanese people" or "Japanese culture," from which it then carves out its various objects of inquiry. Richard F. Calichman attempts to show that this presupposition is itself ineluctably bound up with modern forms of knowledge formation, thereby enlarging the scope of what is meant by modernity. In this way, he aims to bring about a heightened level of theoretical-critical vigilance in the field.Calichman explores the methodological commitments implied or expressed in the work of a range of writers and scholars-Murakami Haruki, Komori Yoichi, Harry Harootunian, Tomi Suzuki, Alan Tansman, and Dennis Washburn-and how such commitments have shaped and limited the field. If theoretical issues in Japan studies are not subjected to this sort of in-depth scrutiny, Calichman argues, then the field will continue to remain ghettoized relative to other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, which have typically been more receptive to conceptual discourse. By showing that scholarly inquiry must begin not at the level of the object but rather at the more fundamental level of methodology, Calichman aims to introduce a greater degree of theoretical rigor to the discipline of Japan studies as a whole.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.There have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West, strengthens this binary image. Post-Chineseness boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. Combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Chih-yu Shih investigates how the global audience perceives (and essentializes) Chineseness. Shih engages with major Chinese international relations theories, investigates the works of sinologists in Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and other academics in East Asia, and explores individual scholars'' life stories and academic careers to delineate how Chineseness is constantly negotiated and reproduced. Shih''s theory of the "balance of relationships" expands the concept of Chineseness and effectively challenges existing theories of realism, liberalism, and conventional constructivism in international relations. The highly original delineation of multiple layers and diverse dimensions of "Chineseness" opens an intellectual channel between the social sciences and humanities in China studies.

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Book SynopsisUses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar economic miracle, challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

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Book SynopsisWas there ever a window of opportunity for successful negotiations over North Korea''s nuclear weapons program? Negotiation Dynamics to Denuclearize North Korea brings together country experts with negotiation specialists to apply negotiation theory to the North Korea denuclearization process. Country expert chapters provide a detailed assessment of the goals, motives, and strategies of the six parties?North Korea, South Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Russia?along with contextual variables of each player such as political, economic, and social conditions while the negotiation scholars collate and scrutinize the results of these key variables. Based on thorough descriptive contexts provided by the country experts, the negotiation scholars identify the lack of two factors, party cohesion and ripeness, as detriments to successful North Korea nuclear negotiations.

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Book SynopsisIn 1958, Suzanne and Ezra Vogel embedded themselves in a Tokyo suburban community, interviewing six middle-class families regularly for a year. Their research led to Japan's New Middle Class, a classic work on the sociology of Japan. Now, Suzanne Hall Vogel's compelling sequel traces the evolution of Japanese society over the ensuing decades through the lives of three of these ordinary yet remarkable women and their daughters and granddaughters. Vogel contends that the role of the professional housewife constrained Japanese middle-class women in the postwar eraand yet it empowered them as well. Precisely because of fixed gender roles, with women focusing on the home and children while men focused on work, Japanese housewives had remarkable authority and autonomy within their designated realm. Wives and mothers now have more options than their mothers and grandmothers did, but they find themselves unprepared to cope with this new era of choice. These gripping biographies poignantly illuTrade ReviewThis book is likely to become a standard reference—even a classic—among scholars and students of postwar Japanese social and cultural life. Written toward the end of the author's long and distinguished career as a Harvard psychotherapist and student of Japan (in close alliance with her former husband, the highly regarded Harvard professor Ezra Vogel), her book displays compassion, deep analysis, sensitivity, and humane wisdom not only about Japanese families, but also about Americans interacting with Japanese. The book is organized around three case studies, each with a quite different story to tell in contrast to the others, with very close family and anecdotal details that lead the reader to think of them not as subjects of case studies so much as personal acquaintances. The Vogel's son Steven, a distinguished scholar of Japanese studies at Berkeley, helped his mother with the editing and preparation for an English-language edition. The writing is clear—often even charming—and accessible to readers without much background in Japanese language and culture, although the book will work best for those with some familiarity with the Japanese language and culture in the past sixty years. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. * CHOICE *The Japanese Family in Transition focuses on the good wives and wise mothers of three of the families featured in Japan’s New Middle Class, and is . . . unfailingly interesting. Most of Vogel’s observations about her subjects—not least that they are different from one another—ring true [in her] skillful and unadorned observation. * Japan Times *[A] detailed portrait not just of Japanese housewives but also the arc of life courses that stretch from Japan’s colonial empire through the new millennium. Framed by two chapters offering analysis and discussion of larger social trends, the bulk of this book consists of extensive and affecting case stories from three women Vogel first met in 1958. Although these women are housewives, and that status deeply impacts the course of their lives, the book captures a tremendous range of their experiences, reflecting sociohistorical and economic particularities, as well as their own personalities. . . . The three life histories at the center of this book each feel like epic narratives, full of the twists and turns that populate most lives, real and fictional. . . .The Japanese Family in Transition will be extremely helpful for scholars looking for cases to illustrate any of a range of social or family norms in twentieth-century Japan. . . .The volume will be a lasting legacy to [the author] and to the people within. * Social Science Japan Journal *The author offers a rich social, cultural and historical context for the concept of the family. For example, readers are made aware that the employment of a live-in maid was once popular among the urban middle class, and the development of the rice-cooker changed the housewife’s daily routine. . . .[T]he stories of the women are written in a deeply personal manner likely to prompt reflection on the part of the reader. * Asian Studies Review *Suzanne Vogel's The Japanese Family in Transition: From the Professional Housewife Ideal to the Dilemmas of Choice is a warm, readable book based on her decades-long relationships with six families from suburban Tokyo. . . .[T]his is an engaging book that many will enjoy reading and find deeply resonant. It is written for a generalist audience and would make a good addition to a course on changing gender roles in Japan or on Japanese society at mid-century. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *A humanely rendered and often poignant exploration of the place of the professional housewife in Japan over the past half-century. Vogel’s study examines the still salient but rapidly waning influence of the post-War sengyō shufu ideal in Japanese society. Drawing on decades of professional and personal interactions with a group of Japanese women and their respective families, Vogel reveals the considerable variation in individual experiences and divergent household trajectories that are often elided under the label, ‘middle class.’. . . The result is an accessibly written monograph that resonates with contemporary studies of Japanese women and family life, while reflecting the rewards and challenges of long ethnographic engagement. * Asian Journal of Social Science *Suzanne Vogel writes in refreshingly clean prose with a remarkably deft handling of history and context: family, gender, work patterns, and the shift in labor relations and the economy. The book is smart and timely. And I like the take-away message—that there is something that people and the government can do. -- Anne Allison, Duke University; author of Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in JapanFifty years after the publication of the classic Japan's New Middle Class, Suzanne Vogel has produced a memorable sequel that focuses not on the salarymen but on their wives. It is a warm and engaging portrait of the changes as well as the continuities in Japanese family life. -- William Kelly, Yale University; editor of Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary JapanSuzanne Vogel is perfectly placed to offer an important and unique perspective on the changing role of Japanese women. Her compelling portrait of the everyday triumphs and frustrations of Japan’s postwar ‘professional’ housewives offers an important new lens for understanding how the postwar ideal of the ‘perfect household’ and maintaining appearances contributes to the new manifestations of psychological stress we see today. -- Michael Zielenziger, journalist and author of Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost GenerationTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Postwar Ideal Chapter 2: Mrs. Tanaka: Embracing the Role Chapter 3: Mrs. Itou: Resisting the Role Chapter 4: Mrs. Suzuki: Power and Submission Chapter 5: New Strains

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Book SynopsisFighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other NATO contingents within the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, have been the longest continuous combat commitment of the British Army since World War II. Together with Operation ''Telic'' in Iraq, which immediately preceded and overlapped with it, this conflict has shaped the British Army for a generation. Enemy threats have diversified and evolved, with a consequent evolution of British doctrine, tactics and equipment. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation.Table of ContentsIntroduction /Overview of Operation Herrick / The break-in battle 2006 /The fighting season 2007 /Joint operations 2008 / New rules of engagement 2009 /Transition to US Marine command, 2010 /Handover to Afghan National Army 2011–2012 /Withdrawal of combat units 2013–14 /Conclusion /Index

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Book SynopsisFrom 1931, China and Japan had been embroiled in a number of small-scale conflicts that had seen vast swathes of territory being occupied by the Japanese. On 7 July 1937, the Japanese engineered the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which led to the fall of Beijing and Tianjin and the start of a de facto state of war between the two countries. This force then moved south, landing an expeditionary force to take Shanghai and from there drive west to capture Nanjing. This fully illustrated book tells the story of the Japanese assault on these two great Chinese cities. The battle of Shanghai was the first large-scale urban warfare of World War II and one of the bloodiest battles of the entire Sino-Japanese War. The determined resistance by Chinese inflicted sizable Japanese casualties, and may well have contributed to the subsequent massacre of prisoners and civilians in the battle of Nanjing, tarnishing Japan''s reputation in the eyes of the world.

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Book SynopsisDuring the years of the Vietnam War, U.S. forces used three major types of equipment sets, with numerous modifications for particular circumstances. Different equipment was also used by Special Forces, the South Vietnamese, and other allied ground troops.Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments offers a comprehensive examination of the gear that U.S. and allied soldiers carried strapped around their bodies, what the gear contained, and what those items were used for. Fully illustrated with photographs and artwork detailing how each piece of equipment was used, and written by a Special Forces veteran of the conflict, this book will fascinate enthusiasts of military equipment and will be an ideal reference guide for reenactors, modelers, and collectors of Vietnam War memorabilia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Vietnamese environment, as it affected personal LBE – listing of 'Free World' (allied) forces which used US equipment in Vietnam. /Development: background and development of the US Army M1956 LBE. /M1956 Load Bearing Equipment – description and use of this most widely seen pattern. /M1967 Modernized Load Bearing Equipment, developed specifically in response to experience in Vietnam. /US Marine M1961 Load Carrying Equipment. /ANZAC web equipment - description of British and M1956 LBE copies used by Australian and New Zealand forces. /Special reconnaissance equipment – description and use of specialized equipment by MACV-SOG, Special Forces, and Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol units. /World War II & Korean War vintage equipment – as used mostly by South Vietnamese forces, but in some use by US forces. /Indigenous equipment – description and use of low-cost equipment for Vietnamese forces, provided by the CIA's Counterintelligence Support Office. /Life in the Boonies - use of the equipments in the field, as shaped by differing terrain, climate, evolving weapons and procedures, and personal preferences (covering, e.g., procedures for movement, bivouacking, preparing food, perimeter defense and security, outposts, ambushes, etc.) /Conclusion. /Select Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisAfter China''s November 1950 intervention in the war and the subsequent battle of the Chosin Reservoir, UN forces faced a new onslaught in the spring of 1951, with over 350,000 veteran troops attacking along the Imjin River. The US 3rd Infantry Division took the brunt of the attack along with the attached British 29th Infantry Brigade (officially styled the 29th British Independent Infantry Brigade Group), which included the Gloucestershire Regiment (the Glosters). The heroic defense of the American and British forces would pass into legend, most especially the doomed effort of the Glosters, as they sought to buy time for the rest of the UN forces to regroup and organize an effective defense of Seoul, the South Korean capital city. Featuring full color commissioned artwork, maps, and first-hand accounts, this is the compelling story of one of the most epic clashes of the Korean War.Table of ContentsOrigins of the campaign /Chronology /Opposing commanders /Opposing armies /Orders of battle /Opposing plans /The campaign /Aftermath /The battlefields today /Further reading /Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the 16th century, Japan underwent a military revolution, characterized by the deployment of large armies, the introduction of firearms and an eventual shift towards fighting on foot. This study encapsulates these great changes through an exploration of the experience on the ground at three key battles, Uedahara (1548), Mikata ga Hara (1573) and Nagashino (1575), in which two very different types of warrior were pitted against each other. On one side were samurai, the elite aristocratic knights whose status was proclaimed by the possession and use of a horse. On the other side were the foot soldiers known as ashigaru, lower-class warriors who were initially attendants to the samurai but who joined the armies in increasing numbers, attracted by loot and glory. These two types of warrior battled for dominance across the period, changing and adapting their tactics as time went on. In this title, the development of the conflicts between samurai and ashigaru is explored acrTable of ContentsIntroduction / The opposing sides / Combat 1 / Combat 2 / Combat 3 / Analysis / Aftermath / Bibliography / Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive reference volume covers every country in South and Central Asia, offering reliable demographic information and original interpretative essays by indigenous scholars and practitioners.

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Book SynopsisAsia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels and stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia.

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, “queer” Koreans were ignored, minimized, and erased in narratives of their modern nation, East Asia, and the wider world. This interdisciplinary volume challenges such marginalization through critical analyses of non-normative sexuality and gender variance. Considering both personal and collective forces, the contributors extend individualized notions of queer neoliberalism beyond those typically set in Western queer theory. Along the way, they recount a range of illuminating topics, from shamanic rituals during the colonial era and B-grade comedy films under Cold War dictatorship to female masculinity among today’s youth and transgender confrontations with the resident registration system. More broadly,Queer Koreaoffers readers new ways of understanding Trade Review“A fascinating and pathbreaking work of scholarship that combines historical, social science, and cultural analysis to shatter a host of shibboleths about Korean sexuality and relationships, gives voice to the voiceless, and brings Korean queerness fully into the mainstream of Korean and East Asian studies!” -- Carter J. Eckert, author of * Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945 *“The contributors elegantly limn the messy boundaries and porous enclosures of the heteronormative and the ‘queer’, putting into sharp relief the relatively unexplored areas of non-normative Korea. Queer Korea is full of remarkable interventions and exciting possibilities, and its contributors deploy Korean cultural and historical experiences for an energized critique of queer theory.” -- Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of * Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora *“Queer Korea sets a very high standard for future scholarship on Korea that productively engages with queer theory and the globalization of queer studies. With the appearance of this book … teachers too are now well-positioned to offer courses on the intersections of queer culture and modern Korean history.” -- Samuel Perry * European Journal of Korean Studies *"The text has something to offer all students of Korean or Asian studies. Above all, this book succeeds in its primary goal of engaging a queer studies audience seeking to understand the crucial context Korea provides as a site of colonial and postcolonial modernity." -- S. G. Jug * Choice *“Queer Korea bridges the gap between Korean studies and queer studies by decentering both from their disciplinary limitations—Korean studies from its ethnonationalist and heteronormative assumptions, and queer studies from its focus on identity politics privileging the United States and other Euro-American liberal societies.... Queer Korea is an instant classic....” -- So-Rim Lee * Journal of Korean Studies *"The new anthology Queer Korea . . . is, without doubt, a remarkable and long overdue scholarly effort that fundamentally advances the development and diversity of Asian queer studies in the post-2020 era. . . . Queer Korea is an illuminating, theoretically robust, and beautifully written scholarly work. . . .” -- Jamie J. Zhao * Journal of Asian Studies *“The essays in Todd A. Henry’s masterful edited collection explore queerness...as a site to theorize and critique the fundamentally heteropatriarchal nature of South Korean society.... Queer Korea will, I believe, become a seminal text on gender and sexuality in Korea that will energize the theorization and practice of ethnographers of Korea and Asia for many years to come.” -- Thomas Baudinette * Asian Ethnology *“Queer Korea reads Korean modern history through a queer lens.... Ultimately, this queer reading proves a significant endeavour for interpreting history in a dense and multilayered way, which allows us to understand it more profoundly and thoroughly.” -- Kyungtae Kim * Pacific Affairs *“Queer Korea is a monumental collection of essays. . . . Queer Korea is the first of its kind, a collective effort to write same-sex rela­tions and gender transgressions into Korean history.” -- Wenqing Kang * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Queer Korea: Toward a Field of Engagement / Todd A. Henry 1 Part I. Unruly Subjects Under Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity 1. Ritual Specialists in Colonial Drag: Shamanic Interventions in 1920s Korea / Merose Hwang 55 2. Telling Queer Time in a Straight Empire: Yi Sang’s “Wings” (1936) / John Whittier Treat 90 3. Problematizing Love: The Intimate Event and Same-Sex Love in Colonial Korea / Pei Jean Chen 117 4. Femininity under the Wartime System and the Symptomacity of Female Same-Sex Love / Shin-ae Ha (Translated by Kyunghee Eo) 146 5. A Female-Dressed Man Sings a National Epic: The Film Male Kisaeng and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality in 1960s South Korea / Chung-kang Kim 175 6. Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Homoeroticism and the Heteropatriarchal Imagination of Authoritarian South Korea / Todd A. Henry 205 Part II. Citizens, Consumers, and Activists in Postauthoritarian Times 7. The Three Faces of South Korea's Male Homosexuality: Pogal, Iban and Neoliberal Gay / John (Song Pae) Cho 263 8. Avoiding T’ibu (Obvious Butchness): Invisibility as a Survival Strategy among Young Queer Women in South Korea / Layoung Shin 295 9. Mobile Numbers and Gender Transitions: The Resident Registration System, the Nation-State, and Trans/gender Identities / Ruin (Translated by Max Balhorn) 323 Contributors 343 Index 345

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Book SynopsisSaiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmir—the world's most militarized place—to examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.Trade Review“The Occupied Clinic situates psychiatry as humanitarian state strategy in Kashmir. Saiba Varma offers us a beautifully crafted ethnography, providing political insight without objectifying the recipients of care as victims or sufferers. She articulates the place of mental health and the nuances and difficulties of everyday psychiatric practice in a state of exception that has come to be normalized over decades of military occupation. The need for such an analysis, at once poignant and nonpolemical, cannot be overstated.” -- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of * Pharmocracy: Value, Politics and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine *“The Occupied Clinic is a chilling, thought provoking, and beautifully written work that is likely to garner a great deal of attention for its arguments and intellectual generosity. Saiba Varma's astute and incisive portrayal of life, survival, and care in conditions of occupation is original and valuable.” -- Sarah Pinto, author of * The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis *"The Occupied Clinic could hardly be any timelier.… A thought-provoking and rigorously crafted ethnography that advances the growing discussions of care and its paradoxes in anthropology.… A must-read for scholars interested in the transdisciplinary discussions of clinical, governmental, nongovernmental, and communitarian modes of care." -- Tankut Atuk * Anthropology Book Forum *"Packed with many narratives and experiences, Varma's book is deeply disturbing and incisive. It turns many assumptions, inferences and even the concept of care as a redemptive practice, on its head or inside out. It needs to be debated and discussed far more thoroughly for its content." -- Freny Manecksha * Indian Journal of Medical Ethics *"The book is a deeply moving work from a committed medical anthropologist. It will be of great help to anyone who wants to understand the cost of living in a highly and densely militarized zone of the world." -- Khalid Bashir Gura * Kashmir Life *"A book crafted with professional care. . . . Even as Varma displaces the meanings of lazily deployed words like Care, Siege, Disturbed Area, Disappeared, Shock, Disbelief, Gratitude and Duty by imbuing them with varied local senses, she comes into her own while she dwells on the vernacular used by her informants. She labours to translate the meanings of dense words they invoke and theorises on some of them at length. At times I liked the train of her thought so much that I wished for more." -- Gowhar Fazili * The Wire *"Varma’s rich ethnographic insights demonstrate how militarism and care are not distinct but rather closely bounded. . . . Clinicians, undergraduate students, and anyone curious about the fraught translation between biomedical psychiatry and local contexts of suffering will greatly appreciate Varma's dexterous and generous ethnography. Varma’s beautiful writing, interspersed with vibrant images and artwork and haunting poetry, will be greatly appreciated. . . ." -- David Ansari * Anthropology and Humanism *"Weaving together ethnographic narratives with poetry, the book offers a compelling analysis that at once contributes to conversations in medical anthropology, feminist studies of care, and the anthropology of humanitarianism and violence." -- Victoria Sheldon * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsMap viii Note on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Letter to No One xv Introduction. Care 1 1. Siege 32 2. A Disturbed Area 67 Interlude. The Disappeared 101 3. Shock 114 4. Debrief 144 5. Gratitude 167 Notes 201 Bibliography 253 Index 273

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Book SynopsisSony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines, showing how heteronormative, able-bodied, and able-minded mixed-race Filipinos offered a model and path for assimilation into the US empire.Trade Review“Sony Corañez Bolton’s Crip Colony is a theoretically sophisticated contribution to the current surge in Filipinx American studies scholarship.” -- Martin Joseph Ponce * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Crip Colonial Critique: Reading Mestizaje from the Borderlands to the Philippines 1 1. Benevolent Rehabilitation and the Colonial Bodymind: Filipinx American Studies as Disability Studies 33 2. Mad María Clara: The Queer Aesthetics of Mestizaje and Compulsory Able-Mindedness 67 3. Filipino Itineraries, Orientalizing Impairments: Chinese Foot-Binding and the Crip Coloniality of Travel Literature 99 4. A Colonial Model of Disability: Running Amok in the Mad Colonial Archive of the Philippines 131 Epilogue. A Song from Subic: Racial Disposability and the Intimacy of Cultural Translation 162 Notes 171 Bibliography 187 Index 197

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Book SynopsisGenevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.Trade Review“Peering through a gendered lens, Clutario exposes the complex roles Filipinas played within empire and the fraught establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth. . . . Writing about the wives of politicians, embroiderers, beauty queens, and socialites, Clutario renders beauty as a complex weapon. In the hands of her Filipina subjects, it is deployed with both tenderness and aggression.” -- Alice Sarmiento * Rappler *"A unique book that delivers fresh insights into the American colonial period in the Philippines through the politics of fashion and beauty regimens." -- Mina Roces * Fashion Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. A Queen Is Crowned 1 1. Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles 19 2. Queen Makers: Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex 63 3. Philippine Lingerie: Transnational Filipina Beauty Labor under US Empire 107 4. Beauty Regimes: Structure, Discipline, and Needlework in Colonial Industrial Schools and Prisons 139 5. “The Dream of Beauty”: The Terno and the Filipina High-Fashion System 183 Epilogue. Protectionism and Preparedness under Overlapping Empires 223 Notes 237 Bibliography 287 Index 319

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Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices.Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a bloodscape of difference: different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalTrade Review"This book is unparalleled in its ability to show how the political absorbs the techno-scientific over various scales and temporalities in contemporary India. The authors take breath-taking risks with the plethora of objects and contexts they dwell on but manage to land on the ground each time. A splendid achievement." -- Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University"This book is an extraordinary exploration of the multitudes of meanings and uses of blood in northern India. Its breadth and range make the questions it raises of wide interest, from blood as a donation, as a means to political protest, as a sign of modernity or patriotism" -- Emily Martin, New York University"This revelatory book brings us a thoroughly political hematology, not only tracking economies of sacrifice, extraction, and spillage, but also thinking through blood as a medium for writing, for protest, and for the telling of historical time" -- Stefan Helmreich, MIT"Hematologies is an astute, learned, and ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, the product of a powerful, cogent collaboration between two prominent and exciting thinkers." -- Rachel Berger, Concordia University, author of Ayurveda Made Modern"Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee have written a deeply insightful book on the potent symbolism and political significance of blood." -- Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh, author of Gandhi's BodyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Bloodscape of Difference 2. Sovereignty and Blood 3. Substantial Activisms 4. Hemo Economicus: From Blood Sacrifice to Blood Science? 5. The Broken World of Transfusion 6. Blood in the Time of the Civic 7. Hematic Futures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City''s postwar identity. Municipal officials, survivor-activist groups, the Catholic community, and American occupation officials all interpreted the destruction and reconstruction of the city from different, sometimes disparate perspectives. Diehl''s analysis reveals how these atomic narratives shaped both the way Nagasaki rebuilt and the ways in which popular discourse on the atomic bombings framed the city''s experience for decades.Trade ReviewResurrecting Nagasaki deserves to be read as a foundational work on the post-atomic history of Nagasaki. * Pacific Historical Review *The book makes a significant contribution to the understudied history of Nagasaki. Resurrecting Nagasaki is an important book for anyone who is interested in nuclear history, US Japan relations, US public diplomacy, and urban studies. * Japanese Studies *A nicely written monograph—also the first in English, as it turns out—on Nagasaki the bombed, Nagasaki the resurrected, and Nagasaki the mirror image of its ghastly twinned counterpart, Hiroshima. * Kirk Center *Resurrecting Nagasaki is the first scholarly work in English on the history of Nagasaki after the atomic bombing on 9 August 1945. Chad Diehl's book is therefore a welcome first work on the topic, one that can extend the frontiers of our understanding about how people have struggled to deal with the aftermath of unprecedented devastation. It should serve as a valuable springboard for further explorations into the history of postatomic Nagasaki. * Monumenta Nipponica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Envisioning Nagasaki 2. Coexisting in the Valley of Death 3. The "Saint" of Urakami 4. Writing Nagasaki 5. Walls of Silence 6. Ruins of Memory Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens but treated as unwelcome aliens, this contingent of Japanese Americans—one in four U.S.-born Nisei—came in search of better lives but instead encountered a world shaped by increasingly volatile relations between the U.S. and Japan. Based on transnational and bilingual research in the United States and Japan, Michael R. Jin recuperates the stories of this unique group of American emigrants at the crossroads of U.S. and Japanese empire. From the Jim Crow American West to the Japanese colonial frontiers in Asia, and from internment camps in America to Hiroshima on the eve of the atomic bombing, these individuals redefined ideas about home, identity, citizenship, and belonging as they encountered multiple social realities on both sides of the Pacific. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless examines the deeply intertwined histories of Asian exclusion in the United States, Japanese colonialism in Asia, and volatile geopolitical changes in the Pacific world that converged in the lives of Japanese American migrants.Trade Review"For far too long, Nisei with life experiences in Japan have been written out of Japanese American history. Michael R. Jin rescues them from the historical oblivion perpetuated by the nationalist narrative of singular loyalty. Based on in-depth bilingual research, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless gives much deserved complexities to the experiences of forgotten Nisei beyond the label of 'disloyal' or helpless victims. A transnational history at its best!" —Eiichiro Azuma, author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire"Michael R. Jin has transformed Nisei transnationalism from anecdote to experience. This is an impressive achievement." —Lon Kurashige, author ofTwo Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States"Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless is an important contribution to the fields of immigration and Asian American history due in no small part to Jin's polished writing skills. His combination of clear historical description, context, and analysis with just the right amount of sociological and interpretive language helps to make book both readable and informative.... Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless is not simply a study of a marginalized immigrant group 'caught between two worlds.' It portrays a diverse people who had to exercise considerable initiative to navigate multiple social, legal, national, and geopolitical contexts."—John E. Van Sant, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"[Jin] has produced a book that is dramatically innovative in terms of its topic and one that is exceedingly well-written, astutely documented, and deserving of reaching a wide audience of engaged readers."—Art Hansen, Nichi Bei News"While Nisei... have been the subject of numerous studies, those almost entirely treat Nisei as Americans in the United States and fail to address the fact that a noninsignificant number of them had transpacific experiences in the transwar period. By making this latter group his focus, Jin not only works to fill in the gap that exists, but he also presents an interesting framework that offers an alternative to the nation-bounded one that so typically defines modern history. In addition to a reconceptualization of what it meant to be Japanese American during this time, he also offers an important discussion around how these figures are remembered in both the United States and Japan and what the stakes have been around memory making and memorializing."—Emily Anderson, The Journal of Japanese Studies"In offering an alternative way of conceptualizing both diaspora and migration, [Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless] opens the door to new avenues of inquiry and points to new areas of study, including questions that could also be asked about others who participated in an extended transpacific diaspora that was a product not just of two empires.... The potential inherent in the inter-imperial approach that Jin utilizes, in short, is evident not only in what it reveals about the Japanese American diaspora that is his focus but in the fact that it could be usefully extended also to take other imperial networks into account within both a transpacific and a broader worldwide context."—Andrea Geiger, Diplomatic HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Making of a Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific 1. From Citizens to Emigrants: The Japanese American Transnational Generation in the U.S.-Japan Borderlands 2. From Citizens to the Stateless: Migration, Exclusion, and Nisei Citizenship 3. From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: The "Kibei Problem" and Japanese American Loyalty During World War II 4. Beyond Two Homelands: Kibei Transnationalism in the Making of a Japanese American Diaspora 5. Between Two Empires: Nisei Citizenship and Loyalty in the Pacific Theater 6. Buried Wounds of the Secret Sufferers: Memory, History, and the Japanese American Survivors in the Nuclear Pacific Epilogue:

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first social and intellectual history of Dalit performance of Tamasha—a popular form of public, secular, traveling theater in Maharashtra—and places Dalit Tamasha women who represented the desire and disgust of the patriarchal society at the heart of modernization in twentieth century India. Drawing on ethnographies, films, and untapped archival materials, Shailaja Paik illuminates how Tamasha was produced and shaped through conflicts over caste, gender, sexuality, and culture. Dalit performers, activists, and leaders negotiated the violence and stigma in Tamasha as they struggled to claim manuski (human dignity) and transform themselves from ashlil (vulgar) to assli (authentic) and manus (human beings). Building on and departing from the Ambedkar-centered historiography and movement-focused approach of Dalit studies, Paik examines the ordinary and everydayness in Dalit lives. Ultimately, she demonstrates how the choices that communities make about culture speak to much larger questions about inclusion, inequality, and structures of violence of caste within Indian society, and opens up new approaches for the transformative potential of Dalit politics and the global history of gender, sexuality, and the human.Trade Review"In this brilliant original account of women in Tamasha, Shailaja Paik argues that the extractive sexual economy of caste rests on their desired as well as derided labor. Drawing on rare archival sources and careful ethnography, she calls attention to how the women negotiate stigma, especially in relation to a Dalit emancipatory politics, embarrassed by their 'sexual excess.'"—V. Geetha, author of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Question of Socialism in India"Paik not only breaks new ground but also builds a foundation. Combining ethnography, archival work, and critical readings of key thinkers, she offers a dazzling interdisciplinary exploration of how Tamasha serves as a metonym for the ways gender, caste, and power construct identity in caste-patriarchal society. This work is one of the many reasons Paik is at the forefront of Dalit feminist studies and why she is one of the most innovative historians of South Asia writing today."—Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington"Paik repeatedly identifies herself as a feminist Dalit and attributes this to her unprecedented anthropological access to, and understanding of, contemporary Tamasha artists. She also draws on Marathi-language lyrics, articles, advertisements, and other sources never before available in English. Recommended."—M. H. Fisher, CHOICE"While demonstrating the 'agency' of Tamashe women as a product of complex, contingent historical processes, Paik makes a significant argument about the mutually constitutive binaries of touchability/untouchability, brahmin/untouchable, ashlil/aslee, housewife/prostitute, among others. In doing so, she offers conceptual resources for Indian feminist and Dalit thought to deal with the impasse of the 'prostitute' question. Equally important, Paik develops her earlier emphasis on contingency, context and rupture of Dalit women's agency to illuminate the contingency and temporality of Ambedkar's thinking around manuski, family and caste labour and the material limits that history imposes on its actualisation."—A. Suneetha, Contributions to Indian SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Performing Precarity: Sex-Gender-Caste/Ashlil-Manuski-Assli 1. Policing Dalits and Producing Tamasha in Maharashtra 2. Constructing Caste, Desire, and Danger 3. Ambedkar, Manuski, and Reconstructing Dalit Life-Worlds, 1920-1956 4. Singing Resistance and Rehumanizing Poetics-Politics, Post-1930 5. Claiming Authenticity and Becoming Marathi, Post-1960 6. Forging New Futures and Measures of Humanity Conclusion.: Queering the "Vulgar": Tamasha without Women

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Book SynopsisA new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.Trade Review"An original global history that tells a compelling story of the interconnectedness of the world in premodern times."—Fabio Rambelli, UC Santa Barbara"This book provides us with a valuable historical understanding of one of the big questions of our time: how and why has China become a 21st -century global superpower?"—Roger Crowley, author of Conquerors"1368 is an exciting and important book that broadens our understanding of the Ming and Qing centuries, two momentous eras in Chinese and world history."—Hyunhee Park, author of Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds"A brilliant reorientation of 600 years of history. Its global perspective explores afresh a number of multifaceted encounters with high points in China's civilization and successfully avoids both Sinocentric and Eurocentric narratives. A remarkable story succinctly told."—Wang Gungwu, author of The Eurasian Core and its Edges"Akhtar's smooth and rich narrative, grounded in extant scholarship, archival sources, literary texts and material culture, makes 1368 accessible and thought-provoking for readers of different backgrounds."—Chiara Formichi, author of Islam and Asia"Ali Akhtar writes a longue durée history from an Asian perspective. His masterly exploration of global-Asian interaction leaves readers mulling over an important question: How are we to understand Asia's and specifically also China's role in the evolving global order? The light of history offers some answers."—Peter Borschberg, author of The Singapore and Melaka Straits"A wide-ranging and very thought-provoking book. 1368 presents a vision of how the world became knitted together by the seams."—Eric Tagliacozzo, author of The Longest Journey"A remarkably concise and well-illustrated volume that commands attention for its Asia-centered approach to global history as well as its erudite and original coverage of a broad range of subjects, from the history of the Silk Road, the Spice Trade, the European overseas empires, to modern Japan and global China in the 21st century, and more."—André Wink, author of The Making of the Indo-Islamic world c.700–1800 CE"This exciting study reveals the place of global China in the modern world's economic system and its layered history. From the book's long-duration understanding of history, we can learn many perspectives on our relationship with China as a new global power."—Eiji Nagasawa, The University of Tokyo"Ali Akhtar's 1368 reveals the Indian Ocean, the Silk Road, and China's relations with the Persianate World to be significant strands in the weaving of global modernity."—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Dao Of Muhammad"Ali Humayun Akhtar's book offers an important intervention in scholarly considerations of the transitions to the global modern age. Akhtar builds upon the recent turn to the study of social networks while at the same time challenging us to think more creatively about the dynamic nature of such networks. The work highlights elements such as the prominent role of Muslims in the renewed promotions of network ties based on premodern relations between China, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Chinese governments and related networks, including Japanese governments, were international and, arguably, globalizing influences, long before their appearance as global players in the 20th century."—Brian Ruppert, Kanagawa University, author of Jewel in the Ashes"With deep research and engaging prose, 1368 upends orthodox trajectories of research that have long inquired about the impact of 'the west' upon 'the rest' through a vivid exploration of how travelers and wanderers became conduits of Chinese culture to the rest of the world. 1368 is a timely book and positively engrossing read."—William Noseworthy, Cornell University"[1368] is an enlightening look into a vital historical era that has been understudied in the West"—Publisher's Weekly"Today's China is a manufacturing powerhouse producing much of the world's trade goods. Akhtar makes the case that this phenomenon is a reoccurrence of China's manufacturing dominance in international trade before the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, which tipped the balance to Western Europe and the United States."—Joshua Wallace, Library Journal"Akhtar synthesizes more than 500 years of global history with style and economy. He fluidly construes Zen Buddhism, Timurid travel accounts, Islam in Korea, so-called "peace marriages" with Malay vassals, Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" (ca. 1660), Thomas Paine and Voltaire on Confucius, and the rise and fall of the Tokugawa shogunate—and contrasts the divergent strategies and legacies of the Europeans on one hand, and those of the Chinese and Japanese on the other."—Maxwell Carter, The Wall Street JournalTable of Contents2. Global Beijing under the Great Ming 3. Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes 4. Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes 5. Europe's Search for the Spice Islands 6. A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking 7. Porcelain across the Dutch Empire 8. Tea across the British Empire 9. China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization

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