Asian history Books

Book SynopsisOne of China's premier historians of the twentieth century, Zhou Yiliang (1913-2001) experienced many of the tumultuous events of that century. Born into a wealthy family, his father saw to his pre-college education through a range of tutors which afforded him not only a profound traditional Chinese education but a modern one as well--including virtually native fluency in English and Japanese. He later earned degrees in Beijing before leaving to study and earn a Ph.D. at Harvard during the years of World War II. Given the dearth of Americans who knew Japanese, he was called up in the 1940s to help teach Americans that language. He returned to China after the war, took up academic positions, and found himself the object of severe controversy as the events of post-1949 China unfolded, especially those of the Cultural Revolution. These are his memoirs of his extraordinary life and work.

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Book SynopsisKey Papers on Korea is a commemorative collection of papers celebrating 25 years of the Centre of Korean Studies (CKS), SOAS, University of London that have been written by senior academics and emerging scholars. The subjects covered in this collection reflect the different research interests and different strengths of the CKS and include historical perceptions of ancient kingdoms in Manchuria, North Korean propaganda literature, the problematic history of Sino-North Korean borderlands, the millenarian aspects of Won Buddhism, and the importance of the years 1910-11 in the development of Korean music. The collection is framed by two pieces on SOAS, which have been commissioned exclusively for this publication: an introduction that examines the 60-year history of Korean studies at SOAS, and a closing paper that sheds light on the rare collections of Korean art held at SOAS.

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Book SynopsisCloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the ’first globalization’. A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.Trade Review"There are few books that can equal [this book] in providing readers with an appreciation of the variety of interconnections between different regions of the world before the nineteenth century. Cloth, it clearly demonstrates, is an invaluable entry point into global economic history." – Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College, in: H-Net "How India Clothed the World is an ambitious book which takes a comprehensive look at South Asian textiles from the minutiae of technology and procurement to the global movement of products and 'invisible cargoes'." – Anand V. Swamy, William College, in: Journal of Economic History "Until recently, the production and exchange of textiles were understood as purely economic activities in which production technology, weavers, merchants, companies, and markets played a prominent role. This volume, instead, invokes consumer choice, fashion, gender, social hierarchy, aesthetics, and the dissemination of knowledge as playing important roles in determining the consumption and production of textiles in both Asia and Europe." – Ghulam Nadri, Georgia State University, in: Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Preface Introduction: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy I. REGIONS OF EXCHANGE: TEXTILES IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND BEYOND 1. Southeast Asian Consumption of Indian and British Cotton Cloth, 1600-1850, Anthony Reid 2. Cloths of a New Fashion: Indian Ocean Networks of Exchange and Cloth Zones of Contact in Africa and India in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Pedro Machado 3. English versus Indian Cotton Textiles: The Impact of Imports on Cotton Textile Production in West Africa, Joseph Inikori 4. British Exports of Raw Cotton from India to China during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, H. V. Bowen 5. The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850Kaoru Sugihara II. REGIONS OF PRODUCTION: TEXTILES IN SOUTH ASIA 6. The Textile Industry and the Economy of South India, 1500-1800, David Washbrook 7. Four Centuries of Decline? Understanding the Changing Structure of the South Indian Textile Industry, Ian Wendt 8. From Market-determined to Coercion-based: Textile Manufacturing in Eighteenth-Century Bengal, Om Prakash 9. The Political Economy of Textiles in Western India: Weavers, Merchants and the Transition to a Colonial Economy, Lakshmi Subrahmanian 10. Competition and Control in the Market for Textiles: The Weavers and the English East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Bishnupriya Gupta III. REGIONS OF CHANGE: INDIAN TEXTILES AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT 11. The Indian Apprenticeship: The Trade of Indian Textiles and the Making of European Cottons, Giorgio Riello 12. The French Connection: Indian Cottons and their Early Modern Technology, George Bryan Souza 13. Fashioning Global Trade: Indian Textiles, Gender Meanings and European Consumers, 1500-1800, Beverly Lemire 14. Quality, Cotton and the Global Luxury Trade, Maxine Berg 15. Historical Issues of Deindustrialisation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Prasannan Parthasarathi Glossary Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPrint, Profit, and Perception examines the dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from the first Sino-Japanese War to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing examples from various genres, this interdisciplinary volume presents nine empirically grounded case studies on the growth in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts, which lay behind a dramatic expansion of knowledge. The chapters collectively address the co-existence of globalization and localization processes in the period. By taking into account intra-Asian cultural encounters and tracing the multiple competing forces encountered by many, this book offers a fresh and compelling take on how individuals and social groups participated in transnational conceptual flows. Contributors include: Paul Bailey, Che-chia Chang, Elizabeth Emrich, Tze-ki Hon, Max K.W. Huang, Mei-e Huang, Mike Shi-chi Lan, Pei-yin Lin, and Weipin Tsai.Trade Review"Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai deserve recognition for assembling a diverse and thought provoking collection of essays on the history of Chinese globalization and localization in the first half of the twentieth century. [...] the contributors to Print, Profit, and Perception cogently raise many important questions, fill in historical gaps, and open up new discursive space for early twentieth century Chinese historical and literary studies." Bert Scruggs, University of California, Irvine, MCLC "The book stands out from the rest by adopting a small-scale, niche approach to that complex period. Several core themes make it highly coherent, and the range of topics covered by its nine chapters account for its diversity and relevance to scholars with various research interests. [...] This volume is definitely worthy of consideration by scholars of modern Chinese intellectual, literary, and medical history, nationalism, global and regional cultural exchange, print and popular media, Taiwan or Japanese studies [...] it guarantees a challenging and entertaining reading experience, with new stories well integrated into a coherent frame narrative, illustrated with numerous reproductions of journal and newspaper covers, articles, advertisements, and woodblock art." Adina Zemanek, Jagiellonian University (International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1, 2018)Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Pei-yin Lin & Weipin Tsai Chinese modernities revisited: globalization and localization Fluid modernity and ideas Print, profit and perceptions 1. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN A NEW GLOBAL SPACE: LI SHIZENG AND THE CHINESE FRANCOPHILE PROJECT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Paul J. Bailey Early years in France Sino-French cultural interaction Li Shizeng’s philosophy of work-study Conclusion 2. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN LATE QING CHINA AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF JAPANESE TRAVELERS Che-chia Chang Networks of travelers Categories of traveler First impressions: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Understanding the Japanese viewpoint Conclusion 3. MODERNITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: LU XUN AND THE MODERN CHINESE WOODCUT MOVEMENT Elizabeth Emrich Alternative modernities and Lu Xun’s “Grabism” Lu Xun in Shanghai and his Translations on Art Lu Xun and woodcut publications Humanism and social construction in woodblock prints Lu Xun and Woodcut Print Societies Conclusion 4. TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PRINT CAPITALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Tze-ki Hon Local initiatives and domestic factors in technology transfer Markets, circulation and profits National learning as cultural capital Professional geographers and public intellectuals Conclusion 5. MEDICAL ADVERTISING AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF SHENBAO IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Max K. W. Huang Understanding the human body in early republican China Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation Conclusion 6. PLANET IN PRINT: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN ZHENG KUNWU’S FICTION DURING TAIWAN’S COLONIAL PERIOD Mei-e Huang From astronomical reports to fiction writing Scientific fantasy and humanistic reality Between science fiction and detective story Conclusion 7. SHAPING PERCEPTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A STUDY OF TEXTBOOKS IN TAIWAN IN THE 1940s Shi-chi Mike Lan Presentation of the War in Japanese colonial texts before 1945 The War in Chinese nationalist texts after 1945 Localizing the War in textbooks: Before and after 1945 Conclusion 8. ENVISIONING THE READING PUBLIC – PROFIT MOTIVES OF A CHINESE-LANGUAGE TABLOID IN WARTIME TAIWAN Pei-yin Lin Positioning the Chinese-language tabloids in colonial Taiwan Chinese literati-courtesan connections and Western exotica Appropriating and speculating about love From freedom of love to condemnation of unrestrained free love Alternative modernity and re-appropriation of love Conclusion 9. THE FIRST CASUALTY: TRUTH, LIES AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNISM IN CHINESE NEWSPAPERS DURING THE FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR Weipin Tsai War reporting in the West and in China in the second half of the nineteenth century Battle-ready and eager for the fight The war for readership In the newspapers’ defense Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisEdited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading experts on Japanese religion, anthropology, history, literature and music presents new research and thinking on the long and complex relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, one of the most “disaster-prone” countries in the world. Focusing first on responses to the triple disasters of March 2011, the book then puts the topic in a wider historical context by looking at responses to earlier disasters, both natural and man-made, including the great quakes of 1995 and 1923 and the atomic bombings of 1945. This wide-ranging “double structure” enables an in-depth understanding of the complexities of the issues involved that goes well beyond the clichés and the headlines.Trade Review"Editor Starrs has put together a comprehensive look at the Japanese cultural response to the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disasters. The book includes contributions from a diverse array of international scholars of Japanese religion, anthropology, intellectual history, literature, and popular music. The chapters cover a variety of themes, including the idea in many religions that disaster is “heaven’s punishment,” or tembatsu; responses to past disasters, including major earthquakes and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; and the importance of the use of Twitter by some of the most important post-3/11 poets. Summing Up: Recommended. Best for advanced students of intellectual and cultural history." - E. L. Hirsch, Providence College [This review appeared in the March 2015 issue of CHOICE. Copyright 2015 American Library Association]Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Cultural Responses to Disaster in Japan Roy Starrs, University of Otago PART ONE: CULTURAL RESPONSES TO THE TRIPLE DISASTER OF MARCH 2011 1 Nature’s Blessing, Nature’s Wrath: Shinto Responses to the Disasters of 2011 Aike P. Rots, University of Oslo 2 Gods, Dragons, Catfish, and Godzilla: Fragments for a History of Religious Views on Natural Disasters in Japan Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara 3 Buddhism: The Perfect Religion for Disasters? Brian Victoria, International Research Center for Japanese Studies 4 Post-3/11 Literature in Japan Roman Rosenbaum, University of Sydney 5 These Things Here and Now: Poetry in the Wake of 3/11 Jeffrey Matthew Angles, Western Michigan University 6 ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’: Responses to 3/11 – Constructing Community Through Music and the Music Industry Henry Johnson, University of Otago 7 Learning that Emerges in Times of Trouble: a Few Cases from Japan Joy Hendry, Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University 8 Observations on Geomentality in Japan and New Zealand Ken Henshall, University of Canterbury PART TWO: TOWARDS A WIDER PERSPECTIVE – JAPANESE CULTURAL RESPONSES TO EARLIER DISASTERS 9 ‘All Shook Up’: Post-religious Responses to Disaster in Murakami Haruki’s after the quake Jonathan Dil, Chuo University 10 Disaster and National Identity: The Textual Transformations of Japan Sinks Rebecca Suter, University of Sydney 11 Belated Arrival in Political Transition: 1950s Films on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Yuko Shibata, University of Otago 12 Hiroshima Rages, Nagasaki Prays: Nagai Takashi’s Catholic Response to the Atomic Bombing Kevin M. Doak, Georgetown University 13 The Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 and Poetry Leith Morton, Tokyo Institute of Technology 14 Proletarian Writers and the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923 Mats Karlsson, University of Sydney 15 The ‘Silenced Nexus’: Female Mediation in Modern Japanese Literature of Disaster Janice Brown, University of Colorado Boulder

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Book SynopsisRamen, Japan’s noodle soup, is a microcosm of Japan and its historical relations with China. The long evolution of ramen helps us enter the history of cuisine in Japan, charting how food and politics combined as a force within Sino-Japan relations. Cuisine in East Asia plays a significant political role, at times also philosophical, economic, and social. Ramen is a symbol of the relationship between the two major forces in East Asia – what started as a Chinese food product ended up almost 1,000 years later as the emblem of modern Japanese cuisine. This book explains that history – from myths about food in ancient East Asia to the transfer of medieval food technology to Japan, to today’s ramen “popular culture.”Trade Review"... In delving into the history of ramen, Kushner throws light on many interesting aspects of Japanese social and political history as well as on Japan's lengthy and complex relationship with China..." - Hugh Cortazzi, in: The Japan Times ONLINE (21 October, 2012) [Review link] "... A new book, Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen by Dr Barak Kushner, who teaches modern Japanese history at Cambridge, both contextualises the soup and hints at some of the reasons behind its global spread. Kushner explains how noodles entered Japan from China and how they evolved in Japanese cuisine in a way that reflected the prevailing feelings of Japan towards its neighbour..." - Tim Hayward, in: ft.com (19 October, 2012) [Review link] "Those long nights when sleep evades you and the mind runs along less tranquil corridors of the mind, one room repeatedly visited is full of books I should have published. This is one of them. It is most excellent (with a tiny proviso as to price). The history of ramen is a beacon to guide us through an appreciation of change in Japanese taste and cooking; to understand what Japanese food was like a long time ago; to how regional tastes have affected the development of Japanese cooking; to see how war has left its mark on all aspects of the Japanese table; to wonder at the depth of foreign influence on Japanese cooking (where silly old me had thought they were an isolated people). I could go on and on. Mr Kushner writes clearly, thankfully with no jargon, and entertainingly. His illustrations are intriguing, his reading is wide. The book has footnotes. Emphatic recommendation." - Tom Jaine, in: Petits Propos Culinaires (PPC), 97 (January 2013) "Ramen has become a ubiquitous presence globally, from chic Japanese Asian noodle restaurants to cheap student sustenance. Historian Kushner (Cambridge) targets the general audience wanting to know more about the noodle dish with Chinese origins that has become a Japanese national food of sorts. Written in an unapologetically pop style, Kushner's work spans premodern origins in China to contemporary Japanese ramen comics, museums, and pop songs. Within that time frame, the author talks about a lot more than ramen. He covers food in general in Japan as a backdrop for politics and the place of ramen within it. Some might criticize his at times wandering too far from the topic, but providing the broad context is part of Kushner's strategy. One part of the context that he ignores is that of gender. Indeed, Japan is a man's world: ramen chefs are almost exclusively men; even ramen consumption is more of a man's activity than that of women, although both slurp their fair share. Rich with tidbits culled from personal experience, Kushner's book is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of those interested in Japan, food, and pop culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General, public, and undergraduate libraries." - C.R. Yano, University of Hawai'i, in: Choice, 50 no. 10 (June 2013) [Review link] INTERVIEW with the author: Where would Japan be without China's culinary contribution? - Asia & Japan Watch [Interview link] INTERVIEW with the author in the Japanese TV program "Channel JAPAN": "The Project Japan": Promoting the Attractions of Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Channel JAPAN #37, on 16 December 2014 [Interview link]. Dr. Barak Kushner appears from 5’49’’; Slurp presented at 8’29’’ INTERVIEW with the author: "An Illustrated History of Ramen" [Review link]

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Book SynopsisHarima Fudoki, dated to 714CE, is one of Japan’s earliest extant written records. It is a rich account of the people, places, natural resources and stories in the Harima region of western Japan. Produced by the government as a tool for Japan’s early state formation, Harima Fudoki includes important myths of places and gods from a different perspective to the contemporaneous ‘national’ chronicles. This document is an essential primary source for all who are interested in ancient Japan. In this new critical edition, Palmer draws upon recent research into the archaeology, history, orality and literature of ancient Japan to reinterpret this hitherto little-known document. Palmer’s insightful commentary contextualizes the Harima tales for the first time in English.

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Book SynopsisConsisting of twenty-three essays, The Decade of the Great War examines the 1910s as a pivotal period with deep connections both to the imperialist heyday of the 1880s‒1890s, and to the vibrant global politics, commercial expansion, and social movements of the 1920s. It critically reviews Japan’s diplomatic and military relations, offering both a reexamination of some of the issues addressed in the earlier scholarship on the war years and a needed sense of the breadth of Japan’s new international relations. It highlights the importance of transnational approaches to the study of Japan’s domestic, intra-imperial, and foreign affairs. Together, the essays in this volume provide a wide-range of perspectives on relations within Asia and between Asian, European, and North American states. Contributors are: Isao Chiba, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Evan Dawley, Martin Dusinberre, Bert Edström, Selçuk Esenbel, Rustin B. Gates, Tze-ki Hon, Masato Kimura, Chaisung Lim, John D. Meehan, SJ, Tosh Minohara, Hiromi Mizuno, Tadashi Nakatani, Sochi Naraoka, Yoshiko Okamoto, Sumiko Otsubo, Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, Caroline Rose, J. Charles Schencking, Chika Shinohara, Shusuke Takahara, and Sue C. Townsend.Table of ContentsPreface …ix Acknowledgements …xi List of Tables …xiv List of Figures …xv List of Volume Editors and Contributors …xviii Japan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction …1 Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley Section 1: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations The Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in the 1910s …21 Tosh Minohara From Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921 …45 John D. Meehan Out with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs …64 Rustin B. Gates The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities …83 J. Charles Schencking Securing the Maritime Trade: Triangular Frictions between the Merchant Marines of the US, UK and Japan …107 Masato Kimura From Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese-Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention …130 Isao Chiba The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific: Struggle among the Powers over the Disposition of Former German Colonies …149 Shusuke Takahara What Peace Meant to Japan: The Changeover at Paris in 1919 …168 Tadashi Nakatani A New Look at Japan’s Twenty-One Demands: Reconsidering Katō Takaaki’s Motives in 1915 …189 Sōchi Naraoka Japan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan’s Emergence as a Great Power …211 Bert Edström The Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland …231 Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska Friends in Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the Great War …257 Selçuk Esenbel Section 2: National and Transnational Networks Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …281 Evan Dawley The Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s …301 Susan C. Townsend Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan …323 Chika Shinohara The Science Room as an Archive: Taishō Japan and WWI …349 Hiromi Mizuno Of World History and Great Men: A Japanese Village and its Worlds …372 Martin Dusinberre Buddhism and the Twenty-One Demands: The Politics Behind the International Movement of Japanese Buddhists …394 Yoshiko Okamoto Railroad Workers and World War I: Labor Hygiene and the Policies of Japanese National Railways …415 Chaisung Lim Sovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia …439 Yuehtsen Juliette Chung Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 …461 Sumiko Otsubo Changing Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks …481 Caroline Rose Global Competition for Power and Wealth: The Chinese Views of the World before and after the Great War …504 Tze-ki Hon Compiled Bibliography …521 Index …532

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Book SynopsisGlobalizing Migration History is a major step forward in comparative global migration history. Looking at the period 1500-2000 it presents a new universal method to quantify and qualify cross-cultural migrations, which makes it possible to detect regional trends and explain differences in migration patterns across the globe in the last half millennium. The contributions in this volume, written by specialists on Russia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia and South East Asia, show that such a method offers a fruitful starting point for rigorous comparisons. Furthermore the volume is an explicit invitation to other (economic, cultural, social and political) historians to include migration more explicitly and systematically in their analyses, and thus reach a deeper understanding of the impact of cross-cultural migrations on social change. Contributors are: Sunil Amrith, Ulbe Bosma, Gijs Kessler, Jelle van Lottum, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Mireille Mazard, Adam McKeown, Atsushi Ota, Vijaya Ramaswamy,Osamu Saito, Jianfa Shen, Ryuto Shimada, Willard Sunderland, and Yuki Umeno.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen About the Authors List of Tables, Figures and Maps List of Abbreviations SECTION 1: EUROPE AND SIBERIA Measuring and Quantifying Cross-Cultural Migrations: An Introduction, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen Catherine’s Dilemma: Resettlement and Power in Russia 1500s-1914, Willard Sunderland Measuring Mmigration in Russia: A Perspective of Empire, 1500-1900, Gijs Kessler SECTION 2: SOUTH ASIA Mapping Migrations of South Indian Weavers before, during and after the Vijayanagar Period: Tthirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Vijaya Ramaswamy South Indian Migration, c. 1800-1950, Sunil S. Amrith SECTION 3: SOUTH EAST ASIA Migration and Colonial Enterprise in Nineteenth Century Java, Ulbe Bosma Toward Cities, Seas, and Jungles: Migration in the Malay Archipelago, c. 1750-1850, Atsushi Ota The Art of (not) Looking Back: Reconsidering Lisu Migrations and “Zomia”, Mireille Mazard Migration in an Aage of Change: The Migration Effect of Decolonization and iIndustrialization in Indonesia, c. 1900-2000, Jelle van Lottum SECTION 4: EAST ASIA A Different Transition: Human Mobility in China, 1600-1900, Adam McKeown Han Chinese Immigrants in Manchuria, 1850-1931, Yuki Umeno From Mao to the Present: Migration in China since the Second World War, Jianfa Shen Cross-Cultural Migrations in Japan in a Comparative Perspective, 1600-2000, Leo Lucassen, Osamu Saito, and Ryuto Shimada SECTION 5: CONCLUSION Summary and Concluding Remarks, Jan Lucassen & Leo Lucassen References Name index Geographical index Subject index

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Book SynopsisThere are over 275 Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay manuscripts in Canada, including more than 200 in the collection of Professor Eleazar Birnbaum. These are remarkable in terms of age (mostly 15th to 17th century) and subject range. The descriptions in this catalogue are unusually detailed: they include author, title, subject, contents, first and last words, date of manuscript, calligraphy, foliation, dimensions, and the location of similar manuscripts elsewhere. Among other special features are details of watermark designs in the paper (useful for dating undated manuscripts), descriptions of seals and notes of previous owners, and many colour illustrations. The catalogue also describes all Turkish manuscripts in the three other small Canadian collections: at the University of Toronto, McGill University (Montreal), and the Royal Ontario Museum.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Bibliography and Sigla Catalogue Birnbaum Collection: Turkish manuscripts University of Toronto Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library McGill University, Montréal Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Concordances a. Running number in Catalogue/number in Collection (Birnbaum; University of Toronto; McGill University; Royal Ontario Museum) b. Number in Collection/Running number in Catalogue c. List of Illustrations Indexes Authors and Translators/Adapters Titles

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Book SynopsisOn account of its remarkable reach as well as its variety of schemes and features, migration in the Victorian era is a paramount chapter of the history of worldwide migrations and diasporas. Indeed, Victorian Britain was both a land of emigration and immigration. International Migrations in the Victorian Era covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the 19th century. Combining micro- and macro-studies, this volume looks into the history of the British Empire, 19th century international migration networks, as well as the causes and consequences of Victorian migrations and how technological, social, political, and cultural transformations, mainly initiated by the Industrial Revolution, considerably impacted on people’s movements. It presents a history of migration grounded on people, structural forces and migration processes that bound societies together. Rather than focussing on distinct territorial units, International Migrations in the Victorian Era balances different scales of analysis: individual, local, regional, national and transnational. Contributors are: Rebecca Bates, Sally Brooke Cameron, Milosz K. Cybowski, Nicole Davis, Anne-Catherine De Bouvier, Claire Deligny, Elizabeth Dillenburg, Nicolas Garnier, Trevor Harris, Kathrin Levitan, Véronique Molinari, Ipshita Nath, Jude Piesse, Daniel Renshaw, Eric Richards, Sue Silberberg, Ben Szreter, Géraldine Vaughan, Briony Wickes, Rhiannon Heledd Williams.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Marie Ruiz Part 1: Outward Migration 1 Revisiting the Originality of Irish Migrations during the Victorian Era  Géraldine Vaughan 2 Godley’s Plan for Colonization during the Famine: The Phantom Solution  Anne-Catherine de Bouvier 3 The Highland Diaspora and Its Antipodean Outliers  Eric Richards 4 Welsh Migration to America during the 19th Century  Rhiannon Heledd Williams 5 Britain, Argentina and Welsh Migration: A Reassessment  Trevor Harris 6 Transnationalism, the Urban & Migration in the Victorian Era: The Lives of Henry & Sophia Morwitch  Nicole Davis 7 Migration, Empire, and the Penny Post  Kathrin Levitan 8 “Sheep Stories”: Representations of Human and Animal Emigration and Settlement in the Nineteenth Century  Briony Wickes Part 2: Inward Migration 9 Global Immigration to England and Wales, 1851–1911. Evidence from the Census  Ben Szreter 10 Investigating the “Other” – A Comparative Study of Migrant Settlement in the Work of Charles Booth and Jacob Riis in Victorian London and New York  Daniel Renshaw 11 On the Road to the Asylum: Migration and Mental Illness in Victorian Lancashire (c.1851–1901)  Claire Deligny 12 A Less Eligible Country for a Pole: Britain and the Polish Refugees in the Early Victorian Period (1837–1847)  Milosz K. Cybowski 13 Jewish Immigration and the Shaping of a British Antipodean Outpost  Sue Silberberg Part 3: Migration of Women and Youth 14 Exiles and Exes: Women’s Emigration Poetry and Fiction in the Victorian Periodical Press  Jude Piesse 15 Victorian Women and Evangelicalism in the Far East: An International Mission  Nicolas Garnier 16 Migrant Memsahibs: Travel, and Gynaecological Complications during the Raj  Ipshita Nath 17 “The Opportunity for Empire Building”: The Girls’ Friendly Society, Child Emigration, and Domestic Service in the British Empire  Elizabeth Dillenburg 18 The Emigration of Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Australia: The Earl Grey Scheme  Véronique Molinari 19 From Suppression to Sponsorship: Juvenile Emigration and the Preservation of Pre-industrial Labor  Rebecca Bates 20 Little Wanderers: The British Home Children in Canada  Sally Brooke Cameron Conclusion  Marie Ruiz Index

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Book SynopsisDans L'art du livre en Asie centrale de la fin du XVIe au début du XXe siècle, Marie Efthymiou met en lumière les mutations des techniques de fabrication du livre et de ses usages en Asie centrale. In L'art du livre en Asie centrale de la fin du XVIe au début du XXe siècle, Marie Efthymiou sheds light on the mutations of book making in Central Asia and on the manuscript social uses.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Préface Note au lecteur Abréviations Tableaux de translittération Remerciements Table des illustrations Introduction Support et matériaux 1 Le Papier Les papiers des manuscrits étudiés Classification des papiers orientaux Le papier de Samarcande et le mythe du papier de soie Le papier de Kokand Le papier indien 2 Le cuir et le parchemin Manuscrits et parchemin Le cuir, matériau de fabrication 3 Les encres et les couleurs Une recette d’encre L’utilisation des encres dans les manuscrits coraniques d’Asie centrale Les couleurs dans les manuscrits coraniques d’Asie centrale Fabrication du manuscrit 4 Les formats Étude des proportions Types de formats La provenance des différents formats 5 Les cahiers La prédominance des quaternions dans les cahiers des manuscrits d’Asie centrale Influences des pratiques indiennes et persanes dans les cahiers des manuscrits centre-asiatiques Les marques de milieu de cahier 6 La mise en page et la réglure La réglure à l’aide de piqûres et à la pointe sèche La misṭara 7 La calligraphie Les instruments Symbolisme de l’alphabet Aspect général de la graphie Diffusion de la graphie en Asie centrale 8 Les réclames 9 Les colophons Les colophons : présentation, éléments et formules éléments communs aux corans d’Asie centrale et du monde arabe Les colophons, reflet d’une culture turco-persane Les éléments des colophons caractéristiques des manuscrits d’Asie centrale Spécificités des colophons d’Asie centrale liées à sa culture turco-persane 10 L’enluminure Les grandes phases de l’enluminure d’Asie centrale, du XVIe siècle au début du XXe siècle Typologie des doubles-pages Les couleurs et les motifs utilisés dans les enluminures Le Coran et l’enluminure en Asie centrale L’ornementation des haftiyak et des panǧ sūra La circulation des pratiques artistiques : l’enluminure d’Asie centrale et ses voisines Tampons des bibliothèques et provenance des manuscrits enluminés 11 Les signets 12 La reliure Typologie des reliures d’Asie centrale Plats, contreplats et dos La décoration des reliures d’Asie centrale Arts de la reliure et autres arts et techniques Les signatures, principale spécificité des reliures d’Asie centrale Bilan de l’étude des reliures Conclusion Glossaire Cartes Bibliographie Index des relieurs Index des copistes Index des sceaux Index des manuscrits datés Index des manuscrits enluminés Index des noms de lieux Index des noms des possesseurs Index des copies constituées waqf Noms des madrasa citées

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Book SynopsisListen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools that teachers, booksellers, and authors elaborated to make such knowledge more accessible to a large audience. Schools, public lectures, private academies or hand-copied or printed manuals devoted to a great variety of topics, from epistolary etiquette or personal ethics to calculation, divination or painting, are here invoked to illustrate the vitality of Tokugawa Japan’s ‘knowledge market’, and to show how popular learning relied on three types of activities: listening, copying and reading. With contributions by: W.J. Boot, Matthias Hayek, Annick Horiuchi, Michael Kinski, Koizumi Yoshinaga, Peter Kornicki, Machi Senjūrō, Christophe Marquet, Markus Rüttermann, Tsujimoto Masashi, and Wakao Masaki.Trade Review'This volume is a most welcome contribution, shedding light upon early modern learning practices in a variety of specific fields while the individual essays illustrate an overarching trend toward facilitation of self-directed study.' Matthew Fraleigh, New Asia Books, (http://www.newasiabooks.org/) 'This ambitious volume works at the nexus of three fields: book history, intellectual history, and the history of education. Scholars of early modern Japanese intellectual history and education history will find much to learn from the wealth of primary sources the volume’s contributors bring to light, and, indeed, the volume’s editors seem to have conceptualized the study specifically with these advanced audiences in mind. (..) the volume also addresses the globally comparative field of book history. One of the real delights of Listen, Copy, Read is that it brings insights from the best Japanese scholarship on this subject into conversation with vibrant scholarly discussions of reading, publishing, authorship, and learning in Europe and North America.' Charlotte Eubanks, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 43/1, (Winter 2017)

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Book SynopsisIn Hinterlands and Commodities: Place, Space, Time and the Political Economic Development of Asia over the Long Eighteenth Century, well-known economic and social historians examine important questions concerning temporal and spatial relationships among central places, hinterlands, commodities, and political economic developments in Asia and the Global economy over the long eighteenth century. These timely essays engage hinterlands and commodities providing novel foci on historical impacts maritime trade on political economic developments involving place, space, and time in Asia, thereby furnishing historical background for current conditions. They contribute to discourse concerning historical interactions among indigenous Asian merchant activities and European commercial counterparts. Contributors are: George Bryan Souza, Dennis O. Flynn, Marie A. Lee, Ghulam A. Nadri, Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Tsukasa Mizushima, Tomotaka Kawamura, Atushi Ota, Ryuto Shimada, and Ei Murakami.Trade Review"Wat het boek toch zeer de moeite waard maakt, is dat jonge Aziatische historici zich mengen in wat nieuwe wetenschappelijke en theoretische discussies zijn. Deze historici zijn sterk gericht op archiefonderzoek en beheersen vaak meerdere Europese en Aziatische talen. Veel informatie wordt geput uit de archieven van het VOC , maar vaak in combinatie met Aziatische bronnen. De traditionele aandacht voor de geschiedenis van de Europese expansie verschuift met hun onderwerpskeuzes ook naar de geschiedenis van Azië zelf." - Chris Nierstrasz, in: Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis, No. 1 Jr. 35 (2016) "[The chapters in this edited volume] show us how the spaces themselves were linked by merchant activity over space and time. In this, Hinternlands and Commodities is quite useful, shedding light on different parts of Asia and through varying lenses, all over a "long century" of recorded interactions." - Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University, in: Journal of World History (December 2016), pp. 724-735Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword ... vii Preface and Acknowledgements ... x List of Contributors ... xii About the Cover Illustration ... xiv List of Figures, Maps and Tables ... xv Introduction ... 1 Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza, and Dennis O. Flynn 1 Hinterlands, Commodity Chains, and Circuits in Early Modern Asian History: Sugar in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan ... 15 George Bryan Souza 2 Hydraulic Metaphor: A Model of Global and Local Connectivity ... 48 Dennis O. Flynn and Marie A. Lee 3 The Dynamics of Port-Hinterland Relationships in Eighteenth-Century Gujarat ... 83 Ghulam A. Nadri 4 Ports, Hinterlands and Merchant Networks: Armenians in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century ... 102 Bhaswati Bhattacharya 5 Linking Hinterlands with Colonial Port Towns: Madras and Pondicherry in Early Modern India ... 126 Tsukasa Mizushima 6 Maritime Asian Trade and Colonization of Penang, c. 1786–1830 ... 145 Tomotaka Kawamura 7 Toward a Transborder, Market-Oriented Society: Changes in the Hinterlands of Banten, c. 1760–1790 ... 166 Atsushi Ota 8 Hinterlands and Port Cities in Southeast Asia’s Economic Development in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Tin Production and its Export Trade ... 197 Ryuto Shimada 9 Trade and Crisis: China’s Hinterlands in the Eighteenth Century ... 215 Ei Murakami Bibliography ... 235 Index ... 255

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Book SynopsisIn Making the New World Their Own, Qiong Zhang offers a systematic study of how Chinese scholars in the late Ming and early Qing came to understand that the earth is shaped as a globe. This notion arose from their encounters with Matteo Ricci, Giulio Aleni and other Jesuits. These encounters formed a fascinating chapter in the early modern global integration of space. It unfolded as a series of mutually constitutive and competing scholarly discourses that reverberated in fields from cosmology, cartography and world geography to classical studies. Zhang demonstrates how scholars such as Xiong Mingyu, Fang Yizhi, Jie Xuan, Gu Yanwu, and Hu Wei appropriated Jesuit ideas to rediscover China’s place in the world and reconstitute their classical tradition. Winner of the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) "2015 Academic Excellence Award"Trade Review"The title of this fine study of the relationship between Jesuit missionaries and Chinese scholars shows that the author is determined to explore the Chinese side of that relationship far more than other recent studies of the Jesuits in China. Rather than a Eurocentric view of a “New World,” which focusses on the Americas, Zhang relates how encounters with Europeans and, more important, encounters with Jesuits enabled late Ming- and early Qing-dynasty China to adopt a new picture of the world." – Sheila J. Rabin, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies 3/3 (2016), pp. 518-519 [Full review]Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: Globalization, Localization, and Cultural Resilience 2 Mapping a Contact Zone 3 Divergent Discourses on the Physical Earth in Premodern China 4 The Introduction and Refashioning of the Terraqueous Globe 5 Translating the Four Seas across Space and Time 6 Taking in a New World 7 Conclusion: Jesuit Science and the Shape of Early Chinese Modernity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDealing with New Order perceptions of the past this study gives insights into how the past can be used for purposes of national-building and regime legitimization and into the nature of the New Order. The Suharto regime created a coherent history that is reflected in recent archaeological and historical research, in popular histories and biographies, in monuments and in school textbooks. The author describes an official history stretching from the proto-Indonesia of Majapahit, through the Indonesian Revolution up to the birth of the New Order in 1965. This past emphasized political stability and national unity under the guidance of the military; socially disruptive ideas were to be avoided. He also gives a counterview to this history stressing Indonesia’s place in the larger Islamic world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Orthography and Sources Preface Chapter One: Using the Past Chapter Two: Heroes and Golden Ages—The Hindu-Buddhist, Islamic and Colonial Past Chapter Three: Revolutions and Coups—The New Order and Modern Indonesian History Chapter Four: Histories in Waiting—Counterviews to the New Order’s Version of the Past Chapter Five: Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the religious transformation of each nation in modern Asia. When the Asian people, who were not only diverse in culture and history, but also active in performing local traditions and religions, experienced a socio-political change under the wave of Western colonialism, the religious climate was also altered from a transnational perspective. Part One explores the nationals of China (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan, focusing on the manifestations of Japanese religion, Chinese foreign policy, the British educational system in Hong Kong in relation to Tibetan Buddhism, the Korean women of Catholicism, and the Scottish impact in late nineteenth century Korea. Part Two approaches South Asia through the topics of astrology, the works of a Gujarātī saint, and Himalayan Buddhism. The third part is focused on the conflicts between ‘indigenous religions and colonialism,’ ‘Buddhism and Christianity,’ ‘Islam and imperialism,’ and ‘Hinduism and Christianity’ in Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewBy directing attention to the study of religions in Asia, David Kim’s Religious Transformation in Modern Asia goes some distance towards redressing the imbalance in Religious Studies, which, even in the study of the major religions of Asia, has favoured approaches that reflect topics of primary concern to students of religion in the West. This collection of essays written by experts in Northeast, South and Southeast Asia offers a rare insight into themes and issues that confront both practitioners as insiders as well as academics and informed outsiders. As such, it promises to contribute to the understanding of the study of religions in Asia, both historically and in contemporary settings, while at the same time offering important theoretical advances in the academic study of religions generally. - James L.Cox, Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh.

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Book SynopsisThis title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Durée Perspective, eleven historians bring their knowledge and insights to bear on the long sweep of Southeast Asian history. Ranging across many centuries, their contributions seek to identify the repeating patterns in Southeast Asia's past.Trade Review“Since the longue durée is neglected all too often, this volume restores the balance between the short term and long-term in a positive way.” “Taking account of the long-term opens up the analysis to new viewpoints. […] At the same time, however, much of the present analysis of this volume relies on existing research that is based on in-depth studies with a shorter time span. Obviously, both are needed.” Marjolein ’t Hart in bmgn - Low Countries Historical Review 131.2 (2016), review 19 doi: 10.18352/bmgn-lchr.10197Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1 Introduction: Structures, Cycles, and Scratches on Rocks David Henley and Henk Schulte Nordholt Chapter 2 Deep Forestry: Shaping the Longue Durée of the Forest in the Philippines Greg Bankoff Chapter 3 Breeding and Power in Southeast Asia: Horses and Mules in the Longue Durée William Clarence Smith Chapter 4 Under the Volcano: Stabilizing the Early Javanese State in an Unstable Environment Jan Wisseman Christie Chapter 5 History and Seismology in the Ring of Fire: Punctuating the Indonesian Past Anthony Reid Chapter 6 The Longue Durée in Filipino Demographic History: The Role of Fertility prior to 1800 Linda Newson Chapter 7 Glimpsing Southeast Asian Naturalia in Global Trade, c. 300 BCE-1600 CE Raquel A.G. Reyes Chapter 8 Ages of Commerce in Southeast Asian history David Henley Chapter 9 Pursuing the Invisible: Makassar in Context Heather Sutherland Chapter 10 The Expansion of Chinese Inter-Insular and Hinterland Trade in Southeast Asia, c. 1400-1850 Kwee Hui Kian Chapter 11 From Contest State to Patronage Democracy: The Longue Durée of Clientelism in Indonesia Henk Schulte Nordholt Chapter 12 Visual History: A Neglected Resource for the Longue Durée Jean Gelman Taylor List of Writings of Peter Boomgaard

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Book SynopsisThere were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries as geographical mobility increased. At the center of the story are the mobile merchants from south China’s Huizhou Prefecture, then the most prominent merchant group in China. The story presents the dynamics of geography in the world’s most enduring empire on the eve of its entry into modern history, as the author explores the changing relationships between people and the place they called “home”, between local place and the life-world the Chinese called “all-under-Heaven,” and between local places.

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Book SynopsisThe twelve case studies in Chinese Law: Knowledge, Practice and Transformation, 1530s to 1950s, edited by Li Chen and Madeleine Zelin, open a new window onto the historical foundation and transformation of Chinese law and legal culture in late imperial and modern China. Their interdisciplinary analyses provide valuable insights into the multiple roles of law and legal knowledge in structuring social relations, property rights, popular culture, imperial governance, and ideas of modernity; they also provide insight into the roles of law and legal knowledge in giving form to an emerging revolutionary ideology and to policies that continue to affect China to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ways of Rethinking Chinese Law and History Part I. Meaning and Practice of Law Chapter 1. Classifications of Litigation and Implications for Qing Judicial Practice – Jianpeng Deng Chapter 2. Kinship Hierarchies and Property Institutions in Late-Qing and Republican China – Taisu Zhang Chapter 3. Social Practice and Judicial Politics in “Grave Destruction” Cases in Qing Taiwan, 1683-1895 – Weiting Guo Chapter 4. Elite Engagement with the Judicial System in the Qing and its Implications for Legal Practice and Principle – Janet Theiss Chapter 5. “Law Is One Thing, and Virtue Is Another”: Vernacular Readings of Law and Legal Process in 1920s Shanghai – Bryna Goodman Chapter 6. Wayward Daughters: Sex, Family, and Law in Early Twentieth-Century Beijing – Zhao Ma Part II. Production and Application of Legal Knowledge Chapter 7. The Community of Legal Experts in 16th- and 17th-Century China – Yanhong Wu Chapter 8. Marketing Legal Information: Commercial Publications of the Great Qing Code, 1644-1911 – Ting Zhang Chapter 9. Contestation over Legal Knowledge and Limits of Imperial Power in Qing China – Li Chen Chapter 10. Court Case Ballads: Popular Ideals of Justice in Late Qing and Republican China – Margaret Wan Chapter 11. Old Forensics in Practice: Investigating Suspicious Deaths and Administering Justice in Republican Beijing – Daniel Asen Chapter 12. Simplified Legal Knowledge in the Early PRC: Explaining and Publishing the Marriage Law – Jennifer Altehenger

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Book SynopsisThe early Christian presence in Inner Mongolia forms the subject of this book. These Nestorian remains must primarily be attributed to the Öngüt, a Turkic people closely allied to the Mongols. Writing in Syriac, Uighur and Chinese scripts and languages, the Nestorian Öngüt drew upon a variety of religions and cultures to decorate their gravestones with crosses rising from lotus flowers, dragons and Taoist imagery. This heritage also portrays designs found in the Islamic world. Taking a closer look at the discovery of this material and its significance for the study of the early Church of the East under the Mongols, the author reconstructs the Nestorian culture of the Öngüt. The reader will find many newly discovered objects not published before. At the same time this study demonstrates how many remaining objects were appropriated and, in many cases, vanished after their discovery. 'I find myself obliged to make a special effort to avoid over-praising this book, a treasure-house of information, drawn on a comprehensive array of sources, some of them hitherto untapped, and splendidly presented on the important subject of Christian presence in East Asia.' DENIS SINOR, (Indiana University), Journal of Asian History, 43/1 (2009)Trade Review'In sum, Halbertsma has produced an admirable study, eclectic in its methodology, yet consistently meticulous and stimulating.' JOEL WALKER, Hugoye: journal of Syriac Studies, 12/1 'He has written a fascinating and lavishly illustrated book about the religion of a remarkably pragmatic lost Christian civilisation in Asia.' GERRY van KLINKEN (KITLV, Leiden), Asian Studies Review, 33 (2009) (...)'Early Christian Remains of the Inner Mongolia is a valuable study of the Öngüt Christian remains in Inner Mongolia, a lasting record of many now destroyed monuments, and, despite the author’s impartial academic tone, a shocking look at the carnage unleashed by museums and private collectors’ avid hunger for unprovenanced artifacts.' CHRISTOPHER P. ATWOOD (Indiana University), JAS 2009 'I find myself obliged to make a special effort to avoid over-praising this book, a treasure-house of information, drawn on a comprehensive array of sources, some of them hitherto untapped, and splendidly presented on the important subject of Christian presence in East Asia.' DENIS SINOR, (Indiana University), Journal of Asian History, 43/1 (2009) 'Die Arbeit stellt die erste sowohl westliche als auch japanische und chinesische Forschungsergebnisse ausführlich berücksichtigende Dokumentation und Interpretation ,nestorianischen‘ Fundgutes – in der Hauptsache Grabsteine – im Damaoqi und Siziwangqi Banner der heutigen Inneren Mongolei dar.(…) Ein besonderes Verdienst der vorliegenden Arbeit ist nicht zuletzt die Publikation neuen Fundmaterials auf Grundlage eigener Feldforschungen des Vf. (…) Dies alles macht die Arbeit für zukünftige Forschungen in dieser Richtung unverzichtbar (…) insgesamt großen Wert für weitere Untersuchungen zum ,nestorianischen‘ Christentum auf dem Gebiet des heutigen China.' SOEREN STARK, Berlin, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 104 (2009) 'The major strength of the work derives from the author’s obvious commitment to documenting and preserving these archaeological materials which are rapidly disappearing, due to grave looters, local farmers in need of building materials and inefficient or corrupt officials. It is nothing short of a labour of love.(...) In short, the volume is a must have for anyone concerned with either Syriac funerary material or the history of Christianity in Central Asia.' MARK DICKENS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, JRAS, Series 3, 20, 2 (2010) 'So, in many ways this book offers an important addition both to the history of the Mongols and to the history of the e Far East. Halbertsma offers a good introduction to the subject and brings together and discusses an important body of material.' LAURAN TOORIANS, ECA 6 (2009) 'The great value of this book lies in its documentation of previously unknown and rarely seen examples of Christian funerary remains from Inner Mongolia, some of which unfortunately have now disappeared. It is to be hoped that further investigations by both Chinese and foreign archaeologists can be done as soon as possible before the medieval Christian heritage of Inner Mongolia is lost forever. The photographs in this book may be all that we have in the future if the current rate of looting and destruction continues. For anyone interested in the history of Christianity in Central Asia and China this book is essential and will long remain an important reference source.' KEN PARRY, Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology (4/2009) 'This is a worthy book, which provides the most comprehensive record to date of the early Christian remains found in Inner Mongolia. (...) The most visible and notable scholarship so far has come from philologists who attempt to decipher gravestone inscriptions, which are written in various languages and scripts. In order to contextualize these inscriptions, Halbertsma has exhausted vast materials, such as textual sources in Chinese and Western languages, missionary records, archaeological fieldwork, and ethnographical reports. In addition, he discusses a great deal of important secondary sources that help us envision the shape of contemporary scholarship across the boundaries of many disciplines, such as archaeology, history, philology, and religious studies.' Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University, Frontiers of History in China, (2012) 7/1 'Cet ouvrage est en eff et le handbook, le compendium de référence sur la société des Önggüt nestoriens qu’on attendait depuis longtemps. L’auteur y a rassemblé une bonne introduction historique, un excellent exposé des recherches sur les Önggüt, d’abondantes descriptions archéologiques, complétées par ses propres recherches de terrain et illustrées de cartes utiles et de très nombreuses photographies. Reconstituer l’histoire des recherches, repérer les sites et décrire la situation actuelle constituaient autant de défi s que T. Halbertsma a relevés avec efficacité et au prix de nombreuses années de travail. En même temps qu’il constitue un ouvrage de référence, son livre, d’une lecture aisée et agréable, contribuera certainement à mieux faire connaître les Önggüt nestoriens: une société originale, porteuse d’un héritage culturel extrêmement divers, et qui marqua profondément les relations entre l’Occident et l’Extrême-Orient au Moyen ge.' Pierre Marsone, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, T'oung Pao 97 (2011) 'All in all the book is inspiring, for Halbertsma has documented thoroughly valuable material that was disappearing as he wrote. His record of it will make possible the still necessary deeper study which he hopes may follow.' Daniel C. Waugh, Professor Emeritus of History (University of Washington), The Silk Road Vol.10 (2012)

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Book SynopsisIt has long been known that the modern Chinese language inherited numerous terms from Japanese and that Japanese coined many of those terms in the last decades of the 19th century. These seven essays address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms came into being, how they outdistanced competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process. Rather than relying on received tropes of translation heritage, these essays delve much deeper into the particularities of their cases. They set a standard for subsequent scholarship.Trade Review"These seven studies provide a veritable wealth of information concerning the actual process of Sino-Japanese appropriation of the terms in the second half of the nineteenth century, together with how they evolved to become linguistic vehicles carrying ideas from the West to Japan and then to China...Through his introduction and translation of these seven studies, Joshua A. Fogel, as a well-established scholar devoted to Sino-Japanese cultural relations, brings to light scholarly practice in Japan and the achievements accomplished by these three Japanese scholars." Limin Bai, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies (June 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Seven Japanese Studies on the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon 1. Saitō Tsuyoshi, The Creation of the Term Kojin (Individual) 2. Saitō Tsuyoshi, The Formation of the Term Shakai (Society) 3. Suzuki Shūji, Religion (shūkyō) and Freedom (jiyū) 4. Yanabu Akira, Liberty-Freedom: Yanagita Kunio’s Resistance 5. Yanabu Akira, The Concept of “Rights” 6. Suzuki Shūji, Terminology Surrounding the “Tripartite Separation of Powers” 7. Suzuki Shūji, Dreams of “Science” and “Truth”

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Book SynopsisExiled Pilgrims contains thirty-two personal accounts by people who, as teenagers, went to rural China in 1964 and 1965. Barred from high school or college by political discrimination, the authors left the cities for the countryside in hopes of redeeming their “original sin” while making a difference in rural China with their hard work, only to find out that their idealism was futile in a mundane world and absurd time. Thus their pilgrimage to an illusory utopia turned into a painful search for truth and a tough struggle to liberate themselves against enormous odds. The book is the first and only collection of stories by members of a once marginalized and heretofore largely unheard-of group in contemporary China. "The stories of these young 'exiled pilgrims' bring the reader uplifting examples of the resilience of the human spirit. Their stories are heart-breaking, but the voice is never cynical, and hope is a constant. Exiled Pilgrims is a treasure." Carole Head, High Point University "The stories compiled here detail the daily life of a strange and fascinating period, always with emotion, often with humor, showing that one can speak about serious things without being dry. Reading this book is an excellent and pleasant way to understand the real China under Mao." Michel Bonnin, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris "These individualized accounts reflect the shining—and somewhat sad—lives of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing. In their stories, the authors not only record their personal experiences, but also provide insightful explanation for the origins, evolution, and impact of such phenomena as the implementation of the class line at schools and the utopian orientation among the Chinese youth in the early and mid-1960s. Together with the valuable photos and rare documents, stories in Exiled Pilgrims give us a fairly comprehensive portrayal of the collective journey of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing." Liu Xiaomeng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, BeijingTrade Review"...in his book, Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing, Peng Deng, a zhiqing-turned historian in the United States, provides us with touching stories that unveil the experience of 1.3 million youths who went to rural China before the Cultural Revolution thereby rescuing a crucial component of the history of Shangshanxiaxiang (上山下乡/Sending-down or Rustication Campaign) from public oblivion. [...] Deng's Exiled Pilgrims, with original zhiqing narratives, stands out in telling honest truth. [...] Exiled Pilgrims contains precious primary source materials for students of the history of contemporary China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution. It is also a great reference book for the studies of gender and Chinese society, if students look closely into the different destinies and distinct personal feelings of male and female zhiqing in the stories." Qian Liu, American Review of Chinese Studies, volume 18, no. 1 (Spring 2017) "This book fills a void in the existing literature on China's zhiging experiences and is a must-read for both serious scholars who specialize in China studies and anyone who is interested in learning and understanding the twists and turns in the first thirty years of the PRC's history and overall legacy of the Maoist era." Yi Sun, University of San Diego, Journal of Global South Studies (Spring 2018)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Peng Deng Foreword Michel Bonnin Introduction Peng Deng Part I The Call of Mountains Youth Training School in Chengdu Tang Longqian In Remembrance of Those Long-Gone Years Han Xiu The Road to Xinjiang Dong Danan Between Chongqing and Yunnan He Ying Boarding the Westbound 413 Jin Xiping Friends in Southern Hunan Zhang Jianfu Tales of Camp Harmony Wu Baichun Part II An Illusive Utopia Three “Higher Intellectuals” on Our Farm Song Xiaotao Behind the Clouds Ren Zongjing Grain “Looters” Jiang Xuchu Snow Leopard Pang Tongmin We Were Once All “Hukou Soldiers” Li Zhonggong Unlucky Émigré Shi Ming My Days in Well Pass Ding Yumin Sixth Aunt Wang Yuanling Lost Love in the Daba Mountains Zhang Yiting Part III On the Altar of the Revolution Songs of October Liu Changyi Withered Youth Li Zhongmei The Choice between Life and Death Ma Wenhua Massacre in Nanjiang Yang Xingquan Born to Be Criminals Zhang Mengjie In Those Wintry Days Zhou Bangxian The Fortieth Anniversary of Wang Baiming’s Death Zheng Wendou Part IV The Long Journey Home My Twelve Years as a Zhiqing Wang Shiyan Teacher Qin Wang Lingfu Ten Years in Dragon Spring Wan Xiaonong Self-Taught Doctor from the Mountains Li Wei My Dream of College Jiang Shuling Troublesome Personal Data Form Xia Xianzheng The Ordeal of Job Hunting Zhao Minghe Disability Certification Li Suhua The Long Way Home Li Zisen My Father Deng Yuanshu Appendixes Appendix 1 Directive Concerning the Political Evaluation of High School and Middle School Students in Chongqing Municipality in 1964 Appendix 2 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Non-Special Fields of Study in Colleges Appendix 3 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Secondary Schools Glossary

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Book SynopsisExiled Pilgrims contains thirty-two personal accounts by people who, as teenagers, went to rural China in 1964 and 1965. Barred from high school or college by political discrimination, the authors left the cities for the countryside in hopes of redeeming their “original sin” while making a difference in rural China with their hard work, only to find out that their idealism was futile in a mundane world and absurd time. Thus their pilgrimage to an illusory utopia turned into a painful search for truth and a tough struggle to liberate themselves against enormous odds. The book is the first and only collection of stories by members of a once marginalized and heretofore largely unheard-of group in contemporary China. "The stories of these young 'exiled pilgrims' bring the reader uplifting examples of the resilience of the human spirit. Their stories are heart-breaking, but the voice is never cynical, and hope is a constant. Exiled Pilgrims is a treasure." Carole Head, High Point University "The stories compiled here detail the daily life of a strange and fascinating period, always with emotion, often with humor, showing that one can speak about serious things without being dry. Reading this book is an excellent and pleasant way to understand the real China under Mao." Michel Bonnin, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris "These individualized accounts reflect the shining—and somewhat sad—lives of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing. In their stories, the authors not only record their personal experiences, but also provide insightful explanation for the origins, evolution, and impact of such phenomena as the implementation of the class line at schools and the utopian orientation among the Chinese youth in the early and mid-1960s. Together with the valuable photos and rare documents, stories in Exiled Pilgrims give us a fairly comprehensive portrayal of the collective journey of pre-Cultural Revolution zhiqing." Liu Xiaomeng, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, BeijingTrade Review"...in his book, Exiled Pilgrims: Memoirs of Pre-Cultural Revolution Zhiqing, Peng Deng, a zhiqing-turned historian in the United States, provides us with touching stories that unveil the experience of 1.3 million youths who went to rural China before the Cultural Revolution thereby rescuing a crucial component of the history of Shangshanxiaxiang (上山下乡/Sending-down or Rustication Campaign) from public oblivion. [...] Deng's Exiled Pilgrims, with original zhiqing narratives, stands out in telling honest truth. [...] Exiled Pilgrims contains precious primary source materials for students of the history of contemporary China before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution. It is also a great reference book for the studies of gender and Chinese society, if students look closely into the different destinies and distinct personal feelings of male and female zhiqing in the stories." Qian Liu, American Review of Chinese Studies, volume 18, no. 1 (Spring 2017)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Peng Deng Foreword Michel Bonnin Introduction Peng Deng Part I The Call of Mountains Youth Training School in Chengdu Tang Longqian In Remembrance of Those Long-Gone Years Han Xiu The Road to Xinjiang Dong Danan Between Chongqing and Yunnan He Ying Boarding the Westbound 413 Jin Xiping Friends in Southern Hunan Zhang Jianfu Tales of Camp Harmony Wu Baichun Part II An Illusive Utopia Three “Higher Intellectuals” on Our Farm Song Xiaotao Behind the Clouds Ren Zongjing Grain “Looters” Jiang Xuchu Snow Leopard Pang Tongmin We Were Once All “Hukou Soldiers” Li Zhonggong Unlucky Émigré Shi Ming My Days in Well Pass Ding Yumin Sixth Aunt Wang Yuanling Lost Love in the Daba Mountains Zhang Yiting Part III On the Altar of the Revolution Songs of October Liu Changyi Withered Youth Li Zhongmei The Choice between Life and Death Ma Wenhua Massacre in Nanjiang Yang Xingquan Born to Be Criminals Zhang Mengjie In Those Wintry Days Zhou Bangxian The Fortieth Anniversary of Wang Baiming’s Death Zheng Wendou Part IV The Long Journey Home My Twelve Years as a Zhiqing Wang Shiyan Teacher Qin Wang Lingfu Ten Years in Dragon Spring Wan Xiaonong Self-Taught Doctor from the Mountains Li Wei My Dream of College Jiang Shuling Troublesome Personal Data Form Xia Xianzheng The Ordeal of Job Hunting Zhao Minghe Disability Certification Li Suhua The Long Way Home Li Zisen My Father Deng Yuanshu Appendixes Appendix 1 Directive Concerning the Political Evaluation of High School and Middle School Students in Chongqing Municipality in 1964 Appendix 2 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Non-Special Fields of Study in Colleges Appendix 3 Political Evaluation Criteria for Admissions by Secondary Schools Glossary

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Book SynopsisIn Khazaria in the Ninth and the Tenth Centuries Boris Zhivkov offers a new view on Khazaria by scrutinizing the different visions offered by recent scholarship. The paucity of written sources has made it necessary to turn to additional information about the steppe states in this period, and to analyze exceptional cases not directly related to the Khazars. In re-examining the Khazars, he thus uses not only the known documentary sources and archaeological finds but also what we know from history of religions (comparative mythology), history of art, structural anthropology and folklore studies. In this way the book draws together a synthesis of conclusions, information and theory.Table of ContentsContents Preface vii Russian/Bulgarian/Ukrainian Transliteration xiv Introduction 1 Maps 8 1 The Ideology of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries: The Difficult Reconciliation of Steppe Traditions with Judaic Monotheism 17 2 The Pechenegs in Khazar History: The Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries 127 3 Khazaria and International Trade in Eastern Europe in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries 147 4 The Khazar Economy: Economic Integration or Disintegration? 171 5 The “Internal” Ethnic Communities in Khazaria 221 Conclusion 268 Bibliography 285 Index 317

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Book SynopsisAnnexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh’s Colonization addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary—both within and across regions—to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.Trade Review'Annexation and the Unhappy Valley represents what can be achieved when anthropologists turn their critical inter-disciplinary eye on the past. [...] it contributes hugely to our collective grasp of a key turning-point in Sindh’s history, as well as offering historians additional theoretical models and approaches with which to enhance their own disciplinary methodologies.' Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway, University of London), in: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Online since 10 March 2017. URL: http://samaj.revues.org/4287. 'Today, only a few scholars can match Cook’s depth of knowledge when it comes to this, often overlooked, research field and his monograph is a crucial step for us to understand Sindh’s past and present. Notwithstanding somewhat technical parts, the author’s effort to link the plane of colonial decision making in the 19th century with the particular circumstances of the individual actors involved renders the book an intriguing read. In the Appendix, Cook speaks about this methodological decision when he emphasizes the importance of the “situatedness” of his historical sources. His historical-anthropological methodology (visible in the book’s title) not only allows deep insights into the protagonists’ complex life-worlds but also yields a capturing read.' Jürgen Schaflechner (Heidelberg University), Itinerario, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2018), pp. 557-559, doi:10.1017/S0165115318000694Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s Foreword ... viii A Note on the Spelling of Sindh ... xi Cast of Characters and Glossary ... xii Illustrations ... xvi Acknowledgements ... xxiv Introduction ... 1 1 Merchants and the East India Company in Sindh ... 21 2 Conspiracy and Military-Fiscalism ... 69 3 Just Governance and Colonial Violence ... 133 4 Court Over Board ... 180 Afterword ... 224 Appendix: Anthropology, Context and Archives ... 229 Bibliography ... 241 Index ... 255

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Book SynopsisThe Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period examines the important role of Ibn ʿAsākir, including his Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad, in the promotion of a renewed jihad ideology in twelfth-century Damascus as part of sultan Nūr al-Dīn’s agenda to revivify Sunnism and fight, under the banner of jihad, Crusader and Muslim opponents. This jihad vision was exclusively centered on selected quranic verses and prophetic hadiths. Ibn ʿAsākir and other Sunni scholars in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Syria departed from the earlier scholarly focus on legal nuances and aversion to invoke jihad in intra-Muslim conflicts. They championed this intensification and reorientation of jihad ideology in mainstream Sunni scholarship, and gave it a lasting legacy.Trade Review“The edition and translation of the Arabic text of Ibn ʿAsākir’s al-Arbaʿūna ḥadīthan fī l-ḥathth ʿalā l-jihād in the second part of the book is of a high quality and it is a welcome addition to the sources available on jihād.” Harald Motzki in Ilahiyat Studies 4.1 (2013). "...this is an important and groundbreaking piece of scholarship [...]." Niall Christie in Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 28 (2012). “This book describes how twelfth-century scholars were actively involved in legitimizing certain political actions through concepts that were crystallized in the Muslim tradition and shaped intra-Muslim relations well as the empire’s relationships with its neighbors… In introducing the historical setting, Mourad and Lindsay describe in impressively minute detail the politics involved in producing texts during the reign of Sultan Nūr al-Dīn at a time when the latter was rallying Muslim populations, and elites in particular, against the Crusaders.” Bashir Saade in Al-Abhath 60-61 (2012-2013), p. 202-204. “… a most welcome addition to the study of the idea of religiously motivated warfare in the twelfth century. This text is of particular importance because Ibn ʿAsākir was the most important scholar of his time in the Egyptian/Syrian lands—at least he was the most prolific.[…] Overall this book not only makes a new text available to a larger audience, but it offers a brilliant reinterpretation of a text that might seem at first glance boringly repetitive.” Konrad Hirschler in Journal of the American Oriental Society 135.1 (2015) "Like any primary source, Ibn ʿAsākir’s text and its very readable translation offer modern readers an indication of how contemporaries perceived the issues of the day, so the book is part of a welcome trend in crusading studies to present Islamic perspectives on the topic. It will also appeal to anyone interested in jihad more generally." Christopher J. van der Krogt in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 29 July (2015). "Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt ein wichtiges Werk aus der Geschichte dieses Konzeptes in einer verlässlichen Edition zur Verfügung". Rüdiger Lohlker, University of ViennaTable of ContentsList of Maps and Images Preface Acknowledgment Notes on Transliteration Part One: The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period: Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his Age Chapter One: Ibn ʿAsākir (1105-1176): Life and Career Chapter Two: Jihad in Early Islamic History: An Overview Chapter Three: Jihad Preaching in Damascus between the First and Second Crusades Chapter Four: Ibn ʿAsākir and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Twelfth Century Chapter Five: The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad Chapter Six: Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths and the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in Thirteenth Century Damascus Chapter Seven: The Legacy of the Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology since the Thirteenth Century Part Two: English Translation A. Notes on the Translation B. The Forty Hadiths for Inciting Jihad C. Colophons and Ownership Notes on al-Birzālī’s Copy of Ibn ʿAsākir’s Forty Hadiths Part Three: Edition of the Arabic Text A. Notes on the Arabic Edition B. al-Arbaʿūn ḥadīthan fī al-ḥathth ʿalā al-jihād C. Arabic Colophons and Ownership Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIdeology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from various angles, ranging from artistic expression to religious ideas, political rhetoric, and administrative action. They demonstrate the interrelatedness of historiography and political ideology and show how the same text served both to strengthen the ruler’s authority and moderate his excesses. Together, the chapters highlight the immense complexity of ancient Chinese political thought, and the deep tensions running within it. Contributors include Scott Cook, Joachim Gentz, Paul R. Goldin, Romain Graziani, Martin Kern, Liu Zehua, Luo Xinhui, Yuri Pines, Roel Sterckx, and Charles Sanft.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Ideology and Power in Early China 1 Yuri Pines Part One: The Foundations: Unity, Heaven, and Ancestral Models 1 Representations of Regional Diversity during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty 31 Paul R. Goldin 2 Omens and Politics: The Zhou Concept of the Mandate of Heaven as Seen in the Chengwu Manuscript 49 Luo Xinhui 3 Long Live The King! The Ideology of Power between Ritual and Morality in the Gongyang zhuan 69 Joachim Gentz 4 Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao” 118 Martin Kern Part Two: Textual Battles: Rulers, Ministers, and the People 5 Monarch and Minister: The Problematic Partnership in the Building of Absolute Monarchy in the Han Feizi 155 Romain Graziani 6 The Changing Role of the Minister in the Warring States: Evidence from the Yanzi chunqiu 181 Scott Cook 7 Ideologies of the Peasant and Merchant in Warring States China 211 Roel Sterckx 8 Population Records from Liye: Ideology in Practice 249 Charles Sanft Epilogue: Ideological Authority in China: Past and Present 9 Political and Intellectual Authority: The Concept of the “Sage-Monarch” and Its Modern Fate 273 Liu Zehua Bibliography 301 Index 337

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Book SynopsisThis volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. By examining the demand for copper and the policy on copper procurement in Japan and China as well as the role of Osaka merchant houses, this volume provides a new slant on the “life” of Japanese copper – from production and distribution to consumption. In addition, papers on other significant traded products such as sugar, seafood, and books give us a better understanding of Sino-Japanese trade overall. The latest discussions on this field, which were mostly published in Japanese, have been brought together in this book and made accessible to an English-speaking audience. Contributors include: IMAI Noriko, IWASAKI Yoshinori, LIU Shiuh-Feng, MATSUURA Akira, and Keiko NAGASE-REIMER.Table of ContentsForeword - Regine Mathias Acknowledgements - Keiko Nagase-Reimer Notes List of Figures, Tables and Maps Glossary About the Contributors Main Copper Transportation Routes in Japan and China 1 Introduction - Keiko Nagase-Reimer 2 Copper in Edo-Period Japan - Imai Noriko 3 The Akita Domain and Osaka Merchant Houses at the Time of the Establishment of the Meiwa Copper Agency - Iwasaki Yoshinori 4 “There’s Method in the Madness”: A New Approach to the Early Modern Sino-Japanese Copper Trade - Keiko Nagase-Reimer 5 Copper Administratioin Reform and Copper Imports from Japan in the Qianlong Reign of the Qing Dynasty - Liu Shiuh-Feng 6 The Trade in Dried Marine Products from Nagasaki to China during the Edo Period - Matsuura Akira 7 The Import of Chinese Sugar in the Nagasaki Junk Trade and Its Impact - Matsuura Akira 8 Imports and Exports of Books by Chinese Junks in the Edo Period - Matsuura Akira References Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisIn Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company’s intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration of global commodity markets, an important dimension of globalization, before the 1800s. The effects of this globalization, and the associated colonialism, were diverse and could vary between and within regions. As globalization and colonialism affected patterns of economic development across the globe they played a part in the rise of global economic inequality, known as the ‘Great Divergence’, in the early modern period.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii List of Figures, Tables and Maps ... viii 1 Introduction ... 1 2 Early Modern Globalization ... 31 3 Prices and Consumption Patterns ... 78 4 Wages and the Standard of Living ... 118 5 Population, Households and Labour Markets ... 152 6 Conclusion ... 195 Appendices Appendix 1: Weights and Measures ... 207 Appendix 2: Coins and Silver Values ... 210 Appendix 3: Kcal and Protein ... 213 Appendix 4: Creating the Price Series ... 214 Appendix 5: An Alternative Method for Dealing with Gaps in the Price Data ... 232 Appendix 6: The Wage Data ... 235 Appendix 7: Estimating Population Trends for Ceylon ... 248 Appendix 8: Occupational Structure of Ceylon ... 254 Bibliography ... 257 Index ... 284

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Book SynopsisThe focus of Richard Zgusta’s The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time is the formation of indigenous and cultural groups of coastal northeast Asia, including the Ainu, the “Paleoasiatic” peoples, and the Asiatic Eskimo. Most chapters begin with a summary of each culture at the beginning of the colonial era, which is followed by an interdisciplinary reconstruction of prehistoric cultures that have direct ancestor-descendant relationships with the modern ones. An additional chapter presents a comparative discussion of the ethnographic data, including subsistence patterns, material culture, social organization, and religious beliefs, from a diachronic viewpoint. Each chapter includes maps and extensive references.

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Book SynopsisIn Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking Jessieca Leo offers a needed update on Hakka history and a reassessment of Hakka identity in the global and transnational contexts. Leo gives fresh insights into concepts such as ethnicity, identity, Han, Chineseness, overseas Chinese, and migration in relation to Hakka identity. Globalization, transnationalism, deterritorialization and migration drive the rapid transformation and reformation of Hakka identity to the point of no return. Dehakkalization through cultural adaptation or genetic transfer has created an elastic identity in the global Hakka and different kinds of Hakka communities around the world. Jessieca Leo convincingly shows that the concept of ‘being Hakka’ in the twenty-first century is better referred to as Hakkaness – a quality determined by lifestyle and personal choices. "Among the Chinese, tradition long resisted the idea of migration. In practice, however, there were many layers of adaptation to different circumstances. The Hakka have been exceptional in having always been conscious of their migratory successes. This book explores with great sensitivity how Hakka history outside China influences the way they respond to the new global environment. Combining careful scholarship with self-discovery, Jessieca Leo captures the processes by which one group of Chinese became migrants who consider migration as normal. Her fascinating and original work takes the study of the Hakka to a higher level and offers fresh insights for understanding how other migratory Chinese are transforming tradition today." Professor Wang Gungwu, National University of SingaporeTrade Review"[...] this case study provides a vivid example of the reconstruction of Hakka identity by a member of the group and sets the stage for a wider critical study and understanding of Hakka migration and identity around the world in the twenty-first century." – Chen Li-hua, National Tsinghua University, in Journal of Chinese Overseas 13 (2017).Table of ContentsIllustrations and Photos Glossary Acknowledgements Foreword PART I Introduction 1. Hakka Identity Going Global: Methodology and Problematics 2. Hakka Research and Identity-Making in Hakka Texts 3. Migration Models 4. Ethnicity, Han, Chineseness, and Overseas Chinese 5. Hakka Identity Past, Present and Future PART II 6. Hakka Cultural Markers 7. Conclusion APPENDICES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisConsisting of twenty-three essays, The Decade of the Great War examines the 1910s as a pivotal period with deep connections both to the imperialist heyday of the 1880s‒1890s, and to the vibrant global politics, commercial expansion, and social movements of the 1920s. It critically reviews Japan’s diplomatic and military relations, offering both a reexamination of some of the issues addressed in the earlier scholarship on the war years and a needed sense of the breadth of Japan’s new international relations. It highlights the importance of transnational approaches to the study of Japan’s domestic, intra-imperial, and foreign affairs. Together, the essays in this volume provide a wide-range of perspectives on relations within Asia and between Asian, European, and North American states. Contributors are: Isao Chiba, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, Evan Dawley, Martin Dusinberre, Bert Edström, Selçuk Esenbel, Rustin B. Gates, Tze-ki Hon, Masato Kimura, Chaisung Lim, John D. Meehan, SJ, Tosh Minohara, Hiromi Mizuno, Tadashi Nakatani, Sochi Naraoka, Yoshiko Okamoto, Sumiko Otsubo, Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska, Caroline Rose, J. Charles Schencking, Chika Shinohara, Shusuke Takahara, and Sue C. Townsend.Table of ContentsPreface …ix Acknowledgements …xi List of Tables …xiv List of Figures …xv List of Volume Editors and Contributors …xviii Japan and the Wider World in the Decade of the Great War: Introduction …1 Tosh Minohara, Tze-ki Hon and Evan Dawley Section 1: Diplomacy and Foreign Relations The Clash of Pride and Prejudice: The Immigration Issue and US-Japan Relations in the 1910s …21 Tosh Minohara From Alliance to Conference: The British Empire, Japan and Pacific Multilateralism, 1911-1921 …45 John D. Meehan Out with the New and in with the Old: Uchida Yasuya and the Great War as a Turning Point in Japanese Foreign Affairs …64 Rustin B. Gates The Imperial Japanese Navy and the First World War: Unprecedented Opportunities and Harsh Realities …83 J. Charles Schencking Securing the Maritime Trade: Triangular Frictions between the Merchant Marines of the US, UK and Japan …107 Masato Kimura From Cooperation to Conflict: Japanese-Russian Relations from the Formation of the Russo-Japanese Entente to the Siberian Intervention …130 Isao Chiba The Wilson Administration and the Mandate Question in the Pacific: Struggle among the Powers over the Disposition of Former German Colonies …149 Shusuke Takahara What Peace Meant to Japan: The Changeover at Paris in 1919 …168 Tadashi Nakatani A New Look at Japan’s Twenty-One Demands: Reconsidering Katō Takaaki’s Motives in 1915 …189 Sōchi Naraoka Japan as a Distant Friend: Scandinavian Countries Adjusting to Japan’s Emergence as a Great Power …211 Bert Edström The Making of a European Friend: Japan’s Recognition of Independent Poland …231 Ewa Pałasz-Rutkowska Friends in Opposite Camps or Enemies from Afar: Japanese and Ottoman Turkish Relations in the Great War …257 Selçuk Esenbel Section 2: National and Transnational Networks Women on the Move: Shifting Patterns in Migration and the Colonization of Taiwan …281 Evan Dawley The Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s …301 Susan C. Townsend Gender and the Great War: Tsuda Umeko’s Role in Institutionalizing Women’s Education in Japan …323 Chika Shinohara The Science Room as an Archive: Taishō Japan and WWI …349 Hiromi Mizuno Of World History and Great Men: A Japanese Village and its Worlds …372 Martin Dusinberre Buddhism and the Twenty-One Demands: The Politics Behind the International Movement of Japanese Buddhists …394 Yoshiko Okamoto Railroad Workers and World War I: Labor Hygiene and the Policies of Japanese National Railways …415 Chaisung Lim Sovereignty and Imperial Hygiene: Japan and the 1919 Cholera Epidemic in East Asia …439 Yuehtsen Juliette Chung Fighting on Two Fronts: Japan’s Involvement in the Siberian Intervention and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 …461 Sumiko Otsubo Changing Mutual Perceptions of China-Japan Relations in the 1910s in Chinese and Japanese Textbooks …481 Caroline Rose Global Competition for Power and Wealth: The Chinese Views of the World before and after the Great War …504 Tze-ki Hon Compiled Bibliography …521 Index …532

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Book SynopsisIn Volume II of his study, Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Charles Horner continues his examination of how China’s continuously changing view of its modern historical experience is also changing its understanding of its long intellectual and cultural tradition. He reflects on China's current rise, not as an anomaly, but as part of a long tradition of dramatic transformations and he therefore looks at many different Chinas as they interact with various world systems and ever-changing trends. He sees China’s formation of its future Grand Strategy as a creative intellectual activity which draws on the strategic imagination that can be found in history, literature, art, architecture and urban planning.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Volume ii, Horner, Rising China A Note on Romanization and the Pronunciation of Chinese (from Volume i) List of Figures Prologue Chapter 1 Empires Old and New, East and West, Traditional and Modern, and With More to Come Chapter 2 The Multi-Front War for the Chinese Mind: Mapping the Battlefield Chapter 3 Where No Man Has Gone Before: Urban China in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 4 Empire’s Irresistible Lure: Creating a Pre-modern Polity in a Postmodern Age Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a “societal shaper” – a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldron of ideological ferment for political ideology, via diverse culture-, community-, and history-based phenomena. The volumes discusses what it means to be a Muslim in today’s Central Asia by looking at both historical and sociological features, investigates the relationship between Islam, politics and the state, the changing role of Islam in terms of societal values, and the issue of female attire as a public debate. Contributors include: Aurélie Biard, Tim Epkenhans, Nurgul Esenamanova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Marlene Laruelle, Marintha Miles, Emil Nasritdinov, Shahnoza Nozimova, Yaacov Ro'i, Wendell Schwab, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Rano Turaeva, Alon Wainer, Alexander Wolters, Galina M. Yemelianova, Baurzhan ZhussupovTrade Review“This volume includes contributions from a broad selection of scholars who have sought to enrich our understanding of Islam in Central Asia through in-depth empirical studies.” “very recommendable as an introduction to what it means to be Muslim in Central Asia and to some of the important works that have been done recently to deepen our understanding of the question.” Maria Louw, Aarhus University, in Anthropos 115 "a comprehensive study focusing on the place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia [...] This book is unreservedly recommended to researchers in this field. As a work characterised by novel ideas and critical thinking, it makes a fresh and serious contribution to the understanding of Islam in the Central Asian region and especially to ongoing developments in its transformation." Gulnar Nadirova and Dauren Aben, International Kazakh-Turkish University, in Europe-Asia Studies 72.4Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction   Marlene Laruelle Part 1: What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today’s Central Asia? 1 How ‘Muslim’ are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry   Galina Yemelianova 2 Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys   Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov 3 Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan   Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer Part 2: Islam, Politics, and the State 4 The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization   Tim Epkenhans 5 Power, “Original” Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan   Aurélie Biard 6 Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia   Alexander Wolters Part 3: Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities 7 Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna’s Social Media   Wendell Schwab 8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector   Manja Stephan-Emmrich 9 Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia   Rano Turaeva Part 4: Female Attire as a Public Debate 10 The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek   Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova 11 Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society   Shahnoza Nozimova 12 Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women’s Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan   Marintha Miles Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Silver Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue was the most important central government store in the Qing dynasty. It held all capital funds submitted to Beijing by provinces and was responsible for the release of all central government expenditures. This book is mainly based on Qing archives pertaining to the Silver Treasury, notably the Yellow Register copies of the Treasury, now held by the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As it is the first monograph on the subject of the Silver Treasury to be published in English, as well as giving a brief introduction to the history of its successive management systems, it also presents comprehensive tables of monthly revenues/expenditures and yearend inventories for the period 1667 to 1899.Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface to the Quantitative Economic History of China Series ... vii List of Figures and Tables ... viii Emperors of the Qing Dynasty ... xiv Chinese Terms ... xv Currencies Used during the Qing Dynasty ... xxii Introduction ... 1 1 The Central Government’s Silver Treasury ... 4 1.1 Set-up and Evolution of the Three Stores ... 4 1.2 Management of the Silver Treasury ... 7 2 Silver Treasury Registers and Their Copies ... 14 2.1 Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 14 2.2 Copies of the Yellow Registers of the Silver Treasury ... 18 2.3 Use in this Book of Copies of Yellow Registers ... 23 2.3.1 Annual Aggregate Revenues, Expenditures and Their Surpluses/Defijicits ... 24 2.3.2 Annual Inventories of the Silver Treasury ... 25 3 Silver Treasury Revenues during the Qing Dynasty ... 27 3.1 Provisions to the Capital and Silver Treasury Revenues ... 27 3.2 Silver Treasury Revenues from Kangxi to Daoguang: 1662–1850 ... 35 3.3 Silver Treasury Revenues during Xianfeng and Tongzhi: 1851–1874 ... 45 3.4 Silver Treasury Revenues during Guangxu: 1875–1908 ... 52 4 Silver Treasury Expenditures and Payment Surpluses/Defijicits during the Qing Dynasty ... 64 4.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 64 4.2 The Xianfeng – Tongzhi Period ... 79 4.3 Guangxu Period ... 86 5 Fluctuations in Inventories of the Silver Treasury during the Qing Dynasty ... 96 5.1 From Kangxi to Daoguang ... 96 5.2 Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu ... 102 Appendix A: Tables of Aggregate Revenue/Expenditure of the Silver Treasury ... 109 Appendix B: Inventories of the Silver Treasury under Diffferent Reigns ... 217 References ... 245 Index ... 250

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Book SynopsisIn The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627). Probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11, the Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals reads quite differently than the usual missionary report. Surviving in four different versions, this text reveals intriguing insights on Jahangir and his family, the Mughal court and its political rituals, as well as the imperial elite and its military and economic strength. A comprehensive introduction situates the Treatise in the ‘disputed’ landscape of European accounts on Mughal India, as well as illuminates the actual conditions of production and readership of such a text between South Asia and the Iberian Peninsula.Trade Review“The translation of the Portuguese manuscript into English is excellent and it will allow many scholars and students of Mughal India or the Jesuit missions in south Asia to explore a unique source. Together with the well-researched and stimulating introduction provided by Jorge Flores, this work will find a prominent place in the study of the Jesuit missions in the Mughal empire.” - João Vicente Melo, University of Liverpool, in: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2017), pp. 529-531 [DOI: 10.1163/22141332-00403007-14]Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface I. INTRODUCTION 1. The Threads and Knots of an Unusual Jesuit Text 1.1. The Text: Outline and Profile 1.2. The Context: Mughal–Portuguese Relations From Babur to Jahangir The Early 1610s 1.3. The Authorship: Xavier or Pinheiro? 1.4. The Readership: The (at Least) Four Iberian Lives of the Treatise Problems of Chronology and Transmission How did a Manuscript Travel from Goa to Lisbon? Textual Practices 2. Reading the Treatise 2.1. The Jesuit Missionary as Political Observer (Actor, and Thinker) 2.2. The Mughal Padshah Capital and Citadel, Family and Harem An Emperor on Display and in Command 2.3. Jahangir by the Numbers Figures, Lists, Archives Household Expenses and Imperial Revenues Mansabdars and Mansabs 2.4. Concluding Remarks II. THE TEXT 1. The Manuscript: its Translation and Transcription 2. Text A: ANTT MS – Annotated English Translation: ‘Treatise of the Court and Household of Jahangir Padshah King of the Mughals, briefly addressing his kingdoms, and his treasures, and the great majesty and preeminence by which he is served in his court; his wives, children, and his chief captains’ 3. Text B: ANTT MS – Portuguese Original: ‘Tratado da Corte, e Caza de Iamguir Pachá rey dos Mogores; Em que brevemente se trata dos Reinos que tem; e de seos Tizouros, e o grande estado e preheminencia com que se serve de suas portas para dentro; suas mulheres, filhos, e seos grandes capitais’ Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImperial-Time-Order is an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking in modern China. Defined as normalization of unification and moralization of time, Qian suggests, the imperial-time-order signifies a temporal structure of empire that has continued to shape the way modern China developed itself conceptually. Weaving together intellectual debates with literary and media representations of imperial history since the late Qing period, ranging from novels, stage plays, films, to television series, Qian traces the different temporalities of each period and takes “time” as the analytical node by which issues of empire, nation, family, morality, individual and collective subjectivity are constructed and contested.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Romanization and Script List of Illustrations Introduction Part One: The Imperial-Time-Order 1. The Imperial-Time-Order: The Eternal Return of the Chinese Empire Part Two: Time, Unity, and Morality from the Late Qing to Mao’s China 2. Suspended Time: Grounding the Present in the Late Qing 3. Split Time: Enlightenment and its Discontent 4. Continuous Time: Heroes in the ‘Protracted War’ 5. Transitional Time: Defining the ‘People’ and the ‘Nation’ in Mao’s China Part Three: The Return of ‘Empire’ in the post-Mao Period 6. Resurgent Time: The Return of ‘Empire’ in Post-socialist Representation 7. Love or Hate: The First Emperor on the Cinematic Screen 8. The Fascinating Empire: Emperors in Contemporary Novels 9. Tianxia Revisited: Empire and Family on the Television Screen 10. Becoming-Minority: Chinese Characteristics in Minority Historical Fiction Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan is the biography of the most important statesmen and political thinkers of the Eastern Zhou dynasty China: Yan Ying (d. 500 BCE). Living through an exceptionally troubled period, he served three rulers and two dictators of the state of Qi, in Shandong Province. His experiences informed his revolutionary theories concerning the relationship between the individual and the state. Long considered to be a forgery, recent archaeological discoveries have proved the Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan to be a genuinely ancient text. This book provides not only the first complete translation of the text into any Western language, but a detailed analysis of the context in which it was produced.Trade Review"Milburn should be particularly congratulated on her contribution to what appears to be renewed engagement with Yanzi Chunqiu on the part of Western scholars. Her translation is fluid, generally accurate, and richly annotated. Accompanying chapters discuss the text’s history, its protagonists, its political context, and its ideology. The study will surely benefit both established scholars and, particularly, students, who may now be encouraged to engage with the text systematically. Milburn laudably introduces her readers to the research achievements of traditional and modern Chinese (and to a much lesser extent Japanese) scholars, whose studies of Yanzi Chunqiu have considerably advanced our understanding of the text. All this makes Milburn’s book a welcome contribution to the field." - Yuri Pines, Nankai University, Tianjin/Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.1 (2018)

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Book SynopsisThe Tsinghua University bamboo-strip manuscripts are among the most extraordinary collections of ancient texts discovered in China to date. In Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts, Liu Guozhong, one of the scholars intimately involved in editing the Tsinghua strips, offers a straightforward overview to the complexities inherent in researching this collection. Liu provides an invaluable glimpse into how these artifacts were cleaned, preserved, and prepared for publication, while also situating them within a history of similar finds. He moreover explores in detail a number of crucial questions raised by the Tsinghua strips, from the transmission of the Shangshu and the nature of the oft-neglected Yi Zhoushu, to the implications these texts have for our understanding of early Western Zhou history.

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Book SynopsisIn The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java’s Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dancing in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an original expression of Islam. This is a different view from that of many scholars, who argue that canonical prohibitions on fashioning idols and imagery prove that masks are mere relics of indigenous beliefs that Muslim travelers could not eradicate. Making use of archives, oral histories, and the performing objects themselves, Ross traces the mask’s trajectory from a popular entertainment in Cirebon—once a portal of global exchange—to a stimulus for establishing a deeper connection to God in late colonial Java, and eventual links to nationalism in post-independence Indonesia.Trade Review"This is a rare case of a scholar taking seriously the Islamic religious sentiments that underlie a local Southeast Asian artistic tradition." - Shahzad Bashir, Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies, Stanford "A mountain of fascinating information." – Benedict Anderson, Aaron L. Binenkorb Late Professor Emeritus of Government and International Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsFigures, Drawings, Map Introduction Part I: Cultural Markers Chapter 1: The Pasisir in the Age of Steam, Sail, and the Railway Chapter 2: Independence: Registration Cards, Theme Parks, and Topeng Tours Chapter 3: Floating Artists on the Circumambulatory Road Part II: Mystic Travelers Chapter 4: Tuning the Body: Dzikir Flows and Sonic Theism Chapter 5: Engaging the Body and the Senses Part III: Objects that Speak Chapter 6: Looking Closely: The Iconic Mask Chapter 7: Looking Closer: The Inner Face Chapter 8: Mapping Tarekat: Performing the Mosque/Grave Complex Conclusion Appendix I: The Topeng Cosmology Appendix II: Fitting Susuk Glossary Works Consulted

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores some of the many different meanings of community across medieval Eurasia. How did the three ‘universal’ religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, frame the emergence of various types of community under their sway? The studies assembled here in thematic clusters address the terminology of community; genealogies; urban communities; and monasteries or ‘enclaves of learning’: in particular in early medieval Europe, medieval South Arabia and Tibet, and late medieval Central Europe and Dalmatia. It includes work by medieval historians, social anthropologists, and Asian Studies scholars. The volume present the results of in-depth comparative research from the Visions of Community project in Vienna, and of a dialogue with guests, offering new and exciting perspectives on the emerging field of comparative medieval history. Contributors are (in order within the volume) Walter Pohl, Gerda Heydemann, Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss, Rüdiger Lohlker, Elisabeth Gruber, Oliver Schmitt, Daniel Mahoney, Christian Opitz, Birgit Kellner, Rutger Kramer, Pascale Hugon, Christina Lutter, Diarmuid Ó Riain, Mathias Fermer, Steven Vanderputten, Jonathan Lyon and Andre Gingrich.Table of ContentsContents Editors’ Preface ix List of Contributors xi Introduction: Meanings of Community in Medieval Eurasia 1 Walter Pohl part 1 Addressing Community: Terms, Concepts and Meanings 1 People(s) of God? Biblical Exegesis and the Language of Community in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe 27 Gerda Heydemann 2 The Political Usage of Religious and Non-religious Terms for Community in Medieval South Arabia: A Comparative Response to Gerda Heydemann’s Chapter 61 Johann Heiss and Eirik Hovden 3 Jamāʿa vs. Mulk: Community-Centred and Ruler-Centred Visions of the Islamic Community 78 Rüdiger Lohlker part 2 Urban Communities and Non-Urban Sites 4 The City as Commune 99 Elisabeth Gruber 5 Addressing Community in Late Medieval Dalmatia 125 Oliver Schmitt 6 Urban Communities in Medieval South Arabia: A Comparative Reflection 148 Johann Heiss, Eirik Hovden and Elisabeth Gruber Part 3 Genealogies as Means for Constructing Communities 7 The Political Construction of a Tribal Genealogy from Early Medieval South Arabia 165 Daniel Mahoney 8 Genealogical Representations of Monastic Communities in Late Medieval Art 183 Christian Nikolaus Opitz 9 Genealogy into the Future: Glimpses from Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho’s (1653–1705) Exposition of the Extended Dalai Lama Lineage 203 Birgit Kellner 10 Genealogy: A Comparative Perspective from the Early Medieval West 232 Walter Pohl PART 4 Spiritual Communities: Texts, Sites and Interactions 11 Introduction: Spiritual Communities across Medieval Eurasia 273 Rutger Kramer 12 Enclaves of Learning, Religious and Intellectual Communities in Tibet: The Monastery of gSang phu Neʼu thog in the Early Centuries of the Later Diffusion of Buddhism 289 Pascale Hugon 13 Teaching Emperors: Transcending the Boundaries of Carolingian Monastic Communities 309 Rutger Kramer 14 Competing Visions of Welfare in the Zaydi Community of Medieval South Arabia 338 Eirik Hovden 15 Vita communis in Central European Monastic Landscapes 362 Christina Lutter 16 The Schottenklöster in the World: Identity, Independence and Integration 388 Diarmuid Ó Riain 17 Among Teachers and Monastic Enclaves: An Inquiry into the Religious Learning of Medieval Tibet 417 Mathias Fermer 18 Enclaves of Learning: A Commentary on the Papers in the Section on “Spiritual Communities” 451 Steven Vanderputten 19 Response to the Chapters in “Spiritual Communities” Section 461 Jonathan R. Lyon 20 Medieval Eurasian Communities by Comparison: Methods, Concepts, Insights 468 Andre Gingrich Index 499

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Book SynopsisIn The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Jin Noda examines the foreign relations of the Kazakh Chinggisid sultans and the Russian and Qing empires during the 18th and 19th centuries. Noda makes use of both Russian and Qing archival documents as well as local Islamic sources. Through analysis of each party’s claims –mainly reflected in the Russian-Qing negotiations regarding Central Eurasia–, the book describes the role played by the Kazakh nomads in tying together the three regions of eastern Kazakh steppe, Western Siberia, and Xinjiang.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Sources Abbreviations List of Illustrations Preface: The Kazakh Khanates’ Place within the Central Eurasian World The History of the Kazakh Steppe and the Kazakh Khanates Themes to Be Addressed Methodology and Significance Outline of Content Description of Historical Sources Part One: The ‘Kazakh Khanates’ and the History of the International Relations in Central Asia 1 Reexamining the Kazakh Khanates’ ‘Foreign Relations in the East’ A History of Research Regarding the Kazakh Khanates A History of Research Regarding the Kazakh-Qing Connection Historical Relations between the Kazakh Steppe and Xinjiang: An analysis based on accounts in Tavārīḫ-i Ḫamsa-yi Šarqī, written by the Tatar imam Qurbān ‘Alī 2 The Impact of Russian Advances into Central Asia on Kazakh-Russian Relations The Petition for Russian Subject Status and an Oath on the Quran The Kazakh Title of “Khan” Establishment of the 1822 Regulation within the Middle Juz Part Two: The Foundations of Kazakh-Qing Relations 3 The Problem of Kazakh Subjection and the Russian-Qing Relationship in Central Asia The Jungars and Central Asia within Russian-Qing Relations The Toši Mission’s Proposals (1731) and Russia-Qing Negotiations The Russian-Qing Negotiations of 1756–1758 Regarding Central Asia 4 The Differing Nature of the Three Kazakh Juz and the Three “Bu” (Sections) Mentioned in Qing Historical Sources Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Kazakh Social Structure as Described within Qing Historical Sources The Meaning of the Term “Hasake” within Qing Historical Records Relations between the three Kazakh Juz and the Qing Empire The Three Sections in the View of the Kazakhs 5 Titles of Kazakh Sultans Bestowed by the Qing Empire: The 1824 Case of Sultan Ghubaidulla Qing Titles for the Kazakhs Sultan Ghubaidulla and his Han Title Titles for Kazakhs Thereafter Part Three: Russo-Qing Relations and the Fate of the Kazakh Khanates 6 Kazakh Participation in the Russo-Chinese Trade of Central Asia The Kyakhta Trade and Russo-Qing Trade throughout Western Siberia Russian and Qing Trading Policies Intermediary Role of the Kazakhs in Russo-Qing Trade Changes in the Structure of Trade 7 The Transformation of the Russian-Qing Relationship and the Dissolution of the Kazakh Khanates Frontier Rule by the Two Empires: The Western Siberian Governor-General and the Ili Military Governor The Role of the Kazakh Steppe within Russian-Qing Relations The Sultans in Transition Friction Regarding the Annexation of the Great Juz and Establishment of the 1851 Treaty of Commerce between Russia and the Qing Dynasty Conclusion List of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index  

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Book SynopsisMichael Loewe calls on literary and material evidence to examine three problems that arose in administering China’s early empires. Religious rites due to an emperor’s predecessors must both pay the correct services to his ancestors and demonstrate his right to succeed to the throne. In practical terms, tax collectors, merchants, farmers and townsmen required the establishment of a standard set of weights and measures that was universally operative and which they could trust. Those who saw reason to criticise the decisions taken by the emperor and his immediate advisors, whether on grounds of moral principles or political expediency, needed opportunities and the means of expressing their views, whether as remonstrants to the throne, by withdrawal from public life or as authors of private writings.Trade Review"Loewe’s three-part study informs us about three aspects of the forms and workings of power during the Han period, in the Xin interregnum, and beyond. Anyone with an interest in the time or in the specific topics Loewe treats will gain from reading this book." -Charles Sanft, University of Tennesee, Knoxville, in Journal of the American Oriental Society, 139.4 (2019)

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Book SynopsisIn Legal Practice in the Formative Stages of the Chinese Empire, Ulrich Lau and Thies Staack offer a richly annotated English translation of the Wei yu deng zhuang si zhong 爲獄等狀四種, a collection of criminal case records from the pre-imperial state of Qin (dating from 246 BC–222 BC) that is part of the manuscripts in the possession of Yuelu Academy. Through an analysis of the collection and a comparison with similar manuscript finds from the Qin and Han periods, the authors shed new light on many aspects of the Qin administration of justice, e.g. criminal investigation, stages of criminal procedure, principles for determining punishment, and interaction of judicial officials on different administrative levels.

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Book SynopsisPrince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status, function, and self-perceptions of military and administrative elites respectively. Two additional concise chapters provide a focused analysis of the construction of specific dynasties (the Golden Horde and the Habsburgs) and narratives of kingship found in fiction throughout Eurasia. The contributors and editors, authorities in their fields, systematically bring together specialised literature on numerous Eurasian kingdoms and empires. This book is a careful and thought-provoking experiment in the global, comparative and connected history of rulers and elites.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Map List of Contributors 1 Rulers and Elites in Global History: Introductory Observations  Jeroen Duindam 2 The Court as a Meeting Point: Cohesion, Competition, Control  Jeroen Duindam 3 Not of This World …? Religious Power and Imperial Rule in Eurasia, ca Thirteenth – ca Eighteenth Century  Peter Rietbergen 4 The Warband in the Making of Eurasian Empires  Jos Gommans 5 The People of the Pen: Self-Perceptions of Status and Role in the Administration of Empires and Polities  Maaike van Berkel 6 The Golden Horde, the Spanish Habsburg Monarchy, and the Construction of Ruling Dynasties  Marie Favereau Doumenjou and Liesbeth Geevers 7 Narratives of Kingship in Fictional Literature  Richard van Leeuwen 8 Prince, Pen and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives  Jeroen Duindam Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois’ Légère Idée de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830.Trade Review"The book is a major achievement in the study of Balinese history and culture. The complex of letters, sometimes in a fragmentary and unfinished state, offers a vast panorama of Bali in the early nineteenth century, seen by a prejudiced but sharp-eyed official who had seen much of this world. [...] The highly useful and down-to-earth comments by Helen Creese, together with her meticulous efforts to trace the life and times of Pierre Dubois, makes the book an inexhaustible source of information." – Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University, in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 175 (2019), p. 81–135.Table of ContentsPreface Editorial principles and conventions List of Illustrations Part 1: Historical and Cultural Context Ch. 1: The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776-1838) Ch. 2: Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808-1826 Ch. 3: The Recruitment Post at Kuta Ch. 4: The Transcendent Art of Balinese Politics Ch. 5: The Return to Kuta, 1829-1831 Ch. 6: The Kuta Post: An Assessment Ch. 7: An Accidental Ethnographer Ch. 8: In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the Field Ch. 9: A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and Ritual Ch. 10: The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and Intertextuality Ch. 11: A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the Manuscripts Part 2: Pierre Dubois: Légère Idée de Balie en 1830 List of Letters Letters – French Transcription Part 3: Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830 List of Letters Letters – English Translation Glossary Bibliography Index

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