Asian history Books
The University of Chicago Press The Neighborhood of Gods The Sacred and the
Book SynopsisThere are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imaginationas a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia.Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighborhood streets are indeed shared with local gods and guardian spirits. In The Neighborhood of Gods, William Elison examines the link between territory and divinity in India's most self-consciously modern city. In this densely settled environment, space is scarce, and anxiety about housing is pervasive. Consecrating spacefirst with impromptu displays and then, eventually, with full-blown temples and official recognitionis one way of staking a claim. But how can a marginalized community make its gods visible, and therefore powerful, in the eyes of others? The Neighborhood of Gods explores this question, bringing an ethnographic lens to a range of visual and spatial practices: from the shrine construction that encroache
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The University of Chicago Press Much Maligned Monsters A History of European
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating study, Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic. East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century. Mitter's new Preface reflects upon the profound changes in Western interpretations of non-Western societies over the past fifteen years.
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The University of Chicago Press The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature
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The University of Chicago Press Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations
Book SynopsisContemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex history of inter-polity relations in Inner and East Asia from the thirteenth century to the twentieth, in order to help us understand and develop policies to address challenges in the region today. This book argues that understanding the diversity of past legal orders helps explain the forms of contemporary conflict, as well as the conflicting historical narratives that animate tensions. Rather than proceed sequentially by way of dynasties, the editors identify three worldsChingssid Mongol, Tibetan Buddhist, and Confucian Sinicthat represent different forms of civilization authority and legal order. This novel framework enables us to escape the modern tendency to view the international syste
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The University of Chicago Press Sacred Mandates Asian International Relations
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The University of Chicago Press Japan The Intellectual Foundations of Modern
Book SynopsisHistorians have long been aware of the richness and complexity of the intellectual history of modern Japanese politics. Najita's study, however, is the first in a Western language to present a consistent and broad synthesis of this subject. Najita elucidates the political dynamics of the past two hundred years of Japanese history by focusing on the interplay of restorationism and bureaucratism within the context of Japan's modern revolution, the Meiji Restoration.
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The University of Chicago Press My Family and Other Saints
Book SynopsisIn 1969, Kirin Narayan's older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone. This memoir traces the reverberations of Rahoul's spiritual journey through the entire family.Trade Review"A lovely book about the author's youth in Bombay, India.... The family home becomes a magnet for truth-seekers, and Narayan is there to affectionately document all of it." - Body + Soul "Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayan's enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay." - William Grimes, New York Times"
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The University of Chicago Press Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the
Book SynopsisIn 1961, John F. Kennedy referred to the Papuans as living, as it were, in the Stone Age. For the most part, politicians and scholars have since learned not to call people primitive, but when it comes to the Papuans, the Stone-Age stain persists and for decades has been used to justify denying their basic rights. Why has this fantasy held such a tight grip on the imagination of journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large? Living in the Stone Age answers this question by following the adventures of officials sent to the New Guinea highlands in the 1930s to establish a foothold for Dutch colonialism. These officials became deeply dependent on the good graces of their would-be Papuan subjects, who were their hosts, guides, and, in some cases, friends. Danilyn Rutherford shows how, to preserve their sense of racial superiority, these officials imagined that they were traveling in the Stone Agea parallel reality where their own impotence was a reasonable response to otherworldly conditions rather than a sign of ignorance or weakness. Thus, Rutherford shows, was born a colonialist ideology. Living in the Stone Age is a call to write the history of colonialism differently, as a tale of weakness not strength. It will change the way readers think about cultural contact, colonial fantasies of domination, and the role of anthropology in the postcolonial world.
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The University of Chicago Press From Mesopotamia to Iraq
Book SynopsisThe reopening of Iraq's National Museum attracted worldwide attention, underscoring the country's dual image as both the cradle of civilization and a contemporary geopolitical battleground. This title looks back through ten thousand years of the region's deeply significant yet increasingly overshadowed past.Trade Review"Without any doubt... an original and coherent synthesis of 7,000 years of political evolution.... Nissen has provided us with a creative and challenging overview of political evolution in an area of the world commonly referred to as the 'cradle of civilization.'" - Science "This outstanding book traces in less than two hundred pages some 7,000 years of ancient Near Eastern history.... Filled with original ideas of lasting significance." - Choice"
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The University of Chicago Press The Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans
Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the Gateway to the Pacific, using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco's postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city's redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco's relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including change
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The University of Chicago Press The Gateway to the Pacific Japanese Americans and
Book SynopsisIn the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the Gateway to the Pacific, using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco's postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city's redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco's relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city's African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco's story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.
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The University of Chicago Press A Village with My Name
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A solid exploration of China past and present in which the author climbs 'a punishing mountain of history with [his] intergenerational team."--Kirkus Reviews "In this combination of memoir, genealogy, history, and current affairs reporting, Tong uses his discovery of his family's past in mainland China to put many of China's most monumental historical events into a human scale. His attempts to clarify or uncover his family history, and the disputes, controversies, and missteps he encounters along the way will be familiar to anyone who has spent time trying to understand how a family became the way it is. Here the story is even more interesting because the story of the Tongs is complicated by the political history of China, which remains very present in their lives."--James Carter, coauthor of Forging the Modern World: A History "One of the best books on China in a decade. Tong displays the creative zeal of a world-class investigative reporter, but also the huge heart and family ties of a great-grandson of old China. Tong's family stories are the lived history of China--where exile, starvation and shame alternated with escape, riches, and promise. This is a spellbinding and personal portrait by a remarkably gifted storyteller."--Pietra Rivoli, author of Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy "Immensely readable. . . . Readers of this book will find their views of China deepened and expanded, and will discover that they can never look on the China in the Western news headlines the same way again." --Christian Science Monitor "A Village With My Name is a rich, subtle, closely observed study of the power of memory (and forgetting) to shape both a family and a nation. Tong's multigenerational tale of his remarkable clan captures all the contradictions of a China in world-changing metamorphosis."--Eric Liu, author of A Chinaman's Chance: One Family's Journey and the Chinese American Dream "A Village with My Name is a wonderful unearthing of long-forgotten but ever-important ties between America and China. It is a great reminder that our relations with China are about more than politics and have stretched farther back than many of us would realize. Besides, it's a great read!" --John Pomfret, author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, from 1776 to the Present "Tong uses a reporter's skills and dedication to track down his family's own story, traveling to such unfamiliar places as a desolate prison camp in remote northeastern China and a child trafficker's front room. The result is a vivid illustration of the high price paid by his relatives for their links with the West. Compulsively readable, this book traces China's long and difficult relationship with the outside world through the extraordinary journey of a single family." --Louisa Lim, author of The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited "In this, his first book, Scott Tong does much to revive the stocks of two genres that have been looking a bit tired lately: China reportage and China memoir. A former correspondent for the US public radio series Marketplace, he argues that the official narrative of Chinese history is frustratingly incomplete, and his gentle and original fusing of the two genres backs up his claims." --Inside Story "This ambitious work, part social and political history and part personal story, doesn't attempt to cover all the members of Tong's family. Tong instead concentrates on a few representative relatives who reveal particular facets of the vast changes in China. . . . Tong clearly communicates the complexity of Chinese life and effectively integrates his own story into a much larger one." --Booklist "This personal narrative could easily become one of bitterness; instead, Tong tells his story with humor, a little snark, lots of love, and a determination to show the dignity of his people and others he meets along the way. A charming book about a second-generation American's search for his family (past and present) and for himself in contemporary China. Highly recommended, especially for those interested in Chinese history and family journeys.: --Library Journal, starred review "He uses a radio journalist's sense for sound and place to create a vivid and readable account. . . . The book's focus on ordinary people makes it refreshingly accessible." --Financial Times
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The University of Chicago Press Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped
Book SynopsisDespite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have killed far more people in nearby China and India. What accounts for the exceptionally high survival rate? And why is it that some towns and cities in the Tohoku region have built back more quickly than others? Black Wave illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tohoku region following the 3/11 disasters and why the rebuilding process has also not moved in lockstep across the region. Individuals and communities with stronger networks and better governance, Daniel P. Aldrich shows, had higher survival rates and accelerated recoveries. Less connected communities with fewer such ties faced harder recovery processes and lower survival rates. Beyond the individual and neighborhoodTrade Review"Much has written about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that struck Japan in 2011. But few scholars can combine a deep knowledge of Japanese politics and society and a deep knowledge of contemporary research on the social response to natural and technological hazards. Aldrich is one such scholar, and this book sets the standard for scholarship in this field. The striking finding--that recovery among different communities in the most stricken areas of Japan was uneven--is likely to be of great interest to students of disasters, of technological hazards, and of contemporary Japanese politics."--Thomas A. Birkland North Carolina State University "Three disasters--an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown--struck Japan on 3/11, generating one of the greatest catastrophes in recent history. In Black Wave, Aldrich asks a series of essential questions: How did so many people survive? Why did some places fare so much better than others? What does it mean to be resilient in a world of emerging risks? His findings are surprising and important. Everyone interested in disaster--or, really, survival--should read this excellent book."--Eric Klinenberg, New York University, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Much has written about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that struck Japan in 2011. But few scholars can combine a deep knowledge of Japanese politics and society and a deep knowledge of contemporary research on the social response to natural and technological hazards. Aldrich is one such scholar, and this book sets the standard for scholarship in this field. The striking finding--that recovery among different communities in the most stricken areas of Japan was uneven--is likely to be of great interest to students of disasters, of technological hazards, and of contemporary Japanese politics."--Thomas A. Birkland, North Carolina State University "Three disasters--an earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown--struck Japan on 3/11, generating one of the greatest catastrophes in recent history. In Black Wave, Aldrich asks a series of essential questions: How did so many people survive? Why did some places fare so much better than others? What does it mean to be resilient in a world of emerging risks? His findings are surprising and important. Everyone interested in disaster--or, really, survival--should read this excellent book."--Eric Klinenberg, New York University, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Viral Economies Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam
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The University of Chicago Press Making It Up Together The Art of Collective
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tilley has written one of the most important monographs in the field of music in general, and ethnomusicology in particular, that I have encountered in the last fifty years. In my mind there is no question that in the future, scholars, students, and readers interested in music, music performance, and musical behavior in cultural context will ensure they are grounded in a study of her work and how she has framed it here." * Notes *“Both a closely argued and densely textured work on Balinese musical practices and an inter-/multi-musical exploration of collective improvisation as a process, Making It Up Together is a demonstration of and argument for music theory and analysis as a method for ethnomusicological and comparative research.” -- Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, author of "Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall" and "Monk’s Music: Thelonious Monk and Jazz History in the Making"“In this innovative book, Tilley employs two Balinese gamelan-based case studies as the basis of a broadly cross-cultural examination of collective musical improvisation. This is highly original work that importantly expands the scope of research on gamelan, cross-cultural improvisation, ethnomusicology, and analytical approaches to world music. A game-changer!” -- Michael B. Bakan, Florida State University, author of "Speaking for Ourselves: Conversations on Life, Music, and Autism" and "Music of Death and New Creation: Experiences in the World of Balinese Gamelan Beleganjur"Table of ContentsNotes on Pronunciation Prelude 1 The Complicated Story of Improvisation: Models and Methods, Creativity and Conceptual Space 2 Finding an Unspoken Model: The Boundaries of Reyong Norot 3 Analyzing Improvisations on a Known Model: The Freedom of Reyong Norot 4 Analyzing Collectivity: Models and Interactions in Practice 5 Unraveling Unconscious Models: The Boundaries of Kendang Arja 6 Beyond Generalizations: The Freedom of Kendang Arja Postlude Acknowledgments Glossary of Frequently Used Terms Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Making It Up Together
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The University of Chicago Press Importing the European Army The Introduction of
Book SynopsisThis study, extending well beyond military history, documents the ways in which five different countries - Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan - refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600.
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The University of Chicago Press Islam Translated
Book SynopsisIn Islam Translated, the author uses the Book of One Thousand Questions as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. This book examines the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms.Trade Review"This book helps us to understand, better than any other work I know, the differing ways in which Arabic and Arabic writings moved into other literatures. A fascinating book that will appeal widely to anyone concerned with translation in its historical and cultural contexts." (Michael Gilsenan, New York University)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Crafting of the 10000 Things
Book SynopsisThe last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw major advances in knowledge and technology. This title sheds light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history.
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The University of Chicago Press Gathering Medicines Nation and Knowledge in
Book SynopsisIn the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of southern China. Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority nationality groups in China's southern mountains, observing how medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified. Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.Trade Review"Gathering Medicines offers important empirical, conceptual, and methodological insights into what it means to practice and theorize medicine within the geographical borders of the People’s Republic of China today." * Isis *"A well-written account of often-charming, sometimes moving encounters with healers diligently trying to record disappearing ways of knowing and curing sickness. Ideal for anyone interested in history and local traditions of medicine in China." * Choice Connect *"Gathering Medicines offers an immensely valuable and sensitive account of health and medical practices in regions that have rarely been explored in academic literature." * Asian Medicine *“In Gathering Medicines, Farquhar and Lai offer a remarkably wide range of observations and reflections on the anthropology and history of medicine as a living social practice in southern China. They weave into their discussion a fascinating array of life histories and object narratives, a rich assortment of institutional sites and both textual and nonliterate practices, and an abundance of self-critical reflections on methodology and meaning. This is a major, pathbreaking piece of scholarship, indicative of the highest-quality research and analysis.” * David Arnold, University of Warwick *“Gathering Medicines is an ethnography of epistemology at its best. Unpacking words and things, collecting and feeling plants, the authors thread relentlessly through depth and density to craft their book, a multidimensional object at its core.” * Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis *“Experienced anthropologists Farquhar and Lai have written a philosophically sophisticated ethnography of today’s China caught in the act of constructing ‘minority nationality medicines,’ a set of complex, always changing, social, and epistemological things.” * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 Institution Chapter 2 Knowledge Chapter 3 Bodies Chapter 4 Plants Chapter 5 Encounters Conclusions, and Then Some . . . Acknowledgments Appendix: The Emphasis on “Three Ways and Two Roads” in Zhuang Medicine and Pharmacy Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Gathering Medicines Nation and Knowledge in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Gathering Medicines offers important empirical, conceptual, and methodological insights into what it means to practice and theorize medicine within the geographical borders of the People’s Republic of China today." * Isis *"A well-written account of often-charming, sometimes moving encounters with healers diligently trying to record disappearing ways of knowing and curing sickness. Ideal for anyone interested in history and local traditions of medicine in China." * Choice Connect *"Gathering Medicines offers an immensely valuable and sensitive account of health and medical practices in regions that have rarely been explored in academic literature." * Asian Medicine *“In Gathering Medicines, Farquhar and Lai offer a remarkably wide range of observations and reflections on the anthropology and history of medicine as a living social practice in southern China. They weave into their discussion a fascinating array of life histories and object narratives, a rich assortment of institutional sites and both textual and nonliterate practices, and an abundance of self-critical reflections on methodology and meaning. This is a major, pathbreaking piece of scholarship, indicative of the highest-quality research and analysis.” * David Arnold, University of Warwick *“Gathering Medicines is an ethnography of epistemology at its best. Unpacking words and things, collecting and feeling plants, the authors thread relentlessly through depth and density to craft their book, a multidimensional object at its core.” * Marisol de la Cadena, University of California, Davis *“Experienced anthropologists Farquhar and Lai have written a philosophically sophisticated ethnography of today’s China caught in the act of constructing ‘minority nationality medicines,’ a set of complex, always changing, social, and epistemological things.” * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1 Institution Chapter 2 Knowledge Chapter 3 Bodies Chapter 4 Plants Chapter 5 Encounters Conclusions, and Then Some . . . Acknowledgments Appendix: The Emphasis on “Three Ways and Two Roads” in Zhuang Medicine and Pharmacy Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Buddhas Tooth
Book SynopsisJohn S. Strong unravels the storm of influences shaping the received narratives of two iconic sacred objects. Bodily relics such as hairs, teeth, fingernails, pieces of bonesupposedly from the Buddha himselfhave long served as objects of veneration for many Buddhists. Unsurprisingly, when Western colonial powers subjugated populations in South Asia, they used, manipulated, redefined, and even destroyed these objects to exert control. In The Buddha's Tooth, John S. Strong examines Western stories, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, surrounding two significant Sri Lankan sacred objects to illuminate and concretize colonial attitudes toward Asian religions. First, he analyzes a tale about the Portuguese capture and public destruction, in the mid-sixteenth century, of a tooth later identified as a relic of the Buddha. Second, he switches gears to look at the nineteenth-century saga of British dealings with another tooth relic of the Buddhathe famous Da?ada enshrined in a teTrade Review"Strong marshals a wide range of sources and tells the story of the tooth relic in a compelling way . . . This is not just the story of a relic, but of western colonization and its appropriation or destruction of the traditions of the colonized." * Times Literary Supplement *"Strong [reveals] what the stories surrounding these two objects—their “storical evolution,” as it were—tell us about the West’s evolving concept of Buddhism after its initial colonial encounter and the way objects are infused with meaning, potency, and cultural import through centuries of narrative layering." * Buddhadharma *"Likely to give mythological thrillers a run for their money . . . The Buddha’s Tooth is an insightful book for those interested in world history, mediaeval times, Buddhist Studies, and for those interested in how stories spread and make histories." * Asian Review of Books *"A fascinating and eminently readable account of Western encounters with the Buddha's tooth . . . The Buddha's Tooth offers a richly detailed study incorporating extensive primary source research, including information drawn from published historical accounts, travel diaries, administrative records, and personal correspondence." * Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief *“Artfully conceived and elegantly written . . . This is a masterful work, one that brilliantly orchestrates a plethora of compelling historical particularities and telling details while also bringing into focus several original interpretive perspectives and analytical insights. . . . This is a work that deserves and will undoubtedly attract a wide readership across several academic disciplines.” * Journal of Religion *"[An] outstanding piece of scholarship, exhaustively researched and beautifully written. . . . It is the rare book that can be read with benefit and interest by anyone working in any area of Buddhist Studies as well as by scholars of colonial-period South Asia.” * The Numata Center for Buddhist Studies *“Insightful, provocative, and meticulously researched, The Buddha’s Tooth is a fascinating analysis of how European colonials comprehended and attempted to mitigate the ascribed powers of the most revered relic in Buddhist Sri Lanka. Strong’s intricate study leads its reader from an episodic rendering into a wide-ranging apprehension of how European conceptions of Buddhism were fashioned and further forged over four hundred years of encounter.” * John Holt, Bowdoin College *“The product of extensive research, this authoritative book recounts how this sacred tooth has served as an object of religious and political significance to both the colonized and colonizers, adroitly illustrating many of the dominant Western approaches and attitudes toward Buddhism over the last several centuries.” * Stephen C. Berkwitz, Missouri State University *“Strong offers a stimulating and perceptive study of how European and British persons engaged with Buddha relics materially and ideationally. This is a valuable contribution to intellectual and diplomatic history, as well as to our understanding of how European ideas about Buddhas and Buddhism altered over time.” * Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University *"John S. Strongʼs The Buddhaʼs Tooth: Western Tales of a Sri Lankan Relic expands the study of Buddhist relics in new directions. . . Employing a historiography focused on details, he avoids leveling out the history of these relics into a single uniform line of events. . . By reflecting the complexity of historical reality, the work is made richer, and more informative." * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Note on Usage Introduction Part I : The Portuguese and the Tooth Relic One / The Tale of the Portuguese Tooth and Its Sources Two / Where the Tooth Was Found: Traditions about the Location of the Relic in Sri Lanka Three / Whose Tooth Was It? Traditions about the Identity of the Relic Four / The Trial of the Tooth Five / The Destruction of the Tooth Conspectus of Part One / The Storical Evolution of the Tales of the Portuguese Tooth Part II : The British and the Tooth Relic Six / The Cosmopolitan Tooth: The Relic in Kandy before the British Became Aware of It Seven / The British Takeover of 1815 and the Kandyan Convention Eight / The Relic Returns: The Tooth and Its Properties Restored to the Temple Nine / The Relic Lost and Recaptured: The Tooth and the Rebellion of 1817–1818 Ten / The Relic Disestablished: Missionary Oppositions to the Tooth Eleven / Showings of the Tooth: The Story of the King of Siam’s Visit (1897) Twelve / Showings of the Tooth: The Story of Queen Elizabeth’s Shoes (1954) Summary and Conclusion References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Contested Crown
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reflecting on the repatriation of cultural property, this study covers disputed objects from the differing perspectives of ownership on the part of European museums in Austria, the UK, France, and Germany that currently hold cultural artifacts originally taken from Mexico. . . . Carroll reflects on the controversial five-centuries-long history in Mexico and Austria of El Penacho, the titular contested crown, believed to have belonged to Aztec Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin. . . . The study concludes with an analysis of the ethics of keeping artifacts in museums in the future." * Choice *"The Contested Crown is a beautifully written and engaging work, effectively weaving together family history, colonial studies, museum politics, conservation dilemmas, national agendas, and personal reflections. Carroll situates the book in a global art history while also considering a psychological dimension of the protagonists’ feelings, from guilt to intimacy.” -- Sally Price, author of Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly“I urge you to spend some time with The Contested Crown—an original, personal, and creative insight into the repatriation debate from someone uniquely placed to comment. The book invites us all to situate ourselves within a story that has deep historical roots and casts long shadows on all of our lives.” -- Charlotte Joy, author of Heritage JusticeTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Writing as Listening Chapter 2: El Penacho Chapter 3: The View from the Vitrine Chapter 4: The Real and the Replica Chapter 5: Collecting and Catastrophe Chapter 6: Monuments and Exile Chapter 7: Relational Ethics and the Future of Museums Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Gas Mask Nation
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan. Yet amid these emblems of anxiety, tasty caramels were offered to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashion to futuristic weapons. Gas Mask Nation explores the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable visual culture of Japanese civil air defenseor bokuthrough a diverse range of artworks, photographs, films and newsreels, magazine illustrations, postcards, cartoons, advertising, fashion, everyday goods, government posters, and state propaganda. Gennifer Weisenfeld reveals the immersive aspects of this culture, in which Japan's imperial subjects were mobilized to regularly perform highly orchestrated civil air defense drills throughout the country. The war years in Japan are often portrayTrade Review"Gas Mask Nation is a formidable visual document with well over one hundred high-quality color and black and white images. Taken together, they encompass a dizzying array of visual culture and media formats . . . . Weisenfeld’s survey of this complex terrain is clear, authoritative, and accessible, and suitable for undergraduates through professional scholars. The layout of the book is an evident strength. The entire book is richly packed with diverse artifacts of bōkū culture from the 1930s and 1940s, and Weisenfeld takes care to provide nuanced explanations of the relevant Japanese cultural context and terminology. Gas Mask Nation is an important addition to any academic library and an indispensable and fascinating read for anyone eager to learn more about the Japanese experience during World War II." * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Focusing on the fascinating cultural effects and (by)products of civil air defense in interwar and wartime Japan, art historian Weisenfeld’s superb study Gas Mask Nation investigates the unintended, and sometimes, surprising aspects of a culture of air defense that soon developed its own unique esthetics by the mid-1930s. . . . Gas Mask Nation is an excellently researched, fascinating study of an aspect of imperial Japan’s wartime era that additionally connects with broader themes in scholarly investigations of the Second World War. Readers familiar with the author’s vivid prose and razor-sharp scholarship will be delighted that another one of her engaging and beautifully-illustrated works is available." * History: Review of New Books *"If it’s true that a picture is worth a thousand words, then this illustrated volume tells the stories of an entire generation of Japanese citizens with humor and nuance that will surprise and fascinate readers." * Wesleyan Connection *“Weisenfeld brilliantly explores the overlooked creativity, humor, pleasure, desire, and play in Japan’s wartime culture. Her astute and original work opens up new ways of thinking about how we can productively revisit what we think we know about Japan’s wartime culture, expanding our understanding beyond reductionist views of the familiar tropes of sacrifice and aggression, toward a view that takes a sophisticated and nuanced position on the social mobilization of Japanese citizens.” -- David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head and Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums“This is a marvelous, smartly-written, and utterly fascinating study about the global culture of air defense in Japan. Full of beautiful, well-chosen images and original, razor-sharp insights, Gas Mask Nation makes a powerful and important contribution to our understanding of how Japanese society transitioned to a total war footing in the 1930s and early 1940s through the prism of air defense. Weisenfeld demonstrates that Japanese fears, anticipation, and even enchantment of aerial bombardment transformed ideas about gender, consumption, aesthetics, and desire. An essential read for anyone interested in the Japanese experience of World War II.” -- Benjamin Uchiyama, University of Southern California"Book titles often exaggerate the meaning of the volume they refer to. In the case of Weisenfeld’s investigation of Japan’s decades-long propaganda about aerial war, Visualizing Air Civil Defense is an understatement. Her enquiry unveils not only the massive communication campaigns which prepared the Japanese population to war, but also the multilayered strategies which unfolded at the time. Thousands of miles away, unexpected echoes of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's 'Aerial architecture' abound in this masterful undertaking." -- Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts/New York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Selling and Consuming Total War 2 Aviation and Japan’s Aerial Imaginary 3 Gas Mask Parade 4 Bombs Away! 5 Wondrous Weapons and Future War 6 Exhibiting Air Defense Epilogue: Afterimages Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Nominal Things
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Nominal Things is a groundbreaking philosophical study of medieval Chinese ritual vessels. It makes clear why such objects were of central cultural importance at the time and why their history should be anything but marginalized in contemporary literary and visual theory. Questioning the value of Western art historical concepts such as representation, Moser devises a new theoretical framework that follows the medieval Confucian discourse on illustrated lexicographic texts and the interpretation of classical bronzes.” -- François Louis, Bard Graduate Center“This is an elegantly argued, well-written, and quite brilliant book. Moser marshals the full panoply of advanced critical methods in the contemporary humanities while engaging with a significant phenomenon in Chinese history: the revival of interest in antiquity during the Song period. Nominal Things is unquestionably a remarkable achievement.” -- Lothar von Falkenhausen, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Conundrum of the Chalice Making Facture Sensible A Tale of Three Modes On the Matter of Antiquarianism Part I. The Lexical Picture 1. Names as Implements Nature as Convention The Revelation of Writing 2. Picturing Names The Complexity of Yellow The Art of Restoration The Hermeneutics of Picturing Monumental Designs Part II. The Empirical Impression 3. The Style of Antiquity Empty Seats and Wandering Ways Trunks and Branches Past as Present The Fragility of Stone The Failure of Confucius 4. Agents of Change Erasure and Its Discontents The Pacification of Huaixi Recarving a Stele The Reassuring Trace The Indexical Hermeneutic Bronzes as Indexical Things 5: Nominal Empiricism Conversing with Things The Sparrow in the Cup How the Bell Tolls Part III. The Schematic Thing 6: Substance into Schema Two into One The Novelty of Antiquity Bronzes as Schemata 7: Nominal Casting Facture after Failure Conclusion Acknowledgments Chinese Texts Glossary Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press The News Event Popular Sovereignty in the Age of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is the first major ethnographic study of the way in which the mobilization of a public is now carried out in India primarily through the new digitally powered mass media. From populist politics, court judgments, sensational crime and corruption to police brutality, Cody examines with brilliant clarity and theoretical sophistication the coming together of publics as well as counterpublics in Tamil Nadu.” * Partha Chatterjee, professor emeritus, Columbia University *“In this fascinating study, Cody shows how popular sovereignty is shaped within the media-saturated environment of Tamil Nadu politics, making sovereign power vulnerable to popular politics generated by the fact of the ‘news event’ and its circulation. His unraveling of the boundaries between online and offline communicative acts, the virtual and the actual, or the old media and new media, is accomplished with great sensitivity and attention to the empirical, which provides the grounds for the conceptual to emerge. A splendid achievement.” * Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Event of News Chapter One Populist Publics Chapter Two Defamation Machine Chapter Three Law at Large Chapter Four Celebrity Outlaws Chapter Five Short Circuits Epilogue: Environmental Engineering Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press When Death Falls Apart
Book SynopsisThrough an ethnographic study inside Japan's Buddhist goods industry, this book establishes a method for understanding change in death ritual through attention to the dynamic lifecourse of necromaterials. Deep in the Fukuyama mountainside, the grave of the graves (o-haka no haka) houses acres of unwanted headstonesthe material remains of Japan's discarded death rites. In the past, the Japanese dead became venerated ancestors through sustained ritual offerings at graves and at butsudan, Buddhist altars installed inside the home. But in twenty-first-century Japan, this intergenerational system of care is rapidly collapsing. In noisy carpentry studios, flashy funeral-goods showrooms, neglected cemeteries, and cramped kitchens where women prepare memorial feasts, Hannah Gould analyzes the lifecycle of butsudan, illuminating how they are made, circulate through religious and funerary economies, mediate intimate exchanges between the living and the dead, andas the population ages, famTrade Review“From graves for abandoned gravestones to the craft and care by which workers tend to butsudan still today, this book is an electrifying read. Ethnographically intimate, analytically astute, and refreshingly clear, When Death Falls Apart brilliantly tracks both the challenges and attachments to necro-care as once practiced and getting recrafted today.” * Anne Allison, author of Being Dead Otherwise *“When Death Falls Apart is well-crafted and thoughtful, and it significantly advances scholarship on death studies. At the same time, Gould’s excellent study is a model for rich anthropological description of particular people, places, and objects that challenge the reader to think about other places, other deaths, and other bodies.” * S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5½ Objects *Table of ContentsTextual Conventions Introduction: The Stuff of Death and the Death of Stuff 1. Crafting 2. Retail 3. Practice 4. Disposal 5. Remaking Conclusion: When Death Falls Apart Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Ryukyu Islands
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University of Chicago Press The Neighborhood
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The University of Chicago Press Peasant Uprisings in Japan A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisCombining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.
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The University of Chicago Press Illustrated Human Anatomy The Authoritative
Book SynopsisIn 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and over 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. This work examines the question of what their action meant and its significance in contemporary Klungkung.
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The University of Chicago Press Everyday Technology
Book SynopsisAn account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India.
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The University of Chicago Press The Power of Tiananmen StateSociety the 1989 Beijing Student Movement StateSociety Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
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The University of Chicago Press Of Body and Brush Grand Sacrifice as
Book SynopsisThe Qianlong emperor, who dominated religious and political life in China, was ruled by elaborate ritual prescriptions, which determined his dress and behaviour, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. This text analyzes how ritualizing power was shared by the throne and the literati.
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Columbia University Press Before the Revolution Vietnamese Peasants Under
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Columbia University Press The Cold War on the Periphery
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Columbia University Press Courtier Commoner in Ancient China Paper
Book SynopsisPan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D.Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial princes, generals, officials, and some lesser figures.
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Columbia University Press Chinas Road to the Korean War
Book SynopsisThrough the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings, this book aims to discover China and the USSR's roles in the outbreak of the Korean conflict.Trade ReviewSince 1950, Western military planners, journalists, and scholars have tried to determine the role of China and the Soviet Union in the outbreak of the Korean conflict. Through the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and in-depth interviews with people who were present at key decision-making meetings, Chen Jian has been able to furnish answers to some of the most nagging questions. Choice Chen's China's Road to the Korean War... is the most carefully researched and seriously argued discussion of the subject. -- Warren I. Cohen The NationTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Abbreviations Map of China Map of Korea and China's NortheastIntroductionPart One. The Emergence of a Revolutionary Power1. Revolutionary Commitments and Security Concerns: New China Faces the WorldPart Two. Friends and Enemies: A Stage Set for Confrontation2. The Recognition Controversy: The Origins of the Sino-American Confrontation 3. "Learning to One Side": The Formation of the Sino-Soviet Alliance 4. Taiwan, Indochina, and Korea: Beijing's Confrontation with the U.S. EscalatesPart Three. The Road to Intervention5. Beijing's Response to the Outbreak of the Korean War 6. After Inchon: The Making of the Decision 7. The Decision Stands the Test: China Crosses the YaluConclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press One Day Too Long Top Secret Site 85 The Bombing
Book SynopsisTells the story of the courageous men who agreed to put their lives in danger to perform a critical mission in which they could not be officially acknowledged. This book chronicles the communist air attack on Site 85, the only such aerial bombing of the entire Vietnam War.Trade ReviewCastle's suspenseful writing style and dogged tenacity penetrate the decades-long US government efforts to hide this shameful event. This authoritative account is also a refreshing departure from the all-too-common practice of describing dubious adventures without documenting sources. -- Colonel Michael E. Haas Military Review Informative, exciting, and sympathetic. -- Chris Pastilelis Houston Chronicle An excellent work that will surely provoke discussion and debate. Many historians will welcome the research into this previously little known area of the Vietnam War. Others will appreciate the author's exposure of what he claims to be government cover-up. Finally, no one will be able to resist the compelling description of a widow who takes on the callous bureaucracy to discover the truth behind her husband's disappearance in Laos The Journal of Military History Part of the fascination of Castle's book comes from the odyssey he and the families [of the missing men] took inside the ludicrous world of top-secret military information. -- Steve Weinberg The Seattle Times A combination of history, analysis, investigative journalism, and personal crusade focusing on the fate of nine U.S. Air Force personnel missing in action in Laos. The VVA Veteran An almost perfect example of investigative history not falling over into 'gotcha' journalism. -- Roland Green A. L. A. Booklist An invaluable book about one important incident in the secret war in Laos in 1968 that appears at a most opportune time. -- Anthony Day Los Angeles TimesTable of Contents1. Sustained Reprisal 2. "I Wonder If It Is Worth It" 3. Heavy Green 4. "Commando Club" 5. Sowing the Wind, Reaping the Whirlwind 6. Folly at Nam Bac 7. The Heights of Abraham 8. Imminent Threat 9. "Everything to Defeat the U.S. Aggressors." 10. "One Day Too Long" 11. Deniability 12. Oath of Secrecy 13. An End and a Beginning 14. "The Highest National Priority" 15. Return to the Mountain 16. Hanoi 17. Conclusions
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Columbia University Press Sources of Korean Tradition
Book SynopsisDrawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume One, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korean from ancient times through the sixteenth century.Trade ReviewA monumental accomplishment. Korean Studies Beginning scholars of Asian Studies...will find this a challenging but worthwhile book to read. Korean QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface Explanatory Note Contributors Part I. Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla 1. Origins of korean culture 2. The Rise of the Three Kingdoms 3. The Introduction of Buddhism 4. Consolidation of the State 5. The Rise of Buddhism 6. Poetry and Song 7. Local Clans and the Rise of the Meditation School Part II. Koryo Introduction 8. Early Koryo Political Structure 9. Koryo Society 10. Military Rule and Late Koryo Reform 11. Buddhism: The Ch'ont'ae and Chogye Schools 12. Popular Beliefs and Confucianists Part III. Early Choson Introduction 13. Founding the Choson Dynasty 14. Political Thought in Early Choson 15. Culture 16. Social Life 17. Economy 18. Thought 19. Buddhism Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Sources of Chinese Tradition From Earliest Times
Book SynopsisA collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers.Table of ContentsPart 1. The Chinese Tradition in Antiquity 1. The Oracle-Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty, by David N. Keightley 2. Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition, by Burton Watson, David S. Nivison, Irene Bloom 3. Confucius and the Analects, by Irene Bloom 4. Mozi: Utilitarianism, Uniformity, and Universal Love, by Burton Watson 5. The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi 6. The Evolution of the Confucian Tradition in Antiquity 7. Legalists and Militarists Part 2. The Making of a Classical Culture 8. The Han Reaction to Qin Despotism 9. Syncretic Visions of State, Society, and Cosmos, by Harold Roth, Sarah Queen, Nathan Sivin 10. The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses 11. The Economic Order, by Burton Watson, Wm. Theodore deBary 12. The Great Han Historians, by Burton Watson Part 3. Later Daoism and Mahyana Buddhism in China 13. Learning of the Mysterious, by Richard John Lynn, Wing-tsit Chan, Irene Bloom 14. Daoist Religion, by Franciscus Verellen, Nathan Sivin, et al. 15. The Introduction of Buddhism, by Leon Hurvitz, Tsai Heng-ting 16. Schools of Buddhist Doctrine, by Leon Hurvitz, Burton Watson, Daniel Stevenson, George Tanabe, Wing-Tsit Chan 17. Schools of Buddhist Practice, by Leon Hurvitz, Daniel Stevenson, Philip B. Yampolsky, Chun-fang Yu Part 4. The Confucian Revival and Neo-Confucianism Social Life and Political Culture in the Tang The Confucian Revival in the Song Neo-Confucianism: The Philosophy of Human Nature and the Way of the Sage Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian Program, by Wm. Theodore deBary Ideological Foundations of Late Imperial China, by Wm. Theodore deBary, Edward Farmer, John Dardess Neo-Confucian Education, by Wm. Thedore deBary Self and Society in the Ming Glossary Bibliography Pinyin to Wade-Giles Romanization Chart Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to Modern Japanese History
Book SynopsisThe first all-inclusive, single-volume guide to the history of modern Japan-conveniently divided into easy-to-use sections that provide a narrative, topical compendium, resource guide, and selected documentsTrade ReviewThis is a very good book... [Allinson's] historical narrative is excellent. It is spare in the trivia that hinder general readers, and rich in analysis and interpretation. -- Louis G. Perez Journal of Asian History In the Columbia Guide, Gary Allinson has given us an innovative and reliable narrative and usable reference tools for Japan's modern history. It has practical value as an introduction to the study of Japan and as a reference volume for Japanologists. -- Thomas W. Burkman The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsI: Historical Narrative 1. Preserving Autonomy, 1850--1889 2. Integrating the Nation, 1890--1931 3. Fighting for Development, 1932--1973 4. Adapting to Affluence, 1974--Present II: Topical Compendium 1. Japan 2. Emperors 3. Political Leaders 4. Military Leaders 5. Business Leaders 6. Business Associations, Enterprises, and Firms 7. Bureaucracy 8. State-Guided Organizations 9. Political Parties 10. Opposition Movements 11. Education 12. Male Writers 13. Female Writers III: Resource Guide 1. Printed Resources 2. Visual Resources 3. Electronic Resources
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Columbia University Press Buddhism in Chinese Society
Book SynopsisFirst published in French in 1956, this classic work integrates the study of Buddhist doctrine with that of Chinese society from the fifth to the tenth centuries.Trade ReviewThis work will remain one of this century's classic histories of China. Gernet's account of Buddhism is sobering. Journal of Asian Studies This is perhaps the greatest contribution of Gernet's work: he demonstrates through the skilled use of a dazzling variety of literary evidence the complexity of the interchange between Buddhism and Chinese society. China Review International This is an analysis of Buddhist practice within its socio-economic context and still one of the best examples of Chinese social history in any discipline in forty years. For new generations of researchers, the forty years' wait [for the English translation] has been worth it. China Review The value of this book is its translations of primary sources and its salutary reminder of the importance of economic motivations and activities in the history of Chinese Buddhism. Pacific Affairs
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Columbia University Press The Tet Offensive
Book SynopsisIn the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. This work claims Hanoi won a strategic victory. It begins with a historical overview of the events leading up to the offensive, the attack itself, and the consequent battles of Saigon, Hue, and Khe Sahn.Trade ReviewAn excellent supplementary text for college and university courses. Library Journal A careful and judicious evaluation... Students especially will find this invaluable. -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs The Tet Offensive will be of great value to military professionals, historians, and Vietnam veterans. -- Col. Gordon W. Keiser, U.S. Marine Corps Proceedings [A] well-written, and helpful reference... The Tet Offensive is enjoyable reading and an important new addition. -- MAJ John M. Hawkins Military Review Thorough... An excellent work worthy of inclusion in collections of studies on the Vietnam War. -- Larry K. Burke The Journal of Military History Without a doubt, this work will become the initial resource that student and historians alike will pull off the shelf to comprehend this seminal military event... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Maps AbbreviationsPart I Historical OverviewChapter 1. PreludeAmerican Public Opinion Public Relations and Westmoreland's Optimism Troop Disposition The Communist Decision to Conduct the Offensive The Plan Preparing for the OffensiveChapter 2. Border Battles, Hill Fights, and Khe SanhKhe Sanh The Hill Fights Operation Niagara The Siege of Khe Sanh BeginsChapter 3. The Tet OffensiveThe Offensive Begins The Battle for Saigon The Battle at the U.S. Embasssy Attacks Around the City The Battle of Cholon TEt CountrywideChapter 4. The Battle for HueThe Battle Begins The Marines Respond Fighting in the New City The Fight for the CitadelChapter 5. The Siege of Khe SanhThe Fall of Lang Vei Resupplying the Marines Tactical Air Support A New Attack Lifting the SiegeChapter 6. The Impact of the Tet OffensivePolitical Fallout The Request for Additional Troops The New Hampshire Primary The Presidential Election of 1968Chapter 7. Assessing the Tet OffensivePart II Issues and InterpretationsChapter 8. Motivations and Objectives of the Tet OffensiveChapter 9. Military Intelligence and the Surprise at TetChapter 10. What Happened at Hue?Chapter 11. Why Khe Sanh?Chapter 12. Tet and the MediaChapter 13. Tet and the American Military StrategyNotesPart III Chronology, 1967-68Part IV The Tet Offensive A to ZPart V DocumentsPresident Johnson's "San Antonio Formula" Speech of September 29, 1967Directive on Forthcoming Offensive and Uprisings, Priovincial Party Standing Committee, 1 November 1967Capabilities of the Vietnamese Communists for Fighting in South Vietnam, November 13, 1967 (Extract)Address by Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C. Westmoreland, November 21, 1967 (Extract)"Saigon Under Fire," CBS News Special Report, January 31, 1968Memorandum from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler for the President, February 12, 1968 (Extract)Walter Cronkite's "We are Mired in Stalemate" CBS News Broadcast, February 27, 1968Report of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler on the Situation in Vietnam and MACV Force Requirements, February 27. 1968 (Extract)Summary of Notes from March 26, 1968, Meeting Between President Lyndon Johnson and the Wise MenPresident Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing His Decision Not to Seek Reelection, March 31, 1968Part VI ResourcesGeneral WorksEncyclopedias, Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Guides, and Atlases General Histories, Anthologies Biographies Memoirs Vietnamese Perspectives Oral Histories Document CollectionsLyndon Johnson and the WarThe Tet OffensiveThe Battle of HueThe Siege of Khe SanhThe Hill Fights and Border BattlesPresident Lyndon Johnson and the MediaMilitary Intelligence and TetU.S. Strategy in VietnamCombat After-action Reports and Command HistoriesMicrofilm/MicroficheDocumentary FilmsElectronic ResourcesWeb Sites CD-ROMsArchives and LibrariesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Tet Offensive
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent supplementary text for college and university courses. Library Journal A careful and judicious evaluation... Students especially will find this invaluable. -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs The Tet Offensive will be of great value to military professionals, historians, and Vietnam veterans. -- Col. Gordon W. Keiser, U.S. Marine Corps Proceedings [A] well-written, and helpful reference... The Tet Offensive is enjoyable reading and an important new addition. -- MAJ John M. Hawkins Military Review Thorough... An excellent work worthy of inclusion in collections of studies on the Vietnam War. -- Larry K. Burke The Journal of Military History Without a doubt, this work will become the initial resource that student and historians alike will pull off the shelf to comprehend this seminal military event... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Maps AbbreviationsPart I Historical OverviewChapter 1. PreludeAmerican Public Opinion Public Relations and Westmoreland's Optimism Troop Disposition The Communist Decision to Conduct the Offensive The Plan Preparing for the OffensiveChapter 2. Border Battles, Hill Fights, and Khe SanhKhe Sanh The Hill Fights Operation Niagara The Siege of Khe Sanh BeginsChapter 3. The Tet OffensiveThe Offensive Begins The Battle for Saigon The Battle at the U.S. Embasssy Attacks Around the City The Battle of Cholon TEt CountrywideChapter 4. The Battle for HueThe Battle Begins The Marines Respond Fighting in the New City The Fight for the CitadelChapter 5. The Siege of Khe SanhThe Fall of Lang Vei Resupplying the Marines Tactical Air Support A New Attack Lifting the SiegeChapter 6. The Impact of the Tet OffensivePolitical Fallout The Request for Additional Troops The New Hampshire Primary The Presidential Election of 1968Chapter 7. Assessing the Tet OffensivePart II Issues and InterpretationsChapter 8. Motivations and Objectives of the Tet OffensiveChapter 9. Military Intelligence and the Surprise at TetChapter 10. What Happened at Hue?Chapter 11. Why Khe Sanh?Chapter 12. Tet and the MediaChapter 13. Tet and the American Military StrategyNotesPart III Chronology, 1967-68Part IV The Tet Offensive A to ZPart V DocumentsPresident Johnson's "San Antonio Formula" Speech of September 29, 1967Directive on Forthcoming Offensive and Uprisings, Priovincial Party Standing Committee, 1 November 1967Capabilities of the Vietnamese Communists for Fighting in South Vietnam, November 13, 1967 (Extract)Address by Commander of U.S. Forces in Vietnam, General William C. Westmoreland, November 21, 1967 (Extract)"Saigon Under Fire," CBS News Special Report, January 31, 1968Memorandum from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler for the President, February 12, 1968 (Extract)Walter Cronkite's "We are Mired in Stalemate" CBS News Broadcast, February 27, 1968Report of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle G. Wheeler on the Situation in Vietnam and MACV Force Requirements, February 27. 1968 (Extract)Summary of Notes from March 26, 1968, Meeting Between President Lyndon Johnson and the Wise MenPresident Johnson's Address to the Nation Announcing His Decision Not to Seek Reelection, March 31, 1968Part VI ResourcesGeneral WorksEncyclopedias, Bibliographies, Dictionaries, Guides, and Atlases General Histories, Anthologies Biographies Memoirs Vietnamese Perspectives Oral Histories Document CollectionsLyndon Johnson and the WarThe Tet OffensiveThe Battle of HueThe Siege of Khe SanhThe Hill Fights and Border BattlesPresident Lyndon Johnson and the MediaMilitary Intelligence and TetU.S. Strategy in VietnamCombat After-action Reports and Command HistoriesMicrofilm/MicroficheDocumentary FilmsElectronic ResourcesWeb Sites CD-ROMsArchives and LibrariesIndex
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Columbia University Press The Columbia History of the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] brilliantly edited anthology featuring a wide variety of essays by the finest experts in the field... Essential. Choice An accessible and coherent account of the war's course, from before the United States' involvement to the North's eventual victory. -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs Essential reading. Masterfully written by the most prominent authorities on the Vietnam War. -- Shelton Woods Journal of World History A timely book with contemporary relevance, published at a time when America's experience in Vietnam continues to figure prominently in discussions about strategy and defense... Highly recommended. -- James H. Willbanks Parameters The major attraction of this volume is its winning combination of accessibility, authority, and intellectual depth. The editor should be congratulated for assembling a collection that should appeal across a wide spectrum of readers, from advanced college students to those with more expert knowledge on the war, who are looking for fresh insight or a cogent summary of an extensive literature. -- Matthew Jones Journal of American History David Anderson and Columbia University Press have published an important addition to Vietnam War literature. It is strongly recommended for all scholars and students of the Vietnam War and should be included in all academic libraries with an interest in this area. -- Peter Bush The Journal of Military History [An] invaluable study. The Scotsman With its sterling lineup of scholars, The Columbia History provides keen insights into the history of the war in Vietnam that are accessible to a broad readership and informative we grapple with current wars. -- R.V. Lee Vietnam The invaluable Columbia History of the Vietnam War offers cautionary lessons even as our nation fights three wars and continues planning for and spending enormous amounts for our inevitable future wars. -- Murray Polner History News NetworkTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Introduction: The Vietnam War and Its Enduring Historical Relevance David L. Anderson Part I. Chronological Perspectives 1. Setting the Stage: Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War, by Mark Philip Bradley 2. "Dealing with a Government of Madmen": Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Ngo Dinh Diem, by Richard H. Immerman 3. South Vietnam Under Siege, 1961-1965: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Question of Escalation or Disengagement, by Gary R. Hess 4. Lyndon Johnson and the Bombing of Vietnam: Politics and Military Choices, by Lloyd C. Gardner 5. Turning Point: The Vietnam War's Pivotal Year, November 1967-November 1968, by Robert J. McMahon 6. Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War: The Paradox of Disengagement with Escalation, by Jeffrey P. Kimball Part II. Topical Perspectives 7. American Strategy in the Vietnam War, by John Prados 8. The Village War in Vietnam, 1965-1973, by Eric Bergerud 9. Fighting for Family: Vietnamese Women and the American War, by Helen E. Anderson 10. Vietnamese Society at War, by Robert K. Brigham 11. "Hey, Hey, LBJ!": American Domestic Politics and the Vietnam War, by Melvin Small 12. Cambodia and Laos in the Vietnam War, by Kenton Clymer Part III. Postwar Perspectives 13. The Legacy of the Vietnam War, by Robert D. Schulzinger 14. The Vietnam Syndrome, by George C. Herring List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Dangerous Strait
Book SynopsisFeatures essays by scholars and practitioners in the arena of US-Taiwan-Chinese relations. This book clarifies historical developments, examines myths about past and present policies, and assesses issues facing policymakers. It examines a variety of issues, including the movement for independence and its place in Taiwanese domestic politics.Trade ReviewDangerous Strait is an outstanding book, uniquely authoritative and uniquely sober and careful in all its assertions. -- Bradley Winterton Taipei Times The contributors successfully explain the historical evolution of the cross-strait situation and provide solid analysis of the complex relations. -- Lucian W. Pye Foreign Affairs This is a very good and useful book. -- Jean-Pierre Cabestan China Quarterly This book contains a wealth of information and timely studies... [and] is to be commended. -- Mei-Chin Lee Pacific Affairs Tucker's Dangerous Strait analyzes both cross-strait relations and U.S. policy toward the Taiwan issue, providing essential context and thoughts on how to avert disaster. -- Warren I. Cohen National Interest Dangerous Strait brings together an invaluable collection of authoritative and incisive contributions by leading academic authorities. -- Rod Wye Asian AffairsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors List of Abbreviations 1: Dangerous Strait: Introduction, by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker 2 The Unfinished Business of Taiwan's Democratization, by Shelley Rigger 3: Building a Taiwanese Republic: The Independence Movement, 1945-Present, by Steven Phillips 4: Lee Teng-hui and "Separatism," by Richard Bush 5: China-Taiwan Economic Linkage: Between Insulation and Superconductivity, by T. J. Cheng 6: Taiwan's Defense Reforms and Military Modernization Program: Objectives, Achievements, and Obstacles, by Michael D. Swaine 7: U.S.-Taiwan Security Cooperation: Enhancing an Unofficial Relationship, by Michael S. Chase 8: Strategic Ambiguity or Strategic Clarity?, by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Notes Index
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