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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBarnett's book is a wonderful read... This is a book that will transfix readers. Booklist [A] brilliant rumination on Tibet's capital. Tricycle Most readers of this fascinating book will finish reading it feeling that they truly know the Tibetan City. -- Lucian Pye Foreign Affairs [Barnett] emerges in these pages as a perceptive and sympathetic observer of a city that has often been described, but rarely understood. -- Isabel Hilton London Review of Books An imaginative and atmospheric book... which will appeal to all those interested in Tibet. -- Wendy Palace Asian Affairs An eloquent account of the changes in the city's geography -- Pankaj Mishra New York Review of Books [This] rumination on the capital of Tibet is the rare book that can draw tears just with its assemblage of neutral, entirely unpolemical facts. -- Pico Iyer TIME Asia "Barnett's ruminations on Lhasa in this slim text are eloquently written, captivating reading, and highly recommended. -- Tom Grunfeld China Review International [A] remarkable book. -- Elidor Mehilli Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism A fascinating account of Lhasa. -- Ben Hillman The China JournalTable of ContentsPreface A Note on History A Note on Terminology Acknowledgments Preamble 1. The Unitary View 2. Foreign Visitors, Oscillations, and Extremes 3. The Square View and the Outstretched Demoness 4. The City, the Circle 5. Monumental Statements and Street Plans 6. From Concrete to Blue Glass 7. The New Flamboyance and the Tibetan Palm Tree 8. Mestizo 9. The Multilayered Streets Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and Offers a perspective on how religious tradition and the experience of European colonialism interacted with Muslim and non-Muslim discontent with globalization, the international order, and modernization.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia University Cemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton University Cemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University [Aydin] has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye Foreign Affairs Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler Pacific Affairs The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. H-Diplo Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius H-Soz-u-Kult ...an impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar Journal of Global History Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. Journal of Ottoman StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares Ottoman Pan-Islamic and Japanese Pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century through World War II, focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals.Trade ReviewThis volume is a rich intellectual history revealing the fascinating ways in which Pan-Islamism and Pan-Asianism were intertwined. -- Matthew Connelly, associate professor of history, Columbia UniversityCemil Aydin has written a fascinating book of exceptional scholarly quality. It explores elegantly, with impressive learning, the responses of Japanese and Ottoman civilizations to the West in the period 1880 to 1945. This study in the history of ideas is surprisingly relevant to such current concerns as 'the clash of civilizations' and 'the future of world order.' -- Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, emeritus, and emeritus professor of politics and international affairs, Princeton UniversityCemil Aydin presents a profound analysis of anti-Westernism that transcends simplistic polemics about 'why they hate us' and offers a significant contribution to understanding intercultural relations in the modern era. Combining expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian studies, Aydin joins a clear global perspective with an in-depth historical study. The result is a comprehensive understanding of one of the major themes of modern global affairs. -- John Voll, professor of Islamic history and associate director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown UniversityAydin . . . identifies both deep currents in Asian intellectual history and popular views of power and politics. He has a sure grasp of what is fundamental and what is merely of the moment. -- Lucian W. Pye * Foreign Affairs *Required reading for anyone researching the history of anti-Western ideology in Asia. -- Sven Saaler * Pacific Affairs *[A]n impressive work. -- Michael Farquhar * Journal of Global History *An extremely well-researched book, bursting with arguments and insights . . . [that] will be a boon for scholars who are interested in East-West relations. * Ethics & International Affairs *The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia should become required reading. * H-Diplo *Aydin's book offers a thorough and nuanced portrayal of Pan-Asian and Pan-Islamic thought. -- Michael Facius * H-Soz-u-Kult *Aydin convincingly demonstrates that the evolution of anti-Westernisms cannot be divorced from non-Western intellectual and political engagement with concepts, ideals and values originating in Western modernity. * Journal of Ottoman Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction2. The Universal West: Europe Beyond Its Christian and White Race Identity (1840–1882) 3. The Two Faces of the West: Imperialism Versus Enlightenment (1882–1905) 4. The Global Moment of the Russo-Japanese War: The Awakening of the East/Equality with the West (1905–1912)5. The Impact of WWI on Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asianist Visions of World Order 6. The Triumph of Nationalism? The Ebbing of Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Visions of World Order During the 1920s 7. The Revival of a Pan-Asianist Vision of World Order in Japan (1931–1945) 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisContains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today.Trade ReviewThe third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, provocative, and relevant to the present. Two narrative lines flow, like an underground river, through the book: colonialism and the search for independence and the struggle with the ever-changing questions of nationalism. An excellent expansion of the second edition, this anthology is masterly organized, making it a unique teaching text on South Asia. -- Owen M. Lynch, New York University The third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions will assuredly be, like the earlier versions, an indispensable resource for teaching South Asia across a wide range of disciplines. The revisions are extensive and substantially reflect scholarly advances of recent years. Specialists and novices alike will learn from the texts that are included, and the organization and commentaries are bound to stimulate productive conversation and even controversy. -- Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis Anthologies come and go, and India becomes South Asia, but Sources of Indian Traditions remains the best-the best selected, best translated, and best annotated. It is to South Asian texts what the Oxford English Dictionary is to the English language: the gold standard. -- Wendy Doniger, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Chronology Thematic Table of Contents Map 1. The Eighteenth Century: Ferment and Change 2. The Early to Mid Nineteenth Century: Debates Over Reform and Challenge to Empire 3. The Later Nineteenth Century: Leaders of Reform and Revival 4. Liberal Social and Political Thought in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Moderates 5. Radical Politics and Cultural Criticism, 1880-1914: The Extremists 6. Mahatma Gandhi and Responses 7. To Independence and Partition 8. Issues in Post-Independence India 9. Pakistan, 1947-2007: The Struggle for National Identity 10. Bangladesh: Independence and Controversies Over the Fruits of Freedom Notes Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisContains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today.Trade ReviewThe third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions is fascinating, easy to read, provocative, and relevant to the present. Two narrative lines flow, like an underground river, through the book: colonialism and the search for independence and the struggle with the ever-changing questions of nationalism. An excellent expansion of the second edition, this anthology is masterly organized, making it a unique teaching text on South Asia. -- Owen M. Lynch, New York University The third edition of Sources of Indian Traditions will assuredly be, like the earlier versions, an indispensable resource for teaching South Asia across a wide range of disciplines. The revisions are extensive and substantially reflect scholarly advances of recent years. Specialists and novices alike will learn from the texts that are included, and the organization and commentaries are bound to stimulate productive conversation and even controversy. -- Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis Anthologies come and go, and India becomes South Asia, but Sources of Indian Traditions remains the best-the best selected, best translated, and best annotated. It is to South Asian texts what the Oxford English Dictionary is to the English language: the gold standard. -- Wendy Doniger, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Chronology Thematic Table of Contents Map 1. The Eighteenth Century: Ferment and Change 2. The Early to Mid Nineteenth Century: Debates Over Reform and Challenge to Empire 3. The Later Nineteenth Century: Leaders of Reform and Revival 4. Liberal Social and Political Thought in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Moderates 5. Radical Politics and Cultural Criticism, 1880-1914: The Extremists 6. Mahatma Gandhi and Responses 7. To Independence and Partition 8. Issues in Post-Independence India 9. Pakistan, 1947-2007: The Struggle for National Identity 10. Bangladesh: Independence and Controversies Over the Fruits of Freedom Notes Bibliography Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe thoroughness of Inoue's scholarship is incontestable... Recommended. CHOICE A candid, introspective book... For those versed in anthropology and interested in Okinawa, this is an excellent read. -- Arnold G. Fisch Jr. Army History An important addition to the existing studies of the contemporary popular struggle of Okinawa. -- Miyume Tanji The International History Review Inoue has provided an inspired and activist ethnographic account of how Okinawa took on the pervasive state interests of both Japan and the United States. -- David Obermiller The Journal of Asian Studies For anthropologists, historians, and social scientists, Inoue offers an intriguing examination of the complex strands, relationships, and consequences of the processes of globalization. -- Jennifer M. Miller H-US-JapanTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the 2017 Edition Acknowledgments Note on Japanese Names and Translations 1. Introduction 2. The Rape Incident and the Predicaments of Okinawan Identity 3. Reduced to Culture Without Politics and History: A Critique of Modern Okinawan Studies 4. "We Are Okinawans of a Different Kind": Henoko History, Camp Schwab, and Working-Class Ideology of Difference 5. "We Are Okinawans": Local Identity in a Global Perspective 6. Nago City Referendum: Constructing Okinawan Citizenship 7. The Nago City Mayoral Election and the Changing Tide of Okinawan Resistance 8. Conclusion: Anthropologists as the Third Person, Anthropology in the Global Public Sphere Notes Chronology References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe rise of China is the most important international trend of our time, and this superb book is the best guide to it that I've seen. Broad, deep, and wise, it is simply an indispensable introduction to all aspects of China's ongoing encounter with the world at large. Any politician or pundit who wants to say anything at all about this subject should have to pass a test on Andrew J. Nathan and Andrew Scobell's tour de force before doing so. -- Gideon Rose, editor, Foreign Affairs For the scholar, student, and general reader, China's Search for Security is a source of value. Nathan and Scobell successfully view the world through Chinese eyes and provide just the right mix of interpretation and narrative. Nuggets of insight glitter on every page. -- Richard Bush, Brookings Institution Nathan and Scobell are extremely well qualified to assess China's foreign policy. As their book makes clear, understanding that policy is essential to the consideration of virtually every issue of international concern. I strongly recommend China's Search for Security to all those with an interest in global public policy. -- Aryeh Neier, president emeritus, Open Society Foundations Even though China's foreign policy has become more practical and confident, China's rise has generated regional and international anxiety. Nathan and Scobell probe the mix of forces reshaping Chinese strategic deliberations, providing the deepest insight yet into how Chinese decision-makers perceive their geostrategic predicaments and security challenges. -- Zhe Sun, Center for U.S.-China Relations, Tsinghua University [Nathan & Scobell] skillfully and fairly explore this complex and contradictory American-Chinese competition-without themselves being complex or contradictory. -- Jonathan Mirsky New York Review of Books China's Search for Security is a good introductory text for students and policymakers without expertise in the area. It highlights and summarizes most of the critical issues associated with Chinese security policy -- Robert Farley H-Diplo Comprehensive, persuasive, and empathetic, China's Search for Security offers a fresh look. -- Kendrick Kuo e-International Relations This is a superb book, richly detailed, and will be required reading for anyone wishing to understand how China views its own situation. -- David C. Kang Journal of Asian Studies A valuable survey of the foreign policy and national security behavior of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the many factors that bear upon it. -- Christopher A. Ford China Review International Nathan and Scobell are senior scholars who know their subject matter well... Their analysis is thorough and generally judicious. China's Search for Security is useful in its systematic deflation of common fears about the rise of China. -- Denny Roy Contemporary Southeast AsiaTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part I. Interest and Identity in Chinese Foreign Policy 1. What Drives Chinese Foreign Policy? 2. Who Runs Chinese Foreign Policy? Part II. Security Challenges and Strategies 3. Life on the Hinge: China's Russia Policy During the Cold War and After 4. Deciphering the U.S. Threat 5. The Northeast Asia Regional System: Japan and the Two Koreas 6. China's Other Neighbors: The Asia-Pacific 7. China in the Fourth Ring Part III. Holding Together: Territorial Integrity and Foreign Policy 8. Problems of Stateness: Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Taiwan 9. Taiwan's Democratic Transition and China's Response Part IV. Instruments of Power 10. Dilemmas of Opening: Power and Vulnerability in the Global Economy 11. Military Modernization: From People's War to Power Projection 12. Soft Power and Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Policy Part V. Conclusion 13. Threat or Equilibrium? Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHere is a wise and provocative book for all who seek to understand why human migrants face increasing hostility, stricter restrictions, and intensifying border controls. Melancholy Order will be required reading for world historians of international migration, international law, and the impact of nationalism and racism on their intersection. Adam M. McKeown brilliantly synthesizes years of reading and research in archives on several continents, tracing the origins of today's debates to the erection of Chinese migration barriers by the liberal democracies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His analysis of the subsequent spread and expansion of restrictions provides a cautionary tale: there will be no easy answers to contemporary debates about migration. -- Donna Gabaccia, professor of history and director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota Adam M. McKeown's provocative study clarifies how the regulation of migration was crucial to the development of modern conceptions of sovereignty and how Asian exclusion was the chief crucible from which relevant international identity documentation emerged in the late nineteenth century. Melancholy Order is a major contribution to a truly global understanding of the history of migration as well as a challenge to the typically ahistorical and Eurocentric conception of 'globalization.' Essential reading both for historians of migration and for those in the social sciences who want to make sense of what is (and isn't) really new in the contemporary period. -- John Torpey, professor of sociology, CUNY Graduate Center An important new work in the field of transnational history and migration studies... Highly recommended. Choice An insightful and deeply engaged excavation of international methods of constraint and identification that have attained naturalized status today. -- Madeline Yuan-Yin Hsu American Historical Review A highly important and invaluable contribution to the often US-centered perspectives concerning migration control and Chinese exclusion. -- Barbara Luthi H-Soz-u-Kult [A] well-documented and closely argued intervention in global history, full of remarkable insights. -- Evelyn Hu-DeHart Journal of American History Required reading for any scholar who is interested in the history of migration control. -- Erika Lee Journal of Asian Studies In this book, McKeown demonstrates fully his broad readings and knowledge of works in this field. -- Kwee Hui Kian Journal of World HistoryTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: The Globalization of Identities Part I: Borders in Transformation 1. Consolidating Identities, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 2. Global Migration, 1840-1940 3. Creating the Free Migrant 4. Nationalization of Migration Control Part II: Imagining Borders 5. Experiments in Border Control, 1852-1887 6. Civilization and Borders, 1885-1895 7. The "Natal Formula" and the Decline of the Imperial Subject, 1888-1913 Part III: Enforcing Borders 8. Experiments in Remote Control, 1897-1905 9. The American Formula, 1905-1913 10. Files and Fraud Part IV: Disseminating Borders 11. Moralizing Regulation 12. Borders Across the World, 1907-1939 Conclusion: A Melancholy Order Primary Sources and Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent textbook for students and scholars in international relations, political science, and Asian studies, and even for diplomats and policy makers. -- Alon Levkowitz H-US-JapanTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1. Unbundling Asia's New Multilateralism Bates Gill and Michael J. Green Part I National Strategies for Regionalism 2. Evolving U.S. Views on Asia's Future Institutional Architecture Ralph A. Cossa 3. Chinese Perspectives on Building an East Asian Community in the Twenty-first Century Wu Xinbo 4. Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question Lim Wonhyuk 5. Japan's Perspective on Asian Regionalism Akiko Fukushima 6. India and the Asian Security Architecture C. Raja Mohan 7. Australia's Pragmatic Approach to Asian Regionalism Greg Sheridan 8. The Strong in the World of the Weak: Southeast Asia in Asia's Regional Architecture Amitav Acharya Part II The Functional Challenges 9. Emerging Economic Architecture in Asia: Opening or Insulating the Region? Amy Searight 10. Norms and Regional Architecture: Multilateral Institution Building in Asia and Its Impact on Governance and Democracy William Cole and Erik G. Jensen 11. Defense Issues and Asia's Future Security Architecture Michael E. O'Hanlon 12. Nontraditional Security and Multilateralism in Asia: Reshaping the Contours of Regional Security Architecture Mely Caballero-Anthony 13. Challenges to Building an Effective Asia-Pacific Security Architecture Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow Appendix. Selected List of Principal Regional Institutions in Asia Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent textbook for students and scholars in international relations, political science, and Asian studies, and even for diplomats and policy makers. -- Alon Levkowitz H-US-JapanTable of ContentsPreface Abbreviations 1. Unbundling Asia's New Multilateralism Bates Gill and Michael J. Green Part I National Strategies for Regionalism 2. Evolving U.S. Views on Asia's Future Institutional Architecture Ralph A. Cossa 3. Chinese Perspectives on Building an East Asian Community in the Twenty-first Century Wu Xinbo 4. Regional Multilateralism in Asia and the Korean Question Lim Wonhyuk 5. Japan's Perspective on Asian Regionalism Akiko Fukushima 6. India and the Asian Security Architecture C. Raja Mohan 7. Australia's Pragmatic Approach to Asian Regionalism Greg Sheridan 8. The Strong in the World of the Weak: Southeast Asia in Asia's Regional Architecture Amitav Acharya Part II The Functional Challenges 9. Emerging Economic Architecture in Asia: Opening or Insulating the Region? Amy Searight 10. Norms and Regional Architecture: Multilateral Institution Building in Asia and Its Impact on Governance and Democracy William Cole and Erik G. Jensen 11. Defense Issues and Asia's Future Security Architecture Michael E. O'Hanlon 12. Nontraditional Security and Multilateralism in Asia: Reshaping the Contours of Regional Security Architecture Mely Caballero-Anthony 13. Challenges to Building an Effective Asia-Pacific Security Architecture Brendan Taylor and William T. Tow Appendix. Selected List of Principal Regional Institutions in Asia Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCovering the social, cultural, and political development of Tibet from the seventh century to the modern period, this resource reproduces essential, hard-to-find essays from the past fifty years of Tibetan studies, along with several new contributions.Trade ReviewSchaeffer and Tuttle are among the best scholars in the field, and they provide an exemplary selection of expert articles in one convenient, well-integrated, and phonetically readable volume. -- Bryan J. Cuevas, Florida State University This single volume offers a thorough education in Tibetan history from the founding of the Tibetan empire in the seventh century through 1951. In thirty-three topical and absorbing essays, leading historians of Asia, Europe, and North America explain exactly what the original documents say and why historians of Tibet interpret them in such dramatically different ways. Anyone who wants to learn more about Tibetan history should begin here. -- Valerie Hansen, Yale University There has long been an interest in the Tibetan civilization and, in particular, Tibetan Buddhism. Yet general readers are less familiar with the history and the development of both secular and religious institutions in the Tibetan world. Tuttle and Schaeffer have gathered some of the most current and definitive writings by leading international scholars in the field that demonstrate high-level research on all aspects of Tibetan history over the past decades. These works deal with the earliest period to more recent developments, providing a comprehensive and authoritative survey. The Tibetan History Reader will be an indispensable resource for students and anybody with an interest in Tibet. -- Tsering Shakya, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia This book brings together the very best scholarship of the last half century. Supplemented with a useful timeline and an extensive bibliography, The Tibetan History Reader will remain the standard scholarly reference for a long time to come. A real tour de force. -- Jose Ignacio Cabezon, University of California Santa Barbara superb collection...give[s] an extraordinary sense of perspective. -- Kerry Brown Asian Review of Books The material is specialized but animated by a sense of fresh discovery. Foreign Affairs A very satisfying reading experience, where Tibetan history forms a matrix of interconnected events rather than a mere litany of dates and uncontextualized data... A superb resource in undergraduate surveys. Bulletin of SOAS Students and other readers wishing to obtain an overview of the contemporary field of Tibetan Studies could not do better than to get [The Tibetan History Reader and Sources of Tibetan Tradition]. -- Sam van Schaik Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Dates in Tibetan History and Key Events in Neighboring Lands Maps Part I. From Prehistory to History 1. The Prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau to the Seventh Century A.D., by Mark Aldenderfer and Zhang Yinong 2. Some Reflections on the Periodization of Tibetan History, by Bryan Cuevas 3. History as Myth: On the Appropriation of the Past in Tibetan Culture, by Peter Schwieger Part II. Imperial Tibet (Seventh to Tenth Centuries) 4. Remarks on the Mani Kabum and the Cult of Avalokitesvara in Tibet, by Matthew T. Kapstein 5. On the Tibetan Historiography and Doxography of the 'Great Debate of Samye,' by David Seyfort Ruegg. Imperial Politics 6. The Context of Old Tibetan Inscriptions, by Fang Kuei Li and W. South Coblin 7. The Tibetans in the Ordos and North China: Considerations on the Role of the Tibetan Empire in World History, by Christopher I. Beckwith Part III. Tibetan Revivals (Tenth to Twelfth Centuries) 8. The Tibetan Tribes of Hexi and Buddhism during the Northern Song Period, by Tsotumo Iwasaki 9. Rulers of Western Tibet, by David Snellgrove 10. The Bon Religion of Tibet, by Per Kvaerne 11. The Evolution of Monastic Power, by R. A. Stein Part IV. Lamas and Patrons: Tibet and the Mongols (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries) 12. The Preceptor-Donor Relation in Thirteenth Century Tibetan Society and Polity, its Inner Asian Precursors and Indian Models, by David Seyfort Ruegg 13. The Mongol Census in Tibet, by Luciano Petech 14. Sakya Pandita's Letter to the Tibetans: A Late and Dubious Addition to His Collected Works, by David P. Jackson Part V. Centers of Power and Religious Learning (Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 15. The Rise of the Pakmodru Dynasty, by Luciano Petech 16. Monastic Patronage in 15th century Tibet, by Turrell V. Wylie 17. Central Tibetan Conflict in the 16th Century, by Guiseppe Tucci 18. The He Clan of Hezhou: A Tibetan Family in Service to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, by Elliot Sperling 19. Bon in Central and Eastern Tibet, by Samten Karmay Part VI. Modern Tibet (Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries) Central Tibetan Leadership 20. The Dalai Lamas and the Origins of Reincarnate Lamas, by Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp 21. The Fifth Dalai Lama, by Kurtis R. Schaeffer 22. Experience, Empiricism, and the Fortunes of Authority: Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism on the Eve of Modernity, by Janet Gyatso Tibet and the Manchus 23. The Administration of Tibet during the First Half-Century of Chinese Protectorate, by Luciano Petech 24. Lobjang Danjin's Rebellion of 1723, by Kato Naoto 25. Aristocracy and Government in Tibet: 1728-1959, by Luciano Petech Trade and Commerce 26. Gold, Wool and Musk: Trade in Lhasa in the Seventeenth Century, by Luce Boulnois 27. The Circulation of Estates in Tibet: Reincarnation, Land and Politics, by Melvyn C. Goldstein 28. The Geo-History of Long-Distance Trade in Tibet 1850-1950, by Wim van Spengen Institutional Growth beyond Central Tibet 29. The Kingdom of Derge, by Lauran R. Hartley 30. Labrang: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery at the Crossroads of Four Civilizations, by Paul Nietupski Tibet in a Global Context 31. Uniting Religion and Politics in a Bid for Autonomy: Lamas in Exile in China and America, by Gray Tuttle 32. Progressives and Exiles, by Heather Stoddard 33. The Genesis of the Sino-Tibetan Agreement of 1951, by Tsering Shakya Full References to Original Articles Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Mandair's broad temporal, spatial, and intellectual perspectives make this a very interesting volume. By exploring Sikhism from the perspectives of deconstructionist, postcolonial, and postsecular theory, he fills in an important gap in Sikh philosophy and charts out provocative new directions. -- Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh History of Religions Arguably the most theoretically incisive work in Sikh studies since the field's inception. -- Balbinder Singh Bhogal Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Mandair has... provided us with a sketch of a postsecular theory that promises to vigorously decolonize the mind. -- Harjot Oberoi, University of British Columbia The Journal of Asian Studies By pursuing a postcolonial perspective that aims to undo inherited imperialist configurations, Mandair paves new ground and pushes the boundaries of a currently widespread postcolonial critique of power, especially when it comes to the question of religion and secularism in the public sphere. -- Michael Nijhawan, York University Translation Studies [A]n ambitious book that is an important contribution to the critical discourse about religion in the context of post-colonialism. -- Gavin Flood, University of Oxford Method and Theory in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. "Indian Religions" and Western Thought 1. Mono-theo-lingualism: Religion, Language, and Subjectivity in Colonial North India 2. Hegel and the Comparative Imaginary of the West Part II. Theology as Cultural Translation 3. Sikhism and the Politics of Religion-Making 4. Violence, Mysticism, and the Capture of Subjectivity Part III. Postcolonial Exits 5. Ideologies of Sacred Sound 6. Decolonizing Postsecular Theory Epilogue Glossary of Indic Terms Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran is a work of great originality and a major innovation in the historiography of Iran and surrounding regions. -- Carter Findlay, Ohio State University, and author The Turks in World History An excellent book that stands out for its innovative and perceptive research. -- Ehsan Yarshater, editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica In an extraordinary mix of erudite scholarship and elegant presentation, Richard W. Bulliet reveals Abbasid Iran's central place in world history during two key centuries. His skill in unlocking the balance of structural change and human agency makes this book a brilliant model for all students of social change. -- Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh, and author of The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture This book is not only an almost unique example of highly readable historiography; it is a masterpiece of methodology and precise argumentation. Richard W. Bulliet remarks that his personal affections as a historian have not been for heroes but for ordinary men and women. Therefore he is constantly in search for those determinants which influence immediately and permanently the decisions of these people. His methods to trace these determinants are absolutely brilliant and may serve as models not only for the Middle East but for any part of our world. -- Bert Fragner, Institute of Iranian Studies/Austrian Academy of Sciences Bulliet offers an innovative, provocative analysis that demonstrates the considerable significance of the era for Iranian, Islamic and world history. Choice This slim volume is packed with ideas. It contains a highly original, creative, thought-provoking, and clear argument -- Michael Morony Speculuma Journal of Medieval Studies A fine history of Iran... Any college-level Middles East studies collection needs this in-depth survey. Midwest Book Review Bulliet writes with candor about the difficulties of attempting this kind of history and offers a tantalizing invitation to others. Technology and Culture I would describe Bulliet's approach as innovative... Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate WorldTable of ContentsPreface 1. How to Identify a Cotton Boom 2. Islam and Cotton 3. The Big Chill 4. Of Turks and Camels 5. A Moment in World History Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLyrical in its descriptions of village life, this gripping book is written with a confessional chattiness that contrasts with the hardships it describes. Financial Times Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is essential reading. -- Joanna K. Elfving-Hwang List: Books from Korea Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is clearly a volume that should be added to the growing staple of works taughts in Korean literature, culture, and history courses. Journal of Asian Studies Though it feels rather like a memoir, the novel is an entertaining and sometimes heart-wrenching read as Park's brilliant use of language, as well as genuine depiction of its characters shine from the beginning to the end. Korea Herald Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a pleasure not only to read but to behold. Let us hope that although the author is no longer with us physically, her spiritual presence will be maintained through other excellent translations of her works. -- Bruce Fulton Korean Quarterly A deeply moving, warm personal tale. Korea.netTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Days in the Wild 2. Seoul, So Far Away 3. Beyond the Gates 4. Friendless Child 5. The Triangle-Yard House 6. Grandmother and Grandfather 7. Mother and Brother 8. Spring in My Hometown 9. The Hurled Nameplate 10. Groping in the Dark 11. The Eve Before the Storm 12. Epiphany

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Book SynopsisRaised to be flowers of the nation, the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s anTrade ReviewTeenage Red Guards were among the most visible actors in China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Moved by radical visions of a new beginning for China, they denounced their elders, left home to carry their revolution to the countryside, and engaged in violent factional battles in cities. Experiencing both a youthful freedom and a sense of mass belonging, they were intensely idealistic and endlessly contentious. Sometimes manipulated but never tightly organized from above, they were creative as well as destructive, and they were transformed by the experience. Becoming poets, political activists, and entrepreneurs, members of the Red Guard generation have shaped politics and culture in China for fifty years. In this beautifully written book, Guobin Yang draws on wide-ranging sources and twenty years of research to analyze the Red Guard movement and to bring new insights and deeper understanding to the lives and enduring influence of the Red Guard generation. It is a superb study and important for understanding China today as well as its past. -- Craig Calhoun, director and president, London School of Economics and Political Science Guobin Yang's illuminating study establishes the lasting impact of China's feisty Red Guard generation on contemporary Chinese politics. This absorbing book has much to offer students of modern China, as well as those interested in more general questions of political culture, popular protest, and the complicated memories and meanings of a living revolutionary tradition. A major contribution to our understanding of the Cultural Revolution and its multiple legacies. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard-Yenching Institute The Chinese government wants citizens to forget the chaotic, destructive Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. But those who lived through it were marked forever by the revolutionary fervor they experienced, the violence they inflicted on each other, and the shock they felt when Mao reversed course and 'sent them down' to live with the poverty-stricken peasants. Some became dissidents; most picked up their lives again after Mao died. Even today they continue to deal with disillusionment and a sense of loss. Guobin Yang provides a sensitive, sweeping, and beautifully written analysis of the Red Guard generation's lived experiences and their struggles to understand what happened to them. -- Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University Guobin Yang's much anticipated book skillfully traces the subjective experiences of the Red Guard generation from the violent factional struggles of the 1960s to the enforced period of intellectual reflection as 'sent-down youth' in remote rural regions, and their emergence, transformed, as critical dissenters and pro-democracy activists in the early post-Mao era. Memories of this historical experience, Yang shows, remain an actively contested component of China's political culture to the present day. -- Andrew Walder, Stanford University A major new study. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom The Nation A vivid account of the genesis of the political activism of the Red Guards and their life courses... Timely for understanding the present situation and future scenarios of Chinese politics. -- Yang Zhang Mobilizing Ideas Yang does an excellent job of providing a new context for Red Guard activism... [The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China] gives us another lens with which to look at how the Cultural Revolution and the damage it caused continue to reverberate through Chinese society and politics today. -- Cameron Dueck South China Morning Post A nuanced portrait of the Red Guard generation. [Yang's] own depth of understanding enables him to show that Red Guards were not all storm troopers or crazed youth. They were constantly subjected to propaganda, but also had the capacity to learn, to grow, and to change... In reminding us of this, Yang has done a great service during the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution in May 1966. -- Ian Johnson The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsNotes on Data Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Violence in Chongqing 2. Flowers of the Nation 3. Theory and Dissent 4. Ordinary Life 5. Underground Culture 6. New Enlightenment 7. Factionalized Memories Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRaised to be flowers of the nation, the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in its political outlook and at first embraced the Cultural Revolution of 1966, but then split into warring factions. Investigating the causes of this fracture, Guobin Yang argues that Chinese youth engaged in an imaginary revolution from 1966 to 1968, enacting a political mythology that encouraged violence as a way to prove one's revolutionary credentials. This same competitive dynamic would later turn the Red Guard against the communist government. Throughout the 1970s, the majority of Red Guard youth were sent to work in rural villages, where they developed an appreciation for the values of ordinary life. From this experience, an underground cultural movement was born. Rejecting idolatry, these relocated revolutionaries developed a new form of resistance that signaled a new era of enlightenment, culminating in the Democracy Wall movement of the late 1970s anTrade ReviewTeenage Red Guards were among the most visible actors in China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Moved by radical visions of a new beginning for China, they denounced their elders, left home to carry their revolution to the countryside, and engaged in violent factional battles in cities. Experiencing both a youthful freedom and a sense of mass belonging, they were intensely idealistic and endlessly contentious. Sometimes manipulated but never tightly organized from above, they were creative as well as destructive, and they were transformed by the experience. Becoming poets, political activists, and entrepreneurs, members of the Red Guard generation have shaped politics and culture in China for fifty years. In this beautifully written book, Guobin Yang draws on wide-ranging sources and twenty years of research to analyze the Red Guard movement and to bring new insights and deeper understanding to the lives and enduring influence of the Red Guard generation. It is a superb study and important for understanding China today as well as its past. -- Craig Calhoun, director and president, London School of Economics and Political Science Guobin Yang's illuminating study establishes the lasting impact of China's feisty Red Guard generation on contemporary Chinese politics. This absorbing book has much to offer students of modern China, as well as those interested in more general questions of political culture, popular protest, and the complicated memories and meanings of a living revolutionary tradition. A major contribution to our understanding of the Cultural Revolution and its multiple legacies. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard-Yenching Institute The Chinese government wants citizens to forget the chaotic, destructive Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. But those who lived through it were marked forever by the revolutionary fervor they experienced, the violence they inflicted on each other, and the shock they felt when Mao reversed course and 'sent them down' to live with the poverty-stricken peasants. Some became dissidents; most picked up their lives again after Mao died. Even today they continue to deal with disillusionment and a sense of loss. Guobin Yang provides a sensitive, sweeping, and beautifully written analysis of the Red Guard generation's lived experiences and their struggles to understand what happened to them. -- Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University Guobin Yang's much anticipated book skillfully traces the subjective experiences of the Red Guard generation from the violent factional struggles of the 1960s to the enforced period of intellectual reflection as 'sent-down youth' in remote rural regions, and their emergence, transformed, as critical dissenters and pro-democracy activists in the early post-Mao era. Memories of this historical experience, Yang shows, remain an actively contested component of China's political culture to the present day. -- Andrew Walder, Stanford University A major new study. -- Jeffrey Wasserstrom The Nation A vivid account of the genesis of the political activism of the Red Guards and their life courses... Timely for understanding the present situation and future scenarios of Chinese politics. -- Yang Zhang Mobilizing Ideas Yang does an excellent job of providing a new context for Red Guard activism... [The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China] gives us another lens with which to look at how the Cultural Revolution and the damage it caused continue to reverberate through Chinese society and politics today. -- Cameron Dueck South China Morning Post A nuanced portrait of the Red Guard generation. [Yang's] own depth of understanding enables him to show that Red Guards were not all storm troopers or crazed youth. They were constantly subjected to propaganda, but also had the capacity to learn, to grow, and to change... In reminding us of this, Yang has done a great service during the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution in May 1966. -- Ian Johnson The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsNotes on Data Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Violence in Chongqing 2. Flowers of the Nation 3. Theory and Dissent 4. Ordinary Life 5. Underground Culture 6. New Enlightenment 7. Factionalized Memories Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmerica's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped U.S.-China policy and examines their far-reaching outcomes. Warren I. Cohen begins with the mercantile interests of the newly independent American colonies and discusses subsequent events up to the Tiananmen Square massacre and the policies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. For this fifth edition, Cohen adds a chapter on America in the age of potential Chinese ascendance, envisioning future partnerships and the shrinking global influence of the United States. Trenchant and insightful, America's Response to China is critically important for understanding U.S.-China relations in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewWarren Cohen... [is] the leading historian of Sino-American relations of his generation. This book has much to offer both newcomers to its subject as well as those who have been studying relations between these two countries nearly as long as its author. American Diplomacy A fresh new look at the history of United States diplomacy towards China... The subject will never be the same again. -- John King Fairbank American Political Science Review Careful, well-documented. Political Science Quarterly Lucid and concise... a model of its kind, thoughtful, even-tempered, and extremely well-written. Pacific Historical Review Provocative and perceptive. China Quarterly A venerable work. -- Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom The Daily BeastTable of ContentsPreface to the Fifth Edition Preface to the Fourth Edition Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Fifth Edition Romanization Table Prologue: The Barbarians and the Tribute System 1. The Development of the Treaty System 2. The United States as a Power in East Asia 3. In the Light of the Rising Sun 4. The Response to Chinese Nationalism 5. China as an Abstraction-The Conflict with Japan 6. Communism in China 7. The Great Aberration 8. Rapprochement-At Last 9. In the Shadow of Tiananmen 10. America in the Age of Chinese Power Notes Bibliographical Essay Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEvery historian of China should read this book. For what Paul A. Cohen has done here is lay bare the hidden assumptions that have informed and skewed much American research on 19th- and 20th-century China. He shows that the questions most American historians have asked about the Chinese past, and consequently the kind of histories they have written, have been determined as much by their own cultural biases as by the historical realities of China itself... A consciousness-raising experience. American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Paperback Edition Preface Introduction to the 2010 Issue Introduction 1. The Problem with "China's Response to the West" 2. Moving Beyond "Tradition and Modernity" 3. Imperialism: Reality or Myth? 4. Toward a China-Centered History of China Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLiving with the Dragon has multiple virtues: clearly stated conclusions, balance, voluminous data crisply presented, and policy relevance. Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword by Andrew J. Nathan Preface 1. The United States and China 2. The Economic Dragon 3. The Rise of China as a World Power 4. Democracy and Human Rights 5. Friends or Foes? 6. The Future of U.S.-China Relations Appendix 1. Major Surveys Used Appendix 2. Regression Tables Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis is stimulating, elegant, and novel. Choice Kaviraj's narrative about the state in India is an important one, and it is high time these influential papers were collected in one volume. -- Sailen Routray Contemporary South AsiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity 1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian 2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity 3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal 4. A Strange Love of Abstractions: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali 5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love 6. The Poetry of Interiority: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry 7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature 8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films 9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry 10. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography 11. The Second Mahabharata Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBy researching the full range of China's relationships, including Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan, as well as nomadic troubles, David C. Kang balances the perspective of the whole regional picture. A remarkable achievement. -- Brantly Womack, University of Virginia In a fascinating and deeply illuminating sequel to his acclaimed China Rising, David C. Kang challenges the Eurocentric bias of American and European theories of international relations. With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, Kang's main message is that 'East is East and West is West and sometimes the twain shall meet,' and he delivers it through smart arguments, great imagination, and compelling historical synthesis. All serious students of international relations, from both East and West, will have to come to terms with Kang's provocative arguments. -- Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University David C. Kang has written a concise, well-judged, and most useful analysis of the historical East Asian international system and its three principles of hierarchy, status, and hegemony. In so doing, he demolishes the American discourse of 'realism,' which assumes that all states on the planet behave in the same way. With a plethora of books on 'the rise of China,' Kang's study is also essential reading for understanding the formation of the East Asian system, its contemporary functioning, and the arc of its future. -- Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago, author of Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power Important in maintaining the ongoing discussion on whether or not there is something distinctive about interstate conduct in East Asia... immensely enjoyable and informative in its rich historical detail. -- Oliver Hensengerth International Affairs His study assuredly renews the debate on a contested topic in both East Asian and global history. Highly recommended. Choice This is a brilliant book, rare for a political scientists, and a must-read for experts and the general public alike. Survival Consistently intelligent... [East Asia Before the West] is one of the most stimulating books to appear in the past decade. -- Valerie Hansen H-Asia East Asia Before the West is an elegant mixture of political science and history.Global Asia -- John Delury Global Asia In his micro analysis, Kang has offered a provocative thesis, which will stimulate much analysis and discussion of traditional foreign relations in East Asia. -- Morris Rossabi Political Science Quarterly I recommend to anyone with a shaky grasp of East Asian history...quite a thoughtful book, and well worth your time -- Stephen M. Walt "A Realist in an Ideological Age" Foreign Policy Blog A reasonable and fluent book on a large topic of some significance. The Review of Korean StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Preface 1. The Puzzle: War and Peace in East Asian History 2. Ideas: Hierarchy, Status, and Hegemony 3. States: The Confucian Society 4. Diplomacy: The Tribute System 5. War: The Longer Peace 6. Trade: International Economic Relations 7. Frontiers: Nomads and Islands 8. Lessons: History Forward and Backward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Dao of the Military makes a welcome addition to the growing literature on early Chinese strategy. The translation is exacting and felicitous. It should serve well for those interested in the history of Chinese thought and Chinese military thought. -- Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania With its highly competent translation and penetrating analysis, this volume will be a valuable antidote to the widespread misapprehension that Sunzi's Art of War and Chinese military thought are essentially coterminous. -- David A. Graff Journal of Military History A valuable contribution to the field of Chinese military history. -- Kai Filipiak Monumenta SericaTable of ContentsForeword, by John S. Major A Note on the Translation Introduction An Overview of the Military Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[Cha] illuminates both the good and the bad roles sports can play in a society. -- Song Woong-ki Korea Herald A profound study of the cultural and political dynamics of the Asia-Pacific region. -- Jean Brisebois Taiwan TodayTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Chronology 1. Purism Versus Politics 2. The Argument 3. More Than Just National Pride 4. Greasing the Wheels of Diplomacy 5. The Olympic Facelift 6. Catch-22 7. The Slippery Slope of Change Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Reviewoffers readers a chance to explore the evolution of this form. Inquiring Minds An erudite, beautifully translated, and accessible source on this form of Japanese poetry that deserves more attention from Anglophone readers. -- Cheryl Crowley Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Poems The Nun Abutsu Musho Zenna Reizei Tamesuke Muso Soseki Junkaku Gusai Nijo Yoshimoto Shua Soa Asayama Bonto Mitsuhiro Fushiminomiya Sadafusa Chiun Takayama Sozei Gyojo Noa Shinkei Senjun Sugiwara Soi Sogi Hino Tomiko Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado Ouchi Masahiro Inko Shohaku Sakurai Motosuke Socho Inawashiro Kensai Sanjonishi Sanetaka Soseki Reizei Tamekazu Tani Soboku Shukei Soyo Arakida Moritake Shokyu Ikkado Joa Sanjonishi Kin'eda Miyoshi Chokei Satomura Joha Satomura Shoshitsu Oka Kosetsu Hosokawa Yusai Satomura Genjo Matsudaira Ietada Shotaku Nishinoto'in Tokiyoshi Matsunaga Teitoku Wife of Mitsusada Miura Tamenori Nishiyama Soin Nojun Konishi Raizan Matsuo Basho Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Reviewoffers readers a chance to explore the evolution of this form. Inquiring Minds An erudite, beautifully translated, and accessible source on this form of Japanese poetry that deserves more attention from Anglophone readers. -- Cheryl Crowley Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Poems The Nun Abutsu Musho Zenna Reizei Tamesuke Muso Soseki Junkaku Gusai Nijo Yoshimoto Shua Soa Asayama Bonto Mitsuhiro Fushiminomiya Sadafusa Chiun Takayama Sozei Gyojo Noa Shinkei Senjun Sugiwara Soi Sogi Hino Tomiko Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado Ouchi Masahiro Inko Shohaku Sakurai Motosuke Socho Inawashiro Kensai Sanjonishi Sanetaka Soseki Reizei Tamekazu Tani Soboku Shukei Soyo Arakida Moritake Shokyu Ikkado Joa Sanjonishi Kin'eda Miyoshi Chokei Satomura Joha Satomura Shoshitsu Oka Kosetsu Hosokawa Yusai Satomura Genjo Matsudaira Ietada Shotaku Nishinoto'in Tokiyoshi Matsunaga Teitoku Wife of Mitsusada Miura Tamenori Nishiyama Soin Nojun Konishi Raizan Matsuo Basho Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJames Reilly provides us with an exhaustively-researched, nuanced, and on-the-ground look at the dynamic interaction between public opinion and foreign policy in a China that is increasingly wired, socially active, and engaged in a heated debate over its international relations. Tapping a wide range of sources, some previously undisclosed, his book insightfully explains how the Chinese leadership balances tolerance, responsiveness, persuasion, and repression to manage increasingly vocal and active bodies of opinion on sensitive foreign policy matters. The reader will come away with a far more sophisticated understanding of the most important forces at work in shaping Beijing's policies toward Japan and the Chinese Communist Party's ability to survive even as the society it leads becomes more informed, aware, and intent on having its voices heard and heeded. -- Bates Gill, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and author, Rising Star: China's New Security Diplomacy Strong Society, Smart State will shape the thinking of those concerned with Chinese foreign and domestic politics. Focusing on the oft-troubled Sino-Japanese relationship, James Reilly addresses two principal questions: Under what conditions, and to what extent, does public opinion shape foreign (and domestic) policy? And, when public opinion seems to be running out of control, how is it reined-in? His broad answers are that a strong society has developed over the reform period, exerting pressure not fully under Communist Party control; and the smart state, through a delicate mix of responsiveness and repression, has proven capable of keeping the lid on. These are elegantly stated propositions that have the further virtue of being important. -- David M. Lampton, director of China Studies and Dean of Faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies A must-read for anyone with an interest in Chinese politics and foreign policy-making, public opinion and media. More broadly it casts fresh light on the impact of Chinese public opinion on China-Japan relations. -- Caroline Rose International Affairs Essential reading for anybody interested in Chinese nationalism and foreign policy. -- Christopher R. Hughes Pacific Affairs While accessible to readers with limited background knowledge of the China-Japan relationship, experienced China watchers, as well as those with an interest in international relations theory, public opinion and media, will also find it appealing. -- Matthew Thompson The China Journal an excellent addition to the literature. -- Nicholas Khoo Asian Politics and Policy His analytical framework and empirical findings provide a useful guide for the study of state-society interactions in post-Cold War authoritarian states... -- Su-Jeong Kang Journal of Chinese Political ScienceTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Public Opinion in Chinese Foreign Policy 2. Forgetting and Remembering the Past: China's Relations with Japan, 1949-1999 3. The Origins of Public Mobilization 4. Responding to Public Opinion 5. A Potent Populism 6. The Rebirth of the Propaganda State Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHis writing is fluid and at times witty, and the density of the book's detail calls for a close reading...a lively and significant study... -- Michael J. Sweet Buddhadharma Well-written Library Journal A 'must-read' book Practical Matters A detailed and engrossing story about this enigmatic figure's life. -- David M. DiValerio Journal of Buddhist Ethics Hackett's sympathetic account is a page-turner, meticulously documented over a number of years... Well-written... A readable intellectual account of the life of an ambitious Tibetological pioneer. Asian Ethnology Hackett's work is excellently detailed... [his] construction of Theos' story is so interesting it reads both as a novel and as an academic biography. Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Life in the Desert 2. New York and New Mexico 3. Two Parallel Paths (I) 4. Two Parallel Paths (II) 5. On Holy Ground 6. Pretense and Pretext: Studies in India 7. A Well-Trodden Path: Studies in Darjeeling and Sikkim 8. Tibet, Tantrikas, and the Hero of Chaksam Ferry 9." The Clipper Ship of the Imagination" 10. Yoga on Fifth Avenue 11. Tibetland and the Penthouse of the Gods 12. To Climb the Highest Mountains 13. The Aftermath 14. Postscript: The View from Ki, Sixty Years Later Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHis writing is fluid and at times witty, and the density of the book's detail calls for a close reading...a lively and significant study... -- Michael J. Sweet Buddhadharma Well-written Library Journal A 'must-read' book Practical Matters A detailed and engrossing story about this enigmatic figure's life. -- David M. DiValerio Journal of Buddhist Ethics Hackett's sympathetic account is a page-turner, meticulously documented over a number of years... Well-written... A readable intellectual account of the life of an ambitious Tibetological pioneer. Asian Ethnology Hackett's work is excellently detailed... [his] construction of Theos' story is so interesting it reads both as a novel and as an academic biography. Nova ReligioTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Life in the Desert 2. New York and New Mexico 3. Two Parallel Paths (I) 4. Two Parallel Paths (II) 5. On Holy Ground 6. Pretense and Pretext: Studies in India 7. A Well-Trodden Path: Studies in Darjeeling and Sikkim 8. Tibet, Tantrikas, and the Hero of Chaksam Ferry 9." The Clipper Ship of the Imagination" 10. Yoga on Fifth Avenue 11. Tibetland and the Penthouse of the Gods 12. To Climb the Highest Mountains 13. The Aftermath 14. Postscript: The View from Ki, Sixty Years Later Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis authoritative account reflects Tucker's life-long engagement with the vicissitudes and nuances of U.S.-China relations. Her book offers insightful, often original portraits of policy makers in Washington, incorporating such themes as racism that still governed the way American leaders viewed Asia. It also considers Chinese trade, the importance of which Eisenhower and other administration officials well understood, but which, because of the Cold War policy of rigid restrictions, caused serious friction with such allies as Britain, Canada, and Japan. A must read for anyone who wishes to understand the tortuous origins of today's Asia-Pacific community. -- Akira Iriye, Harvard University One of our most distinguished and influential analysts of American relations with China, Tucker has now exploited newly declassified Chinese and U.S. records-as well as films such as The Manchurian Candidate-to provide a superbly told account. Eisenhower's unvarnished opinions about John Foster Dulles, Richard Nixon, and John F. Kennedy, among others, make eminently interesting reading, and Tucker's nuanced conclusions about the actual U.S.-China relationship during this era of Senator Joe McCarthy and multiple threats of nuclear war make the volume exceptionally significant. -- Walter LaFeber, author of The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1700 Tucker shows us again why she is a giant in the study of America's Cold War diplomacy toward China. While theories of abstract rationality abound in contemporary scholarship, The China Threat takes a more complex and convincing approach, reminding us that even our greatest strategists are human beings and that their choices are affected by emotions, biases, and misperceptions. -- Thomas J. Christensen, Princeton University Any collection strong in China culture and politics or U.S. political history will find this a winning addition. Midwest Book Review A crisply written, judicious, and comprehensive appraisal of the Eisenhower administration's policy towards China. It will be of greatest use to undergraduates and laymen. -- R. Thomas Bobal H-War This book should be highly recommended for students of U.S.-China relations in general and U.S.-China policy during the 1950s in particular. -- Guangqiu Xu Journal of American History An interesting case study -- Yafeng Xia American Historical Review A comprehensive, informative and authoritative account of Sino-American relations during Eisenhower's presidency... Important and refreshing. Journal of American-East Asian Relations A welcome summation of a lifetime's effort in understanding the intricacies of Sino-US relations. -- Pang Yang Huei Asian Studies Review Highly informative, insightful, and engaging. China Review InternationalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I. The Players and the Context 1. Eisenhower's World 2. Fire, Brimstone, and John Foster Dulles 3. Constraints Part II. The Practice 4. Fear of Communism 5. No Inherent Worth 6. Diplomatic Complexities 7. In Moscow's Shadow 8. "The Perils of Soya Sauce" 9. Back to the Strait 10. Waging Cold War Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis authoritative account reflects Tucker's life-long engagement with the vicissitudes and nuances of U.S.-China relations. Her book offers insightful, often original portraits of policy makers in Washington, incorporating such themes as racism that still governed the way American leaders viewed Asia. It also considers Chinese trade, the importance of which Eisenhower and other administration officials well understood, but which, because of the Cold War policy of rigid restrictions, caused serious friction with such allies as Britain, Canada, and Japan. A must read for anyone who wishes to understand the tortuous origins of today's Asia-Pacific community. -- Akira Iriye, Harvard University One of our most distinguished and influential analysts of American relations with China, Tucker has now exploited newly declassified Chinese and U.S. records-as well as films such as The Manchurian Candidate-to provide a superbly told account. Eisenhower's unvarnished opinions about John Foster Dulles, Richard Nixon, and John F. Kennedy, among others, make eminently interesting reading, and Tucker's nuanced conclusions about the actual U.S.-China relationship during this era of Senator Joe McCarthy and multiple threats of nuclear war make the volume exceptionally significant. -- Walter LaFeber, author of The American Age: U.S. Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad Since 1700 Tucker shows us again why she is a giant in the study of America's Cold War diplomacy toward China. While theories of abstract rationality abound in contemporary scholarship, The China Threat takes a more complex and convincing approach, reminding us that even our greatest strategists are human beings and that their choices are affected by emotions, biases, and misperceptions. -- Thomas J. Christensen, Princeton University Any collection strong in China culture and politics or U.S. political history will find this a winning addition. Midwest Book Review A crisply written, judicious, and comprehensive appraisal of the Eisenhower administration's policy towards China. It will be of greatest use to undergraduates and laymen. -- R. Thomas Bobal H-War This book should be highly recommended for students of U.S.-China relations in general and U.S.-China policy during the 1950s in particular. -- Guangqiu Xu Journal of American History An interesting case study -- Yafeng Xia American Historical Review A comprehensive, informative and authoritative account of Sino-American relations during Eisenhower's presidency... Important and refreshing. Journal of American-East Asian Relations A welcome summation of a lifetime's effort in understanding the intricacies of Sino-US relations. -- Pang Yang Huei Asian Studies Review Highly informative, insightful, and engaging. China Review InternationalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part I. The Players and the Context 1. Eisenhower's World 2. Fire, Brimstone, and John Foster Dulles 3. Constraints Part II. The Practice 4. Fear of Communism 5. No Inherent Worth 6. Diplomatic Complexities 7. In Moscow's Shadow 8. "The Perils of Soya Sauce" 9. Back to the Strait 10. Waging Cold War Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCapturing the unusual cultural character of a formative period and its intellectual ferment across multiple disciplines.Trade ReviewA rich and pathbreaking collection of materials that span the humanistic discipliines, this volume includes key texts that should not be omitted in a sourcebook of this kind as well as many that are available for the first time in English. Its thematic organization encourages new ways of thinking about the period that transcend traditional boundaries. The expert translations and extensive critical matter will make this an indispensable resource on early medieval China. -- Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies [An] excellent resource... Highly recommended. CHOICE [A] pioneering handbook. Library JournalTable of ContentsChronological Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Translations Abbreviations Introduction Part I. The North and the South by Jessey J. C. Choo 1. Return to the North? The Debate on Moving the Capital Back to Luoyang, by Jessey J. C. Choo 2. The Disputation at Pengcheng: Accounts from the Wei shu and the Song shu, by Albert E. Dien 3. Between Imitation and Mockery: The Southern Treatments of Northern Cultures, by Jessey J. C. Choo 4. Literary Imagination of the North and South, by Ping Wang Part II. Governing Mechanisms and Social Reality by Yang Lu 5. Managing Locality in Early Medieval China: Evidence from Changsha, by Yang Lu 6. Classical Scholarship in the Shu Region: The Case of Qiao Zhou, by J. Michael Farmer 7. Ranking Men and Assessing Talent: Xiahou Xuan's Response to an Inquiry by Sima Yi, by Timothy M. Davis 8. On Land and Wealth: Liu Zishang's "Petition on Closing Off Mountains and Lakes" and Yang Xi's "Discussion on Abolishing Old Regulations Regarding Mountains and Marshes", by Charles Holcombe 9. Crime and Punishment: The Case of Liu Hui in the Wei shu, by Jen-der Lee 10. Marriage and Social Status: Shen Yue's "Impeaching Wang Yuan", by David R. Knechtges 11. Religion and Society on the Silk Road: The Inscriptional Evidence from Turfan, by Huaiyu Chen Part III. Cultural Capital by Wendy Swartz 12. The Art of Discourse: Xi Kang's "Sound Is Without Sadness or Joy", by Robert Ashmore 13. Poetry on the Mysterious: The Writings of Sun Chuo, by Paul W. Kroll 14. The Art of Poetry Writing: Liu Xiaochuo's "Becoming the Number-One Person for the Number-One Position", by Ping Wang 15. Six Poems from a Liang Dynasty Princely Court, by Xiaofei Tian 16. Pei Ziye's "Discourse on Insect Carving", by Jack W. Chen 17. Classifying the Literary Tradition: Zhi Yu's "Discourse on Literary Compositions Divided by Genre", by Wendy Swartz 18. Zhong Rong's Preface to Grades of the Poets, by Stephen Owen 19. Book Collecting and Cataloging in the Age of Manuscript Culture: Xiao Yi's Master of the Golden Tower and Ruan Xiaoxu's Preface to Seven Records, by Xiaofei Tian Part IV. Imaging Self and Other by Wendy Swartz 20. Biographies of Recluses: Huangfu Mi's Accounts of High-Minded Men, by Alan Berkowitz 21. Classifications of People and Conduct: Selections from Liu Shao's Treatise on Personality and Liu Yiqing's Recent Anecdotes from the Talk of the Ages, by Jack W. Chen 22. The Literary Community at the Court of the Liang Crown Prince, by Ping Wang 23. Self-Narration: Tao Yuanming's "Biography of the Master of Five Willows" and Yuan Can's "Biography of the Master of Wonderful Virtue", by Wendy Swartz 24. On Political and Personal Fate: Three Selections from Jiang Yan's Prose and Verse, by Paul W. Kroll 25. The Shadow Image in the Cave: Discourse on Icons, by Eugene Wang Part V. Everyday Life by Jessey J. C. Choo and Albert E. Dien 26. Dietary Habits: Shu Xi's "Rhapsody on Pasta", by David R. Knechtges 27. The Epitaph of a Third-Century Wet Nurse, Xu Yi, by Jen-der Lee 28. Festival and Ritual Calendar: Selections from Record of the Year and Seasons of Jing-Chu, by Ian Chapman 29. Custom and Society: The Family Instructions of Mr. Yan, by Albert E. Dien 30. Adoption and Motherhood: "The Petition Submitted by Lady [nee] Yu", by Jessey J. C. Choo 31. Estate Culture in Early Medieval China: The Case of Shi Chong, by David R. Knechtges Part VI. Relations with the Unseen World by Robert Ford Campany 32. Biographies of Eight Autocremators and Huijiao's "Critical Evaluation", by James A. Benn 33. Divine Instructions for an Official, by Stephen R. Bokenkamp 34. Tales of Strange Events, by Robert Ford Campany 35. Texts for Stabilizing Tombs, by Timothy M. Davis 36. Reciting Scriptures to Move the Spirits, by Clarke Hudson 37. Confucian Views of the Supernatural, by Keith N. Knapp 38. Encounters in Mountains, by Gil Raz List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a brilliant book. It is the most innovative contribution to our understanding of Mughal history in my time. As a work of the first importance, and a step change in our knowledge of sixteenth-century India, it must be read by anyone interested in the fields of Islamic kingship, millenarianism, and astrology in the Muslim world and the early-modern world in general. -- Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London Moin deserves the highest praise for venturing into this contested terrain and writing a most interesting book about it. -- Andre Wink American Historical Review he has thrown an entirely new light on how early monarchs of India's greatest dynastic house asserted their claims to royal authority. His book should be read not just by historians of South Asia but equally by those of Central Asia and Iran, as well as by specialists in Islamic studies. -- Richard M. Eaton Journal of Interdisciplinary History In this unusually well written and elegantly carpentered book-he has a rare gift for building argument through narrative-Moin has delivered a major contribution to both Islamic history and the scholarship of sacred kingship. -- Alan Strathern History and Theory Moin outlines a formidable challenge to the conventional narratives of Mughal and, to a lesser extent, Safavid history that is likely to surprise even specialists... A valuable contribution to the field that ought to compel scholars to reevaluate key assumptions regarding kingship and sainthood in Mughal India. International Journal of Middle East Studies Too seldom does a plodding dissertation become transformed into an elegant monograph. This 2010 dissertation is the rare, and welcome, exception... The author has conducted deep archival research with an accent on visual history and astrology... The Millennial Sovereign does deliver on its promise. Journal of Islamic Studies A delightful study that seeks to provide early modern Islamic historical scholarship with a new model to conceive of politics in the pre-modern era... Rich Review of Middle East Studies A fine volume that will enrich the libraries of both scholars of Islam and scholars of early modern Europe. The Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration 1. Introduction: Islam and the Millennium 2. The Lord of Conjunction: Sacrality and Sovereignty in the Age of Timur 3. The Crown of Dreams: Sufis and Princes in Sixteenth-Century Iran 4. The Alchemical Court: The Beginnings of the Mughal Imperial Cult 5. The Millennial Sovereign: The Troubled Unveiling of the Savior Monarch 6. The Throne of Time: The Painted Miracles of the Saint Emperor 7. Conclusion: The Graffiti Under the Throne Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn outstanding milestone in Asian historical geography. Northeast Asia emerges as a dynamic sphere of interaction among local, national, and international forces. This book will be useful for classes in history and geography and essential for the reference shelf of every student of Northeast Asia. -- Christopher P. Atwood, Indiana University A unique and extremely welcome contribution to the study of a critical region during its most important centuries. This book relates the major events and plots the most significant sites decade by decade from the end of the sixteenth century into the twenty-first. It opens largely untrafficked parts of Asia to wide readership and promises to become a standard reference for historians, political scientists, and geographers, as well as anyone who appreciates serious cartography. -- Nancy S. Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania The creators of this historical atlas have produced a small treasure, not least in the multilanguage table of place-names, for all those who are interested in the area. It also represents an innovative method to recognize and rescue a region whose story has been obscured by superpowers throughout much of history. -- Prasenjit Duara, National University of Singapore This superb atlas greatly enhances our knowledge of the region of Asia comprising north China, Korea, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, and Manchuria. The authors define the region ecologically instead of politically, focusing on the interaction of nomadic conquerors with the expanding empires of Russia and China and the Korean state. They outline boundaries with vivid colors and carefully locate major towns and geographic features, while also providing a concise integrated political narrative for each decade over nearly five hundred years. Such an effective combination of visual and narrative information makes this an essential resource for anyone researching or teaching about this critical region of Asia. -- Peter C. Perdue, Yale University This work fills a gaping hole in our knowledge of Russian history as well as all of Northeast Asian history. -- Helen Hundley The Russian Review Thought-provoking and intriguing - especially if you like maps... Essential for anyone interested in the broad sweep of northeast Asian history. Asian Review Useful. I would recommend this atlas for academic collections. Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Map Society Marvelous... Its maps are elaborate enough to inspire researchers and still compendious enough to be useful for teaching history and historical geography at the university level. Historical Atlas of Northeast Asia would also serve scholars of Asian studies as an excellent reference book. Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Methodology and Sources Terminology and Spelling Abbreviations Introduction: Northeast Asia Contested Term, Contested Region Geography Climate and Human Ecology Peoples and Languages Politics Part I. 1590-1700 Part II. 1700-1800 Part III. 1800-1900 Part IV. 1900-2010 Appendix A. Historical Maps Appendix B. Gazetteer Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKinney's painstaking translation fills a curious lacuna by making this foundational work available to a broad audience of scholars and students of Asian history. The book is a significant contribution to the field in terms of both its efforts to illuminate the history of gender relations in East Asia and the quality of its translations. -- Miranda Brown, University of Michigan Exemplary Women of Early China is valuable not only for what it reveals about the culture of early China but also because of the influence the Lienu zhuan had in the centuries that followed. As it provided examples of the good that women could do, through word and deed, it became a favorite book to teach to girls. Anne Behnke Kinney's faithful and elegant annotated translation makes this classic of women's history accessible to both students and scholars. -- Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington Finally, the 125 women who lived their honorable, violent, pernicious, or mythical lives in China centuries before the birth of Christ have met the interlocutor worthy of their name. Anne Behnke Kinney has changed our views about governance, Confucian morality, and social civility in the early empire by showing the centrality of women in politics and in society. This is not the first English translation of this justifiably famous collection of biographies, but it will likely be the last. -- Dorothy Ko, Barnard College Exemplary Women of Early China is essential for understanding China's premodern gender regime, Confucian ideology, and women's sense of self. The Lienu zhuan provided later authors and artists with an endlessly rich source of moral exemplars to reveal behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney's elegant and erudite translation brings to life the words and deeds of these remarkable women. A wonderfully inspiring read. -- Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University Kinney's faithful translation and her erudite annotations and introduction make this classic of women's history accessible to a broad audience of scholars and students of Asian history... This book is an essential sourcebook for women's and gender history collections. Highly recommended. CHOICE With her extensive and meticulously presented introduction, with her precise and readable translation, and with her careful annotation of historical and textual references, Kinney has done both students and scholars of early China a great favour. Chinet Anne Benhke Kinney's faithful and eloquent translation presents a ground-breaking effort that will allow readers to rediscover a foundational book of early Chinese women's life, moral code, and inspiration... A brilliant, fresh, and scholarly contextualized introduction... A must-read book. Journal of the American Oriental Society By making this key work on women's history more accessible to the international academic community than ever before, Kinney's translation of Liu Xiang's monumental collection will surely be accepted as the new standard. -- Bret Hinsch NAN NU Elegant and judiciously footnoted... this scholarly and thoughtful translation places Kinney in the long lineage of Chinese female authors who have made this text the focus of their intellectual and moral concern. -- Joan Judge The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chronology 1. The Maternal Models 2. The Worthy and Enlightened 3. The Sympathetic and Wise 4. The Chaste and Compliant 5. The Principled and Righteous 6. The Accomplished Rhetoricians 7. The Depraved and Favored 8. Supplemental Biographies Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKinney's painstaking translation fills a curious lacuna by making this foundational work available to a broad audience of scholars and students of Asian history. The book is a significant contribution to the field in terms of both its efforts to illuminate the history of gender relations in East Asia and the quality of its translations. -- Miranda Brown, University of Michigan Exemplary Women of Early China is valuable not only for what it reveals about the culture of early China but also because of the influence the Lienu zhuan had in the centuries that followed. As it provided examples of the good that women could do, through word and deed, it became a favorite book to teach to girls. Anne Behnke Kinney's faithful and elegant annotated translation makes this classic of women's history accessible to both students and scholars. -- Patricia Ebrey, University of Washington Finally, the 125 women who lived their honorable, violent, pernicious, or mythical lives in China centuries before the birth of Christ have met the interlocutor worthy of their name. Anne Behnke Kinney has changed our views about governance, Confucian morality, and social civility in the early empire by showing the centrality of women in politics and in society. This is not the first English translation of this justifiably famous collection of biographies, but it will likely be the last. -- Dorothy Ko, Barnard College Exemplary Women of Early China is essential for understanding China's premodern gender regime, Confucian ideology, and women's sense of self. The Lienu zhuan provided later authors and artists with an endlessly rich source of moral exemplars to reveal behavioral norms for both genders. Kinney's elegant and erudite translation brings to life the words and deeds of these remarkable women. A wonderfully inspiring read. -- Robin D. S. Yates, McGill University Kinney's faithful translation and her erudite annotations and introduction make this classic of women's history accessible to a broad audience of scholars and students of Asian history... This book is an essential sourcebook for women's and gender history collections. Highly recommended. CHOICE With her extensive and meticulously presented introduction, with her precise and readable translation, and with her careful annotation of historical and textual references, Kinney has done both students and scholars of early China a great favour. Chinet Anne Benhke Kinney's faithful and eloquent translation presents a ground-breaking effort that will allow readers to rediscover a foundational book of early Chinese women's life, moral code, and inspiration... A brilliant, fresh, and scholarly contextualized introduction... A must-read book. Journal of the American Oriental Society By making this key work on women's history more accessible to the international academic community than ever before, Kinney's translation of Liu Xiang's monumental collection will surely be accepted as the new standard. -- Bret Hinsch NAN NU Elegant and judiciously footnoted... this scholarly and thoughtful translation places Kinney in the long lineage of Chinese female authors who have made this text the focus of their intellectual and moral concern. -- Joan Judge The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chronology 1. The Maternal Models 2. The Worthy and Enlightened 3. The Sympathetic and Wise 4. The Chaste and Compliant 5. The Principled and Righteous 6. The Accomplished Rhetoricians 7. The Depraved and Favored 8. Supplemental Biographies Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army ruminates on human behavior and the nature of loyalty during a time of war.Trade ReviewThis important text offers a fascinating glimpse into early modern Japan and Japanese-Korean relations from the perspective of a Korean official captured by Japanese invaders in 1597, contributing significantly to the growing body of scholarship on the largest military conflict (in terms of numbers) in the world in the sixteenth century. The translation is smooth and erudite and the notes are full of useful historical and cultural information, making it invaluable for students and academics. -- Kenneth M. Swope, University of Southern Mississippi The Kanyangnok takes us off the battlefield, through the palpable terror known to prisoners of war, and all the way to Japan and back. We meet Chinese ambassadors, other Korean captives, and Japanese intellectuals. We listen in on the machinations of the Japanese warlords-their subterfuges and constant jockeying for power-and we feel the despair of attempted suicide, the frustration of a betrayed escape attempt, and the exhilaration of final liberation. -- J. B. Lewis, University of Oxford A benchmark for scholarly translations... The translation itself is eminently readable and at times extremely moving, while the annotations would satisfy even the most ardent student of East Asian history. I sincerely hope that this work will be recognized as a model for the scholarly translation of premodern Korean texts and that the meticulous approach of Kim Haboush and Robinson will be emulated by everyone engaged in this type of work. -- Michael C. E. Finch, Keimyung University ACTA KOREANA [A] very welcome addition to the growing literature on Korean-Japanese relations in general and the Imjin War in particular. -- Martina Deuchler, University of London Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies [A] valuable contribution to the Anglophone history of early modern northeast Asia... The work as a whole is a fascinating and illustrative exploration of the fear, loss, and dislocations of war, the complexities of the navigations of cultural difference, and the negotiations of power and identity amid overlapping and potentially conflicting discourses of the local and the universal. -- Joshua Van Lieu, LaGrange College The Journal of Northeast Asian History Artfully translated and informatively annotated... A Korean War Captive in Japan, 1597-1600 should be a requirement for courses on Korean history and premodern East Asia. It provides an important primary source for students and scholars working in East Asian studies. -- George Kallander The Journal of Asian Studies An excellent translation of an important work. Monumenta NipponicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Encounters with the Adversities of War 2. An Exhortation to Koreans Still Held Prisoner in Japan 3. A Report to the Royal Secretariat on Japanese Social Practices 4. A Memorial Sent from Captivity Appendix 1. Japanese Daimyo in the Invasion of Chos?n and Other Information Appendix 2. Suggestions for Military Reform and War Strategies Appendix 3. Japanese Generals Who Participated in the Imjin and Ch?ngyu Invasions 5. Postscript Appendix 1. The Eight Circuits and Sixty-six Provinces of Japan Appendix 2. Japanese Government Offices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisClassic setsuwa tales describing Buddhism’s emergence in eighth-century Japan.Trade ReviewThese stories amuse, enchant, sometimes delight... A wonderful addition to the bedside table. Buddha DiariesTable of ContentsIntroduction Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the Dutch East India Company’s clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty.Trade ReviewClulow provides a superb study of the establishment of the relationship between the Dutch East India Company and the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th and early 18th centuries... Well-researched and well-written... Highly recommended. CHOICE Not only a thoroughly researched political and economic history, but... a fascinating maritime adventure as well... Highly recommended. Northern Mariner Well-researched and tightly argued study... Clulow's book makes a most valuable and welcome contribution to a fresh understanding of the history of the VOC and the European presence in Early Modern Asia. -- Michael Facius H-Soz-u-Kult This carefully documented analysis of difficult primary sources is unquestionably a contribution to the field and an important resource for better understanding early modern Japan, its foreign relationships, and the formative years of the joint-stock companies in Asia. American Historical Review Clulow's book makes a most valuable and welcome contribution to a fresh understanding of the history of the VOC and the European presence in Early Modern Asia, as well as to the ongoing debate about the characteristics of the global "early modern." Rezensiert fur geschichte.transnational An engaging, tightly knit, and timely study of the origins of the Dutch East India Company's experience in Tokugawa Japan. Journal of Japanese Studies Both a gold mine for scholars... and a great model for students who take classes on transnational communication... An inspiring study. H-War A provocative achievement in scholarship and one strongly recommended for devoted instructors of world history. Education About Asia Clulow offers an excellent analysis of how the VOC adapted itself... The Company and the Shogun is a welcome contribution to the field of international relations in pre modern East Asia. -- Nam-lin Hur Japan Review A fascinating reassessment of previously held assumptions about international relations in 17th-century Japan. The Japan Times Original, well written, and provocative in the best sense of the word... The Company and the Shogun is a seminal work, one that offers a bold new vision of the intersection of Japanese and global history in the seventeenth century. Monumenta Nipponica Well-written, clearly argued, solidly based on Japanese and Dutch sources...a valuable reminder of the limited influence of European colonial powers in the early modern world. Sixteenth Century Journal A focused and well-researched book... It is a welcome addition to literature. Business History Review This engrossing monograph offers a succinct and original interpretation of the early encounter between the fledging Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Tokugawa Shogunate. Economic History Review Commendable and highly engaging. History: Review of New Books A superb analysis of the VOC's changing relationship with Japan's political and mercantile elites. Low Countries Historical Review A most valuable contribution to Japanese political history. The International Journal of Maritime HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Archival Sources Introduction: Taming the Dutch Part 1. Diplomacy 1. Royal Letters from the Republic 2. The Lord of Batavia 3. The Shogun's Loyal Vassals Part 2. Violence 4. The Violent Sea 5. Power and Petition Part 3. Sovereignty 6. Planting the Flag in Asia 7. Giving Up the Governor Conclusion: The Dutch Experience in Japan Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConfronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature.Trade ReviewThe stereotype-that fixed and frozen form of cultural unknowledge-is brought to animate life in this book. Rereading an indispensable archive of South Asian Anglophone fiction through iconic stereotypes of the postcolony and the postcolonial (hunger, crowds, slums, migrant dislocation, global metropolis, civil war's deathscape, and terror), Mrinalini Chakravorty brilliantly reveals what lies within the stereotype. Hypervisual and fetishistic, yet also spectacularly mobile, relational, and affectively charged, the stereotype emerges as a virtual and vital technology of literary globalism and a surprising education in ethical reading. -- Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing, A well-theorized consideration... This reviewer knows of no comparable treatment of South Asian stereotypes... Highly recommended. CHOICE A lucid and provocative analysis of the significance of stereotype in contemporary South Asian literature. South Asian Review An important book not only for postcolonial studies of South Asian Anglophone literature and culture, but also for modeling what an ethical reading practice is and does in the so-called age of globalization. The Comparatist What Chakravorty's book allows is a wonderful meditation on the work of the stereotype... We learn to read the novel differently after reading her book, to make demands on our sensitivities at her urging and to our profit. Contemporary Literature A provocative and insightful catalogue of features that characterize stereotypes. -- Saikat Majumdar South Asian History and Culture The close readings one finds in every chapter offer marvelously useful material for classroom teaching and discussions of stereotypes in a postcolonial context. Modern Fiction Studies Eminently readable, it will be of interest to scholars and students of postcolonial studies, cultural studies of globalization, South Asian literature, and global literature... A remarkably cogent and clarifying book, lucid in its genealogical tracks and impassioned in its perusal of well-loved novels. Novel: A Forum on FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Stereotypes as Provocation 1. Why the Stereotype? Why South Asia? 2. To Understand Me, You'll Have to Swallow a World: Margins, Multitudes, and the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children 3. Slumdog or White Tiger? The Abjection and Allure of Slums 4. The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Stereotypes and Postcolonial Melancholia 5. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane: The Biocultural Stereotypes of Migrancy 6. Good and Bad Transnationalisms: Outsourcing and Terror Epilogue: The Afterlife of Stereotypes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConfronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature.Trade ReviewThe stereotype-that fixed and frozen form of cultural unknowledge-is brought to animate life in this book. Rereading an indispensable archive of South Asian Anglophone fiction through iconic stereotypes of the postcolony and the postcolonial (hunger, crowds, slums, migrant dislocation, global metropolis, civil war's deathscape, and terror), Mrinalini Chakravorty brilliantly reveals what lies within the stereotype. Hypervisual and fetishistic, yet also spectacularly mobile, relational, and affectively charged, the stereotype emerges as a virtual and vital technology of literary globalism and a surprising education in ethical reading. -- Vilashini Cooppan, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing, A well-theorized consideration... This reviewer knows of no comparable treatment of South Asian stereotypes... Highly recommended. CHOICE A lucid and provocative analysis of the significance of stereotype in contemporary South Asian literature. South Asian Review An important book not only for postcolonial studies of South Asian Anglophone literature and culture, but also for modeling what an ethical reading practice is and does in the so-called age of globalization. The Comparatist What Chakravorty's book allows is a wonderful meditation on the work of the stereotype... We learn to read the novel differently after reading her book, to make demands on our sensitivities at her urging and to our profit. Contemporary Literature A provocative and insightful catalogue of features that characterize stereotypes. -- Saikat Majumdar South Asian History and Culture The close readings one finds in every chapter offer marvelously useful material for classroom teaching and discussions of stereotypes in a postcolonial context. Modern Fiction Studies Eminently readable, it will be of interest to scholars and students of postcolonial studies, cultural studies of globalization, South Asian literature, and global literature... A remarkably cogent and clarifying book, lucid in its genealogical tracks and impassioned in its perusal of well-loved novels. Novel: A Forum on FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Stereotypes as Provocation 1. Why the Stereotype? Why South Asia? 2. To Understand Me, You'll Have to Swallow a World: Margins, Multitudes, and the Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children 3. Slumdog or White Tiger? The Abjection and Allure of Slums 4. The Dead That Haunt Anil's Ghost: Subaltern Stereotypes and Postcolonial Melancholia 5. From Bangladesh to Brick Lane: The Biocultural Stereotypes of Migrancy 6. Good and Bad Transnationalisms: Outsourcing and Terror Epilogue: The Afterlife of Stereotypes Notes Bibliography Index

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