Asian history Books
University of Washington Press The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Melnick Dyer examines [an] unusual example of female leadership in the traditionally male-dominated world of Buddhist monasticism through an in-depth engagement with Mingyur Peldrön’s life, a story that is characterized by a tension between her female gender and her family privilege." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Dyer’s book is a meticulous analysis of the namthar of an important woman and female saint of the eighteenth century. . . [A] must-read for Tibetologists and historians of religion with an interest in gender. Scholars of Tibetan studies having other areas of specialization should read it as well, for it balances out the image of Tibetan Buddhism as a predominantly male-dominated and male-centered religion. The book is also written in a way that is comprehensible to students and scholars from other fields" * H-Net Reviews *
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University of Washington Press The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Melnick Dyer examines [an] unusual example of female leadership in the traditionally male-dominated world of Buddhist monasticism through an in-depth engagement with Mingyur Peldrön’s life, a story that is characterized by a tension between her female gender and her family privilege." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Dyer’s book is a meticulous analysis of the namthar of an important woman and female saint of the eighteenth century. . . [A] must-read for Tibetologists and historians of religion with an interest in gender. Scholars of Tibetan studies having other areas of specialization should read it as well, for it balances out the image of Tibetan Buddhism as a predominantly male-dominated and male-centered religion. The book is also written in a way that is comprehensible to students and scholars from other fields" * H-Net Reviews *
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University of Washington Press Governing Water in India
Book SynopsisIntensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to regulate use. State policies and institutions influenced by global models of reform produce and magnify socio-economic injustice in this water bureaucracy.Drawing on historical records, an analysis of post-liberalization developments, and fieldwork in the city of Chennai, Leela Fernandes traces the configuration of colonial historical legacies, developmental-state policies, and economic reforms that strain water resources and intensify inequality. While reforms of water governance promote privatization and decentralization, they strengthen the state centralized control over water through city-based development models. Understanding the political economy of water thus illuminates the consequent failTrade Review"Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform and bureaucracy, and calibrating and deepening insights into India’s unequal social fabric...Nuanced, rigorous, and refreshingly original." * Current History *
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University of Washington Press Governing Water in India
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Leela Fernandes’s Governing Water in India is a tour de force, analyzing the politics of reform and bureaucracy, and calibrating and deepening insights into India’s unequal social fabric...Nuanced, rigorous, and refreshingly original." * Current History *
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University of Washington Press Turning Land into Capital
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an important palliative to the recent ontological turn in environmental anthropology. It throws into sharp relief issues of power, inequality, and the commodification of nature that go beyond the intimacies of human-nature entanglement. Crafting a more-than-human perspective grounded in the dynamics of land capitalization and justice allows for a more robust approach to scholarship in this academic subfield and region...Furthermore, the volume is an outcome of collaborative scholarship engaged deeply in local and regional work." * H-Net Reviews *"Anyone familiar with this group of authors will not be surprised that Turning Land into Capital is incisive work, informed by a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and communicating the complexities of land politics with depth and clarity." * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *"A highly readable, insightful volume on land politics across the Mekong region today. Featuring detailed case studies, and grounded in a solid political ecological perspective, it is an essential read for scholars across the social sciences interested in the region. Additionally, it is extremely insightful for scholars who are thinking about land governance from multiple scales and comparatively across regions." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer List of Abbreviations PART I: Mekong Regional Themes 1. Land and Capital across Borders: A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch 2. Legacies in Land Governance: Colonialism, War, and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael B. Dwyer, and Jean-Christophe Diepart 3. Agrarian Modernization and Counter Land Reforms: Ideologies and Realities / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Christian Castellanet 4. Grounding Land Justice: Contested Principles, Processes, and Outcomes / Carl Middleton and Vanessa Lamb PART II: Mekong Country Cases 5. Land Commodification, State Formation, and Agrarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Carl Middleton 6. "Thirty Thousand Hectares Will Not Be a Proble": The Politics of Large-Scale Land Development in Laos / Michael B. Dwyer 7. Legacies of Race, Ethnicity, and War: Contemporary Land Governance Reform in Myanmar / Kevin Woods 8. Movement, Countermovement, and Regionalization of Capital: The Dynamics of Land Relations in Thailand / Philip Hirsch 9. Land from the Tiller: The Politics of "Land Recovery" in Vietnam / Nga Dao and Marie Mellac Conclusion: A Regional Approach to Land Capitalization / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer References Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Turning Land into Capital
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is an important palliative to the recent ontological turn in environmental anthropology. It throws into sharp relief issues of power, inequality, and the commodification of nature that go beyond the intimacies of human-nature entanglement. Crafting a more-than-human perspective grounded in the dynamics of land capitalization and justice allows for a more robust approach to scholarship in this academic subfield and region...Furthermore, the volume is an outcome of collaborative scholarship engaged deeply in local and regional work." * H-Net Reviews *"Anyone familiar with this group of authors will not be surprised that Turning Land into Capital is incisive work, informed by a range of interdisciplinary perspectives and communicating the complexities of land politics with depth and clarity." * Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography *"A highly readable, insightful volume on land politics across the Mekong region today. Featuring detailed case studies, and grounded in a solid political ecological perspective, it is an essential read for scholars across the social sciences interested in the region. Additionally, it is extremely insightful for scholars who are thinking about land governance from multiple scales and comparatively across regions." * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer List of Abbreviations PART I: Mekong Regional Themes 1. Land and Capital across Borders: A Regional Geopolitics / Natalia Scurrah and Philip Hirsch 2. Legacies in Land Governance: Colonialism, War, and Socialism / Kevin Woods, Michael B. Dwyer, and Jean-Christophe Diepart 3. Agrarian Modernization and Counter Land Reforms: Ideologies and Realities / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Christian Castellanet 4. Grounding Land Justice: Contested Principles, Processes, and Outcomes / Carl Middleton and Vanessa Lamb PART II: Mekong Country Cases 5. Land Commodification, State Formation, and Agrarian Capitalism: The Political Economy of Land Governance in Cambodia / Jean-Christophe Diepart and Carl Middleton 6. "Thirty Thousand Hectares Will Not Be a Proble": The Politics of Large-Scale Land Development in Laos / Michael B. Dwyer 7. Legacies of Race, Ethnicity, and War: Contemporary Land Governance Reform in Myanmar / Kevin Woods 8. Movement, Countermovement, and Regionalization of Capital: The Dynamics of Land Relations in Thailand / Philip Hirsch 9. Land from the Tiller: The Politics of "Land Recovery" in Vietnam / Nga Dao and Marie Mellac Conclusion: A Regional Approach to Land Capitalization / Philip Hirsch, Kevin Woods, Natalia Scurrah, and Michael B. Dwyer References Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Fixing the Image
Book SynopsisIntroduced in Phnom Penh around 1990, at the twilight of socialism and after two decades of conflict and upheaval, ultrasound took root in humanitarian and then privatized medicine. Services have since multiplied, promising diagnostic information and better prenatal and general health care. In Fixing the Image Jenna Grant draws on years of ethnographic and archival research to theorize the force and appeal of medical imaging in the urban landscape of Phnom Penh. Set within long genealogies of technology as tool of postcolonial modernity, and vision as central to skilled diagnosis in medicine and Theravada Buddhism, ultrasound offers stabilizing knowledge and elicits desire and pleasure, particularly for pregnant women. Grant offers the concept of fixingwhich invokes repair, stabilization, and a dose of something to which one is addictedto illuminate how ultrasound is entangled with practices of care and neglect across different domains. Fixing the Image thus provides a method for study
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University of Washington Press Fixing the Image
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University of Washington Press Lahore Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cinema studies in Pakistan. Going beyond the spatial borders of nation-states in South Asia and the limitations of decades, Dadi explores the cinematic movement of aesthetic forms and political consciousness. Professor Dadi's work will appeal to a wide readership, including South Asian cinephiles and scholars working on South Asian history and media studies. It serves as a key reference and a classic in the field of South Asian film and media studies." * The News on Sunday *"Even before Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable, the study of the cinema in Pakistan owed much to the work of Iftikhar Dadi…In many ways, [it] can be read as a companion to Dadi’s 2010 Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia. For the curious reader, these books should be read side-by-side. Together, they help us to better understand and appreciate the distinct contribution of these two seminal work" * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Lahore Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] pioneering contribution to the emerging field of cinema studies in Pakistan. Going beyond the spatial borders of nation-states in South Asia and the limitations of decades, Dadi explores the cinematic movement of aesthetic forms and political consciousness. Professor Dadi's work will appeal to a wide readership, including South Asian cinephiles and scholars working on South Asian history and media studies. It serves as a key reference and a classic in the field of South Asian film and media studies." * The News on Sunday *"Even before Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable, the study of the cinema in Pakistan owed much to the work of Iftikhar Dadi…In many ways, [it] can be read as a companion to Dadi’s 2010 Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia. For the curious reader, these books should be read side-by-side. Together, they help us to better understand and appreciate the distinct contribution of these two seminal work" * South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press The Cultivated Forest
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ix Chapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian Lander Chapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller Chapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah Bender Chapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. Lee Chapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng Zhang Chapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello Chapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria Chapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa Pitts Chapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press The Cultivated Forest
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ix Chapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian Lander Chapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller Chapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah Bender Chapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. Lee Chapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng Zhang Chapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello Chapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria Chapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa Pitts Chapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Insect Histories of East Asia
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Terms and Conventions Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries Introduction David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong 1. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China Federico Valenti 2. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature Olivia Milburn 3. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power 4. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China David A. Bello 5. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea Sang-ho Ro 6. “Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies”: Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan Kerry Smith Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China 7. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period Daniel Burton-Rose 8. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the “Species Problem” in Socialist China Lijing Jiang Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Insect Histories of East Asia
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Terms and Conventions Chronology of Dynasties, Reign Periods, and Countries Introduction David A. Bello and Daniel Burton-Rose Part One: Conceptual Categorization and the Philology of Chong 1. What Did It Take to Be a Chong? Profile of a Polysemous Character in Early China Federico Valenti 2. The Masculine Bee: Gendering Insects in Chinese Imperial-Era Literature Olivia Milburn 3. Manchu Insect Names: Grasshoppers, Locusts, and a Few Other Bugs in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Mårten Söderblom Saarela Part Two: Insect Impacts on the Exercise of State Power 4. Locusts Made Simple: Holding Humans Responsible for Insect Behavior in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century China David A. Bello 5. A Silkworm Massacre: Agricultural Development and Loss of Indigenous Diversity in Early Twentieth-Century Korea Sang-ho Ro 6. “Lives without Mosquitoes and Flies”: Eradication Campaigns in Postwar Japan Kerry Smith Part Three: The Institutionalization of Entomology in Twentieth-Century China 7. Circumscribing China with Insects: A Manual of the Dragonflies of China and the Indigenization of Academic Entomology in the Republican Period Daniel Burton-Rose 8. The Dialectics of Species: Chen Shixiang, Insect Taxonomy, and the “Species Problem” in Socialist China Lijing Jiang Glossary of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Terms Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Island X Taiwanese Student Migrants Campus Spies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[E]ssential reading…Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future." * TaiwaneseAmerican.org *
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University of Washington Press Island X Taiwanese Student Migrants Campus Spies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[E]ssential reading…Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future." * TaiwaneseAmerican.org *
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University of Washington Press Japans Commission on the Constitution
Book SynopsisJapan's Commission on the Constitution: The Final Report
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MV - University of Washington Press Antitrust in Germany and Japan
Book SynopsisAn innovative, comparative study of the origins, development, and enforcement of antitrust law in Germany and Japan over the course of 50 years.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART 1 THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANTITRUST LEGISLATION IN GERMANY AND JAPAN Error and Irony: The American Impetus Transformation and Convergence: The German and Japanese Responses PART 2 ANTITRUST REGULATION AND ITS ENFORCEMENT IN GERMANY AND JAPAN Prohibitions and Approvals Processes and Procedures Remedies and Sanctions A Concluding Assessment Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Protracted Contest
Book SynopsisA thorough and compelling account of the rivalry between China and India over 50 years.Trade Review"A well-crafted and incisive study of Sino-Indian relationsin the past half-century and more." * India Weekly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Sino-Indian Relations: The Protracted Contest The Tibetan Factor in Sino-Indian Relations The Territorial Dispute Sino-Indian Rivalry for Influence and Status among Developing Countries Indian-Chinese Rivalry in Nepal Sikkim and Bhutan The Sino-Pakistani Entente Cordiale Managing the Contradiction between Maintaining the SIno-Pakistani Entente and Furthering Sino-Indian Rapprochement Burma: The Back Door to China The Indian Ocean in Sino-Indian Relations Nuclear Weapons and the Sino-Indian Relationship Nuclear Weapons and the International Status of China and India Prospects for a Qualitative Change in PRC-ROI Relations Notes Indes
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University of Washington Press Koreas Future and the Great Powers
Book SynopsisA collection of essays addressing the problem of how to achieve a stable political order in a unified Korea.Trade Review"In their highly informative and instructional book, editors Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard J. Ellings have compiled an exciting amalgam of essays which addresses those vital issues central to the reunification of the Korean peninsula." * The Korea Times *"A valuable contribution to the understanding of international politics surrounding the Korean peninsula and U.S. policy toward the region." * Choice *"A superb collection of articles and essays by leading scholars and diplomats of Asian Security..This book provides enlightening views about complex issues and should be on the desk of every diplomat, strategist, and national security functionary." * Military Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Commonly Used Abbreviations 1 Introduction HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT 2 Conflict and Cooperation: The Pacific Powers and Korea by Chae-Jin Lee 3 Discerning North Korea’s Intentions by Chuck Downs 4 China and Korean Reunification--A Neighbor’s Concerns by Robert A. Scalapino 5 Japan and the Unification of Korea: Challenges for U.S. Policy Coordination by Michael H. Armacost and Kenneth B. Pyle 6 Russia, Korea, and Northeast Asia by Herbert J. Ellison ECONOMIC CONTEXT 7 Economic Strategies for Reunification by Marcus Noland 8 The Role of International Finance in Korean Economic Reconstruction and Reunification STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS 9 The Post-Korean Unification Security Landscape and U.S. Security Policy in Northeast Asia 10 Negotiating Korean Unification: Options for an International Framework by Robert L. Gallucci 11 A Policy Agenda for Achieving Korean Reunification by Douglas H. Paal 12 Assessing Interests and Objectives of Major Actors in the Korean Drama by Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard J. Ellings About the Editors and Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Fearful Symmetry IndiaPakistan Crises in the
Book SynopsisQuestioning why India and Pakistan have not fought another major war, this book gives a crisp answer: nuclear weapons.Trade Review"Reflecting the careful scholarship that has characterized the works of both authors, this is an engaging book, genuinely international and interdisciplinary in its scope. One hopes that it will be read by leaders in New Delhi, Islamabad, and Washington." * The International History Review *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Wars without End? 3. 1984: India, Pakistan, and Preventive War Fears 4. Threat Perceptions, Military Modernization, and a Crisis 5. The 1990 Kashmir Crisis 6. Out of the Closet: The 1998 Nuclear Tests Crisis 7. The Road to Kargil 8. The 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani Crisis: Exposing the Limits of Coercive Diplomacy 9. Lessons, Implications, and Policy Suggestions Index
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University of Washington Press Koizumi Diplomacy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A valuable contribution to the growing literature on Japanese defense and foreign policy making. It is sure to be read with interest by professional analysts as well as general readers interested in East Asian affairs." * Pacific Affairs *"The book provides useful information about how Japan and Japanese politics have changed since the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It contains insights into how Koizumi led the Kantei within the new political and administrative environments created by the Hashimoto administration's administrative reform bills . . . . Koizumi's legacy is yet to be determined. However, the pros and cons of Kantei diplomacy are well enumerated, assessed, and explained by the author." * H-Net *"Koizumi Diplomacy presents a new direction for the discussion of Japan's foreign policy-making. The book's detailed chronological descriptions of inter-and intra-party politics during the Koizumi years make it a valuable resource for the analysis of Japanese politics." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Shinoda's short and concise analysis covers a new and under-researched aspect of Japan's evolving foreign and security policy." * The International History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Conventions Abbreviations and Japanese Terms Introduction 1. The Roots of the Kantei Diplomacy 2. A Traumatic Experience: From the Gulf Crisis to the International Peace Cooperation Legislation 3. The Rise of Kantei 4. Koizumi's Response to Terrorism: The 2001 Anti-Terrorism Legislation 5. Preparing for a National Contingency: The 2003 Emergency Legislation 6. Dispatching the SDF to Reconstruct Iraq: The 2003 Iraq Special Measures Legislation 7. Evaluating Kantei Diplomacy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Doing Business in Rural China
Book SynopsisPresents the stories of individual entrepreneurs and presents economic data gleaned from fieldwork in Liangshan. This book documents and analyzes the phenomenal growth of Nuosu-run businesses, comparing these with Han-run businesses and asking how ethnicity affects the market-oriented economic structure and how economics affects Nuosu culture.Trade Review"Make[s] important contributions to the existing perspectives on China's ethnic minorities not least for their new rich ethnographies and research findings. One . . . major input is the exploration of the 'big' questions on Chinese national identity, citizenship, and modernity from the perspective of ethnic minorities." -- Elena Barabantseva * Asian Ethnicity *"This book sheds new light on the dynamics of ethnic China by bringing attention to its enormous complexity and the impact of ethnic entrepreneurs on impoverished minority areas. This book will interest scholars and graduate students in China studies, Asian studies, ethnic studies, and social change." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"..A richly detailed and insightful study, bound to appeal to students of contemporary Chinese culture and society." * The China Journal *"The great strength of this book lies in its exploration of the idea of the 'ethnic entrepreneur' and his (or, very rarely in the case of the Nuosu, her) role in economic, social and cultural development. Heberer competently applies general theory on entrepreneurship and ethnicity to his case study of Liangshan, and the book should therefore find readers well beyond the clan of China specialists . . . . Thomas Heberer's work on the Nuosu is highly recommended." * Pacific Affairs *"Heberer's focus on Nuosu entrepreneurs as operating between two worlds yields interesting and unanticipated results concerning ethnicity and modernity. . . . Will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields—economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, and business. . . . A stimulating and original take on market development in China." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Stevan Harrell Acknowledgments Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs 1. Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change 2. The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs 3. Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties 4. Comparative Profiles of Nuosu and Han Entrepreneurs 5. The Effect of Entrepreneurs on Local Politics 6. Entrepreneurs and Social Change 7. Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Relations 8. Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Identity Conclusion: The Influence of Nuosu Entrepreneurs Notes Bibliography Index
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MV - University of Washington Press The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Book SynopsisThe medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.Trade Review"Sreenivasan has produced a nuanced and inventive work of South Asian history combining disciplined textual and archival research with compelling historical arguments. Her book places literary production and changes in literary form firmly into a social history framework that enlivens the South Asian historical field. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, given its range, detail, and originality, is destined to occupy a familiar place on the bookshelves of not only South Asian historians, but scholars of literary culture, early modern literary history, and the sociology of literature." * Itinerario *"[A]n important contribution to cultural and social history. Sreenivasan's analysis of the mutations of the Padmini legend reveals the changing gender relations over the centuries. . . . A comprehensive bibliography and summaries of selected versions of the legend included as an appendix add to the value of the book." * Sixteenth Century Journal *"A welcome contribution. . . . Meticulously researched, Many Lives of a Rajput Queen is located within the context of the very real and often politically-charged debates over the relationship between any historical event and the multiple perspectives on it that are subsequently generated." * Canadian Journal of History *"This wide-ranging monograph effortlessly traverses regions and genres to study the evolution of a historical memory . . . . Sreenivasan analyzes Padmini's story through its entire narrative trajectory, deploying at once the skills of a historian who combines an understanding of religious thought and social history and those of a literary scholar deeply familiar with gendered tropes in narrative and discourse." * Association for Asian Studies Coomaraswamy prize committee *"A masterful and admirable scholarly achievement. . . .Sreenivasan's singular accomplishment in this meticulously researched account is to demonstrate more convincingly and thoroughly than I have ever seen done before the wonderfully complex entanglements of literature and politics, of history and legend." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Usage List of Maps 1. Introduction 2. Sufi Tale of Rajputs in Sixteenth-century Avadh 3. Rajput Kings and their Pasts in the Mughal Period 4. Tales of Past Glory under Early Colonial Indirect Rule (c. 1750-1850) 5. Exemplary Patriotism in the Late Nineteenth Century 6. Conclusion 7. Appendix 1: Summaries of Selected Versions of the Legend 8. Appendix 2: List of Known Versions / Manuscripts / Editions of the Padmini Legend Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Exemplary Figures Fayan
Book SynopsisA core text that will be relied upon by scholars of Chinese history and philosophyTrade Review"Fayan is one of the most important early Chinese texts. Carefully wrought and rich with historical insights and philosophical ruminations, it provides an invaluable window to the extraordinary mind of its creator, Yang Xiong, and the cross currents of his cultural moment. Nylan's masterful translation is a great stylistic and philological achievement. She renders Yang Xiong's prose with wit, fluency, and accuracy and provides the necessary contexts for understanding the text in her copious and helpful notes." Wai-Yee Li, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology of Dynasties Introduction Exemplary Figures / Fayan 1. Learning and Practicing 2. Our Masters 3. Cultivating One’s Person 4. Asking about the Way 5. Asking about Divine Insight 6. Asking about Illumination 7. Things Rarely Seen 8. Every Five Hundred Years 9. Foresight 10. Chong and Li 11. Yan Yuan and Min Ziqian 12. The Noble Man 13. Honoring the Ancestors, the Ultimate Duty Glossary of Names, Legendary and Historical Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the code's underlying thought in terms of the spiritual and social agenda articulated by the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), Zhu Yuanzhang.Trade Review"For students interested in these and other questions concerning Chinese law or religion in the late imperial period, Jiang’s learned study should be an obvious starting point." -- Leo K. Shin * Journal of Chinese Religions *"This book is a very important contribution to the field of Chinese legal history." -- Pär Cassel * China Review International *"The book is a necessary correction to the conventional views [that Chinese law was irrational, entirely secular, and an instrument of state control] . . . the book remains a welcome addition to the literature on traditional Chinese law." -- Ziaoqun Xu * Frontiers of History in China *"Arguing against a scholarly tradition that sees Chinese law as a purely secular instrument of despotic power, Jiang Yonglin seeks to place that tradition in the context of a China-centered Chinese history. . . . A learned and thoughtful work." -- Michael Marmé * Journal of Asian Studies *"A welcome addition to the field. A fresh look at the cosmological foundation of imperial Chinese law. An excellent starting point for future inquiries and makes a significant contribution to the discussion of Chinese law and religion." -- Weiting Guo * H-Law *"Students of Ming China and readers of Chinese history and legal history more broadly are indebted to Jiang Yonglin for this important study that casts much light on the Great Ming Code (Da Ming lu大明律) and its world. This reviewer certainly learned a lot and is confident that scholars will be referring to Jiang’s work, alongside his translation of the Code, for years to come." -- Desmond Cheung * Ming Studies *"Through an analysis of how the Ming ruling elite classified what was lawful and unlawful, pure and polluted, Jiang has opened a window to the culture and worldview of the early Ming and how these shaped the writing of the Code. His work discloses the nuances in the primary sources through a compelling narrative and presents a truly China-centred approach." -- Elif Akçetin * International History Review *"Eloquently challenges the extant mainstream ideas about the alleged “secular” and “suppressive” nature of Chinese legal culture." -- Pengsheng Chiu * Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction – Religion and Chinese Legal Cosmology 2. Early Ming Legal Cosmology – Embodying Heavenly Principle and Human Sentiment 3. The Great Ming Code and the World of Spirits – Regulating Rituals for Communicating with Deities 4. The Great Ming Code and the Human Realm – Creating Boundaries for the Ming Empire 5. The Great Ming Code and Officialdom – Rectifying Mediating Representatives 6. Conclusion – Manifesting the Mandate of Heaven Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Doing Business in Rural China
Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, the remote prefecture of Liangshan was incorporated into China's new socialist society, bringing change to the Nuosu. This volume shows how economic development has prompted Nuosu entrepreneurs to establish business, political, and social relationships beyond the traditional social confines of the clan.Trade Review"Make[s] important contributions to the existing perspectives on China's ethnic minorities not least for their new rich ethnographies and research findings. One . . . major input is the exploration of the 'big' questions on Chinese national identity, citizenship, and modernity from the perspective of ethnic minorities." -- Elena Barabantseva * Asian Ethnicity *"This book sheds new light on the dynamics of ethnic China by bringing attention to its enormous complexity and the impact of ethnic entrepreneurs on impoverished minority areas. This book will interest scholars and graduate students in China studies, Asian studies, ethnic studies, and social change." * Journal of Anthropological Research *"..A richly detailed and insightful study, bound to appeal to students of contemporary Chinese culture and society." * The China Journal *"The great strength of this book lies in its exploration of the idea of the 'ethnic entrepreneur' and his (or, very rarely in the case of the Nuosu, her) role in economic, social and cultural development. Heberer competently applies general theory on entrepreneurship and ethnicity to his case study of Liangshan, and the book should therefore find readers well beyond the clan of China specialists . . . . Thomas Heberer's work on the Nuosu is highly recommended." * Pacific Affairs *"Heberer's focus on Nuosu entrepreneurs as operating between two worlds yields interesting and unanticipated results concerning ethnicity and modernity. . . . Will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields—economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, and business. . . . A stimulating and original take on market development in China." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Stevan Harrell Acknowledgments Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs 1. Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change 2. The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs 3. Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties 4. Comparative Profiles of Nuosu and Han Entrepreneurs 5. The Effect of Entrepreneurs on Local Politics 6. Entrepreneurs and Social Change 7. Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Relations 8. Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Identity Conclusion: The Influence of Nuosu Entrepreneurs Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Great Ming Code Da Ming lu
Book SynopsisOne of the most important law codes in Chinese history, the Ming Code represents a break with the past following the alien-ruled Yuan (Mongol) dynasty and the flourishing of culture under the Ming (1368-1644). This book offers the English translation of the Code.Trade Review"The general reader as well as the specialist can be grateful for the Jiang volume, an eminently readable treasure of Chinese culture, society, and values at the end of the fourteenth century." * Journal of Asian History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on the Translation Ming Units of Measure and Money Introduction: The Making of The Great Ming Code The Great Ming Code The Imperial Preface to The Great Ming Code Diagrams 1. Laws on Punishments and General Principles 2. Laws on Personnel 3. Laws on Revenue 4. Laws on Rituals 5. Laws on Military Affairs 6. Laws on Penal Affairs 7. Laws on Public Works Glossary Bibliography General Index
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University of Washington Press Searching for Modernity
Book SynopsisDeftly weaving these two strands together as the unifying theme of Searching for Modernity, the author expands on her pioneering work on true-view landscape painting to reveal even more of the depth and complexity of this mature and fully Korean form of artistic expression.Trade Review"The rich documentation makes it a useful source for art history professors and graduate students." * Choice *
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University of Washington Press Educating the Chinese Individual
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Educating the Chinese Individual is an ethnographically rich and stimulating study. It enriches our knowledge about a relatively under-studied group—rural youth and young teachers—in a marginal setting. It challenges some common assumptions of the changing landscape of school education and everyday cultural practice of the younger generations in post-socialist China. . . . This book will attract a wide readership in educational studies but will also appeal to audiences in sociology and anthropology who are interested in social change and youth culture in contemporary China." -- Xuan Dong * The China Quarterly *"[E]xcellent. . . . [T]his ethnography is a fine depiction of a slice of life in China today. The important issues it handles show the value of having more ethnographies of Chinese secondary schools, including studies of first-tier, vocational, and urban high schools from many parts of the country." -- Andrew B. Kipnis * The China Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Chinese Education and Processes of Individualization 1. Discipline and Agency: Quests for Individual Space 2. Text and Truth: Visions of the Learned Person and Good Citizen 3. Hierarchy and Democracy: Controlled Rise of the Individual 4. Motivation and Examination: The Making and Breaking of the Individual 5. Dreams and Dedications: Teachers’ Views and the Construction of a Generation Gap Conclusion: Authoritarian Individualization Notes Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Imperial Illusions
Book SynopsisExamines all known surviving examples of the Qing court phenomenon of "scenic illusion paintings" ( tongjinghua), which today remain inaccessible inside the Forbidden City.Trade Review"This trans-disciplinary book is relevant not just to the history of art and of the high Qing, but also to the history of science and technology" -- Carla Nappi * New Books in East Asian Studies *"Kristina Kleutghen’s carefully conceived new study. . . sits comfortably at the intersection of these two academic subfields, and provides specialists of both with an overdue, in-depth analysis of this remarkable moment of cross-cultural encounter. . . . The reader familiar with the historiography on the Qing will find a remarkably cohesive review of recent scholarship as it applies to the visual arts; to the nonspecialist, the volume provides an excellent entrée to Qing visual culture and the Qianglong Empire (1711-1799, r. 1736-1795). . . . Imperial Illusions provides the ideal platform for rethinking eighteenth-century court art as distinctively Qing." -- Michele Matteini * CAA Reviews *"[A] remarkably well-documented study. . . . Rich and stimulating. . . . There is no doubt that Imperial Illusions is an important contribution and provides a new perspective on visual culture at the Qianlong court." -- Michèle Pirazzoli-t’Serstevens * Journal of Asian Studies *"An invaluable addition to the ongoing conversation to globalize Chinese art history. . . . [Kleutghen’s] most important contribution is to return the scenic illusion paintings to their original space and treat them as part of the architecture, and whenever possible to excavate their original placement and to recreate the spaces to which they once belonged, feats which have not always been successfully achieved by her predecessors." -- William Ma * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"Richly illustrated, Imperial Illusions offers the first comprehensive investigation of the aesthetic, cultural, perceptual, and political importance of these illusionistic paintings essential to Qianlong’s world." * Enfilade *
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University of Washington Press Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China
Book SynopsisScholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, tales of the marvelous, records of the strange, historical miscellanies, and transformation texts. Through storytelling, literati explored their own changing place in a society that was making its final transition from hereditary aristocracy to a meritocracy ostensibly open to all. Literati Storytelling shows how these writings offer crucial insights into the reconfiguration of the Chinese elite, which monopolized literacy, social prestige, and political participation in imperial China.Trade Review"Scholars of the Tang dynasty and of Chinese narrative should certainly consult this book. Luo’s ambitious range of sources and her creativity as a reader allow her to make some new, insightful arguments about the relationship between narratives and the dominant cultural interests of late medieval literati." -- Anna M. Shields * Journal of Asian Studies *"[An] original and insightful new study of late Tang narratives. . . . Literati Storytelling takes an innovative, hybrid approach to this vast and heterogeneous corpus. . . . Literati Storytelling produces important new interpretations that stress the limits of subversion in Tang romance." -- Gregory Patterson * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to Readers Chronology Introduction 1. Sovereignty: The Case of the Illustrious Emperor 2. Literati Sociality: Remembering Individuals and Community in Historical Miscellanies 3. Sexuality: Women, Literati, and Nonmarital Bonds 4. Cosmic Mobility: The Possibility and Impossibility of Moving Beyond Conclusion: The Power and Legacies of Late Medieval Literati Storytelling Chinese Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Scholar and the State
Book SynopsisIn imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"[Ge’s] readings allow him to explore ways in which vernacular fiction replaced the homogenous voice of intellectual orthodox in the early modern era with a heterogeneous and multi-vocal one. . . . This extended and thoughtful essay, filled with much insight and creative reading, should be read by early modern historians and the students they teach." -- R. Kent Guy * American Historical Review *"Ge is probably the first student of Chinese vernacular fiction who attempts to explain the rise of this important literary genre and many of its features from a new “political” perspective. Students of Chinese intellectual and political histories would have much to learn from this ostensibly literary study because its author has successfully brought so much to bear upon the important historical question of the complex relationship between state and scholars from a very unique angle—how these novelists were able to engage the issues associated with this question in a narrative genre with the kind of freedom and imagination they could never had had if they had chosen to confront similar issues in formal political discourse." -- Martin W. Huang * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"What makes his study worth reading is the way he finds surprisingly original readings within this central frame-work. . . . Ge breathes life into his overarching theme by contextualizing the central literary works with a rich and historically-informed set of other texts. . . . In putting the relationship between scholar and state at the heart of vernacular fiction, Ge has provided us with a strong account some of the classics of the late-imperial novel. . . . Ge offers a reading that escapes narrow-minded literary criticism as a purely aesthetic pursuit." -- Paize Keulemans * The China Quarterly *"Liangyan Ge’s new book deals with a topic of great significance and urgency. Ge’s study is an important new contribution to the field and a timely reminder of the challenges and rewards attending a rigorous historicization of traditional Chinese fiction. The book’s broad scope and remarkable clarity of style make its rich material particularly suitable for classroom use." -- Maria Franca Sibau * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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University of Washington Press The Scholar and the State
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Ge’s] readings allow him to explore ways in which vernacular fiction replaced the homogenous voice of intellectual orthodox in the early modern era with a heterogeneous and multi-vocal one. . . . This extended and thoughtful essay, filled with much insight and creative reading, should be read by early modern historians and the students they teach." -- R. Kent Guy * American Historical Review *"Ge is probably the first student of Chinese vernacular fiction who attempts to explain the rise of this important literary genre and many of its features from a new “political” perspective. Students of Chinese intellectual and political histories would have much to learn from this ostensibly literary study because its author has successfully brought so much to bear upon the important historical question of the complex relationship between state and scholars from a very unique angle—how these novelists were able to engage the issues associated with this question in a narrative genre with the kind of freedom and imagination they could never had had if they had chosen to confront similar issues in formal political discourse." -- Martin W. Huang * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"What makes his study worth reading is the way he finds surprisingly original readings within this central frame-work. . . . Ge breathes life into his overarching theme by contextualizing the central literary works with a rich and historically-informed set of other texts. . . . In putting the relationship between scholar and state at the heart of vernacular fiction, Ge has provided us with a strong account some of the classics of the late-imperial novel. . . . Ge offers a reading that escapes narrow-minded literary criticism as a purely aesthetic pursuit." -- Paize Keulemans * The China Quarterly *"Liangyan Ge’s new book deals with a topic of great significance and urgency. Ge’s study is an important new contribution to the field and a timely reminder of the challenges and rewards attending a rigorous historicization of traditional Chinese fiction. The book’s broad scope and remarkable clarity of style make its rich material particularly suitable for classroom use." -- Maria Franca Sibau * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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University of Washington Press Ploughshare Village
Book SynopsisPresents the study of a workers' village in North Taiwan that makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese and Taiwanese social organization.Trade Review"Ploughshare Village balances between Taiwan’s hills and plains as its people do between laborers and petty entrepreneurs. Stevan Harrell neatly builds these and the many other dialectical relationships he perceives in Ploughshare into an exceptional anthropological study." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Strongly recommend[ed] . . . not just to readers interested in China and Taiwan . . . but to those having broad interests in economic development, Marxian analyses, and dependency theories." * American Anthropologist *"By focusing on a village of labourers Harrell provides a useful comparison for all the previous studies of farming and fishing communities. . . . One of the best works we have in sinological anthropology. . . . An excellent illustration . . . of how a detailed village study can be linked, through time, to the wider systems in which it is placed." * Man *"A welcome addition to the growing literature on contemporary China. . . . Demonstrate[s] how Chinese social structure . . . is utilized in varying socioeconomic contexts." * American Ethnologist *"This anthropological study of a workers’ village in North Taiwan makes an important contribution to the comparative literature on Chinese social organization." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the 2015 Edition A Note on Romanization Introduction 1. Ploughshare in the Socioeconomic System 2. The Changing Nature of Work 3. Social Inequality 4. Community Relations 5. Family Organization 6. The Organization of Religion Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Sanyan Stories
Book SynopsisIncludes stories that were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been compared to that of Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of One Thousand and One Nights.Table of ContentsIntroduction Translators’ Note Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Stories from the Sanyan 1. Jiang Xingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt 2. Yang Siwen Meets an Old Acquaintance in Yanshan 3. Yu Boya Smashes His Zither in Gratitude to an Appreciative Friend 4. Judge Bao Solves a Case through a Ghost That Appeared Thrice 5. Madam White Is Kept Forever under Thunder Peak Tower 6. Du Shiniang Sinks Her Jewel Box in Anger 7. The Oil-Peddler Wins the Queen of Flowers 8. The Leather Boot as Evidence against the God Erlang’s Impostor 9. Over Fifteen Strings of Cash, a Jest Leads to Dire Disasters Notes
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University of Washington Press Legal Reform in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Background of Legal Reform Reception of Western Law in Colonial Legislation Modern Judiciary in the Colony Criminal Justice and Changing Society Westernization of Civil Justice Appraisal and Legacy Conclusion Appendix A: Development of Taiwanese Law Appendix B: The Law Relating to Laws and Ordinances Appendix C: The Civil, Commercial, and Criminal Law Appendix D: The Bandit Punishment Law Glossary Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Urbanization in Early and Medieval China
Book SynopsisThe heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE220 CE), Tang (618907), and Northern Song (9601126) dynasties describing the city of Suzhou. The texts allow the reader to trace the dramatic changes that occurred as the city experienced enormous political and social upheavals over nine centuries. Each translation is accompanied by extensive annotation and a detailed discussion of the historical background of the text, authorship, and publication history. The book also traces the development of the gazetteer genre, the history of urban planning in China, and what we know about the early development of Suzhou from other texts and archaeological research. Urbanization in Early and Medieval China will be useful not only to scholars of Chinese history, but to scholars studying architecture and urban planning as well.Trade Review"Urbanization in Early and Medieval China has done a significant service to the field by making available a much-needed new set of Suzhou-focused texts for historians, literary scholars, and cultural geographers of early and medieval China. For those of us who teach seminars on Chinese cities past of present, this book will provide ample productive reading material with which to provoke discussion, along with texts with which to launch research projects—at any level." -- Linda Rui Feng * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"The most important contribution of this book by far is the excellent translation of these three gaz-etteers. Far too much of Chinese history is written from the perspective of the imperial court, which presented a centralizing, homogenizing imperial narrative that exaggerated the cultural, ethnic, and political unity across the imperial realm. Gazetteers such as these provide an alternative vision of the empire, describing instead a patchwork of regional variation wherein locals took pan-imperial elite culture and blended it, each in their own way, with unique local customs, local cults, and multiethnic demographics." * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Table of ContentsIllustrations A Note on Nomenclature Preface Acknowledgments Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Introduction Three Gazetteers of Suzhou Tales of the Lands of Wu Records of the Lands of Wu Supplementary Records to the “Illustrated Guide to Wu Commandery” Commentary Analysis and Comparisons Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Drunken Mans Talk
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This translation of Zuiweng tanlu deserves a larger audience beyond that of sinologists." -- Jacques Pimpaneau * T’oung Pao *"Inglis’s rendition of The Drunken Man’s Talk is a pleasant and enlightening read and highly recommended to anyone interested in medieval Chinese short stories." -- Xiao Rao, Standford University * Journal of the American Oriental Society *"a valuable contribution to the field of classical Chinese tales and may also be enjoyed by lay readers." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *"Discovered in 1940 in a private library in Japan, this long-lost The Drunken Man’s Talk (Xinbian zuiweng tanlu新編醉翁談錄) attracts readers’ attention primarily for two reasons: (1) its initial chap-ter offers a valuable introduction to professional storytelling, and (2) it is a rich collection in Classical Chinese that covers short stories from the Six Dynasties (420–581) to the Southern Song (1127–1279). Through Alister D. Inglis’s exquisite translation, English readers can enjoy these amazing stories today... [I]t provides readers with a full picture of a collection of anecdotal fiction (biji xiaoshuo筆記小說) in middle-period China." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Translator’s Introduction 1. An Account of the Plowmen of the Tongue 2. A Legal Case Involving Illicit Love 3. Romantic Union 4. Women’s Verse 5. Humorous Tales from a Precious Window 6. Veritable Records from the Red-light District 7. Records from the Red-light District 8. Humorous Quips 9. The Characteristics of Ladies 10. Poems About Ladies 11. Romantic Union 12. Extraordinary Encounters with Immortals 13. Virtuous Women of the Inner Quarters 14. Legal Cases Involving Witty Verdicts 15. Felicitous Trysts with Immortals 16. Broken Promises 17. Romantic Betrayal 18. Extraordinary and Predestined Meetings 19. Old Stories of Reunion 1 20. Old Stories of Reunion 2 Appendix Notes Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography
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University of Washington Press Writing the South Seas
Book SynopsisPostcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their New World and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.Trade Review"Bernards’ book is a successful rewriting of the contours of South East Asian Sinophone literature and identity, which shines a deserving postcolonial light onto its emergent national cultures. . . . Highlighting a space that frequently challenges definition, it deserves attention from postcolonial, Southeast Asian and Chinese specialists alike." -- Zhou Hau Liew * Postcolonial Studies *"What permeates this entire volume is a maritime vocabulary representing not only the physical passages of people across the seas but, more important, the consequent traversals occurring in the realm of culture, language, and literature as Chinese immigrants adapt to a new environment. The result is a rich tapestry of writings that embody the experiential gamut of Chinese immigrants physically uprooted from their place of ancestry but unfailingly re-visioning a world amidst the changes." -- Dinah Roma * Southeast Asian Studies *"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies." -- Cheow-Thia Chan * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *"A must-read for literary scholars interested in broadening their horizons, Writing the South Seas will no doubt inspire much important future work in these directions." -- Alison M. Groppe * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Brian Bernards’ enjoyable and illuminating book successfully diversifies the way we think about national literatures as well as about Sinophone literature as essentially a diaspora phenomenon. . . . This book will prove an eye-opening read, not only for scholars and enthusiasts of Sinophone and southeast Asian literatures, but for linguists and literary scholars everywhere." -- Astrid Moller-Olsen * New Books Asia *"Bernards’s endeavor complicates the modern Chinese writing scene (the New Literature especially) in a refreshing manner...Bernards has produced a first-rate scholarly work that brings to life the entire writing scene in the Nanyang with knowledge that rivals a native informant’s." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *"Bernards’ book is a successful rewriting of the contours of South East Asian Sinophone literature and identity, which shines a deserving postcolonial light onto its emergent national cultures. . . . Highlighting a space that frequently challenges definition, it deserves attention from postcolonial, Southeast Asian and Chinese specialists alike." -- Zhou Hau Liew * Postcolonial Studies *"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies." -- Cheow-Thia Chan
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University of Washington Press Humanizing the Sacred
Book SynopsisIn recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental organization of professional women promoting justice and equality, Basarudin examines SIS members' involvement in the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge to reformulate legal codes and reconceptualize gender discourses. By weaving together women's lived realities, feminist interpretations of Islamic texts, and Malaysian cultural politics, this book illuminates how a localized struggle of claiming rights takes shape within a transnational landscape. It provides a vital understanding of hoTrade Review"A diverse range of insightful analyses supported by feminist ideas, interviews, and histories. The book provides a solid critique of patriarchal discourses dominating Muslim identity politics in Malaysia." -- Çağdaş Dedeoğlu * Religion and Gender *"Humanizing the Sacred is a welcome addition to the study of women’s movements and Islamic feminism. . . .This book is therefore a timely and important read. Its accessible language makes it suitable not just for undergraduate and postgraduate students alike, but also readers who are interested in understanding issues of feminism, rights and equality in Islam, especially in Malaysia." * Contemporary Southeast Asia *"Basarudin's book is a significant contribution to understanding the distinct dynamics of Muslim feminism in Southeast Asia, the region with the largest Muslim community in the world. It is also an important work in a line of scholarship that is dedicated to deconstructing the orientalist binary of the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’, especially in their gendered forms in the context of post 9/11 politics." * The Muslim World *"Humanizing the Sacred is a valuable contribution to the literature on Malaysian civil society, feminism, and Islam; on women’s activism within Muslim communities globally; and on the ongoing dialectic between scripture and culture in any religious community, but especially within Islam. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, scholars of religion (particularly Islam), and both area specialists and those focused on women’s/gender studies or feminism. . . . The book is sure to inspire both thoughtful reflection and lively debate, in Malaysia and elsewhere." * Islamic Law and Society *"Azza Basarudin tells the story of [Sisters in Islam] in this finely detailed feminist ethnography. . . . This comprehensive study of SIS will certainly be of interest to scholars of Southeast Asia and anyone interested in Muslim women’s movements." * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Malay Names, Honorific Titles, and Terminology List of Abbreviations Introduction | Faith, Self, and Community 1. Islam, the State, and Gender | The Malaysian Experiment 2. The Politics of the Sacred | Returning to the Fundamentals of Islam 3. In the Path of the Faithful | Activism for Social and Legal Reforms 4. Who Speaks for Islam? | Religious Authority and Contested Justice 5. Negotiating Lives, Crafting Selves | Narratives of Belonging 6. The Local in the Transnational | Gender Justice and Feminist Solidarities Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Heroines of the Qing
Book SynopsisHeroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, exemplary women (lienu)heroic martyrs, chaste widows, and faithful maidens, for examplewere written into official dynastic histories for their unrelenting adherence to female virtue by Confucian family standards. However, despite the rich writing traditions about these women, their lives were often distorted by moral and cultural agendas. Binbin Yang, drawing on interdisciplinary sources, shows how they were able to cross boundaries that were typically closed to womenboundaries not only of gender, but also of knowledge, economic power, political engagement, and ritual and cultural authority. Yang closely examines the rhetorical strategies these exemplary women exploited for self-representation in various writing genres and highlights their skillful Trade Review"This study is not only of interest to students of traditional Chinese women’s literature. It ranges over fields as widely apart as print culture, art history, social history and medical history. In each of these fields it shows a far more assertive participation of women than is commonly assumed. . . . Equally relevant to the students of Republican history as to the students of Qing history. The book is very well written and throughout a pleasure to read." -- Wilt L. Idema * Nan Nu: Men, Women, & Gender in China *"Through women’s own writings, Yang greatly expands our picture of gentry women’s roles in Qing society. She shows how women used their writings, not just to seek literary immortality through publication, but to empower themselves and to reform and renew their society. . . . Binbin Yang has made a most valuable contribution to our understanding of late Qing social, literary and political history." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) - Modern *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to Readers Introduction 1. Breaking the Silence: Cases of Outspoken Exemplary Women 2. Visualizing Exemplarity: Women’s Portraits and Paintings for Self-Representation 3. Staging Family Drama: Genealogical Writing as Ritual Authority 4. Enacting Guardians of Family Health: From Exemplary Wife to Reformer Conclusion Chinese Character Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Mapping Chinese Rangoon
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] thoughtful and engaging contribution... With Mapping Chinese Rangoon, Roberts has shown readers a way to do scholarly work in Rangoon, one that offers insights about collective identity, ethnographic practice, and the fluid range of possibilities that exist between the past and present." * Journal of Asian Studies *
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University of Washington Press Koizumi Diplomacy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A valuable contribution to the growing literature on Japanese defense and foreign policy making. It is sure to be read with interest by professional analysts as well as general readers interested in East Asian affairs." * Pacific Affairs *"The book provides useful information about how Japan and Japanese politics have changed since the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It contains insights into how Koizumi led the Kantei within the new political and administrative environments created by the Hashimoto administration's administrative reform bills . . . . Koizumi's legacy is yet to be determined. However, the pros and cons of Kantei diplomacy are well enumerated, assessed, and explained by the author." * H-Net *"Koizumi Diplomacy presents a new direction for the discussion of Japan's foreign policy-making. The book's detailed chronological descriptions of inter-and intra-party politics during the Koizumi years make it a valuable resource for the analysis of Japanese politics." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Shinoda's short and concise analysis covers a new and under-researched aspect of Japan's evolving foreign and security policy." * The International History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Conventions Abbreviations and Japanese Terms Introduction 1. The Roots of the Kantei Diplomacy 2. A Traumatic Experience: From the Gulf Crisis to the International Peace Cooperation Legislation 3. The Rise of Kantei 4. Koizumi's Response to Terrorism: The 2001 Anti-Terrorism Legislation 5. Preparing for a National Contingency: The 2003 Emergency Legislation 6. Dispatching the SDF to Reconstruct Iraq: The 2003 Iraq Special Measures Legislation 7. Evaluating Kantei Diplomacy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press State Power in China 9001325
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University of Washington Press The Edge of Knowing Dreams History and Realism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chan presents us with a reckoning of Chinese realism that should be of interest to scholars of mimesis, psychoanalysis, socialism, socialist realism, and affect well outside of Asian Studies. . . . . An enjoyable and compelling read." * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Contributes significantly to the discourse of the dream, which . . . is becoming increasingly relevant in the context of permeation and saturation of the slogan of the Chinese Dream in China." * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *"A fascinating study that makes significant contributions to how we understand the relationship between time, dreaming, and materiality in modern literature." * New Books in East Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Sleeping through Catastrophe: Dreams, Cataclysmic Modernity, and the Promises of Literary Realism 2. Dreaming as Representation: Lu Xun’s Wild Grass and Realism’s Social Address 3. Realism’s Hysterical Bodies: Narrative and Oneiric Counternarrative in Mao Dun’s Fiction 4. Sleepless Nights in Fast Socialism: Dream Rhetoric and Fiction in the Mao Era 5. Dream Fugue: Jiang Qing, the End of the Cultural Revolution, and Zong Pu’s Fiction Conclusion: Lu Xun and the Dreams of Politics and Literature Glossary of Chinese Characters Notes References Index
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University of Washington Press Gender before Birth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatia, a feminist reproductive justice activist and scholar (SUNY Albany), does not shy away from the difficult issues facing those determined to provide a full range of reproductive options to women of all ethnicities and economic levels. Her account is nuanced, engrossing, and accessible to students and professionals alike. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *
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University of Washington Press Gender before Birth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bhatia, a feminist reproductive justice activist and scholar (SUNY Albany), does not shy away from the difficult issues facing those determined to provide a full range of reproductive options to women of all ethnicities and economic levels. Her account is nuanced, engrossing, and accessible to students and professionals alike. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *
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