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Book SynopsisBetween the 1890s and the Second World War, twenty-five million people traveled from the densely populated North China provinces of Shandong and Hebei to seek employment in the growing economy of Manchuria. Swallows and Settlers is the first comprehensive study of that migration.

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Book SynopsisTanizaki Jun'ichir? (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes that appear throughout his work.Trade Review“We still have far too little of Tanizaki's work from the teens and twenties.The four stories collected here show the variety of exoticisms Tanizakiwas critically exploring at this time. ‘The Strange Case of Tomoda andMatsunaga’ treats the contemporary fascination with the West, ‘RedRoofs’ is about youth culture in Tokyo, ‘A Night in Qinhaui’ trains anexoticist eye on China, and ‘The Magician’ is pure, unadulterated fantasy.The translations are flawless—no surprise coming from Chambers andMcCarthy—and the selection fills an important gap in the list of availableEnglish translations of Tanizaki. They round out our picture of Tanizaki’sdevelopment as a writer, providing early sketches, as well as intriguingpostscripts to some of his most important works.” - J. Keith Vincent, Boston University, award-winning translator ofOkamoto Kanoko’s A Riot of Goldfish

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Book SynopsisIn his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his struggles as an independent filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s before returning to work within the mainstream industry.Trade ReviewChang’s translation of the filmmaker’s autobiography, My Life as a Filmmaker, is masterfully done. Chang has a strong reputation in the field for introducing many important Japanese literary, cultural, and historical works to the English-language world. This will be another important, though less well-known, work to give us not only a better appreciation of one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers but also a deeper understanding of postwar Japanese film and cultural history."" - Poshek Fu, University of Illinois""A magnificent memoir magnificently told. Film world: Stand up and take notice!"" - Roger Pulvers

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Book SynopsisIn Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational–and not necessarily honest–eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.Trade ReviewUnlike many of his contemporaries, Tanizaki was a consummate literary craftsman acutely concerned with form and structure and unity. This side of the writer is suppressed in Childhood Years, where the freedom of the zuihitsu genre sometimes becomes an excuse to ramble. Yet Tanizaki's reminiscences are imbued with the self-irony that enlivens the comedy in his fiction, and he often succeeds in evoking the textures of childhood experience to striking effect. The translation conveys the vitality of the original, using deft touches of interpolation and substitution where needed. Paul McCarthy has made available in English a memoir suffused with longing, which shows Tanizaki engaged in the act of remembrance that illuminated so much of his writing."" - Ken Ito, University of Michigan""Tanizaki found perhaps that childhood and old age had more in common with each other than either had with youth. Adolescents can be smutty and confused, whereas children and old men get really dirty and obsessed. At any rate, in 1956 Tanizaki wrote both Kagi, an intricate tale of an aging deviant, and Yosho Jidai, a volume of memoirs rendered now in Paul McCarthy's precise, fluent translation as Childhood Years."" - Paul Anderer, Columbia University""The septuagenarian but lively Tanizaki, who died in 1965, threads the narrow streets of late 19th and early 20th century Tokyo. That city was to be lost forever in the great earthquake of 1923, but he recollects its byways with impressive clarity, down to the expert calligraphy on a road sign. Readers of Tanizaki’s fiction will recognize in this tour not only his acute sense of place but his gift for the essential, often unsavory detail."" - Mary Jo Salter, The New York Times

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Book SynopsisExamines the turbulent period of South Korea's Fourth Republic (1972-79), beginning with its declaration by Park Chung Hee and ending with his assassination. This volume brings together a wide range of scholars to explore the rich and varied cultural production of the Yusin period, especially in its relationship to state power.Trade ReviewCultures of Yusin brings to the fore the hitherto neglected area of research: the culture of the 1970s as a site of national identity for both the state and the oppositional social movement; as a site of state indoctrination and mobilization of the citizenry and simultaneously of subversive-and individualized-expression of the people; and as a source of plural meanings and lived experiences for the people, among others. Each chapter presents new factual and historical knowledge on unfamiliar topics, and offers fresh and informed perspectives and interpretations on areas we thought we already knew."" - Namhee Lee, UCLA

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Book SynopsisBy focusing on the role Chinese classics (kanbun) played in the language employed by elite women, this book explores how Empress Haruko, poet Nakajima Shoen, and educator Shimoda Utako contributed new expectations for how women should participate in a modernizing Japan.

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Book SynopsisReexamines the dispute over historical perception between Japan and South Korea, clearly identifying the many independent variables that have affected the situation. By seeing behind the public discourse and political rhetoric, this book offers a firmer footing for a discussion and the steps toward resolution.

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Book SynopsisBy juxtaposing the cultural turn and cultural/creative city-making, Entrepreneurial Seoulite interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul.

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Book SynopsisExplores the tensions between competing cultures, generations, and beliefs in Japan during the years following World War II, through the lens of one of its best known figures and one of its most forgotten - Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, a prolific scholar and translator of Buddhism, Zen, and Chinese and Japanese philosophy and religious history.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Hidden Origins The Adopted Child Daisetz’s Parents Zen Training Bottom of the Heap Daisetz’s Image of Women Daisetz’s Marriage Beatrice and Okono Alan in the “Daisetz Dairies” Daisetz’s Dependant Family The Juvenile Delinquent A Prison Without Bars Daisetz’s Fears Daisetz’s Philosophy of Education A Parent’s Hope Alan Goes Wild Womanizing Rears Its Head Daisetz’s Views on Sexual Desire “Confinement” on Mt. Koya Repeated Offenses Glimpses of Brilliance Japan-America Students Conference Alan Discusses Zen A Novelist’s Misunderstanding Alan’s Second Japan-America Students Conference Alan Discusses Japaneseness Daisetz’s Indifference Two Red Threads of Fate Beatrice’s Health Takes a Turn for the Worse A Man with Many Loves Hidden Facts A Mother's Death Daisetz’s Mourning First Marriage To Shanghai Tokyo Boogie-woogie Shanghai Reunion with Ike Mariko “Tokyo Boogie-woogie” Is Born Second Marriage Alan’s Drinking The Meeting with a Psychiatrist A Sudden Parting Daisetz’s Anxiety Daisetz and the Beat Generation American “Comrades” The Basis of Transcendentalism Early Preaching Zen in English Art Encounters Zen The Birth of the Beat Generation Recognition of Daisetzu Increases A Change in the Life of the Great Scholar San Francisco Renaissance Daisetz’s Big Break On the Road America’s Dharma Year The Context of the Chicago Review Zen Special Issue The Dharma Bums A Once-in-a-lifetime Conversation The Beats and Zen: Parting of the Ways The Undutiful Son Alan During the 1950s Daisetz Returns Home The Incident Alan’s Loneliness Branded as an “Undutiful Son” The Death of Daisetz Reconsidering the Parent-Child Relationship Great Wisdom and Great Compassion Father and Son Bibliography Appendix 1: Family Tree Appendix 2: Map of Kyoto Appendix 3: Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a new framework for understanding ethnic and racial difference in KoreaTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction David C. Oh Part 1: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other Chapter 1: Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men Min Joo Lee Chapter 2: Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television Benjamin Han Chapter 3: Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Survival Audition Program in South Korea Ji-Hyun Ahn Chapter 4: Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: In South Korean films Rosa and Thuy Eunbi Lee and Colby Miyose Chapter 5: Two Sides of the ‘Other’: Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema Russell Edwards Part 2: Mediating the Co-Ethnic Other Chapter 6: “Truth? No One Cares About the Truth”: On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady Myoung-Sun Song Chapter 7: Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions Miseong Woo Chapter 8: Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea(ns) in Hallyu Films JongHwa Lee Chapter 9: Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in a South Korean Documentary Film “Uri-Hakkyo” Min Wha Han Chapter 10: The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-pop Star Alice N. Kim and Sherry S. Yu Conclusion David C. Oh Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIllustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where states and politicians regularly weaponize moral emotions to foment conflict and violence, understanding the dynamics of violent mobilization and state authority are more relevant than ever before.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations for Major Archival and Documentary Sources Part I: Theory and Origins Introduction Chapter 1. The Context and Structure of Violent Land Reform after 1949 Chapter 2. Tracing the Origins of Moral Mobilization Part II: Mobilizing Violence Chapter 3. The Process of Moral Mobilization Chapter 4. Coercive Control and Mass Mobilized Violence Part III: Collective Identities and State Authority Chapter 5. Constructing Class Enemies in Huaibei and Jiangnan Chapter 6. Ingroup Solidarity and State-building During and After Land Reform Part IV: Comparative Perspectives and Conclusion Chapter 7 Moral Mobilization in Comparative Perspective Appendix A. Notes on Methodology and Sources Appendix B. Table of Landlords Struggled Against in Baoshan County for Chapter 5 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWorking for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. This book seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability to maintain its cohesion and survive.Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Overview of the Argument Political Youth Organizations in Contemporary China Seeing like a Young Cadre Chapter 2: Becoming a Student Cadre Student cadres at the center of the student-management apparatus Commitment is rewarded Chapter 3: Student Leaders as a Rogue Minority Student leaders’ narrowing social circles Cultivating their Party Spirit The “bureaucratization” of student cadres Chapter 4: Sponsorship Networks in Elite Universities Clientelism at Peking University Chains of sponsorship ties in elite universities An elite within the elite: the political career of student leaders from Peking University and Tsinghua University Chapter 5: Starting a Political Career on Campus The Counselor System Counselors as officials in training Starting a political career outside the university Chapter 6: Youth League Officials as Future Party-state Leaders The perfect reserve cadres Cultivating a role as leaders-to-be Chapter 7: Towards a Diffuse Allegiance to the Party-State Each posting entails diverse personal ties Turnover and the multiplication of personal networks Conclusion: Commitment and Allegiance Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China.Trade Review“Wang Jingwei is among the most controversial figures in modern Chinese politics and literature. A patriot and a traitor, a revolutionary and a poet, a charismatic leader and a melancholy soul, Wang has taken various roles through his life, leaving behind only poetry to testify to his enigma. In this pioneering study, Zhiyi Yang has offered a most insightful and compelling exegesis of Wang Jingwei’s life and work. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in early 20th century Sino-Japanese relations, classical-style poetry in modern China, and the politics of lyricism.” —David Wang, Harvard University“China today has erased the problematic memory of romantic revolutionary-turned-despised collaborator Wang Jingwei from history. With this superb and profound book, literary scholar Zhiyi Yang offers an absorbing meditation on Wang’s poems that accepts the power of poetry to voice things that prose cannot, taking readers more deeply inside the enigma that has been Wang Jingwei than any author before her has ever done.”—Tim Brook, University of British Columbia“Yang challenges oversimplified views of a notorious but influential historical figure with a beautifully written, well-researched book. Adopting an empathetic neutrality and eschewing a nationalistic or apologetic narrative, the book masterfully reconstructs Wang’s intent to be understood and remembered through his poems. It testifies to the power of poetic analysis in exploring subjugated memory and political dilemmas.”—Bin Xu, Emory University“Zhiyi Yang’s book is a timely, striking, and compelling reexamination of the life of Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), who since the wartime period was often portrayed by modern Chinese historians as a “traitor.” Brilliant and uplifting, full of wonderful insight on every page, this book is a tour de force. Most importantly, it recovers the lyric persona of Wang Jingwei and convincingly argues that Wang’s poetry should play a central role in reconstructing Wang’s posthumous memory in history—just what modern readers need today.”—Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University“The scholarship in this book provides an insightful and detailed rethinking of Wang Jingwei’s historical legacy, which sheds light on our understanding of China’s both nationalist and collaborative approaches to modernity.”—Haosheng Yang, Miami University“Wang Jingwei (1883–1944) was a man of great learning, educated first and foremost in the Chinese classics, then in Japan and France. His poetry, written in the classical styles, has been the object of admiration in China for a century already, despite deep divisions among historians over his controversial role following the Japanese invasion of his country and his assumption of the presidency of their client state, known as the “Reorganized National Government.” As a young man he had been a swashbuckling hero for the cause of the 1911 Revolution after his attempt to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent. As an intellectual leader and senior statesman of the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party, he was broadly perceived as Sun Yat-sen’s political heir, only to be sidelined by Chiang Kai-shek, a military man, after Sun’s death in 1925. With this volume, Zhiyi Yang has done a superlative job of giving us an objective biography of Wang Jingwei, coupled with precise, yet highly readable translations of an informed selection of his poetry, reflecting his lyric self-portrait at key moments in modern Chinese history. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the real history of the Pacific Theatre during World War II and the tragic denouement of this all-important statesman, who could have led China onto a third path.”—Jon Eugene von Kowallis (UNSW Sydney), author of The Lyrical Lu Xun: A Study of His Classical-Style Verse and The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the ‘Old Schools’ during Late Qing and Early Republican ChinaTable of Contents Conventions Abbreviations Archives Timeline of Events Acknowledgments Introduction The War in Memory Part I: The End of Literati Politics Chapter 1: The Revolutionary Chapter 2: The Statesman Chapter 3: The “Traitor” Part II: The Poetics of Memory Chapter 4: Poetry as Mnemonic Atlas Chapter 5: The Iconography of an Assassin Chapter 6: The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing Epilogue: Poetry against Oblivion Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisProvides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903-1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker and two decades of Anthony Chambers”s conversations with Mrs. Tanizaki and others who were close to the Tanizaki family.Trade ReviewRemembering Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Matsuko is a must read for Tanizaki lovers. Once I started I couldn't put it down and found myself squealing with delight at each new morsel of detail about the life and opinions of Tanzaki and his remarkable third wife and muse, Matsuko. The book takes an unapologetically biographical, if not downright gossipy, approach. This perhaps makes it more of a book for fans than for scholars. For those of us who are both, it feels at times like a bit of a guilty pleasure. It is both a record and an example of the kind of fan-like devotion that Tanizaki continues to inspire."" - J. Keith Vincent, Boston University, and award-winning translator of Okamoto Kanoko's A Riot of Goldfish and Tanizaki's Devils in Daylight

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Book SynopsisIn Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational–and not necessarily honest–eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.Trade ReviewUnlike many of his contemporaries, Tanizaki was a consummate literary craftsman acutely concerned with form and structure and unity. This side of the writer is suppressed in Childhood Years, where the freedom of the zuihitsu genre sometimes becomes an excuse to ramble. Yet Tanizaki's reminiscences are imbued with the self-irony that enlivens the comedy in his fiction, and he often succeeds in evoking the textures of childhood experience to striking effect. The translation conveys the vitality of the original, using deft touches of interpolation and substitution where needed. Paul McCarthy has made available in English a memoir suffused with longing, which shows Tanizaki engaged in the act of remembrance that illuminated so much of his writing."" - Ken Ito, University of Michigan""Tanizaki found perhaps that childhood and old age had more in common with each other than either had with youth. Adolescents can be smutty and confused, whereas children and old men get really dirty and obsessed. At any rate, in 1956 Tanizaki wrote both Kagi, an intricate tale of an aging deviant, and Yosho Jidai, a volume of memoirs rendered now in Paul McCarthy's precise, fluent translation as Childhood Years."" - Paul Anderer, Columbia University""The septuagenarian but lively Tanizaki, who died in 1965, threads the narrow streets of late 19th and early 20th century Tokyo. That city was to be lost forever in the great earthquake of 1923, but he recollects its byways with impressive clarity, down to the expert calligraphy on a road sign. Readers of Tanizaki’s fiction will recognize in this tour not only his acute sense of place but his gift for the essential, often unsavory detail."" - Mary Jo Salter, The New York Times

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Book SynopsisExperts in 1980s Korean history, literature, film, art, and music provide new insights into one of the most crucial decades in South Korean history in this volume. The book demonstrates how an era that is often associated with radical politics was, in effect, the catalyst for the flourishing of democratic and liberal values in South Korea.

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Book SynopsisThrough accessible prose, ethnographically-grounded analysis, and emotionally compelling stories, this book explores the rich pastiche of daily life and ritual activity at a major Japanese Zen temple in institutional, historical, and social context through the practices of its community of clergy, practitioners, parishioners, and visitors.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Sojiji, the Forest for a Thousand Years Chapter 1: The History of Sojiji Chapter 2: The Training of a Soto Zen Novice Chapter 3: Bearing the Mantle of Priesthood Chapter 4: Struggling for Enlightenment (While Keeping Your Day Job) Chapter 5:Performing Compassion Through Goeika Music Chapter 6: Making Ancestors Through Memorial Rituals Conclusion For a Thousand Years Epilogue In Perpetuity Afterward Writing Sojiji Glossary Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together leading and emerging scholars of multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated constructions of the ‘other’, taking into account the nation’s postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated construction of self.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction David C. Oh Part 1: Mediating the Racial and Ethnic Other Chapter 1: Aspirational Interraciality and Desirable Whiteness: South Korean Media Depictions of Interracial Intimacies between White Women and Cosmopolitan South Korean Men Min Joo Lee Chapter 2: Strategic Blackness in South Korean Television Benjamin Han Chapter 3: Televised Korean Dream: The Birth of a Great Star and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Survival Audition Program in South Korea Ji-Hyun Ahn Chapter 4: Narratives of Marginalized Otherness in Migrant Women: In South Korean films Rosa and Thuy Eunbi Lee and Colby Miyose Chapter 5: Two Sides of the ‘Other’: Fear and Loving of Japanese Characters in Contemporary South Korean Cinema Russell Edwards Part 2: Mediating the Co-Ethnic Other Chapter 6: “Truth? No One Cares About the Truth”: On Marginalized Identities and Belonging in The Bacchus Lady Myoung-Sun Song Chapter 7: Staging North Korean Defections: Uncharted Borders, Ideological Disorientation, and Diasporic Conditions Miseong Woo Chapter 8: Enemy of the State: Cold War Rhetoric and Representation of North Korea(ns) in Hallyu Films JongHwa Lee Chapter 9: Reframing the Difference of Co-ethnic Other in Japan: An Analysis of Representations and Identifications in a South Korean Documentary Film “Uri-Hakkyo” Min Wha Han Chapter 10: The Other at Home: A Comparative Analysis of Coverage of an Exiled Korean American K-pop Star Alice N. Kim and Sherry S. Yu Conclusion David C. Oh Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe blind of Tokugawa period Japan were prominent across a wide range of professions, and through a strong guild structure were able to exert contractual monopolies over certain trades. Blind in Early Modern Japan illustrates the breadth and depth of those occupations, and the power and respect that accrued to the guild members.Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Map of Japan in the Tokugawa (Edo) Period (1600–1868) Map of Japan: Modern Regions and Prefectures Abbreviated List of Historical Periods A Note on Japanese Terminology and Names Acknowledgments Preface: A Personal Note Introduction Chapter 1 Japanese Ophthalmology: Medical Studies of Eye Conditions Chapter 2 Eye Medicines: The Popular Culture of Cure Chapter 3 The Blind Guild: Status and Power Chapter 4 Non-Membership and the Challenge of Authority Chapter 5 Texts and Performances: The Significance of One Blind Musician’s Career Chapter 6 Healing by Touch: Blind Acupuncturists and Masseurs Epilogue Onward to the Meiji Period Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWorking for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. This book seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability to maintain its cohesion and survive.Trade Review"Doyon has produced a first-rate study that not only offers a persuasive conceptual framework on how the Party renews itself through a complex system of youth recruitment and retention, but also raises thought-provoking questions on some of the key contentious issues in Chinese elite politics." —The China QuarterlyTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Overview of the Argument Political Youth Organizations in Contemporary China Seeing like a Young Cadre Chapter 2: Becoming a Student Cadre Student cadres at the center of the student-management apparatus Commitment is rewarded Chapter 3: Student Leaders as a Rogue Minority Student leaders’ narrowing social circles Cultivating their Party Spirit The “bureaucratization” of student cadres Chapter 4: Sponsorship Networks in Elite Universities Clientelism at Peking University Chains of sponsorship ties in elite universities An elite within the elite: the political career of student leaders from Peking University and Tsinghua University Chapter 5: Starting a Political Career on Campus The Counselor System Counselors as officials in training Starting a political career outside the university Chapter 6: Youth League Officials as Future Party-state Leaders The perfect reserve cadres Cultivating a role as leaders-to-be Chapter 7: Towards a Diffuse Allegiance to the Party-State Each posting entails diverse personal ties Turnover and the multiplication of personal networks Conclusion: Commitment and Allegiance Appendix Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAddresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. The book proposes a new theory of interactive authoritarianism to explain how an adaptive authoritarian state manages nascent civil society.Trade Review“In this brilliant and rigorous analysis, Taiyi Sun provides a unified interactive authoritarianism model and masterfully explains why robust and tolerated civil society activities could co-exist with continuous crackdowns on civil society in China. A must-read for anyone studying and interested in China.”—Cheng Li, Brooking Institution's John L. Thornton China Center “Relying on the rich data and a solid methodological approach, Disruptions as Opportunities advances a unified conceptual framework to understand how an authoritarian state may adapt at times of crises and institutional disruptions that are of different nature.”—Rongbin Han, University of Georgia “Much of the civil society literature in China focuses on state-society models as an outcome but does not examine the dynamic process of how the relationship might change over time in reaction to institutional disruptions. Taiyi Sun develops a more holistic framework to explain this dynamic ‘interactive authoritarianism’ process and expands our understanding of social control in authoritarian regimes.”—Jessica C. Teets, Middlebury College "The resilience of authoritarian rule in China is among the most time-honored questions that have produced generations of remarkable scholarship. Taiyi Sun has provided another groundbreaking explanation that focuses on the Chinese government’s artful control of a burgeoning civil society. This thought-provoking book will generate reflections and debates in the years to come."—Yuhua Wang, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables Introduction Chapter 1: Governing the Nascent Civil Society in China: Background and Key players Chapter 2: Stage I: Authoritarian Tolerance of Civil Society Activities Chapter 3: Stage II: Differentiation – Outsourcing Responsibility for Governance Chapter 4: Stage III: Legalization without Institutionalization Chapter 5: Case I: The Sichuan Earthquakes and the Governance of the Rising CSOs Chapter 6: Case II: The Dynamic, Decentralized, and Multi-Layered Internet Censorship Chapter 7: Case III: Internet-facilitated Guerrilla Resistance of the Ride-Sharing Networks Chapter 8: Conclusion: Governing as an Interactive Authoritarian State Appendix: Eight Useful Tips of Conducting Fieldwork on China Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated works of fiction that appealed to women readers of her time and class.Trade Review“Dr. Kamens has researched his subject well and presents his study with a clarity that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese literature, language, Buddhism, and history. The work of Tamenori is here translated into excellent English. . . . The Three Jewels is well researched and so well presented that it cannot fail to arouse interest in Western academic circles.” —Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (review of original edition)“Kamens’s book makes a significant contribution to our understanding not only of the centrality of magical thinking in tales and legends, but also about the manner in which it is intertwined with the classical literature of the Buddhist tradition and Japan.” —Japanese Journal of Religious Studies (review of original edition)Table of Contents Part 1: Study Chapter 1: A Short History of Sanbōe(Edward Kamens) Chapter 2: A Reading of Sanbōe(Edward Kamens) Chapter 3: Sanbōe and the Oratorical Arts of Devotional Liturgy (Ethan Bushelle) Part 2: Translation (Edward Kamens and Ethan Bushelle) General Preface The First Volume: The Buddha Preface to the First Volume 1.1 The Pāramitā of Charity: King Śibi 1.2 The Pāramitā of Discipline: King Śrutasoma 1.3 The Pāramitā of Forbearance: The Recluse "Forbearance" 1.4 The Pāramitā of Effort: The Prince of Great Generosity 1.5 The Pāramitā of Meditation: The Recluse Śaṅkhācārya 1.6 The Pāramitā of PrajÑā: Prime Minister Govinda 1.7 The Elder “Water-bearer” 1.8 The Lion Who Held Firmly to His Vows 1.9 The Deer King 1.10 The Himalaya Boy 1.11 Prince Mahāsattva 1.12 Prince Sudāna 1.13 Śyāma Hymn The Second Volume: The Dharma Preface to the Second Volume 2.1 Prince Shōtoku 2.2 En the Ascetic 2.3 Bodhisattva Gyōki 2.4 The “Lump” Nun of Higo Province 2.5 Kinunui Tomo no Miyatsuko Yoshimichi 2.6 An Elderly Fisherman of Harima Province 2.7 Dharma Master Gikaku 2.8 Ono no Ason Niwamaro 2.9 The Go-Playing Śrāmaṇera of Yamashiro Province 2.10 The Sūtra-box Patron of Yamashiro Province 2.11Takahashi no Muraji Azumahito 2.12 A Woman of Yamato Province 2.13 Omisome no Omi Taime 2.14 Nara no lwashima 2.15 A Monk of the Nara Capital 2.16 A Monk of Mount Yoshino 2.17 A Miner of Mimasaka Province 2.18 Yōgō of Daianji Hymn The Third Volume: The Sangha Preface to the Third Volume The First Month 3.1 Practices for the First Month 3.2 The Assembly for the Royal Meagre Feast 3.3 The Rites of Penitence at Hie 3.4 The Bath 3.5 The Poṣadha The Second Month 3.6 Practices of the Second Month 3.7 Repentance Before Ānanda at Saiin 3.8 The Nirvāṇa Assembly at Yamashinadera 3.9 Stone Stūpas The Third Month 3.10 The Assembly for the Transmission of the Dharma in Shiga 3.11 The Most Excellent Assembly at Yakushiji 3.12 The Lotus Assembly at Takao 3.13 The Flower Garland Assembly at Hokkeiji 3.14 The Assembly for the Encouragement of Learning at Sakamoto on Hie 3.15 The Assembly of Ten Thousand Lights at Yakushiji The Fourth Month 3.16 The Śarīra Assembly at Hie 3.17 The Great PrajÑā Assembly at Daianji 3.18 The Lustration of the Buddha 3.19 The Ordination at Hie The Fifth Month 3.20 Bodhisattva Precepts at Hatsuse 3.21 The Rice Donation The Sixth Month 3.22 The Assembly of One Thousand Flowers at Tōdaiji The Seventh Month 3.23 The MaÑjuśrī Assembly 3.24 The Ullambana [including the Confession] The Eighth Month 3.25 The Ceaseless Nenbutsu on Hie 3.26 The Assembly for Releasing Living Creatures at Yahata The Ninth Month 3.27 The Anointment at Hie The Tenth Month 3.28 The Vimalakīrti Assembly at Yamashinadera The Eleventh Month 3.29 The Assembly for Eight Lectures at Kumano 3.30 The Assembly in the Month of Frost The Twelfth Month 3.31 The Buddhas' Names Hymn

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Book SynopsisWang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has never been properly told, let alone critically investigated. Zhiyi Yang brings us a long overdue reexamination of Wang’s impact on cultural memory of WWII in China.Trade Review“Wang Jingwei is among the most controversial figures in modern Chinese politics and literature. A patriot and a traitor, a revolutionary and a poet, a charismatic leader and a melancholy soul, Wang has taken various roles through his life, leaving behind only poetry to testify to his enigma. In this pioneering study, Zhiyi Yang has offered a most insightful and compelling exegesis of Wang Jingwei’s life and work. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in early 20th century Sino-Japanese relations, classical-style poetry in modern China, and the politics of lyricism.”—David Wang, Harvard University“China today has erased the problematic memory of romantic revolutionary-turned-despised collaborator Wang Jingwei from history. With this superb and profound book, literary scholar Zhiyi Yang offers an absorbing meditation on Wang’s poems that accepts the power of poetry to voice things that prose cannot, taking readers more deeply inside the enigma that has been Wang Jingwei than any author before her has ever done.”—Tim Brook, University of British Columbia“Yang challenges oversimplified views of a notorious but influential historical figure with a beautifully written, well-researched book. Adopting an empathetic neutrality and eschewing a nationalistic or apologetic narrative, the book masterfully reconstructs Wang’s intent to be understood and remembered through his poems. It testifies to the power of poetic analysis in exploring subjugated memory and political dilemmas.”—Bin Xu, Emory University“Zhiyi Yang’s book is a timely, striking, and compelling reexamination of the life of Wang Jingwei (1883–1944), who since the wartime period was often portrayed by modern Chinese historians as a “traitor.” Brilliant and uplifting, full of wonderful insight on every page, this book is a tour de force. Most importantly, it recovers the lyric persona of Wang Jingwei and convincingly argues that Wang’s poetry should play a central role in reconstructing Wang’s posthumous memory in history—just what modern readers need today.”—Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University“The scholarship in this book provides an insightful and detailed rethinking of Wang Jingwei’s historical legacy, which sheds light on our understanding of China’s both nationalist and collaborative approaches to modernity.”—Haosheng Yang, Miami University“Wang Jingwei (1883–1944) was a man of great learning, educated first and foremost in the Chinese classics, then in Japan and France. His poetry, written in the classical styles, has been the object of admiration in China for a century already, despite deep divisions among historians over his controversial role following the Japanese invasion of his country and his assumption of the presidency of their client state, known as the “Reorganized National Government.” As a young man he had been a swashbuckling hero for the cause of the 1911 Revolution after his attempt to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent. As an intellectual leader and senior statesman of the Kuomintang or Nationalist Party, he was broadly perceived as Sun Yat-sen’s political heir, only to be sidelined by Chiang Kai-shek, a military man, after Sun’s death in 1925. With this volume, Zhiyi Yang has done a superlative job of giving us an objective biography of Wang Jingwei, coupled with precise, yet highly readable translations of an informed selection of his poetry, reflecting his lyric self-portrait at key moments in modern Chinese history. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the real history of the Pacific Theatre during World War II and the tragic denouement of this all-important statesman, who could have led China onto a third path.”—Jon Eugene von Kowallis (UNSW Sydney), author of The Lyrical Lu Xun: A Study of His Classical-Style Verse and The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the ‘Old Schools’ during Late Qing and Early Republican ChinaTable of Contents Conventions Abbreviations Archives Timeline of Events Acknowledgments Introduction The War in Memory Part I The End of Literati Politics Chapter 1 The Revolutionary Chapter 2 The Statesman Chapter 3 The “Traitor” Part II The Poetics of Memory Chapter 4 Poetry as Mnemonic Atlas Chapter 5 The Iconography of an Assassin Chapter 6 The Impossibility of Remembering the Past at Nanjing Epilogue Poetry against Oblivion Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe first collection of interdisciplinary and comparative studies focusing on diverse interactions among African, Asian, and Oceanic peoples and German colonizers

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Book SynopsisFollowing the end of World War II in 1945, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spent three decades carrying out agrarian reform among nearly one third of the world's rural population. This book presents a new perspective on the first step of this reform, when the CCP helped redistribute over 40 million hectares of land to over 300 million peasants.

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Book SynopsisThe year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress cut off aid to the Contras in Nicaragua, and then abruptly reversed itself and approved humanitarian aid to support the guerrilla war in that country.Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1 Introduction PART I Escalation and News Management, 1961-1965 CHAPTER 2 "A Legitimate Part of that Global Commitment," 1961-1963 CHAPTER 3 "It Does Not Imply Any Change of Policy Whatever," 1964-1965 PART II The War on Television, 196>1973 CHAPTER 4 The "Uncensored War," 1965-1967 CHAPTER 5 "We Are on Our Way Out," 1968-1973 CHAPTER 6 Conclusion NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX A: Abbreviations APPENDIX B: Code Book with Marginals for Some Variables INDEX

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Book SynopsisIt is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the 45 years of post-war Japanese history, describing the related themes: Japan's extraordinary economic growth and the endurance of conservative rule.Table of ContentsPeace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict, John W. Dower Japan's Position in the World System, Bruce Cumings The Past in the Present, Carol Gluck Defining Growth: Debates on Economic Strategies, Laura E. Hein The Structure and Transformation of Conservative Rule, Gary D. Allinson Negotiating Social Contracts, Sheldon Garon and Mike Mochizuki Dialectics of Economic Growth, National Power, and Distributive Struggles Koji Taira Finding a Place in Metropolitan Japan: Transpositions of Everyday Life, William Kelly Formations of Mass Culture, Marilyn Ivy Consuming and Saving, Charles Yuji Horioka The Death of "Good Wife, Wise Mother", Kathleen S. Uno Unplaced Persons and Movements for Place, Frank K. Upham Altered States: The Body Politics of "Being Woman", Sandra Buckley Contests for the Workplace, Andrew Gordon Intellectuals and Politics, J. Victor Koschmann The Dynamics of Political Opposition, James W. White

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Book SynopsisThis reassessment of the critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic and ecological change in northern China during the late Qing Dynasty. It maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation and popular protest, and analyzes their consequences.

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Book SynopsisExplores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories - including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism.Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Phantasmatic Innocence Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity On the Politics of Historical Memory PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY I. Taming the Memoryscape Remapping History Festivity 2. Memories in Ruins Postnuclear Hyperreal Contemplative Time PART TWO: STORYTELLERS 3· On Testimonial Practices Speaking the Unspeakable Naming the Testimonial Subjects Survivors, Hibakusha, Shogensha: Multiple Subjectivities 4· Mnemonic Detours Narrative Margins and Critical Knowledge Fabulous Memories: The Temporality of the "Never Again" Narratives of and for the Dead PART THREE: MEMORY AND POSITIONALITY 5· Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean Atom Bomb Memorial Contentious Memorial Monument to Homeland Excess of Memory The Absent Majority Memory Matters: "Minzoku" 6. Postwar Peace and the Feminization of Memory Peace, Nation, and the Maternal Feminine Dissidents On Rewriting "Women's" Histories Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. This book presents an historically specific, textured analysis that sheds light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.

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Book SynopsisSeeking the historical and cultural roots of the conflict between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of 'fundamentalist' Islam, this work examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century - a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince.Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgments List of Significant Persons 1. INTRODUCTION Beginnings Recollecting the Past Contested Domains 2. THE MAKING OF SULTAN MUHAMMAD KHAN Myth and History Fathers and Sons Men and Women Friends and Enemies Coda: Jandad's Punishment 3. THE REIGN OF THE IRON AMIR Mapping the State The Once and Future King The Armature of Royal Rule Kingship and Honor Coda: The Death of the King 4. THE LIVES OF AN AFGHAN SAINT Twice-Told Tales Fathers and Sons Identity and Place Discipline and Power Benefit and Gratitude Purity and Politics Pirs and Princes Coda: The Journey to Koh-i Qaf 5. MAD MULLAS AND ENGLISHMEN A Passage to India The Events of :1897 and Their Explanation Waging Jihad The Fault Lines of Authority Tales of Jarobi Glen Conclusion 6. EPILOGUE Re: Posting on the Internet Embedded Codes Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis text argues that to understand the Vietnam War, we must understand the Vietnamese, their culture and their ways of looking at the world. The author spent many years living and working in Vietnam. Winner of the 1994 American Library Association's Outstanding Academic Book Award.Table of ContentsPreface 1. How the Vietnamese See the World 2. Confrontation with the West, 1858-1930 3. The Yin of Early Modern Vietnamese Culture Challenges the Yang of Tradition, 1932-1939 4. The End of Colonialism and the Emergence of Two Competing Models for Building a Modern Nation, 1940-1954 5. Yin and Yang in Modern Guise, 1955-1970 6. Continuity and Change in Vietnamese Culture and Society, 1968-1975 7. Another Cycle Unfolds Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn account of the historic sea battle which ended in a Greek victory at Salamis in 489 BC. It evokes the sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion, and describes the everyday details of the lives of the soldiers, statesmen and ordinary citizens.

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Book SynopsisThis story of a South Korean social movement offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest. It describes the period in which farmers, student activists and organizers joined to protest the corporate ownership of tenant plots never distributed in the 1949 Land Reform.

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Book SynopsisDrawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I • HISTORIES AND HIERARCHIES Chapter 1. Introduction: Knowing and Remembering Chapter 2. Classifying and Counting PART II • PLEASURES Chapter 3. Rules of the House Chapter 4. Affairs of the Heart Chapter 5. Tricks of the Trade Chapter 6. Careers PART III • DANGERS Chapter 7. Trafficking Chapter 8. Law and Disorder Chapter g. Disease PART IV• INTERVENTIONS Chapter 10. Reformers Chapter 11. Regulators Chapter 12. Revolutionaries PART V • CONTEMPORARY CONVERSATIONS Chapter 13. Naming Chapter 14. Explaining Chapter 15. History, Memory, and Nostalgia APPENDIX A: TABLES APPENDIX B: POEMS NOTES GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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