Asian history Books
University of California Press The Hellenistic Far East
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of Alexander the Great's conquests in the late fourth century BC, Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria and into India. Looking particularly at the great city of Ai Khanoum, the author explores how these ancient people lived, communicated, and understood themselves.Trade Review"Scholars should be well satisfied with what is offered, and for any classicist the phenomenon of Indians or Central Asians writing good Greek verse with acrostic trimmings should be an incentive to read further around the subject." Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Abbreviations Introduction 1. Administering Bactria: From Achaemenid Satrapy to Graeco-Bactrian State 2. Ai Khanoum 3. Self-Representation in the Inscriptions of Sophytos (Arachosia) and Heliodoros (India) 4. Waiting for the Barbarians: The Fall of Greek Bactria Conclusion Appendix: Greek Documents Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Hindu Pluralism Religion and the Public Sphere in
Book SynopsisDrawing on sources in Sanskrit, Tamil and Telugu, the author argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism.Trade Review"A clearly written and outstanding study of early modern India. Fisher’s exploration of the relationship between the political and the religious is informative and stimulating. " * Reading Religion *"Hindu Pluralism is a wonderful and thoughtful examination of sixteenth and seventeenth religious and intellectual culture." * History of Religions *"Hindu Pluralism presents both a sophisticated intervention in major debates within religious studies and political theory and an excellent granular study of diverse textual genres in a polyglot literary culture." * International Journal of Hindu Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Hindu Sectarianism: Difference in Unity 2. "Just Like Kalidasa": The Making of the Smarta-Saiva Community of South India 3. Public Philology: Constructing Sectarian Identities in Early Modern South India 4. The Language Games of Siva: Mapping Text and Space in Public Religious Culture Conclusion: A Prehistory of Hindu Pluralism Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Assimilating Seoul
Book SynopsisA book-length study about Seoul during the colonial period, that challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital.Trade Review"A major contribution to the study of the history of twentieth-century Korea." -- John Whittier Treat Korea Journal "A most welcome addition to the field of Korean studies." -- Alexis Dudden American Historical Review "[Assimilating Seoul] delivers an impressive contribution to the growing collection of research on Japanese imperial history in Korea, and the Japanese-Korean relationship in particular. ... It defies categorization as either a Japanese or Korean history to serve as a valuable artery of both during the time of Japan's colonial subjugation of the peninsula." -- Mark Caprio Reviews in History "The first in-depth study in the English language of the history of Seoul in the first half of the twentieth century ... entertaining and highly readable ... a welcome addition to the growing literature on Korea's colonial history and on urban history more generally." -- Janet Poole H-Net "A detailed study of Korean and Japanese identity and adaptability in the colonial setting... Assimilating Seoul will be required reading for anyone studying the Japanese colonial period in Korea, for scholars of colonialism in general, and for students wanting to look beyond purely nationalist narratives for understandings of the past." -- Donald N. Clark Pacific Affairs "A new and insightful perspective." -- Steven Denney Sino-NK "Henry does an excellent job ... Highly recommended." Choice "Assimilating Seoul provides a nuanced view of Japan's colonial endeavor in Korea... A respectable contribution." Japanese Studies "Bold and ambitious ... A timely and provocative study." The Journal of Asian Studies "Assimilating Seoul provides a wealth of information and brims with fresh insights... Henry's adept probe into the city's physical and conceptual ambits is remarkably perceptive." Journal of Japanese Studies "Beautifully written... The reader can feel the author's genuine passion for understanding the people of whom he writes. Assimilating Seoul is essential reading for all students of twentieth-century Korean society. Directed as much at engaging historians based in South Korea as those elsewhere, the book is bound to spur debate." Journal of Korean Studies "As a pioneering work on an important subject so far glaringly under-researched outside of South Korea and Japan, it enriches the scholarship on Korean history in English... Henry's book represents first-rate, pioneering scholarship." Monumenta NipponicaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Place Names Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. Assimilation and Space: Toward an Ethnography of Japanese Rule 1. Constructing Keijo: The Uneven Spaces of a Colonial Capital 2. Spiritual Assimilation: Namsan's Shinto Shrines and Their Festival Celebrations 3. Material Assimilation: Colonial Expositions on the Kyongbok Palace Grounds 4. Civic Assimilation: Sanitary Life in Neighborhood Keijo 5. Imperial Subjectification: The Collapsing Spaces of a Wartime City Epilogue. After Empire's Demise: The Postcolonial Remaking of Seoul's Public Spaces Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Empire of Convicts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book—a product of decades of research—is especially valuable as a narrative that weaves together the lived experiences of convicts and the larger socio-economic and political order they were coerced to serve." * SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia *"Empire of Convicts is an informative and closely reasoned addition to histories of colonial labour and penology and to the burgeoning literature on the Indian Ocean World." * Journal of Development Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Across the Kala Pani: The Global and Local Contexts of Penal Transportation 2 • "Bundwars, Malays, Sebundy Sepoys, and Neas Men": The Bengkulu World of the Khan Brothers, 1797–1825 3 • "Kumpanee ke Noukur": Rajas and Robbers in Penang, 1790–1870s 4 • "Near China beyond the Seas Far Far Distant from Juggernath": Convict Workers and the Making of Colonial Singapore, 1825–1870s 5 • Epilogue—Life after Life: The Afterlives of Bandwars in the Straits Settlements Notes Bibliography Index
£35.70
University of California Press Ginseng and Borderland
Book SynopsisAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Ginseng and Borderland explores the territorial boundaries and political relations between Qing China and Choson Korea during the period from the early seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. By examining a unique body of materials written in Chinese, Manchu, and Korean, and building on recent studies in New Qing History, Seonmin Kim adds new perspectives to current understandings of the remarkable transformation of the Manchu Qing dynasty (1636-1912) from a tribal state to a universal empire. This book discusses early Manchu history and explores the Qing Empire's policy of controlling Manchuria and Choson Korea. Kim also contributes to theKorean history of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910) by challenging conventional accounts that embrace a China-centered interpretation of the tributary relationship between the two polities, stressing instead the agency of Choson Korea in the formation of the Qing Empire. This study demonstrates how Koreans interpreted and employed this relationship in order to preserve the boundary-and peace-with the suzerain power. By focusing on the historical significance of the China-Korean boundary, this book defines the nature of the Qing Empire through the dynamics of contacts and conflicts under both the cultural and material frameworks of its tributary relationship with Choson Korea.Trade Review"Kim’s indispensable book nevertheless provides much of interest and opens up further avenues for research." * Asian Affairs *"Seonmin Kim’s work . . . presents a timely intervention into the ongoing debates about the East Asian tributary model through a detailed study of the relationship between the Qing China (1644–1912) and Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910). Even though Chosŏn was considered to be the model tributary of Ming China (1368–1644), Ginseng and Borderland builds on previous scholarship to show that the relationship between China, Manchuria, and Korea took a tripartite form." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Note on Transcriptions and Conventions Note on Weights and Measures Introduction 1. From Frontier to Borderland 2. Making the Borderland 3. Managing the Borderland 4. Movement of People and Money 5. From Borderland to Border Conclusion Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
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University of California Press Maiko Masquerade Crafting Geisha Girlhood in
Book SynopsisMaiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto's classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men's amusement, she serves as catalyst for women's consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girlsand even one boystriving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.Trade Review"[An] informative and stimulating book. . . .Maiko Masquerade… highlights a complex and relatively unknown world." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Bardsley presents a provocative, comprehensive look at the representation of maiko and girl culture in Maiko Masquerade. Not only is it a great contribution to scholarship on maiko, but it also demonstrates the politics and power of representation." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bardsley’s deep and thoughtful analysis also draws our attention to the elements of maiko life and work that are not publicly discussed. . . .an ideal resource for teachers of undergraduate and postgraduate Japanese Studies and Gender Studies…The provocative and perceptive questions that the volume raises will inform future scholarship on this fascinating topic." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Deeply researched and carefully constructed. . . .Maiko Masquerade is full of many surprising discoveries. Bardsley writes with a light touch that successfully draws the reader in to her analytic project. Even to one who lives here, Kyoto and Japan appear different now." * Journal of Gender Studies/Jenda Kenkyu *"Maiko Masquerade…should be read by anyone with an interest in millennial Japanese culture and society. . . .Bardsley provides a nuanced and detailed account of how the maiko came to be this beloved and iconic Kyoto cultural figure of the 2000s." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Why Study Maiko Stories? Notes on Japanese Terms and Currency Introduction: The Maiko, Kyoto’s Apprentice Geisha 1. The Maiko's Hanamachi Home 2. The Well-Mannered Career Path 3. Life in the Hanamachi: Voices of Maiko and Geiko 4. From Victim to Artist: Maiko Stories in Movies and Manga 5. Adventures of a Boy Maiko: There Goes Chiyogiku! 6. Hit a Homer, Maiko! Maiko Visual Comedy Conclusion: The Ordinary Girl in the Maiko Masquerade Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Maiko Masquerade
Book SynopsisMaiko Masquerade explores Japanese representations of the maiko, or apprentice geisha, in films, manga, and other popular media as an icon of exemplary girlhood. Jan Bardsley traces how the maiko, long stigmatized as a victim of sexual exploitation, emerges in the 2000s as the chaste keeper of Kyoto's classical artistic traditions. Insider accounts by maiko and geisha, their leaders and fans, show pride in the training, challenges, and rewards maiko face. No longer viewed as a toy for men's amusement, she serves as catalyst for women's consumer fun. This change inspires stories of ordinary girlsand even one boystriving to embody the maiko ideal, engaging in masquerades that highlight questions of personal choice, gender performance, and national identity.Trade Review"[An] informative and stimulating book. . . .Maiko Masquerade… highlights a complex and relatively unknown world." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Bardsley presents a provocative, comprehensive look at the representation of maiko and girl culture in Maiko Masquerade. Not only is it a great contribution to scholarship on maiko, but it also demonstrates the politics and power of representation." * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bardsley’s deep and thoughtful analysis also draws our attention to the elements of maiko life and work that are not publicly discussed. . . .an ideal resource for teachers of undergraduate and postgraduate Japanese Studies and Gender Studies…The provocative and perceptive questions that the volume raises will inform future scholarship on this fascinating topic." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Deeply researched and carefully constructed. . . .Maiko Masquerade is full of many surprising discoveries. Bardsley writes with a light touch that successfully draws the reader in to her analytic project. Even to one who lives here, Kyoto and Japan appear different now." * Journal of Gender Studies/Jenda Kenkyu *"Maiko Masquerade…should be read by anyone with an interest in millennial Japanese culture and society. . . .Bardsley provides a nuanced and detailed account of how the maiko came to be this beloved and iconic Kyoto cultural figure of the 2000s." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: Why Study Maiko Stories? Notes on Japanese Terms and Currency Introduction: The Maiko, Kyoto’s Apprentice Geisha 1. The Maiko's Hanamachi Home 2. The Well-Mannered Career Path 3. Life in the Hanamachi: Voices of Maiko and Geiko 4. From Victim to Artist: Maiko Stories in Movies and Manga 5. Adventures of a Boy Maiko: There Goes Chiyogiku! 6. Hit a Homer, Maiko! Maiko Visual Comedy Conclusion: The Ordinary Girl in the Maiko Masquerade Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Diva Nation
Book SynopsisDiva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates from curiosity over the insistent presence of Japanese female figures who have refused to sit quietly on the sidelines of history. The contributors move beyond archival portraits to consider historically and culturally informed diva imagery and diva lore. The diva is ripe for expansion, fantasy, eroticization, and playful reinvention, while simultaneously presenting a challenge to patriarchal culture. Diva Nation asks how the diva disrupts or bolsters ideas about nationhood, morality, and aesthetics.Trade Review"This collection is an important contribution to a better understanding of the diva in the post-feminist era. The main objective of the book is not to celebrate women or womanhood or to disclose notable women that have nevertheless been overlooked by patriarchal historiography, but to build a new interpretive framework." * Leonardo *“At turns witty and wise, frothy and fascinating, there’s something for anyone interested in gender studies, Japanese culture or the shadowy layers of its subculture.” * The Japan Times *"In light of the recent global attention to movements such as #MeToo, fuelled by women fighting against routine and status quo sexism, the publication of Diva Nation seems timely . . . This collection will be valuable not only to those interested in Japanese studies, but also for those with an interest in gender studies, queer studies and any field engaging with minority cultural or subcultural groups." * New Voices in Japanese Studies *"Diva Nation stands out as a scholarly text that is commendably approachable in terms of the analysis. It is moreover an engaging book thanks to the material and the writing, and its merging of anthropology, history, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies makes it a valuable addition to many libraries and many syllabi." * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Preface: Transnational and Time-Travelling Divas xiLaura Hein Diva Seductions: An Introduction to Diva Nation 1Laura Miller and Rebecca Copeland 1. Kirino Natsuo Meets Izanami: Angry Divas Talking Back 13Rebecca Copeland 2. Ame no Uzume Crosses Boundaries 34Tomoko Aoyama 3. Searching for Charisma Queen Himiko 51Laura Miller 4. Izumo no Okuni Queers the Stage 77Barbara Hartley 5. From Child Star to Diva: Misora Hibari as Postwar Japan 95Christine R. Yano 6. Yoko Ono: A Transgressive Diva 115Carolyn S. Stevens 7. Transbeauty IKKO: A Diva’s Guide to Glamour, Virtue, and Healing 133Jan Bardsley 8. Seizing the Spotlight, Staging the Self: Uchida Shungiku 151Amanda C. Seaman 9. The Unmaking of a Diva: Kanehara Hitomi’s Comfortable Anonymity 168David Holloway 10. Ice Princess: Asada Mao the Demure Diva 185Masafumi Monden Afterword: Diva tte nan desu ka? (What Is a Diva?) 203Rokudenashiko (Translated by Kazue Harada) Bibliography 207 Contributors 229 Index 233
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University of California Press Mountain Water Rock God
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available throughLuminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. In Mountain, Water, Rock, God, Luke Whitmore situates the disastrous flooding that fell on the Hindu Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath in 2013 within a broader religious and ecological context. Whitmore explores the longer story of this powerful realm of the Hindu god Shiva through a holistic theoretical perspective that integrates phenomenological and systems-based approaches to the study of religion, pilgrimage, place, and ecology. He argues that close attention to places of religious significance offers a model for thinking through connections between ritual, narrative, climate destabilization, tourism, development, and disaster, and he shows how these critical components of human life in the twenty-first century intersect in the human experience of place.Trade Review"This book is a very impressive contribution to the growing scholarship on the relationship between human society and nature, not only in the context of the Himalayan region and Indian society, but also more globally." * Journal of Contemporary Religion *"Whitmore’s analysis gives readers a nuanced and informed perspective on the pilgrimage to Kedarnath. . . . highly recommended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level courses in religious studies, sociology of religion, eco-politics, nature and the sacred, sustainability issues, and sacred pilgrimage." * Nova Religio *"We are indebted to Whitmore for providing a glimpse of [Kedarnath]." * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture *"Whitmore is the only scholar to have studied Kedarnath in such depth, and this book makes an indispensable contribution to the study of Hinduism. . . . Whitmore resists the temptation to sensationalize what defies description, providing instead a serious, sobering, and holistic analysis of the power attributed to this great Himalayan shrine." * International Journal of Hindu Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: In the Direction of Kedar 1. In Pursuit of Shiva 2. Lord of Kedar 3. Earlier Times 4. The Season 5. When the Floods Came 6. Nature’s Tandava Dance 7. Topographies of ReinventionGlossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Dear China Emigrant Letters and Remittances 18201980
Book SynopsisQiaopi is one of several names given to the silver letters Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.Trade Review"Makes substantial and significant contributions to our ongoing struggles to attain better understanding of migration as a most human, yet greatly disruptive, element of our global society and economy." * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"A pertinent contribution to extant scholarship on the history of Chinese migration and diasporic ties between 1820 and 1980. . . . Students of oral history, social memory, in addition to migration researchers, will find this book an intelligible and informative read." * International Migration Review *"No matter what a reader of Dear China might think they know at the beginning, by the end of their perusal of this intensively researched and wide-ranging work they will know and appreciate a great deal more." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"This fascinating volume by Benton and Liu proposes many noteworthy arguments for Southeast Asian history research because it pays heed to overseas Chinese society as one of the key factors in the region’s historical changes." * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Foreword by Wang Gungwu Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies 2. The Structure of the Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks 3. The Qiaopi Trade as a Distinctive Form of Chinese Capitalism 4. Qiaopi Geography 5. Qiaopi and Modern Chinese Economy and Politics 6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity 7. Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared Conclusions Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Dear China
Book SynopsisQiaopi is one of several names given to the silver letters Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in different times. Dear China is the first book-length study in English of qiaopi and of the origins, structure, and operations of the qiaopi trade. The authors explore the characteristics and transformations of qiaopi, showing how such institutionalized and cross-national mechanisms helped sustain families separated by distance and state frontiers and contributed to the sending regions' socioeconomic development. Dear China contributes substantially to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration.Trade Review"Makes substantial and significant contributions to our ongoing struggles to attain better understanding of migration as a most human, yet greatly disruptive, element of our global society and economy." * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *"A pertinent contribution to extant scholarship on the history of Chinese migration and diasporic ties between 1820 and 1980. . . . Students of oral history, social memory, in addition to migration researchers, will find this book an intelligible and informative read." * International Migration Review *"No matter what a reader of Dear China might think they know at the beginning, by the end of their perusal of this intensively researched and wide-ranging work they will know and appreciate a great deal more." * Journal of Chinese Overseas *"This fascinating volume by Benton and Liu proposes many noteworthy arguments for Southeast Asian history research because it pays heed to overseas Chinese society as one of the key factors in the region’s historical changes." * Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Tables Foreword by Wang Gungwu Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Genealogy of Qiaopi Studies 2. The Structure of the Qiaopi Trade and Transnational Networks 3. The Qiaopi Trade as a Distinctive Form of Chinese Capitalism 4. Qiaopi Geography 5. Qiaopi and Modern Chinese Economy and Politics 6. Qiaopi, Qiaoxiang, and Charity 7. Qiaopi and European Migrants’ Letters Compared Conclusions Appendix: Selected Qiaopi and Huipi Letters Glossary Notes References Index
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University of California Press Mediums and Magical Things Statues Paintings and
Book SynopsisStatues, paintings, and maskslike the bodies of shamans and spirit mediumsgive material form and presence to otherwise invisible entities, and sometimes these objects are understood to be enlivened, agentive on their own terms. This book explores how magical images are expected to work with the shamans and spirit mediums who tend and use them in contemporary South Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bali, and elsewhere in Asia. It considers how such things are fabricated, marketed, cared for, disposed of, and sometimes transformed into art-market commodities and museum artifacts.Trade Review"Mediums and Magical Things makes a valuable contribution to the study of material religion, anthropology of religion, and religion in modernity. It is a timely volume that will no doubt fulfill Kendall’s hope that it ‘propel others down similar paths’." * Nova Religio *"Mediums and Magic Things contributes to the study of material religion and the anthropology of religion in a very readable and easily accessible way." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Conventions 1. MacGuffins and Magical Things 2. Ensoulments 3. Materiality, Making, and Magic 4. Agency and Assemblage 5. The Ambiguities of the Unsacred 6. Afterlives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£63.90
University of California Press The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
Book SynopsisBaseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century.The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers analyzes Japanese baseball ethnographically by focusing on a single professional team, the Hanshin Tigers.For over fifty years, the Tigers have been the one of the country's most watched and talked-about professional baseball teams, second only to their powerful rivals, the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants.Despite a largely losing record, perennial frustration, and infighting among players, the Tigers remain overwhelming sentimental favorites in many parts of the country. This book analyzes the Hanshin Tiger phenomenon, and offers an account of why it has long been so compelling and instructive. Author William Kelly argues that the Tigers representwhat he calls a sportsworld a collective product of the actions of players, coaching staff, management, media, and millions of passionate fans. The team has come to symbolize a powerful counter-narrative to idealized notions of Japanese workplace relations. The Tigers are savored as a melodramatic representation of real corporate life, rife with rivalries andoffice politics familiar to every Japanese worker. And playing in a historic stadium on the edge of Osaka, they carry the hopes and frustrations of Japan's second city against the all-powerful capital.Trade Review"The volume is a must-read for those with even a passing interest in Japanese baseball." * Monumenta Nipponica *"[T]his book will be essential to readers who seek to learn more about . . . baseball and sport in Japan." * Contemporary Japan *"The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers is strongly recommended to students, scholars, and general readers interested in baseball and/or Japanese culture and history." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Japanese Language 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present Endnotes Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing Glossary of Key Japanese Terms References Index
£63.90
University of California Press The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The volume is a must-read for those with even a passing interest in Japanese baseball." * Monumenta Nipponica *"[T]his book will be essential to readers who seek to learn more about . . . baseball and sport in Japan." * Contemporary Japan *"The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers is strongly recommended to students, scholars, and general readers interested in baseball and/or Japanese culture and history." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terms and Japanese Language 1. Introducing Hanshin Tigers Baseball 2. The Rhythms of Tigers Baseball: Stadiums and Seasons 3. On the Field: Players, from Rookies to Veterans 4. In the Dugout: Manager and Coaches 5. In the Offices: Front Office and Parent Corporation 6. In the Stands: Fans, Followers, and Fair-Weather Spectators 7. In the Press Box: Sports Dailies and Mainstream Media 8. Baseball as Education and Entertainment 9. Workplace Melodramas and Second-City Complex 10. A Sportsworld Transforming: The Hanshin Tigers at Present Endnotes Appendix: A Note on the Research and Writing Glossary of Key Japanese Terms References Index
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University of California Press Global East Asia
Book SynopsisHome to a rapidly rising superpower and the two largest economies in the world after the US, a global East Asia is seen and felt everywhere. This dynamic text views the global square from the perspective of the worldâs most important rising global center. East Asiaâs global impact is built on a dizzying combination: a strong and deep civilizational self-consciousness fused with hypermodernity, wealth, influence, and power, which have made the region a beacon for the world and an alternative to the West. Short, accessible essays by prominent experts on the region cover the core of East AsianâJapan, China, and Koreaâas well as Mongolia and Taiwan. Topics include contemporary culture, artistic production, food, science, economic development, digital issues, education and research, and international collaboration. Students will glean new perspectives about the region using the insights of global studies. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Many Faces of Global East Asia Frank N. Pieke and Koichi Iwabuchi Part One • Global East Asia: Past and Present Frank N. Pieke 1 • Reluctant Keystone: The Nexus of War, Memory, and Geopolitics in Okinawa Jeff Kingston 2 • From Jazz Men to Jasmine: Transnational Nightlife Cultures in Shanghai from the 1920s to the 2010s Andrew Field and James Farrer 3 • Maoism as a Global Force Julia Lovell 4 • Japanese Development Aid and Global Power Hiroshi Kan Sato and Akiko Hiratsuka-Sasaki 5 • Conflict and Cooperation in Global East Asia Lindsay Black Part Two • East Asian Global Cultures Koichi Iwabuchi and Frank N. Pieke 6 • Hybridity and Authenticity in Global East Asian Foodways Sidney Cheung 7 • Trans-Pacific Flows and US Audiences of Korean Popular Culture Jung-Sun Park 8 • Ai Weiwei and the Global Art of Politics William A. Callahan Part Three • Education, Science, and Technology Frank N. Pieke 9 • China, Japan, and the Rise of Global Competition in Higher Education and Research Futao Huang 10 • The Educational Exodus from South Korea Adrienne Lo and Leejin Choi 11 • From "Wild East" to Global Pioneers: Life Science Developments in East Asia Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner 12 • A Concise History of Worlding Chinese Medicine Mei Zhan Part Four • East Asian Mobilities and Diversities Frank N. Pieke 13 • Of Married Daughters and Caged Chickens: The History and Significations of Being "Chinese" in Southeast Asia Kwee Hui Kian 14 • The Korean Diaspora in the United States John Lie 15 • The Japanese Diaspora in the Americas and the Ethnic Return Migration of Japanese Americans Takeyuki Gaku Tsuda 16 • Chinese Labor Migrants in Asia and Africa Miriam Driessen and Biao Xiang 17 • Uncertain Choices of Chinese-Foreign Children's Citizenship in the People’s Republic of China Elena Barabantseva, Caroline Grillot, and Michaela Pelican 18 • From Hmong Versus Miao to the Making of Transnational Hmong/Miao Solidarity Louisa Schein and Chia Youyee Vang 19 • An East Asian Nation without a State: Xinjiang and China's Non-Chinese Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part Five • The Rise of China and East Asia as the New Center of the World Frank N. Pieke 20 • Global China's Business Frontier: Chinese Enterprises and the Reach of the State Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente 21 • Common Destiny in Cyberspace: China's Cyber Diplomacy Rogier Creemers 22 • Chinese Correspondents around the World Pál Nyíri 23 • Decoupling the US Economy: Preparations for a New Cold War? Richard McGregor and Hervé Lemahieu 24 • State-Led Globalization, or How Hard Is China’s Soft Power? Ingrid d’Hooghe and Frank N. Pieke Afterword • East Asia: Being There and Being Elsewhere Ulf Hannerz List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press American Exodus
Book SynopsisIn the first decades of the 20th century, almost half of the Chinese Americans born in the United States moved to Chinaa relocation they assumed would be permanent. At a time when people from around the world flocked to the United States, this little-noticed emigration belied America's image as a magnet for immigrants and a land of upward mobility for all. Fleeing racism, Chinese Americans who sought greater opportunities saw China, a tottering empire and then a struggling republic, as their promised land. American Exodusis the first book to explore this extraordinary migration of Chinese Americans. Their exodus shaped Sino-American relations, the development of key economic sectors in China, the character of social life in its coastal cities, debates about the meaning of culture and modernity there, and the U.S. government's approach to citizenship and expatriation in the interwar years. Spanning multiple fields, exploring numerous cities, and crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Chinese history, international relations, immigration history, and Asian American studies. Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on Sources, Names, Data, and Translations Introduction 1. New Lives in the South: Chinese American Merchant and Student Immigrants 2. The Modernizers: US-Educated Chinese Americans in China 3. The Golden Age Ends: Chinese Americans and the Rise of Anti-imperialist Nationalism 4. The Nanjing Decade: Chinese American Immigrants and the Nationalist Regime 5. Agonizing Choices: The War against Japan, 1937–1945 Conclusion Epilogue Notes Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Following the Leader
Book SynopsisWith unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China's political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes and ideas of those at the top have evolved over the past four decades. Here China's rulers explain their strategies and ideas for moving the nation forward, share their reflections on matters of leadership and policy, and discuss the challenges that keep them awake at night. As the Chinese Communist Party installs its new president, Xi Jinping, for a presumably ten-year term, questions abound. How will the country move forward as its explosive rate of economic growth begins to slow? How does it plan to deal with domestic and international calls for political reform and to cope with an aging population, not to mention an increasingly fragmented bureaucracy and society? In this insightful book Trade Review"Provides an exceptional explanation of the astounding changes that China has experienced, especially since the late 1970s, and offers a sober assessment of the challenges the nation currently faces. . . . This important work on understanding contemporary China is essential for all China watchers. Its concise and lucid treatment of the topic will serve as valuable reading to experts and novices alike." * Library Journal *"Beautifully written, and dotted with poetic passages unexpected in a book of political analysis." * Pacific Affairs *"An authoritative depiction of how China's leaders view their domestic and international environments . . . It is all too rare to have a single book address issues of elite politics, domestic governance, civil-military relations, and foreign policy, but Lampton does so effectively in this book." * Political Science Quarterly *"A cogent, in-depth analysis." * Choice *"Insightful analysis . . . . One of the most balanced scholarly accounts of China’s political development." * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Evolution in the Revolution Part One. China, a Wide-Angle View 2. Governance and Leadership 3. Policy Making 4. The World Part Two. China, an Up-Close View 5. Nightmares 6. Soldiers and Civilians 7. Negotiation Chinese Style Conclusion: Driving beyond the Headlights Appendix: The Interviews and Interviewing in China Notes Index
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University of California Press In Search of Our Frontier
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the most ambitious and expansive studies yet undertaken in the field of Japanese migration history. . . . Azuma deftly unravels the complex and tangled history of Japanese overseas migration." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A landmark study that should definitively reshape research and teaching agendas for some time to come." * Journal of Japanese Studies *"This is a ground-breaking thesis, to date the boldest expression in English of ideas that have been percolating for more than a decade in research projects in Japan and elsewhere. Masterfully researched and boldly conceived, In Search of our Frontier should begin to redefine the terms of Japanese imperialism for years to come." * H-Soz-Kult *"An important and provocative contribution to the fields of Japanese and Japanese American history, as well as the global history of modern imperialism. Azuma has offered a new way to think about Japan’s empire, showing us how many of the institutions and societies of the formal empire had deep ties to the informal empire of Japanese America." * H-Net *"Azuma provides a valuable glimpse into a certain daring and confidence that accompanied Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state." * Monumenta Nipponica *"Azuma has written a compelling new master narrative for Japan’s rise as a Pacific power . . . bringing East Asian Area Studies into direct engagement with the Ethnic History of Japanese America, makes In Search of Frontiers an instant classic." * Journal of American- East Asian Relations *"In Search of Our Frontier is a truly ambitious and groundbreaking work in Japanese American studies." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism, and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism PART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884–1907 1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese Settler Colonialism 2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific PART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT,1908–1928 3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and Private Settler Colonialism 4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants on Japan’s Brazilian Frontiers PART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1924–1945 5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria Connections 6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to Colonial Taiwan and the Nan’yō PART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1932–1945 7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan 8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education of the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters” Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental United States and Hawai‘i Notes Index
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University of California Press The Chinese Pursuit of Happiness Anxieties Hopes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An invaluable contribution to diversifying and complicating the study of happiness across the world." * China Review International *"This book is one of those rare edited volumes where all chapters are of high quality: beautifully written, theoretically thoughtful, and empirically grounded. The book is strongly recommended for anyone interested in the sociology of morality, cultural sociology, and contemporary China." * Contemporary Sociology *"The volume offers nuanced and textured moral and ethical understandings of the good life in China at individual, familial, and societal levels. . . . It sets a high bar for future mappings of happiness imaginaries." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Becky Yang Hsu 1. The Changing Notion of Happiness: A History of Xingfu Lang Chen 2. Having It All: Filial Piety, Moral Weighting, and Anxiety among Young Adults Becky Yang Hsu 3. Performing Happiness for Self and Others: Weddings in Shanghai Deborah S. Davis 4. Happy and Unhappy Meals: Culinary Expressions of the Good Life in Shanghai James Farrer 5. Making the People or the Government Happy? Dilemmas of Social Workers in a Morally Pluralistic Society Richard Madsen 6. Deriving Happiness from Making Society Better: Chinese Activists as Warring Gods Chih-Jou Jay Chen Epilogue Richard Madsen References Contributors Index
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University of California Press Witness to Marvels Sufism and Literary
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stewart provides rich insights into the nature of fiction in the context of premodern forms of storytelling. His analysis is conceptually rich and offers abundant opportunities to think about the directions that the study of similar narratives can take in the scholarship of other Indian languages." * Marginalia Review of Books *"The book will be of interest to scholars who work on Islam in South Asia, as well as those who engage in literary studies, while the stories translated here will be a great resource for courses that engage in South Asian Islam." * New Books Network *"With its elegant translations and careful literary analysis, Witness to Marvels allows non-Bengali-speaking scholars to enter the long-overlooked narrative world of the fictional Sufi saints of Bengal. Stewart’s masterful work makes a tremendous contribution to the fields of religious studies and comparative literature." * Reading Religion *"An essential book that illuminates Bengali Islam and challenges scholars of Islam to expand the vision of their field." * Religious Studies Review *
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University of California Press Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Book SynopsisIt is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical histories and Syriac martyrdom narratives that date to centuries after the fact. In this groundbreaking study, Kyle Smith analyzes diverse Greek, Latin, and Syriac sources to show that there was not a single history of fourth-century Mesopotamia. By examining the conflicting hagiographical and historical evidence, Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia presents an evocative and evolving portrait of the first Christian emperor, uncovering how Syriac Christians manipulated the image of their western Christian counterparts to fashion their own political and religious identities during this century of radical change.Trade Review"By examining Constantine through the lens of the Sasanian world...[Kyle Smith] manages to break free of Eusebius and his domineering narrative. This will pay dividends for our understanding of this major figure in world history, as well as the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity more broadly. That Smith’s book is so clearly written, well organized, and tightly argued further ensures its impact on the field." * Pleket *"A welcome contribution to an important field of study." * Plekos *"Kyle Smith has written a provocative, engaging, and elegant book. . . .[in which] Smith critiques previous historiography and demonstrates new possibilities and avenues for constructing the history of Persian Christians in the fourth century and their relationship to Constantine and the Roman Empire." * Studies in Late Antiquity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Constantine and the Writing of Fourth-Century History PART I: THE ROMAN FRONTIER AND THE PERSIAN WAR 1 • Patronizing Persians: Constantine’s Letter to Shapur II 2 • Constantine’s Crusade: The Emperor’s Last Days and the Persian Campaign 3 • Rereading Nisibis: Narrating the Battle for Roman Mesopotamia PART II: ROMAN CAPTIVES AND PERSIAN ENVOYS 4 • On War and Persecution: Aphrahat the Persian Sage and the Martyrdom and History of Blessed Simeon bar Sabba?e 5 • The Church of the East and the Territorialization of Christianity 6 • Memories of Constantine in the Acts of the Persian Martyrs Appendix A. Constantine’s Letter to Shapur: Eusebius’s Life of Constantine IV.8–14 Appendix B. Martyrdom of the Captives of Beth Zabdai Appendix C. Martyrdom of Abbot Barshebya, Ten Fellow Brothers, and One Magus Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Patronage and Exploitation
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
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University of California Press All under Heaven The Tianxia System for a
Book SynopsisIn this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China's most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China's story and also develops a Chinese worldview for the future. Over the past few decades, the question Where did China come from?has absorbed the thoughts of many of China's best historians. Zhao, keenly aware of the persistent and pernicious asymmetry in the prevailing way scholars have gone about theorizing China according to Western concepts and categories, has tasked both Chinese and Western scholars to rethink China. Zhao introduces what he terms a distinctively Chinese centripetal whirlpool model of world order to interpret the historical progression of China's tianxia(All under Heaven) identity construction. In this book, Zhao forwards a compelling thesis not only on how we should understand China, but also on how China until recently has understood itself.Table of ContentsForeword to the Chinese Edition Foreword to the English Edition New Foreword by Odd Arne Westad Translator’s Preface Introduction. A Redefinition of Tianxia as a Political Concept: Problems, Conditions, and Methods Part I The Tianxia Conceptual Story 1. Politics Starting with the World 2. The Three-Tiered World of Tianxia 3. Correlating with Tian (peitian 配天) 4. Institutional Layout 5. No Outside (wuwai 无外) 6. Circle of Family and Tianxia 7. Tianming 天命 (Heavenly Invoked Order) 8. Virtuosic Power and Harmony 9. Why Might Good Order Collapse? 10. Tianxia as Method Part II The Encompassing Tianxia of China 11. A Whirlpool Model 12. A Condensed Version of Tianxia 13. Why Go Stag Hunting in the Central Plain? 14. Existing through Change Part III The Future of Tianxia Order 15. A World History Yet to Begin 16. Kantian Questions and Huntington's Problem 17. Two Types of Exteriority: Naturalist and Constructivist 18. Borders and No Outside 19. Materializing Conditions for a New Tianxia 20. New Tianxia: A Vocabulary Appendix. Jizi's Lost Democracy: A Continuing Narration of Tianxia—Toward a Smart Democracy Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Eight Outcasts
Book SynopsisThe 1949 Communist Revolution marked a period of earthshaking change in China. Political, economic, ideological, and cultural movements galvanized the country, culminating in dramatic social transformations at all levels, including the persecution of hundreds of thousands of the country's citizens. Based on normally inaccessible records of confessions, interrogations, trial transcripts, and depositions,Eight Outcaststells the stories of eight victims of the Maoist dictatorship. It introduces readers to individuals accused of infractions such as corruption, political wrong thinking, homosexuality, illicit sexual activity, foreign ties, or historical problems (connections to the former Kuomintang regime) in the period between the revolution and Mao's death in 1976. Each chapter brings stories of China's voiceless citizens to light, broadening our knowledge of this important transitional period.
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University of California Press Sovereign Attachments Masculinity Muslimness and
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Sovereign Attachments
Book SynopsisSovereign Attachments rethinks sovereignty by moving it out of the exclusive domain of geopolitics and legality and into cultural, religious, and gender studies. Through a close reading of a stunning array of cultural texts produced by the Pakistani state and the Pakistan-based Taliban, Shenila Khoja-Moolji theorizes sovereignty as an ongoing attachment that is negotiated in public culture. Both the state and the Taliban recruit publics into relationships of trust, protection, and fraternity by summoning models of Islamic masculinity, mobilizing kinship metaphors, and marshalling affect. In particular, masculinity and Muslimness emerge as salient performances through which sovereign attachments are harnessed. The book shifts the discussion of sovereignty away from questions about absolute dominance to ones about shared repertoires, entanglements, and co-constitution. Trade Review"Khoja-Moolji’s success lies in highlighting the imbrications of sovereignty with religion as well as gender. . . . Sovereign Attachments would be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of international relations, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic studies and Asian studies." * LSE Review of Books *"Khoja-Moolji’s book, with its focused context and excellent feminist analysis, illuminates the complex dynamics of sovereignty, forcing the reader to move beyond visible sovereign contests of violence and to consider those contests that occur in the cultural sphere." * Al-Raida *“Khoja-Moolji presents critical new material that contributes to debates regarding the role of emotion, kinship, and gender in political movements. . . . Sovereign Attachments is a fascinating read” * Ethos *"The interdisciplinary depth and reach of the book make it an impressive contribution to the study of gender, religion, and politics. . . . Khoja-Moolji’s creative, vivid, and nuanced textual analysis provides a convincing bulwark for her central thesis." * Reading Religion *"The book is a remarkable contribution on how sovereignty is maintained by the Pakistani state and challenged by the Taliban through the performativity of Islamo-masculinity, kinship metaphors and memory in the public culture of Pakistan." * Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific * “An interesting and engaging treatise, this book will interest scholars of Islam, gender, politics, and Pakistan.” * Economic and Political Weekly *"Khoja-Moolji’s work is an engaging and well-organized piece of literature that is remarkably relevant to not only understanding Pakistan’s current political landscape, but also today’s international relationships." * Feminist Media Studies *"Such a masterful takedown of Pakistani visions of masculinity — both state and non-state — makes Khoja-Moolji one of the clearest and most original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, South Asia, Islam and cultural and gender studies. . . .An essential read for anyone interested in imagining more hopeful and generous futures." * Dawn *"Scholars in numerous other fields—postcolonialism, gender, media, and so forth—can benefit from Khoja-Moolji’s game-changing re-theorization of sovereignty and deep investigation." * Gender & Politics *"Khoja-Moolji’s work. . . . makes a significant contribution to the understanding of gender and the contestation of sovereignty in Pakistan and more broadly, Muslim majority contexts." * Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review *"Those who want to better understand the delicate but resolute efforts employed by the [Pakistani State] and other actors for nurturing consent for violence should grab a copy of Sovereign Attachments." * Strategic Analysis *"This ability to simultaneously show the strong hold of the ideas hitherto discussed as well as their fragility, while also ensuring lucid prose and cutting-edge analysis spotlights Shenila Khoja-Moolji as one of the most clear and original scholarly voices working at the intersection of politics, Islam, and cultural and gender studies today." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Public Lives of Sovereignty Part One: Sovereign Islamo-Masculinities 1 • Narrating the Sovereign 2 • Identity, Alterity 3 • Competing Sovereigns Part Two: Stylizing Political Attachments 4 • Subordinated Femininities 5 • Kinship Metaphors 6 • Managing Affect Conclusion: Imbricated Sovereignties Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
£28.90
University of California Press Migrant Conversions Transforming Connections
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Peruvian migrant workers began arriving in South Korea in large numbers in the mid 1990s, eventually becoming one of the largest groups of non-Asians in the country. Migrant Conversions shows how despite facing unstable income and legal exclusion, migrants come to see Korea as an ideal destination. Some even see it as part of their divine destiny. Faced with looming departures, Peruvians develop cosmopolitan plans to transform themselves from economic migrants into pastors, lovers, and leaders. Set against the backdrop of 2008's global financial crisis, Vogel explores the intersections of three types of conversions money, religious beliefs and cosmopolitan plansto argue that conversions are how migrants negotiate the meaning of their lives in a constantly changing transnational context. At the convergence of cosmopolitan projects spearheaded by the state, churches, and other migrants, Peruvians Trade Review"An interesting book that makes a timely contribution to enhancing our understandings of the plurality of foreign experiences in East Asia. It offers readers excellent ethnography combined with interesting conceptual arguments." * Asian Ethnology *"Deserves praise for vividly portraying the experiences of Peruvian migrants in Korea, which have not been explored so far, through thick description." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Carries an academic value because of its contribution to studies on globalization." * H-LatAm *"Migrant Conversions contributes new and innovative material to the study of Latin American-Asian migration. . . . [It] moves us closer to understanding the multilayered migration experiences of Peruvians in areas that have received little attention and is a delightful read." * International Migration Review *"Vogel has written a highly readable book whose arguments are clearly laid out. It is an excellent classroom resource with which to engage students in discussing the multifaceted dimensions of global migrants’ experiences, and scholars of globalization and transnational migration will also learn much from it." * American Ethnologist *
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University of California Press Phoenix Kingdoms
Book SynopsisThis stunning exhibition unveils the remarkable art and historical legacy of two mysterious kingdoms of ancient China. Phoenix Kingdoms brings to life the distinctive Bronze Age cultures that flourished along the middle course of the Yangzi River in South Central China about 2,500 years ago. With over 150 objects on loan from five major Chinese museums, Phoenix Kingdoms explores the artistic and spiritual landscape of the southern borderland of the Zhou dynasty, featuring remarkable archaeological finds unearthed from aristocratic tombs of the phoenix-worshipping Zeng and Chu kingdoms. By revealing the splendid material cultures of these legendary states, whose history has only recently been recovered, Phoenix Kingdoms highlights the importance of this region in forming a southern style that influenced centuries of Chinese art. This exhibition catalogue includes six essays that contextualize the stylistically rich materialmythical creatures, elaborate patterns, and elegant formsand introduces readers to the technologically and artistically sophisticated cultures that thrived before China's first empire. Lavishly illustrated with over 240 images, Phoenix Kingdoms showcases works from the exhibition across six categoriesjades, bronze ritual vessels, musical instruments and weapons, lacquerware for luxury and ceremony, funerary bronze and wood objects, and textiles and unique objects featuring distinctive designsmany of which are considered national treasures. Published in association with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.Table of ContentsContents Forewords Jay Xu and Fang Qin Acknowledgments Fan J. Zhang Maps Introduction Fan J. Zhang Part I Exploring Zhou’s Southern Borderland ONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay Xu TWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. Zhang THREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. Major Part II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River Region FOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin Mackenzie FIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng Wang SIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen Huang Part III Catalogue Jades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual Vessels Musical Instruments and Weapons Lacquerwar Special Mortuary Objects Textiles, Gold, and Miscellanea Inscriptions Reigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu Lords Chronology Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Phoenix Kingdoms Last Splendor of Chinas Bronze
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Forewords Jay Xu and Fang Qin Acknowledgments Fan J. Zhang Maps Introduction Fan J. Zhang Part I Exploring Zhou’s Southern Borderland ONE Unearthing a Lost State: The Discovery of Zeng Jay Xu TWO Discovering Chu: The Legacy of the Southern Lands Fan J. Zhang THREE Art and Religion on the Ancient Jiang-Han Plain John S. Major Part II Material Culture of the Middle Yangzi River Region FOUR Jades of the Chu and Zeng States Colin Mackenzie FIVE Ritual and Musical Traditions in the States of the Jiang-Han Plain Haicheng Wang SIX Obsession with the Supernatural and Luxuries: Chu-Style Lacquerware, Textiles, and Funerary Objects Guolong Lai and I-fen Huang Part III Catalogue Jades, Agate, and Glass Bronze Ritual Vessels Musical Instruments and Weapons Lacquerwar Special Mortuary Objects Textiles, Gold, and Miscellanea Inscriptions Reigns of Zhou Kings and Zeng and Chu Lords Chronology Bibliography Index
£30.60
University of California Press Recovering Histories
Book SynopsisHeroin first reached Gejiu, a Chinese city in southern Yunnan known as Tin Capital, in the 1980s. Widespread use of the drug, which for a short period became easier to buy than vegetables, coincided with radical changes in the local economy caused by the marketization of the mining industry. More than two decades later, both the heroin epidemic and the mining boom are often discussed as recent history. Middle-aged long-term heroin users, however, complain that they feel stuck in an earlier moment of the country's rapid reforms, navigating a world that no longer resembles either the tightly knit Maoist work units of their childhood or the disorienting but opportunity-filled chaos of their early careers. Overcoming addiction in Gejiu has become inseparable from broader attempts to reimagine laboring lives in a rapidly shifting social world. Drawing on more than eighteen months of fieldwork, Nicholas Bartlett explores how individuals' varying experiences of recovery highlight shared challTrade Review"A meditative and poignant ethnography. . . . Recovering Histories offers moving, complex, and layered portraits of people in recovery. Through former heroin users’ struggle to reinhabit the everyday, we see how the everyday is not necessarily a respite, but rather, is shot through with new uncertainties and challenges." * Somatosphere *"This book shows the human toll of radically transforming a society in the matter of a decade and the people the government chooses to leave behind. Recovering Histories is an essential read not just because it puts a human face on China’s reform and opening policy but, in its radical empathy, puts a human face on people with a history of drug use globally." * China Law and Policy *"Recovering Histories is an engaging read; Bartlett is a good storyteller, and his ethnography offers a novel way of looking at recovery. . . .Readers interested in addiction studies, questions of memory and nostalgia, and social change in China will no doubt find this book insightful." * Exertions *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Phenomenology of Recovery 1. Mayhem on the Mountains: The Rush of Heroin's Arrival 2. Recovery as Adaptation: Catching Up to the Private Sector 3. Absence of a Future: Narrative, Obsolescence, and Community 4. Idling in Mao's Shadow: The Therapeutic Value of Socialist Labor 5. A Wedding and Its Afterlife: Relationships, Recovery 6. "From the Community": Civil Society Ambitions and the Limits of Phenomenology Epilogue Appendix: Events Impacting the Heroin Generation Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Three Kingdoms
Book SynopsisA material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history.New York Times Book ReviewThree Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and remains a great work of world literature.Table of ContentsForeword to the Abridged Edition by Moss Roberts Preface to the Abridged Edition Acknowledgments for the Unabridged Edition Foreword to the Unabridged Edition by John S. Service Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel Afterword: About Three Kingdoms by Moss Roberts List of Principal Characters Chronology of Main Events
£14.24
University of California Press Translating Wisdom HinduMuslim Intellectual
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nair contributes to establishing a new model for what consequential scholarship on South Asia looks like. . . . Translating Wisdom will make a substantial contribution to the intellectual jet streams occupied by interested parties worldwide." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
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University of California Press KoreanAmerican Relations
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University of California Press Dialectics without Synthesis
Book SynopsisDialectics without Synthesisexplores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of film, literature, avant-garde art, Marxism, and philosophy, Naoki Yamamoto offers a new approach to cinematic realism as culturally conditioned articulations of the shifting relationship of film to the experience of modernity. In this study, long-held oppositions between realism and modernism, universalism and particularism, and most notably, the West and the non-West are challenged through a radical reconfiguration of the geopolitics of knowledge production and consumption.Trade Review"Dialectics without Synthesis is a valuable addition to film studies and should be of interest not only to Japanese film specialists but to film and media theorists more broadly." * The Journal of Japanese Studies *"Exceptionally meticulous archival research, humanity-driven methodologies, and special attention to historical context. . . .Dialectics without Synthesis is a step forward toward a future in which the chasm between Western and non-Western theory is significantly narrowed." * The Velvet Light Trap *"Well-researched and persuasively argued." * Screen *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Realism, Film Theory, Japanese Cinema 1. Naturalism and the Modernization of Japanese Cinema 2. The Machine Aesthetic and Proletarian Realism 3. Literary Adaptation and Textual Realism 4. Documentary Film and Epistemological Realism 5. Neglected Traditions of Bergsonism and Phenomenology Epilogue: Hanada Kiyoteru and Postwar Debates Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Blood and Water
Book SynopsisThe Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and environmental transformations that continued after the 1947 creation of the new states of India and Pakistan. In this first large-scale environmental history of the region, David Gilmartin focuses on the changes that occurred in the basin as a result of the implementation of the world's largest modern integrated irrigation system. This masterful work of scholarship explores how environmental transformation is tied to the creation of communities and nations, focusing on the intersection of politics, statecraft, and the environment.Trade Review"This is the most authoritative book on Indus Basin politics yet written. It will be of wide interest to scholars of modern South Asia, and to environmental historians more generally. Gilmartin’s clear and engaging writing style is suited to a broad audience of students as well as academics." * Journal of The Royal Asiatic Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsMaps1. INTRODUCTION: COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT2. IRRIGATION AND THE BALOCH FRONTIER3. COMMUNITY ON THE WASTE: THE VILLAGE AND THE COLONIAL PROPERTY ORDER4. STATUTE AND CUSTOM IN WATER LAW5. SCIENCE, THE STATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT6. THE RIVER BASIN AND PARTITION7. THE INDUS WATERS TREATY AND ITS AFTERLIVESNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of California Press The Origins of Chinese Civilization
Book SynopsisThe seventeen contributors to this interdisciplinary volume bring to the study of early China the analytical concerns of archeology, art history, botany, climatology, cultural and physical anthropology, ethnography, epigraphy, linguistics, metallurgy, and political and social history. Readers interested in such topics as the origin of rice or millet agriculture, the origin of writing, the nature of the trie, and the processes of state formation will find much value here. They will find, too, major hypotheses about teh cultural importance of ecogeographical zones in China, Neolithic interaction between the east coast and Central Plains, the remarkable homogeneity of early Chinese crania, and the links between the Hsia, Shang, and Chou dynasties.Relying on recently published archaeological evidence and the insights gained from carbon-14 and thermoluminescent datings, the authors provide original and significant interpretations of the nature of Chinese civilization in its formative stage
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University of California Press Political Power and Communications in Indonesia
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University of California Press Nepal
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University of California Press Communications and National Integration in Communist China
Book SynopsisCommunications and National Integration in Communist China explores the unprecedented efforts of Mao Zedong's government to unify a vast, diverse nation through mass persuasion and propaganda. Dr. Liu delves into the innovative, low-cost communication systemswired loudspeakers, grassroots discussions, and mobile cinema teamsthat reached even the most remote corners of China. This insightful analysis contrasts the radical, ideology-driven campaigns of Mao's voluntarist vision with the more pragmatic, bureaucratic approaches inspired by Soviet models. From the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution, the book examines how the CCP sought to reshape not only social and economic systems but also the consciousness of its citizens. Dr. Liu's comprehensive study offers a rare glimpse into the mechanics of Maoist mass communication and its lasting impact on national integration. By analyzing the successes and failures of these campaigns, the book provides valuable insights into the limits of propaganda as a tool for societal transformation. Perfect for historians, political scientists, and anyone interested in the intersection of ideology, media, and modern governance, Communications and National Integration in Communist China presents a compelling narrative of one of history's most ambitious experiments in reshaping human consciousness. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.
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University of California Press The Mito Ideology
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University of California Press When Governments Collide
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University of California Press Landownership in Nepal
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University of California Press Liberalism in Modern Japan
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University of California Press The Political Culture of Japan
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
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University of California Press Brought to Life by the Voice
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. To produce the song sequences that are central to Indian popular cinema, singers' voices are first recorded in the studio and then played back on the set to be lip-synced and danced to by actors and actresses as the visuals are filmed. Since the 1950s, playback singers have become revered celebrities in their own right. Brought to Life by the Voice explores the distinctive aesthetics and affective power generated by this division of labor between onscreen body and offscreen voice in South Indian Tamil cinema. In Amanda Weidman's historical and ethnographic account, playback is not just a cinematic technique, but a powerful and ubiquitous element of aural public culture that has shaped the complex dynamics of postcolonial gendered subjectivity, politicized ethnolinguistic identity, and neoliberal transformation in South India.
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University of California Press Burning the Dead Hindu Nationhood and the Global
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Part One. The Spectacle of Fire 1. Burning Issues 2. Colonial Necro-Politics and the Polysemic Corpse Part Two. Questing Fire 3. The City and Its Dead 4. Consuming Fire 5. The Global Dead Part Three. The Fire Triumphant 6. The Rebirth of Cremation 7. Cremation and the Nation Epilogue: Rethinking the Hindu Pyre A Note on Weights and Currency List of Abbreviations Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sirens of Modernity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] profound labour of love. . . . Sunya’s book is a gift to faculty and students of both undergraduate and graduate studies because of its depth, lucidity, and accessibility." * FemAsia *"Sirens of Modernity provides a rigorous and scholarly, yet accessible and engrossing, contribution to Indian cinema studies that will be useful for world cinema studies, sound studies, and gender studies." * Film Quarterly *"Sunya’s groundbreaking and sophisticated study of Indian commercial cinema, its self-reflexivity, and its excesses. . . .will inspire more research that centers media texts, objects, and contexts beyond bipolar Cold War imaginaries of the field and open new routes of historiographic and theoretical inquiry." * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *
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