Asian history Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lopez Jr. and Stone’s detailed analysis makes for a welcome, admirable addition to the large repertoire of more general Lotus Sutra studies." * Publishers Weekly *"The Lotus Sūtra . . . is given a near perfect summary when the authors write that it is a 'sūtra that never ends, an assembly that never disperses, and a mission that is ongoing'."---Nilanjan Bhowmick, Los Angeles Review of Books"While scholarly in nature, this work’s engaging, thoughtful manner serves its subject well. Essential for readers with academic-level interest in Buddhist studies." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year""A revelatory look at how China uses, and sometimes abuses, classical thought. . . . Like Plato’s dialogues themselves, [this book] breathes with drama."---Sean Durns, Washington Examiner"A valuable volume."---Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement"Bartsch’s work is especially fitting for our time."---Jesse Russell, The Federalist"Masterful. . . .There is so much to unpack in Bartsch’s deeply researched book."---Michael Sheridan, Engelsberg Ideas"Original and penetrating."---Paul Cartledge, Classics for All"A critical, highly relevant journey into China through scholars’ interpretations of the ancient Greeks." * Choice Reviews *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a genuine and quirky book: It provokes ideas; it raises objections."---James R. Mellow, New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisCombines aesthetic and cultural insights with a variety of illustrations to make a statement about Chinese art and society.Trade Review"Winner of the 2002 Joseph Levenson Book Prize for pre-1999 China""A truly unique book to clarify the mind about what Chinese art is now and what it was." * Choice *"[A] stimulating and provocative overview of the theme of creativity in Chinese art . . . This may be a book with a large and ambitious thesis, but it is also one very firmly grounded in specifics . . . illustrated with a richness and aptness which is rarely seen today . . . The clarity of exposition and the liveliness of the language makes each of the eight linked essays a pleasure to read on its own . . . The work deserves a wide readership."---Craig Clunas, Burlington Magazine"While the idea that traditional China can be defined by its production processes is not entirely new, only with Lothar Ledderose's Ten Thousand Things has that argument been made comprehensively, and in terms that fully engage the social and art historian . . . An excellent resource for the social and art history of China."---James A. Flath, Pacific Affairs"Ledderose's book, although written to be accessible to a nonspecialist reader, should have an equally impressive impact on scholars. . . . After reading it, one cannot but be excited about the future direction and possibilities of Chinese art history."---Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt, Journal of Asian Studies

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Book SynopsisPart III, which begins in January 1965 and ends in January 1967, treats the watershed period of U.S. involvement in the war, from President Johnson's decision to bomb North Vietnam and to send U.S. ground forces into South Vietnam, through the buildup of military forces and political cadres required by the new U.S. role in the war. This volume examTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xv*CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: 1964, PROLOGUE TO WAR, pg. 1*CHAPTER 2. THE DECISION TO BEGIN THE AIR WAR AND TO SEND THE FIRST U.S. GROUND FORCES TO VIETNAM, pg. 45*CHAPTER 3. RAPID EXPANSION OF THE U.S. ROLE, pg. 127*CHAPTER 4. THE OLIVE BRANCH AND THE SWORD, pg. 217*CHAPTER 5. WESTMORELAND REQUESTS MAJOR GROUND FORCES, pg. 277*CHAPTER 6. THE PRESIDENT APPROVES WESTMORELAND'S REQUEST, pg. 367*APPENDIX I. SUMMARY OF TWELVE INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES, 1964- 1965, pg. 463*APPENDIX II. SUMMARY OF THE JULY 14, 1965 REPORT OF THE JCS AD HOC STUDY GROUP, "INTENSIFICATION OF THE MILITARY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH VIETNAM, CONCEPT AND APPRAISAL"*, pg. 469*INDEX, pg. 479

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Book SynopsisIn her study of medieval Chinese lay practices and beliefs, Valerie Hansen argues that social and economic developments underlay religious changes in the Southern Song. Unfamiliar with the contents of Buddhist and Daoist texts, the common people hired the practitioner or prayed to the god they thought could cure the ill or bring rain. As the economTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. viii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. Lay Choices, pg. 29*CHAPTER III. Understanding the Gods, pg. 48*CHAPTER IV. The Granting of Titles, pg. 79*CHAPTER V. Popular Deities in Huzhou, pg. 105*CHAPTER VI. The Rise of Regional Cults, pg. 128*CHAPTER VII. Conclusion, pg. 160*Appendix I: Comparison of The Record of the Listener and a Temple Inscription Recording the Same Miracle, pg. 167*Appendix II: Selected Translations from The Record of the Listener, pg. 171*APPENDIX III. Tables, pg. 176*GLOSSARY, pg. 201*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 217*INDEX TO TEMPLE INSCRIPTIONS, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 247

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Book SynopsisMohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranians a memoir in story form of traditional Islamic life in Iran before westernization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again makTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Introduction, pg. vii*Map, pg. 4*PREFACE, pg. 5*PART I. Memories of Childhood Times, pg. 10*PART II. Wanderings of Youth, pg. 66*PART I. Roaming and Getting Acquainted, pg. 135*PART II. Return to the Original or Solving the Problems, pg. 228*Translator's Postscript Translator's Postscript, pg. 287*Glossary, pg. 292*Bibliography, pg. 297

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Book SynopsisIn a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to againTrade Review"Outstanding studies . . . . Metcalf looks into the emergence, proliferation, and responses of the Deobandi Ulama to "modernity" when Muslim power in India was declining."---Md Anisur Rahman, Daily StarTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Maps, pg. ix*List of Illustrations, pg. x*Acknowledgments, pg. xi*Note on Transliteration, pg. xiii*Introduction: The Pattern of Islamic Reform, pg. 1*I The 'Ulama In Transition: The Eighteenth Century, pg. 16*II. The 'Ulama In Transition: The Early Nineteenth Century, pg. 46*III The Madrasah at Deoband, pg. 87*IV The Style of Religious Leadership, I: Muftis and Shaikhs, pg. 138*V The Style of Religious Leadership, II: Writers and Debaters, pg. 198*VI The Social Milieu of the Deobandi 'Ulama, pg. 235*VII Alternative Tendencies within Sunni Islam: The Ahl-i Hadis and the Barelwis, pg. 264*VIII Further Alternatives: Aligarh and Nadwah, pg. 315*Conclusion: New Sects, New Strategies, Old Patterns, pg. 348*Glossary, pg. 361*Bibliography, pg. 369*Index, pg. 377

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Book SynopsisThis collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk Bodde. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton UniversiTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*Chronology of Chinese Dynasties, pg. xi*Foreword, pg. xiii*Introduction: The Essays Reassessed, pg. 1*1. Introduction to the History of China, pg. 39*2. The Chinese Language as a Factor in Chinese Cultural Continuity (1942), pg. 43*3. Myths of Ancient China (1961), pg. 45*4. Feudalism in China (1956), pg. 85*5. Dominant Ideas in the Formation of Chinese Culture (1942), pg. 132*6. Types of Chinese Categorical Thinking (1939), pg. 141*7. Authority and Law in Ancient China (1954), pg. 161*8. Basic Concepts of Chinese Law: the Genesis and Evolution of Legal Thought in Traditional China (1963), pg. 171*9. Prison Life in Eighteenth Century Peking (1969), pg. 195*10. Henry A. Wallace and the Ever-normal Granary (1946), pg. 218*11. Harmony and Conflict in Chinese Philosophy (1953), pg. 237*12. Chinese "Laws of Nature": a Reconsideration (1979), pg. 299*13. The Chinese View of Immortality: Its Expression by Chu Hsi and Its Relationship to Buddhist Thought (1942), pg. 316*14. Some Chinese Tales of the Supernatural: Kan Pao and His Sou-shen chi (1942), pg. 331*15. The Chinese Cosmic Magic Known as Watching for the Ethers(1959), pg. 351*16. Sexual Sympathetic Magic in Han China (1964), pg. 373*17. A Perplexing Passage in the Confucian Analects (1933), pg. 383*18. Two New Translations of Lao Tzu (1954), pg. 388*19. On Translating Chinese Philosophic Terms (1955), pg. 395*20. Lieh-tzu and the Doves: a Problem of Dating (1959), pg. 409*21. Marshes in Mencius and Elsewhere: a Lexicographical Note (1978), pg. 416*Bibliography of Derk Bodde, pg. 427*Index, pg. 439

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Book SynopsisPresented here in a new and complete translation is the Japanese classic Okagami, an historical talc that mirrors a man's life and the times in which he lived. Dating from the late eleventh or early twelfth century, it focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan pTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Translator's Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One, pg. 65*Chapter Two, pg. 90*Chapter Three, pg. 127*Chapter Four, pg. 162*Chapter Five, pg. 184*Chapter Six, pg. 215*Appendix A. Persons and Places Mentioned in the Text, pg. 241*Appendix B. Translations from Other Okagami Textual Lines, pg. 295*Appendix C. Chronology of the Okagami Period, pg. 305*Appendix D. The Fujiwara Role in Japanese Court History from Kamatari to Michinaga, pg. 335*Figure 1. Heiankyo, pg. 357*Figure 2. The Greater Imperial Palace (Daidairi), pg. 358*Figure 3. The Imperial Residential Compound (Dairi), pg. 359*Figure 4. The Emperor's Residence (Seiryoden), pg. 360*List of Works Cited, pg. 361*Index, pg. 367

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Book Synopsis"Revere the Emperor, Destroy the Traitors"--armed with this slogan, on February 26, 1936. Rebellious Japanese troops led by members of the Young Officers' Movement seized the center of Tokyo and murdered several prominent officials. The Young Officers wanted a "Showa Restoration" whereby political and economic power would be restored to the EmperorTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*I. The Roots of Frustration, pg. 1*II. The Young Officers' Movement, pg. 13*III. The Vision of a Showa Restoration, pg. 56*IV. In Quest of Support and Legitimacy, pg. 81*V. Plotting a Rebellion, pg. 110*VI. Apparent Success, pg. 135*VII. The Rebellion Suppressed, pg. 167*VIII. Punishment, pg. 198*IX. Aftermath, pg. 209*Glossary, pg. 221*Bibliography, pg. 227*Index, pg. 257

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Book SynopsisDr. Thayer, who was American press attache in Tokyo from 1962 to 1965, presents a detailed account of conservative politics in Japan. Although he makes some historical comparisons, Dr. Thayer's main focus is on the contemporary workings of the Liberal Democratic Party, the ruling party in Japan. He identifies the political elements: the men are theTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Note to the Paperback Edition, pg. xiii*Contents, pg. xix*List of Tables, pg. xx*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. The Factions, pg. 15*CHAPTER III. The Economic Community, pg. 58*CHAPTER IV. The Party, The Prefectures, and The People, pg. 82*CHAPTER V. The Elections, pg. 111*CHAPTER VI. Choosing the President, pg. 148*CHAPTER VII. Making a Cabinet, pg. 180*CHAPTER VIII. Formulating Policy, pg. 207*CHAPTER IX. Reaching a Decision, pg. 237*CHAPTER X. Running the Party, pg. 268*CHAPTER XI. Conclusions, pg. 305*Glossary of Offices and Organizations, pg. 319*Appendix, pg. 323*Bibliography, pg. 333*Index, pg. 341

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] informative volume of immense sweep ... brimming with ideas... Its call for regional studies is most welcome; one hopes it will be followed by other works as sensitive to the complexities and ambiguities of history and society."--Conrad Schirokauer, The Journal of Asian Studies "A thought-provoking book that repays close study."--Wolf Mendl, Pacific Review "These distinguished essays make a major contribution to the debate over how Confucianism has affected East Asian modernization."--OrbisTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTRIBUTORS, pg. xi*INTRODUCTION The East Asian Region in Comparative Perspective, pg. 3*CHAPTER 1. The Chinese Family and the Spread of Confucian Values, pg. 45*CHAPTER 2. The Confucianization of Korean Society, pg. 84*CHAPTER 3. The Legacy of Confucianism in Japan, pg. 111*CHAPTER 4. Comparisons of Modern Confucian Values in China and Japan, pg. 157*CHAPTER 5. Perceptions of Confucianism in Twentieth-Century Korea, pg. 204*Index, pg. 227

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. xi*Chapter One: The Evolution of Soviet Eastern Policy: 1917-1928, pg. 1*Chapter Two: Early Soviet Policies in Practice: Southeast Asia in the 1920's, pg. 80*Chapter Three: Eastern Strategies in Abeyance: 1930-1935, pg. 142*Chapter Four: United Front in Southeast Asia: 1935-1941, pg. 207*Chapter Five: Southeast Asian Communism in Suspension: 1941-1947, pg. 249*Chapter Six: Engagement and Disengagement in Southeast Asia: 1948-1954, pg. 351*Epilogue, pg. 475*Short Biographies, pg. 485*Chronology, pg. 497*Bibliography, pg. 527*Index, pg. 551

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Book SynopsisAnalyzes both the success and failures of the US Air Force in Korea, offering an examination of how the air war in Korea actually unfolded. The book considers not only the actual air effort in Korea but also its ramifications.

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Book SynopsisThe My Lai massacre of March 16, 1968, and the court martial of Lt. William Calley a year and a half later are among the bleakest episodes of the Vietnam War. This work examines its haunting legacy through an exchange of contemporary viewpoints.

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1972, North Vietnam launched a massive military offensive designed to deliver the coup de grace to South Vietnam and its rapidly disengaging American ally. But an over-confident Hanoi misjudged its opponents who. This is the story of heroism against great odds.

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Book SynopsisTime after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous secret programme.

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Book SynopsisJohn Sullivan was one of the CIA's top polygraph examiners during the final four years of the war in Vietnam. In this book he tells what it was like to be an agency officer working in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during those chaotic years, putting a human face on covert operations.Trade ReviewA highly readable account that is a must for historians looking for lessons derived from the Vietnam conflict. And as a polygrapher who was obsessed with unveiling the truth, Sullivan makes every effort to give an accurate portrayal of the CIA and its key personnel in Vietnam-warts and all. KENNETH CONBOY, COAUTHOR OF SPIES AND COMMANDOS: HOW AMERICA LOST THE SECRET WAR IN NORTH VIETNAM. ""Provides a unique and interesting glimpse into a little-known aspect of the Vietnam War."" DALE ANDRADE, AUTHOR OF AMERICA'S LAST VIETNAM BATTLE: HALTING HANOI'S 1972 EASTER OFFENSIVE ""A vivid and often insightful account of the CIA's role in Vietnam."" TIMOTHY LOMPERIS, AUTHOR OF FROM PEOPLE'S WAR TO PEOPLE'S RULE: INSURGENCY, INTERVENTION, AND THE LESSONS OF VIETNAM

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Book SynopsisA study of the often misunderstood Philippine War. From the pitched battles of the early war to the final campaigns against guerrillas, it traces the entire course of the war. The text is grounded in original documents, including the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides.Trade ReviewThe definitive study of this often misunderstood war. - Parameters; ""A thoughtful, deeply researched, and well-written work about a war that teaches much about the nature of revolutionary warfare - even today."" - Foreign Affairs; ""A well-written volume that enhances Linn's position as the leading authority on America's military presence in the Pacific before Pearl Harbor."" - Publishers Weekly; ""Belongs on the shelf of any serious student of U.S.-Asian relations, especially if one wants to understand the projection of American military power across the Pacific."" - Journal of Military History; ""An objective, well-researched, and engaging book that challenges earlier one-dimensional views. Destined to become the standard text for understnading this forgotten war."" - History: Reviews of New Books; ""Well-grounded in original documents, including the letters and diaries of soldiers from both sides, this is the most important book so far on one of the most controversial of America's wars."" - New York Military Affairs Sympostum Newsletter; ""Without equal among the many works on the war."" - John M. Gates, author of Schoolbooks and Krags: The United States Army in the Philippines, 1898-1902; ""Will appeal to serious military historians and military professionals, as well as to the general reader."" - Robert A. Doughty in the History Book Club News.

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Book SynopsisOffering an in-depth history of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) from 1955 to 1975, the author takes readers into the barracks and training centers of the ARVN to plumb the hearts and souls of these forgotten soldiers. He explores the lives of ordinary men, focusing on troop morale and motivation within the context of Vietnamese society.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe finest account to date of American military and political policy from the aftermath of the Tet Offensive to the 'fall' of Saigon. This book should be considered required reading by all students of the American War in Vietnam, whether they are in the classroom, the newsroom, the sitting room, or the war room. - Journal of American History ""As Willbanks demonstrates, no expenditure of firepower, blood, or personal heroics can redeem flawed strategies and policies.... Willbanks effectively demonstrates that a flawed U.S. exit policy led to the raising of a Viet Cong flag over Saigon on April 29, 1975."" - Vietnam ""History is not supposed to repeat itself, but one is drawn to some sobering similarities between our current attempts to create a stable and secure Iraq and the legacy of the failed policy of Vietnamization."" - Parameters ""At a time when the United States once again finds itself trying to withdraw with honor from a foreign military entanglement, this book is an excellent read for the professional military officer, diplomat, politician, and academic who hope to ensure that past mistakes are not repeated."" - Proceedings, U.S. Naval Institute

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Book SynopsisDuring its struggle for survival from 1954 to 1975, the region known as the Central Highlands was the strategically vital high ground for the South Vietnamese state. Successive governments, their American allies, and their Communist enemies all realized early on the fundamental importance of this region. Paul Harris's book examines the struggle for this region from the mid-1950s to 1965.

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Book SynopsisAmericans have fought two prolonged battles over Vietnam-one in southeast Asia and one, ongoing even now, at home-over whether the war was unnecessary, unjust, and unwinnable. In this study, Kevin M. Boyle examines the “Lost Victory” hypothesis, namely that the war actually was won after the 1968 Tet Offensive, only to be thrown away later through a failure of political will.

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Book SynopsisMidway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts - in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the strategic initiative - a concept that Sean Judge examines in this book, particularly in the context of the Pacific War.Trade ReviewThe Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War is a valuable addition to the literature on strategy. The chapters on intelligence organizations in both the Japanese and US militaries are particularly useful in understanding Judge’s explication of the concept of strategic initiative. Judge argues that strategic initiative is a concept that needs more formal study, and his case study here highlights how such a process can be accomplished while at the same time providing a gripping campaign analysis."" - John T. Kuehn, professor of military history, Army Command and General Staff College""This insightful study shows how the tide really turned in the Japanese-American Pacific War. Reinforcing the role of contingency in shaping outcomes in the conflict that are too often seen as preordained, Judge reveals the combination of strategy and serendipity that allowed the Americans to finally seize the initiative that would lead to eventual victory."" - Conrad C. Crane, author of American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil""Sean M. Judge’s The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War sheds much-needed light on two important issues. He first provides analytical clarity concerning the much bandied-about concept of ‘strategic initiative.’ Then he puts it to good use by demonstrating how the campaigns for New Guinea and Guadalcanal were mutually supporting and turned the tide against the Japanese military. Judge’s work demands a wide readership."" - Kevin C. Holzimmer, author of General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War

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Book SynopsisIn fighting the Philippine-American War, America relied heavily on twenty-five new regiments raised in 1899: the United States Volunteers (USVs). This volume offers the first full account of this unique force - and in the process describes how the USVs contributed to the US’s most successful counterinsurgency campaign outside the Western HemisphereTrade ReviewJohn Scott Reed has written an important and necessary work on the Philippine-American War, a conflict still too little examined in American history. If you want to understand how the United States not only won a counterinsurgency, but won it easily (and you should), you need to read this book." —David Silbey, author of A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902"The US Volunteers in the Southern Philippines by John Reed is an instant classic on the experience of American citizen-soldiers in the pacification of the Philippines. Meticulously researched and organized, it is filled with insights on counterinsurgency, troop conduct, military adaptation, and the dynamics of irregular warfare." —Brian McAllister Linn, author of The Philippine War, 1899-1902"John Scott Reed provides a unique perspective on one of America’s most successful counterinsurgency efforts. While he downplays its relevance for contemporary conflicts, his insights about the importance of logistical and medical support for soldiers, along with their own good behavior, however motivated, have continuing resonance today." —Conrad Crane, author of Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future WarTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Strategic Context of the Philippine-American War 2. The United States Volunteer Force of 1899-1901 3. The Moral Terrain of the US Volunteers 4. Pacification Operations in the Southern Philippines 5. Tactics 6. Losses 7. Medical Care 8. Garrison Life 9. Internal Discipline 10. External Discipline Conclusion Appendix 1: The Declaration of Allegiance to the United States Appendix 2: Regimental Overview Appendix 3: Pacification Commanders Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. This volume offers a full account of this brilliant and original operational maneuver, utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings - including the bits the official historians left out.Trade ReviewA much-needed study of the Burma campaign in 1945 by the two foremost historians in the field. Not only do they chart the transformation of the Indian Army but also they relay the story of the forgotten African soldiers fighting in Burma. The authors demonstrate that it was largely due to the contribution of these troops that the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated by 1945. The book is extremely engaging and eloquent: an essential text for anyone studying the campaign. Its accessible prose makes it such a pleasure to read-it therefore deserves a much wider readership than just historians." - Alan Jeffreys, author of Approach to Battle: Training the Indian Army during the Second World War"There is a stage in every topic when it becomes possible to produce a study that will be 'the' book everyone interested in the matter should read. That time has come, and The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army is 'the' book. Callahan and Marston explain how and why the liberation of Burma in 1945 was the peak of military excellence for Allied combined-arms campaigns during the Second World War." - Brian P. Farrell, professor of history, National University of Singapore, and author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore

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Book SynopsisCompares Islamic and Western political formulations, highlighting areas of agreement and disparity, and encouraging an open dialogue between them.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Religion, Politics and Social Change: A Theoretical Framework 2. Islam and the Appropriation of Modernity 3. Welayat al-Faqih: an Islamic Theory of Elite Hegemony or, Assabiyyat Al-khawass 4. The Islamic Paradigm of Nations: Toward a Neo-Classical Approach 5. Islam, Iran and Western Discourse: Behind the Democratic Veil 6. Liberalism and the Contestation of Islamic Sovereignty 7. Human Rights: A Double Discourse of Power 8. Interview Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the dark history of the original multinational companyTrade Review'A powerful analysis of the rise and fall of the British East India Company, a private company that conquered a subcontinent and subjugated an entire people' -- Huw Bowen, Professor of Imperial and Maritime History, Swansea University'Elegantly written and sharply argued, Nick Robins’ gripping account of the rise and fall of the English East India Company brings to life a crucial episode in the history of globalisation' -- Sankar Muthu, Princeton University'The East India Company might have been relegated to the dustbin of history, but Robins digs it out, looks into the nooks and crannies, and comes up with plenty of insights that today's managers will find rich and rewarding' -- Mick Blowfield, Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University, co-author of Corporate Responsibility (2011)'Nick Robins' history of astonishing corporate greed, excess and abuse of power is brilliantly told, and perfectly timed' -- Isabel Hilton, Editor of China Dialogue'A brilliant, important contribution to an understanding of development and poverty' -- Mari Marcel Thekaekara, New InternationalistTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Lists of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations Chronology Introduction 1. The Hidden Wound 2. This Imperious Company 3. Out of the Shadows 4. The Bengal Revolution 5. The Great East Indian Crash 6. Regulating the Company 7. Justice Will be Done 8. The Toxic Exchange 9. A Skulking Power 10. Unfinished Business Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generationTrade Review'Clear, insightful, thorough and persuasive. It provides first-hand observations of the movement and its different groups and currents which help the reader embrace the diversity and complexity of the unrest. Without a doubt, this is the best book on Hong Kong's astonishing revolt.' -- Bruno Jetin, Associate Professor at University of Sorbonne Paris Nord'A timely must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the background, dynamics, and prospects of the ongoing 2019-20 Hong Kong protests.' -- Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan'A brilliant assessment of the Hong Kong Revolt. Guided by Marxist theory, Au criticises both the Beijing party dictatorship and western capitalist propaganda.' -- Bodo Zeuner, Professor in Political Science, Free University of Berlin'Hong Kong’s revolt against increasing control by Beijing stands no chance of success unless it finds a counterpart on the mainland. This book is the best and most up-to-date guide to the complexity of this issue and the ongoing movement, from a progressive perspective.' -- Professor Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London'A vivid picture of the struggle is painted by Au ... his viewpoint on the underlying dynamics of the rebellion, as it unfolded, is as insightful as it is invaluable' -- New Politics'Lively' -- Dissent'Delves deep into the roots of the Umbrella Movement, exploring how political values and questions of identity have played a role in the unrest' -- DAZED'If you are just going to read one book on the 2019 movement, it has to be Hong Kong in Revolt' -- rs21'At once hopeful but realistic, supportive but critical about what has happened, and what is still to happen, in Hong Kong' -- Lausan CollectiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Actors 3. Events 4. Issues 5. The Dragon, the Goose, and the Coronavirus Timeline of the 2019 Hong Kong Revolt References Index

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Book SynopsisA dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generationTrade Review'Clear, insightful, thorough and persuasive. It provides first-hand observations of the movement and its different groups and currents which help the reader embrace the diversity and complexity of the unrest. Without a doubt, this is the best book on Hong Kong's astonishing revolt.' -- Bruno Jetin, Associate Professor at University of Sorbonne Paris Nord'A timely must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the background, dynamics, and prospects of the ongoing 2019-20 Hong Kong protests.' -- Professor Poe Yu-ze Wan, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan'A brilliant assessment of the Hong Kong Revolt. Guided by Marxist theory, Au criticises both the Beijing party dictatorship and western capitalist propaganda.' -- Bodo Zeuner, Professor in Political Science, Free University of Berlin'Hong Kong’s revolt against increasing control by Beijing stands no chance of success unless it finds a counterpart on the mainland. This book is the best and most up-to-date guide to the complexity of this issue and the ongoing movement, from a progressive perspective.' -- Professor Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, University of London'A vivid picture of the struggle is painted by Au ... his viewpoint on the underlying dynamics of the rebellion, as it unfolded, is as insightful as it is invaluable' -- New Politics'Lively' -- Dissent'Delves deep into the roots of the Umbrella Movement, exploring how political values and questions of identity have played a role in the unrest' -- DAZED'If you are just going to read one book on the 2019 movement, it has to be Hong Kong in Revolt' -- rs21'At once hopeful but realistic, supportive but critical about what has happened, and what is still to happen, in Hong Kong' -- Lausan CollectiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. An Overview 2. Actors 3. Events 4. Issues 5. The Dragon, the Goose, and the Coronavirus Timeline of the 2019 Hong Kong Revolt References Index

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Book SynopsisAuthoritarianism, capitalism and destruction: why China is leading the world to ecocideTrade Review'Tracing China's environmental collapse to the Communist strategy of growth at all cost, this book deepens our understanding of China's massive impact on human sustainability. A bold, independent and necessary voice!' -- Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles'In this brilliant and strikingly original book, which has no equivalent in the existing literature on China, Richard Smith argues that the present hybrid bureaucratic-collectivist capitalist Chinese economy, driven by 'blind growth' and consumerism, is as unsustainable and ecocidal as its Western capitalist rivals. For both, the time for half measures has passed: only ecosocialism can save the planet, i.e. humanity, from environmental collapse.' -- Michael Löwy, author of 'Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to the Capitalist Catastrophe' (Haymarket, 2010)'Compassionate and powerful, Richard Smith envisions a new Chinese Dream through achieving a harmonious coexistence between human and nature. The book argues for a 21st Century ecosocialist democracy by calling for a "better mode of life" in China and the world.' -- Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University'A work of real insight. Richard Smith penetrates the defences of a fiercely autocratic regime to reveal how China’s predatory development strategy is imperilling not just itself but our entire planet.' -- William F. Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Australia and Singapore'Analysing the relationship between the Chinese elite and capitalism is not simple … Smith is pointing us in the right direction' -- The Ecologist'A useful primer for leftists on China’s role in the current ecological crisis' -- New Bloom'Stunning' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments A Note on the Names of Rivers in this Volume Introduction: China as an Environmental Rogue State 1. The “China Price”: Police-State Capitalism and the Great Acceleration of Global Consumption 2. “Blind Growth”: Scenes of Planetary Destruction from the Twelfth Five-Year Plan 3. The Damage Done: The Poisoning of China’s Water, Soil, and Foods 4. Cooking the Planet for What End? 5. China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse 6. Guanxi and the Game of Thrones: Wealth, Property, and Insecurity in a Lawless System 7. Grabbing the Emergency Brake 8. The Next Chinese Revolution Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisAuthoritarianism, capitalism and destruction: why China is leading the world to ecocideTrade Review'Tracing China's environmental collapse to the Communist strategy of growth at all cost, this book deepens our understanding of China's massive impact on human sustainability. A bold, independent and necessary voice!' -- Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles'In this brilliant and strikingly original book, which has no equivalent in the existing literature on China, Richard Smith argues that the present hybrid bureaucratic-collectivist capitalist Chinese economy, driven by 'blind growth' and consumerism, is as unsustainable and ecocidal as its Western capitalist rivals. For both, the time for half measures has passed: only ecosocialism can save the planet, i.e. humanity, from environmental collapse.' -- Michael Löwy, author of 'Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to the Capitalist Catastrophe' (Haymarket, 2010)'Compassionate and powerful, Richard Smith envisions a new Chinese Dream through achieving a harmonious coexistence between human and nature. The book argues for a 21st Century ecosocialist democracy by calling for a "better mode of life" in China and the world.' -- Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University'A work of real insight. Richard Smith penetrates the defences of a fiercely autocratic regime to reveal how China’s predatory development strategy is imperilling not just itself but our entire planet.' -- William F. Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science, James Cook University, Australia and Singapore'Analysing the relationship between the Chinese elite and capitalism is not simple … Smith is pointing us in the right direction' -- The Ecologist'A useful primer for leftists on China’s role in the current ecological crisis' -- New Bloom'Stunning' -- CounterpunchTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments A Note on the Names of Rivers in this Volume Introduction: China as an Environmental Rogue State 1. The “China Price”: Police-State Capitalism and the Great Acceleration of Global Consumption 2. “Blind Growth”: Scenes of Planetary Destruction from the Twelfth Five-Year Plan 3. The Damage Done: The Poisoning of China’s Water, Soil, and Foods 4. Cooking the Planet for What End? 5. China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse 6. Guanxi and the Game of Thrones: Wealth, Property, and Insecurity in a Lawless System 7. Grabbing the Emergency Brake 8. The Next Chinese Revolution Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisA timely, ambitious and unique book that traces the history and present state of leftist politics in ChinaTrade Review'Ruckus has taken on the task of encapsulating for a western audience the history of the Left in China, where it stands today, and its prospects … comprehensive, detailed, and strikingly insightful' -- Brian Chee-Shing Hioe, Founding Editor of New Bloom'A must-read portrayal of the development of the left in China from the 1950s to the present, with important insights on how, despite its revolutionary rhetoric, the Chinese Communist Party has been an anti-left-wing force. Essential reading for global activists and scholars who believe a more egalitarian, democratic world is possible' -- Elaine Hui, School of Labour and Employment Relations, The Pennysylvania State University'In this riveting analysis, Ruckus rescues left politics' from the monopoly of the Chinese state and recenters the motor of history around social struggles from below - a much needed perspective in understanding China from the international left' -- Yige Dong, Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo, US'With the Left at odds over how to understand the Chinese party-state and its growing international influence, Ralf Ruckus’ thorough but clearly written new book does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation over the past century-plus, often in the face of severe repression' -- Manfred Elfstrom, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and author of 'Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness'‘Raucous’ -- ‘The Wire China’‘Ruckus … has an enviable ability to summarise complex histories in a compact and readable form’ -- ‘rs21’‘A timely and clarifying intervention … Ruckus’ careful attention to historical detail allows the categorical broadness of “the left” to instead draw out the depth and continuity of non-party dissent that suffuses the PRC’s history.’ -- ‘Lausan’Table of Contents1. Introduction: Understanding the Left in the People’s Republic 2. Against Broken Promises: Workers Claim Equality and Participation in the Socialist 1950s and 1960s 3. For a Better Future: Worker Movements Demand Democratic Reforms in the 1970s and 1980s 4. Defense and Nostalgia: Social Struggles Drive Leftist Resistance in the 1990s and 2000s 5. Social Unrest and Organizing: Challenges for the CCP in the Capitalist 2000s and 2010s 6. Conclusions: Social Discontent and Left Opposition in Socialism and Capitalism Epilogue

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Book SynopsisCovering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance.Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgments Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's GarbageDump / Richard King and Timothy J. Craig Part 1: Global versus Local -- Hybridity and Appropriationin Asian Popular Culture 1. Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest / Peter Metcalf 2. Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music /Mercedes M. Dujunco 3. Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous MusicalPractices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes 4. Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An AmericanRemix) / Eric C. Thompson 5. Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music /Keith Howard Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions inAsian Popular Culture 6. The Poetics and Politics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan"Music in the Global Marketplace / Janet L. Upton 7. Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market /Michael Keane 8. Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials / Todd Joseph,Miles Holden and Azrina Husin 9. "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits":Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand / PattanaKitiarsa 10. Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori(The Phoenix) / Mark MacWilliams Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation ofIdentity in Asian Popular Culture 11. Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 /Nancy Brcak and John Pavia 12. To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The ChangingRole of Gunka, Japanese War Songs / Junko Oba 13. The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence /Isabel K.F. Wong 14. Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur MusicIndustry in Xinjiang, China / Rachel Harris Bibliography Credits Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHistory and art come together in this definitive discussion of the Chinese woodblock print form of nianhua, literally New Year pictures. By analyzing the role of nianhua first in the home and later in commercial and political theatres, James Flath relates these artworks to the social, cultural, and political milieu of North China as it was between the late Qing dynasty and the early 1950s. Among the first studies in any field to treat folk art and folk print as historical text, The Cult of Happiness offers original insight into popular conceptions of domesticity, morality, gender, society, modernity, and the transformation of the genre as a propaganda tool under communism. An extraordinary account of the cultural life of rural North China over the period.Trade ReviewThis is a significant new book on the traditional New Year print (nianhua) in Norht China nad its modern transformations. Flath’s book is based on a particularly thorough investigation of early (mostly nineteenth and early twentieth-century) European sources on popular prints. -- David Holm, The University of Melbourne * The China Journal 55 *There can be no doubt that this short book, densely packed with new information and well illustrated in colour as well as black and white, is an original contribution to the well-worked field of Late Imperial-Republican era Chinese history. James A. Flath brings to the history new material and a seriously interdisciplinary approach, one which draws on anthropology, folklore studies, and politics, as well as combing history with art history. -- Ralph Croizier * University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, Winter 2006 *This engagingly written and rigorously argued book on the nianhua, literally “New Year Pictures,” produced in Shandong, Hebei, and Henan Provinces from about 1880 to 1950, is a welcome and important contribution to the study of China’s visual culture ... The author’s principal disciplinary identification is as a historian, and it is as historical texts that he engages with the seventy-four nianhua reproduced here (forty-three of them in good-quality color). However, his diligence in searching them out in collections in China and Europe, and the scrupulous attention paid to them also as material objects in their own right, with histories of production, distribution, and consumption practices all given their due weight is moreover a model of practice to art historians interested in addressing this material… The choice of cover illustration, a print from 1950 by Li Qi titled “Looking over the Tracktor,” might lead the unwary to expect more discussion of the post-Liberation transformations of nianhua than the book provides. However, it is clear that James Flath is highly qualified to provide this discussion, and it is very much to be hoped that he continues to do so to the same high standard as he sets here. -- Craig Clunas, Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, China * Review International, Vol. 12, No.1, Spring 2005 *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Production of Print Culture in North China2 Home and Domesticity3 State and Society4 Retelling History through the Narrative Print5 Print and the Cosmopolitan Mystique6 The Politics of the Popular7 Exorcising ModernityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region.Table of ContentsContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Pia Brancaccio and Kurt Behrendt1 Prologue: Some Debating Points on Gandharan Buddhism and Kusana History / John M. RosenfieldPart I: Archaeology2 Recent Archaeological Research in Gandhara: The New Evidence / Maurizio Taddei3 Buddhist Presence in the Urban Settlements of Swat, Second Century BCE to Fourth Century CE / Pierfrancesco Callieri4 Relic Shrines of Gandhara: A Reinterpretation of the Archaeological Evidence / Kurt BehrendtPart II: Texts5 Pilgrimage Route Changes and the Decline of Gandhara / Shoshin Kuwayama6 New Manuscript Sources for the Study of Gandharan Buddhism / Richard SalomonPart III: Art7 Bodhisattvas in Gandharan Art: An Aspect of Mahayana in Gandharan Buddhism / Juhyung Rhi8 The Nature and Use of the Bodily Relics of the Buddha in Gandhara / Robert L. Brown9 Gateways to the Buddha: Figures under Arches in Early Gandharan Art / Pia Brancaccio10 A Gandharan Relief with Two Scenes from Buddha’s Life / Anna Maria Quagliotti11 Local Crafts in Early Gandharan Art / Doris Meth Srinivasan12 Ananda and Vajrapani: An Inexplicable Absence and a Mysterious Presence in Gandharan Art / Anna Filigenzi13 Design Diversity in Kaniska’s Buddha Coins / Ellen M. RavenContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWeaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.Trade ReviewOne of the most cogent analyses I have read on the cinema of a Southeast Asian country. Well-versed in both literary theory and film theory, what Khoo has accomplished is amazing. -- John A. Lent, author of Animation in Asia and the PacificTable of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Reclaiming Adat2 Malay Myth and Changing Attitudes Towards Nationalism: The Hang Tuah/Hang Jebat Debate3 DissemiNation of Malay/sia4 Malay/sian Films: Cinema of Denial5 Representations of the Modern Malay Woman of the 1990s6 What Is It To Be A Man? Violence in the Time of ModernityAppendix A: Cultural Representations of Hang Tuah and Hang JebatAppendix B: Primary FilmographyAppendix C: Secondary FilmographyNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisChallenges received notions about women’s political involvement and engagement with the state in Meiji Japan by exploring the activism of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.Trade ReviewThe author makes a valuable contribution to Japanese and feminist history...revising the traditional view that women were not involved in politics during this period. Highly recommended. All collections in modern Japanese history and the history of feminism in East Asia -- M.D. Ericson, University of Maryland University College * Choice *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: The WCTU in Meiji Japan: An OrganizationalHistory 1 The Founding of the WCTU in Japan:1886 2 The Tumultuous Early Years of the Tokyo WCTU:1886-92 3 The Organization and Development of the Japan WCTU:1892-1912 Part 2: Under the Guise of National Strengthening and“Good” Citizenship: Pillars of the WCTU’s ReformProgram 4 The Fight against Prostitution 5 The Struggle to Create a Sober Society 6 Imperial Loyalty and Patriotic Service JapanWCTU-Style Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem as part of a series of institutional reforms to shore up itspower.A School in Every Village recounts how villagersand local state officials in Haicheng County enacted orders toestablish rural primary schools from 1904 to 1931. Although theCommunists, contemporary observers, and more recent scholarship haveall depicted rural society as feudal and backward and the educationalreforms of the early twentieth century a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to reveal that villagers capablyintegrated foreign ideas and models into a system that was at oncetraditional and modern, Chinese and Western. Her portrait of educationreform not only challenges received notions about themodernity-tradition binary in Chinese history, it also addressTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Setting: Northeast China, Fengtian Province, andHaicheng County 2 Educational Transformation: Abolishing and Reformingthe Sishu 3 Administering the New Educational System: EducationalPromotion Bureaus 4 Funding the New Community Schools 5 Establishing Girls’ Schools in HaichengCounty 6 Old and New in the Village Community Schools Conclusion Notes Glossary of Chinese Terms and Place Names Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMilestones on a Golden Road examines works of fiction written in China between 1945 and 1980, when the arts were required to reflect a Maoist vision of history and society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Road and the Writer Part 1: The War Years and the Search for Form,1945-48 1 Ma Feng and Xi Rong, Heroes of Lüliang, and“Revolutionary Popular Literature” 2 Zhou Libo, Hurricane, and the Creation of aChinese Socialist Realism Part 2: The Great Leap Forward and the Stuff of Heroism,1959-62 3 Li Zhun’s “A Brief Biography of LiShuangshuang”: A Fast-talking Vixen Creates a Village Canteen 4 Hu Wanchun’s “A Man of OutstandingQuality”: Pavel, but not Rita, and certainly not Ingrid, in theShanghai Dockyards Part 3: The Cultural Revolution and the Spirit of Struggle,1972-76 5 Hao Ran on The Golden Road: Transformationsin Rural China 6 Zhang Kangkang at The Dividing Line: A BoldLeap into Troubled Waters Part 4: After Mao: Reversing Judgements,1979-80 7 Chen Guokai’s The Price: The Flood ofTears 8 Zhang Yigong’s The Story of the Criminal LiTongzhong: Work with the Spade Epilogue: A Golden Road to Nowhere

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Book SynopsisIn China, both opium and alcohol were used for centuries in the pursuit of health and leisure while simultaneously linked to personal and social decline. The impact of these substances is undeniable, and the role they have played in Chinese social, cultural, and economic history is extremely complex.In Intoxicating Manchuria, Norman Smith reveals how warlord rule, Japanese occupation, and political conflict affected local intoxicant industries. These industries flourished throughout the early twentieth century, even as a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement raged. Through the lens of popular Chinese media depictions of alcohol and opium, Smith analyzes how intoxicants and addiction were understood in this society, the role the Japanese occupation of Manchuria played in their portrayal, and the efforts made to reduce opium and alcohol consumption. This is the first English-language book-length study to focus on alcohol use in modern China and the first dealing with intoxTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Alcohol and Opium in China2 Manchurian Context3 Evaluating Alcohol4 Selling Alcohol, Selling Modernity5 Writing Intoxicant Consumption6 The Hostess Scare7 Reasoning Addiction, Taking the Cures8 The Opium Monopoly’s “Interesting Discussion”ConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAs China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora. Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora responded to China's ascendancy by representing it to global audiences with a new-found vitality and self-assurance. The chapters, often personal in nature, cover locations as varied as Australia, North America, and Tibet. And yet, the focus of each is the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, a place where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.Table of Contents1 China Rising: A View and Review of China’s Diasporas since the 1980s / Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, and David M. Pomfret2 No Longer Chinese? Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang3 Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer’s View and Review / Ouyang Yu4 Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie5 Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim6 The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung7 The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow8 Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Cristina Demaria9 Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. Wong10 Tyranny of Taste: Chinese Aesthetics in Australia and on the World Stage / Yiyan Wang11 Reconfiguring the Chinese Diaspora through the Eyes of Ethnic Minorities / Kwai-Cheung LoNotes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisAs China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. For members of China's diasporic community, the rise of China created ripples of change, influencing communities, culture, and communication, and even challenging the very concept of diaspora. Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China examines how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora responded to China's ascendancy by representing it to global audiences with a new-found vitality and self-assurance. The chapters, often personal in nature, cover locations as varied as Australia, North America, and Tibet. And yet, the focus of each is the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, a place where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.Table of Contents1 China Rising: A View and Review of China’s Diasporas since the 1980s / Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, and David M. Pomfret2 No Longer Chinese? Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang3 Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer’s View and Review / Ouyang Yu4 Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie5 Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim6 The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung7 The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow8 Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Cristina Demaria9 Dancing in the Diaspora: “Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism” and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. Wong10 Tyranny of Taste: Chinese Aesthetics in Australia and on the World Stage / Yiyan Wang11 Reconfiguring the Chinese Diaspora through the Eyes of Ethnic Minorities / Kwai-Cheung LoNotes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index

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