Asian history Books
University of Pennsylvania Press The History of the Mongol Conquests
Book Synopsis"By far the best modern narrative account of the most extensive land empire in the history of the world."-David Morgan, author of The MongolsTrade Review"By far the best modern narrative account of the most extensive land empire in the history of the world. It is the ideal introduction to the field."-David Morgan, author of The Mongols
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press The Teleology of the Modern NationState
Book SynopsisAlthough we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write about Han dynasty China or Jomon Japan. And almost all historians refer to prehistoric China or Japan. Thus imposing the national story on the local, the authors contend, harms the historical record.Trade Review"A rich and challenging book." * JAH *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Teleology of the Nation-State PART ONE. THE EMERGENCE OF A "JAPAN" AND A "CHINA" 1. The Emergence of Aesthetic Japan: Art Networks and Popular Publishing in the Formation of Proto-Modern Identity —Eiko Ikegami 2. The North(west)ern Peoples and the Recurrent Origins of the "Chinese" State —Victor Mair PART TWO. BRINGING THE STATE IN 3. State-Making in Global Context: Japan in a World of Nation-States —Mark Ravina 4. When Did China Become China? Thoughts on the Twentieth Century —William C. Kirby PART THREE. NATION AND NATIONALITY 5. Civilization and Enlightenment: Markers of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan —David L. Howell 6. Nationality and Difference in China: The Post-Imperial Dilemma —Pamela Kyle Crossley PART FOUR. LOCALE, NATION, EMPIRE 7. Cultivating Nonnational Historical Understandings in Local History —Luke S. Roberts 8. Where Do Incorrect Political Ideas Come From? Writing the History of the Qing Empire and the Chinese Nation —Peter C. Perdue Notes Index Contributors Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion
Book SynopsisFrom 1932 until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese as a critical element in their imperial dominion.Yamamuro Shin''ichi''s extraordinary book rereads this occupation under new light. The author shows that right-wing Japanese military and civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being done in their name. Yamamuro examines the policies and events unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to the ChiTrade Review"Long-awaited . . . well done . . . elegant . . . timely." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface Introduction 1. Japan's "Sole Road for Survival": The Range of Views Within the Guandong Army over the Seizure of Manchuria and Mongolia 2. Transforming Manchuria-Mongolia into a Paradise for Its Inhabitants: Building a New State and Searching for State-Building Ideals 3. Toward a Model of Politics for the World: The Banner of Moral State Creation and the Formation of Manzhouguo Politics 4. "The Long-Term Policy of National Management Will Always Be in Unison with the Japanese Empire": The Paradise of the Kingly Way Stumbles and the Path Toward the Merging of Japan and Manzhouguo 5. Conclusion: Chimera, Reality, and Illusion Afterword Interview: How Shall We Understand Manchuria and Manzhouguo? Appendix: On the Historical Significance of Manchuria and Manzghouguo Chronology on the Modern History of Manchuria and East Asia Notes Index
£55.80
University of Pennsylvania Press The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History
Book SynopsisFrom antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Hunting Histories —World Histories and the World of Animals —Pursuing Protein —Pursuing Profit —Pursuing Power —This Hunting History 2. Field and Stream —Who Hunted? —Where Did They Hunt? —How Often Did They Hunt? —How Did They Hunt? —On What Scale Did They Hunt? 3. Parks —The Paradise and Its Antecedents —Hunting Parks at the Core and on the Periphery —Hunting Parks in East Asia —The Purposes of Paradise 4. Partners —Animals Assistants —Dogs —Birds —Elephants —Cats 5. Administration —Hunting Establishments —Success and Safety —Careers —Costs 6. Conservation —Killing and Sparing —Game Management —Cultural Constraints —Species Endangered —Natural Attitudes 7. A Measure of Men —Hunting and Hierarchy —Princely Virtues —Courting Danger —Publicizing Prowess 8. Political Animals —Power of Animals —Power over Animals 9. Legitimation —Animals and Ideology —Threat —Animal Control Officer —State and Nature 10. Circulation —On the Road —Pursuing Pleasure —Favors —The Court Out-of-Doors 11. Intimidation —Initiating Warriors —Imitating War —Intimating War —Initiating War 12. Internationalization —Traffic in Animals —Dogs —Birds —Elephants —Cats —Traffic in Trainers 13. Conclusions —History Wide —History Deep Notes Abbreviations and Sources Modern Scholarship Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Before Orientalism
Book SynopsisA distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous India of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulged readers'' curiosity about far-flung landscapes and cultures without exhibiting the attitudes evident in the later writings of aspiring imperialists. Mining the accounts of more than twenty Europeans who made—or claimed to have made—journeys to Mongolia, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia between the mid-thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Kim Phillips reconstructs a medieval European vision of Asia that was by turns critical, neutral, and admiring.In offering a cultural history of the encounter between medieval Latin Christians and the distant East, Before Orientalism reveals how Europeans'' prevailing preoccupations with food and eating habits, gender roles, sexualities, civility, and the foreign body helped shape their perceptions of Asian peopleTrade Review"A richly detailed discussion of later medieval European travellers' accounts describing Eastern Asia. . . . Phillips's call for a 'precolonial studies,' in which the diversity of European responses to foreignness takes centre-stage, is a compelling point from which medieval and early modern historians might begin to question the historical specificity of language of conquest, ownership and desire outlined so influentially by Edward Said." * English Historical Review *"Well-argued and well-researched." * Speculum *"A detailed and stimulating portrait of the heterogeneity of Western travelers' responses to what they saw, heard, tasted, touched, and smelled during their journeys to the distant regions of Asia." * Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto *"Before Orientalism argues that medieval travelers were not and could not have been writing from an imperialist perspective as later 'Orientalist' writers are alleged to have done. Kim M. Phillips proves her case most convincingly, and following these travel writers through her examination of their texts is an exceedingly interesting journey." * David O. Morgan, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Table of ContentsNote on the Text Introduction PART I. THEORY, PEOPLE, GENRES Chapter 1. On Orientalism Chapter 2. Travelers, Tales, Audiences Chapter 3. Travel Writing and the Making of Europe PART II. ENVISIONING ORIENTS Chapter 4. Food and Foodways Chapter 5. Femininities Chapter 6. Sex Chapter 7. Civility Chapter 8. Bodies Afterword: For a Precolonial Middle Ages Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press India in the Chinese Imagination
Book SynopsisIn this collection of original essays, leading Asian studies scholars take a new look at the way the Chinese conceived of India in their literature, art, and religious thought in the premodern era.Trade Review"The scholarship in these substantial and insightful essays is first rate. This volume is the first to take a broad approach to the relationship between India and China in the premodern era from the perspective of cultural imagination and to provide case studies as examples of how further work can proceed." * Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina at Greensboro *
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study examines the reception of Ayurvedic knowledge and other Indian medical teachings in medieval China through analysis of Buddhist texts, including translations from Indian languages as well as Chinese compositions between the second and ninth centuries.Trade Review"C. Pierce Salguero skillfully uses religious studies, translation studies, and anthropology in his investigations. He provides a clear and nuanced account of the complex processes that brought Buddhist doctrines to China and enriched them with new ideas and practices. In the process he demonstrates that here, as elsewhere, 'knowledge about disease, healing, and the body is always inextricably interwoven with the social, economic, political, and personal histories of the people involved in its production and consumption." * Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania *"A welcome reframing of the transmission of Buddhist medicine to China. Salguero reimagines this process not as the clash of monoliths but as numerous specific acts of translation. He invites us to see how people made meaning within and between traditions, rather than contenting ourselves with enumerating the contents of traditions as if they were inert containers of ideas." * Robert Ford Campany, Vanderbilt University *"An excellent contribution which sets the stage for very important future work. Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China provides a detailed analytical perspective on a question of profound importance in the intellectual history of Asia." * Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Buddhist Medical Transmission Chapter 2. Translators and Translation Practice Chapter 3. Translating Medicine in Buddhist Scriptures Chapter 4. Rewriting Buddhist Medicine Chapter 5. Popularizing Buddhist Medicine Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes List of Chinese and Japanese Characters References Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
University of Pennsylvania Press Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China
Book SynopsisFood and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an account of the development of food systems, agriculture, and trade in China's imperial era, connecting those foodways to the global phenomenon of Chinese cuisine today.Trade Review"This is a marvelous book, a long-view description of China's basic geography, the advantages and constraints imposed by climate and terrain, human conservation and despoliation of the natural environment, and the effect of all of these on food customs." * Paul Freedman, Yale University *"Anderson's book is, as surely intended, provocative, challenging much inherited wisdom and at the same time extremely wide-ranging, placing China's foodways in a broad comparative framework." * Thomas Allsen, Professor Emeritus, College of New Jersey *
£63.00
University of Pennsylvania Press Koreas Grievous War
Book SynopsisIn 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned elections and military personnel were deployed. What began as a counterinsurgency operation targeting 350 local rebels resulted in the deaths of roughly 30,000 uninvolved civilians, 10 percent of the island''s population.Su-kyoung Hwang''s Korea''s Grievous War recounts the civilian experience of anticommunist violence, beginning with the Cheju Uprising in 1948 and continuing through the Korean War until 1953. Wartime declarations of emergency by both the U.S. and Korean governments were issued to contain communism, but a major consequence of their actions was to contribute to the loss of more than two million civilian lives. Hwang inventories the persecutions of left-Trade Review"Su-kyoung Hwang offers not just an invaluable work of historical recovery but also a work of relentless moral and scholarly bravery. Based on research ranging from challenging oral histories to deep dives in the National Archives and Korean-language sources, Korea's Grievous War provides an unflinching and harrowing analysis of anticommunist political violence that is heartbreaking and inspiring." * Christian Appy, author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity *Table of ContentsNote on Transcriptions and Testimonies List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Terror in Cheju Island Chapter 2. Emergency Laws and the Crisis of Human Rights Chapter 3. Ideological Persecution and the Massacre of 1950 Chapter 4. Observing Political Violence in Korea Chapter 5. Politics of Fear in the Bombing of Korea Chapter 6. The Bereaved Families Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South
Book SynopsisDrawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, this book offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea''s democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s. It shows how local pro-democracy activists pragmatically engaged with global advocacy groups, especially Amnesty International and the World Council of Churches, to maximize their socioeconomic and political struggles against the backdrop of South Korea''s authoritarian industrialization and U.S. hegemony in East Asia. Ingu Hwang details how local prodemocracy protesters were able to translate their sufferings and causes into international human rights claims that highlighted how U.S. Cold War geopolitics impeded democratization in South Korea. In tracing the increasing coalitional ties between local pro-democracy protests and transnational human rights activism, the book also calls attention to the parallel development of counteraction human rights policies by theTrade Review"In this outstanding book, the scholar Ingu Hwang makes a case that the final triumph of South Korea’s 40-year struggle for constitutional democracy was made possible in large part by an unprecedented international coalition linking Korean workers, clergy, students, trade unionists, and journalists with their counterparts in the United States, Japan, and Europe." * Asian Studies Review *
£46.55
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Archaeology of Modern Worlds in the Indian
Book SynopsisCase studies that show the importance of the Indian Ocean region to the emergence of modernity and globalization. This volume brings together a diverse range of specialists working in multiple areas of the Indian Ocean world, providing broad geographical coverage and comparisons across sites.
£63.75
Rutgers University Press Javanese Lives Women and Men in Modern Indonesian
Book SynopsisJava is the most populous island of Indonesia, the fifth largest nation in the world. Yet despite its importance, outsiders know little about the country or its people. With the help of Indonesian students and scholars, Walter L. Williams has collected and translated the life histories of twenty-seven Javanese women and men. The people interviewed tell how they have coped with rapid social and economic change, and the transformation of their traditions. Williams has carefully selected the individuals he includes to represent a wide diversity of Java's people. We hear from fascinating men and women of various religions, from the rich and the poor, and from different ethnic backgrounds. Diversity is a constant theme, as evidenced by a poor pedicab driver who can barely scrape along, by a rich businesswoman who explains how she balances her professional and domestic roles, by an educated and respected homosexual school principal, and by an illiterate mother of fourteen children. All of thTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface Introduction Part I. Paths to the Present: Village Life and Urban Development Part II. Holding onto the Past: The Artistic and Spiritual Traditions Part III. Looking toward the Future: Development, Education, and Youth Notes Index
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Thai Women in the Global Labor Force Consuming
Book SynopsisThis text is an ethnographic examination of young women migrants in rural and urban Thailand. The author focuses on the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis, following them as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements 1 Women, Migration and Thai Experiences of Modernity 2 Village and Nation 3 Cash, Commodities, and Modernity 4 Parents, Children, and Migration Decisions 5 Gender and Mobility 6 Bangkok Wage Workers 7 Consumption, Desire, and Thansamay Selves 8 Courtship, Marriage, and Contested Selves 9 Gender and Modernity, Local and Global Encounters Notes Glossary of Thai Words and Pronunciation Guide References Index
£26.09
Rutgers University Press The Transnational History of a Chinese Family
Book SynopsisHaiming Liu presents a transnational history of a Chinese family from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It makes it clear that, for many Chinese American families, migration does not mean a break from the past but the beginning of a life that incorporates and transcends dual national boundaries.Trade ReviewThis brilliantly nuanced story... challenges us to rethink immigration and immigrant adaptation in the broader cross-cultural and transnational milieu. -- Min Zhou * inaugural chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Ang *An important history of Chinese American transnationalism, the book provides valuable insights into lesser known aspects of these immigrant lives, and allows us to understand Asian American history through the well-documented experiences of a family. -- Yong Chen * author of Chinese San Francisco, 1850 - 1943: A Transpacific Community *Table of ContentsOrigins of the Chang family Yitang as a merchant immigrant Herbal medicine as a transplanted culture Between troubled home and racist America Asparagus farming as family business Education as a family agenda China as a cultural home
£29.70
Rutgers University Press The History of Modern Japanese Education
Book SynopsisThe History of Modern Japanese Education is the first account in English of the construction of a national school system in Japan, as outlined in the 1872 document, the Gakusei.Trade Review"Duke tackles the thorniest issue in the making of modern Japan and...has written what has to be regarded as the definitive work on the book's topic. Essential." * Choice *"Benjamin Duke has written a wonderfully detailed, well-structured and, above all, entertaining account of one of the most important periods in the development of Japanese Education." * Public Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Aims of Education for Modern Japan Part I: The Feudal Foundation of Modern Japanese Education Education of the Samurai in Tokugawa Schools: Nisshinkan Education of the Samurai in the West: London University and Rutgers College, 1863-1868 The Meiji Restoration: Reemergence of Tokugawa Schools, 1868-1871 Part II: The First Decade of Modern Education, 1870s: The American Model The Gakusei: The First National Plan for Education, 1872 The Iwakura Mission: A Survey of Western Education, 1872-1873 The Modern Education of Japanese Girls: Georgetown, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, 1872 The Modern Japanese Teacher: The San Francisco Method, 1872-1873 Implementing the First National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase I, 1873-1876 Rural Resistance to Modern Education: The Japanese Peasant, 1873-1876 The Imperial University of Engineering: The Scottish Model, 1873-1882 Pestalozzi to Japan: Switzerland to New York to Tokyo, 1875-1878 Scientific Agriculture and Puritan Christianity on the Japanese Frontier: The Massachusetts Model, 1876-1877 The Philadelphia Centennial: The American Model Revisited, 1876 The Second National Plan for Education: The American Model, Phase II, 1877-1879 Part III: The Second Decade of Modern Education, 1880s: Reaction against the Western Model The Imperial Will on Education: Moral versus Science Education, 1879-1880 The Third National Plan for Education: The Reverse Course, 1880-1885 Education for the State: The German Model, 1886-1889 The Imperial Rescript on Education: Western Science and Eastern Morality for the Twentieth Century, 1890
£37.40
Rutgers University Press Movie Migrations Transnational Genre Flows and
Book SynopsisAs the two billion YouTube views for “Gangnam Style” would indicate, South Korean popular culture has begun to enjoy new prominence on the global stage. Yet, as this timely new study reveals, the nation's film industry has long been a hub for transnational exchange, producing movies that put a unique spin on familiar genres, while influencing world cinema from Hollywood to Bollywood.Trade Review"Deftly weaves together eclectic, interdisciplinary references, from transnational literary studies to political economy, translation and adaptation studies, film genre studies, and inter-Asian Pacific Rim cultural studies." * The Journal of Asian Studies *"Brimming with insight and detail, this is the go-to book for South Korean genre cinema, a remarkable achievement of scholarship, richly detailed with frame grabs and production stills … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Movie Migrations offers insightful readings of the deep connections between Korean and foreign films. A model of transnational scholarship, it will revitalize genre studies." -- Christina Klein * author of Cold War Orientalism *"A magnificent service to the scholarly analysis of South Korean cinema. This book is insightful, eloquent, and fully engaged. It has been researched and written with tremendous rigour and commitment." -- Julian Stringer * University of Nottingham *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: South Korean Cinema’s Transnational Trajectories Part I From Classical Hollywood to the Korean Golden Age: Cinephilia, Modernization, and Postcolonial Genre Flows 1 Toward a Strategic Korean Cinephilia: A Transnational Détournement of Hollywood Melodrama2 The Mamas and the Papas: Cross-Cultural Remakes, Literary Adaptations, and Cinematic “Parent” Texts3 The Nervous Laughter of Vanishing Fathers: Modernization Comedies of the 1960s4 Once upon a Time in Manchuria: Classic and Contemporary Korean Westerns Part II From Cinematic Seoul to Global Hollywood: Cosmopolitanism, Empire, and Transnational Genre Flows 5 Reinventing the Historical Drama, De-Westernizing a French Classic: Genre, Gender, and the Transnational Imaginary in Untold Scandal6 From Gojira to Goemul: “Host” Cities and “Post” Histories in East Asian Monster Movies7 Extraordinarily Rendered: Oldboy, Transmedia Adaptation, and the US War on Terror8 A Thirst for Diversity: Trends in Korean “Multicultural Films,” from Bandhobi to Where is Ronny? Conclusion: Into “Spreadable” Spaces: Netflix, YouTube, and the Question of Cultural TranslatabilityNotesIndex
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Looking Back on the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisBrings together scholars from a broad variety of disciplines, who offer fresh insights on the Vietnam War's psychological, economic, artistic, political, and environmental impacts. Each essay examines a different facet of the war, from its representation in Marvel comic books to the experiences of Vietnamese soldiers exposed to Agent Orange.Trade Review"A collection of studies on the way the war is being remembered and commemorated … The diasporic theme is a welcome counterbalance to the US-centered canon that obscures the presence of the Vietnamese people in their own struggle for independence and all but elides them in studies of the postwar years ... Recommended." * Choice *"It is a crucial and timely moment to revisit the meanings of the Vietnam War. This book is a hugely valuable reassessment of the war's legacies and cultural impact." -- Marita Sturken * author of Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering *"We're just now barely getting a grip on the myriad aftermaths of the Vietnam War. I enthusiastically urge anyone interested in wars or 'post-wars' to read this fine book--slowly." -- Cynthia Enloe * author of Globalization and Militarism, updated edition *"This superb volume brings together a remarkable group of scholars whose attention to disaporic sensibilities, war memory, and contrapuntal narratives fundamentally remakes our understanding of the Vietnam War's cultural politics." -- Mark Philip Bradley * The University of Chicago *"Looking Back on the Vietnam War is haunting in its unflinching critique and intervention to denaturalize warfare and disentangle its afterlife. It is most sublime in rupturing once conventional narratives." -- Linda Trinh Vo * University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsChronologyNote on the TextIntroduction: Looking Back at the Vietnam WarBrenda M. Boyle and Jeehyun LimChapter 1: Vietnamese Refugees and Internet Memorials: When Does War End and Who Gets to Decide?Y?n Lê EspirituChapter 2: Broken, but Not Forsaken: Disabled South Vietnamese Veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese DiasporaQuan Tue TranChapter 3: What Is Vietnamese American Literature?Viet Thanh NguyenChapter 4: Vi?t Nam and the Diaspora: Absence, Presence, and the ArchiveLan DuongChapter 5: Liberal Humanitarianism and Post–Cold War Cultural Politics: The Case of Le Ly HayslipJeehyun LimChapter 6: Ann Hui’s Boat People: Documenting Vietnamese Refugees in Hong KongVinh NguyenChapter 7: “The Deep Black Hole”: Vietnam in the Memories of Australian Veterans and RefugeesRobert Mason and Leonie JonesChapter 8: Missing Bodies and Homecoming SpiritsHeonik KwonChapter 9: Agent Orange: Toxic Chemical, Narrative of Suffering, Metaphor for WarDiane Niblack FoxChapter 10: Re-Seeing Cambodia and Recollecting The ’Nam: A Vertiginous Critique of the Military SublimeCathy J. Schlund-VialsChapter 11: Naturalizing War: The Stories We Tell about the Vietnam WarBrenda M. BoyleAppendix A: ArchivesAppendix B: Publications since 2000Notes on ContributorsIndex
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Here to Stay Uncovering South Asian American
Book SynopsisIn Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra takes readers on a journey across the United States to unearth the little-known histories of South Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how South Asians made a home for themselves in America, despite racist laws that only granted citizenship to European immigrants.Trade Review"Here to Stay reflects a great deal of primary source research that the author has conducted along with a compelling narrative that braids aspects of her life story into the historic narrative of America’s whiteness as well as the biographies of A.K. Mozumbar, Bhagat Singh Thind, Kala Bagai, and many other early Indian emigres. This book makes a strong contribution to South Asian American Studies scholarship." -- Himanee Gupta-Carlson * author of Middletown and Asian America *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Who Gets to be American? 2. Mozumdar Crosses the Pacific 3. The American Dream 4. Where Are You From? 5. Defining Whiteness 6. The Differences Between Daylight and Darkness 7. The Dilemma 8. Return to Hindoo Alley 9. Freedom Fighters 10. Citizenship on Trial 11. The Aftermath 12. The Path to Acceptance 13. War 14. Resolution A Note on Research Acknowledgements
£22.79
Rutgers University Press Dr. David Murray Superintendent of Education in
Book SynopsisThis is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. Murray’s unwavering commitment to the modernization of Japanese education renders him an educational pioneer in early Meiji Japan. Trade Review"An essential chapter in the story of Japan's early engagement with America, and America's with Japan. Scholars of this extraordinary moment owe Benjamin Duke--himself a veteran educator bridging both cultures--a debt of gratitude for his deep research into a pivotal but overlooked figure." -- Janice Nimura * author of Daughters of the Samurai:Journey from East to West and Back *"An amazing story, beautifully told by Benjamin Duke's skilled hand. Duke's tenacity and deep digging are admirable, a work of true scholarship." -- Thomas R. H. Havens * Professor of Japanese History, Northeastern University *"ICU Emeritus Professor and Former JICUF Trustee Benjamin Duke Writes Book about “Japanese Invasion” of Rutgers College 150 Years Ago" * Japan ICU Foundation *"A seminal work of meticulous and detailed scholarship, Dr. David Murray: Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879 is an inherently fascinating story from beginning to end. Enhanced for academia with the inclusion of two pages of Notes and a six page Index, Dr. David Murray: Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan, 1873-1879 is a unique and especially recommended." * Midwest Book Review *"Duke's biography is a detailed examination of Murray before and especially during his years as the superintendent of education at this crucial time in Japanese history. There is probably no scholar more knowledgeable about education policies during the Meiji era." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The scope and extent of the book go far beyond a mere biography of Murray....This book is to be recommended in that it provides a useful introduction to the Japan-related work of David Murray, both in the United States in the 1860s and Japan when he finally got there in the following decade. This is a lacuna in scholarship which undoubtedly needed filling. It also provides a very full account of Japan-U.S. relations in the bakumatsu and early Meiji period. It contains a wealth of new information and a decent number of illustrations. The book is quite readable, with well-structured paragraphs....A welcome addition to scholarly works on the history of the period." * Journal of Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction PART 1: Encountering The Japanese In America 1866-1872 1) Murray’s Awakening To Japan In America: Befriending Samurai Youth At Rutgers College 1866 - 1873 2) The Samurai Invasion Of New Brunswick: Two Routes From Japan Direct And Via London 1866-1873 3) David Murray, The Rutgers Scientific School, And The Celebrated Class Of 1868: The First Rutgers Educational Pioneers To Japan 4) The Employment Of David Murray As Superintendent Of Education In The Empire Of Japan: The Iwakura Embassy In Washington 1872 PART 2: The First Period 1873 5) Japanese Education Upon Murray’s Arrival The Fundamental Code Of Education: From Clan Schools For Samurai To Public Schools For All 1872-1873 6) Murray’s Introduction To Japanese Education: The First Year Of A Universal Public School System 1873 7) Murray’s Second Report To The Ministry Of Education: Setting The Initial Direction Of Modern Japanese Education 1874-1875 8) The Japanese Educational Exhibit At The American Centennial In Philadelphia: David Murray: The Making Of A Comparative Educator 1876 9) The Dispute Over Modern Japanese Education: Murray’s Controversial Report To The Ministry: On The New Public School Law 1877 10) Murray’s Final Report To The Ministry Of Education: A Survey Of Tokyo’s Public Schools: The Departure From Japan 1878 - 1879 11) The Legacy Of David Murray: Setting The Direction Of Japanese Education For The 20th Century: An Unwavering Commitment To Japan Notes Index Acknowledgements About the Author
£51.85
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares Horses in
Book SynopsisExamines the horse's significance throughout Indian history from the arrival of the Indo-Europeans, followed by the people who became the Mughals (who imported Arabian horses) and the British (who imported thoroughbreds and Walers).
£28.45
University of Virginia Press Becoming Zimbabwean
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University of Virginia Press Becoming Zimbabwean
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Wayne State University Press The Broken Spell
Book SynopsisExplores the rise and fall in popularity of “romances” (qissah) - tales of wonder and magic told by storytellers at princely courts and in public spaces in India from the sixteenth century to the twentieth. Pasha Khan points to the worldviews underlying the popularity of Urdu and Persian romances.
£63.75
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Gertrude Bell The Arabian Diaries 19131914
Book SynopsisGertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels. Bell numbered among her friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant prose, and presents her as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability.
£19.76
Syracuse University Press Religion Society and Modernity in Turkey
Book SynopsisOffering a historical and cultural analysis of the late Ottoman period and Republican Turkey, this book collects Serif Mardin's seminal essays written throughout the span of his prolific career. These essays deal with the historical background, political travails, and socioeconomic metamorphosis of Turkey during a century of modernization.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics
Book SynopsisIn this timely volume, Zhu and Xiao offer an examination of the ways in which Chinese feminist ideas have developed since the mid-1990s. By juxtaposing the plural “feminisms” with “Chinese characteristics”, they both underline the importance of integrating Chinese culture, history, and tradition in the discussions of Chinese feminisms.
£30.56
Facts On File Inc A Brief History of Pakistan
Book SynopsisPresents the major events, people, and traditions that have shaped Pakistan. This title includes coverage on the The land and its people; The Indus Valley Civilization; The Vedic Age in Pakistan; The Mogul Period; British rule; The struggle for independence; Partition; Civilian and military rule; and, Islamization of Pakistan.
£17.95
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Facts On File Brief History Set 22Volumes
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the world's countries. Each engaging volume covers a specific country and offers a concise history of the struggles and triumphs of the peoples and cultures that have called that country home.
£808.50
University of Minnesota Press Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient 16001800
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University of Minnesota Press Forest of Pressure Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar
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University of Minnesota Press Service Economies
Book SynopsisA compelling alternative narrative of the modern "miracle" of South Korea.Trade Review"Examining South Korean history since 1945, Service Economies highlights the role of sexualized and gendered working-class labor as an occluded but crucial part of South Korean modernization. A truly interdisciplinary project, Jin-Kyung Lee’s ambitious, rigorous, and synthetic work intervenes into historical, political economic, and cultural studies scholarship on South Korea, transnational labor, gender and sexuality, and U.S. neo-colonialism." —Grace Hong, UCLATable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Proletarianizing Sexuality and Race 1. Surrogate Military, Subempire, and Masculinity: South Korea in the Vietnam War 2. Domestic Prostitution: From Necropolitics to Prosthetic Labor 3. Military Prostitution: Gynocentrism, Racial Hybridity and Diaspora 4. Migrant and Immigrant Labor: Redefining Korean Identity Postscript: The Exceptional and the Normative in South Korean Modernization Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Animes Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters
Book SynopsisUntangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime Trade Review"Anime’s Media Mix is a must-read for anyone interested in the transformations of contemporary media. In portraying how anime characters are emblematic of mobility and connectivity in a broader media ecology, Marc Steinberg maps a new logic of production and consumption that shapes our world today." —Ian Condry, MIT"Marc Steinberg opens up brave new possibilities for the study of global media cultures. Attending to the watershed years of Japan’s 1960s and the ascendance of televisual animation he details how entire commodity regimes came to circulate around the idea of the anime “character.” Original and timely, historically dense and theoretically acute, Anime’s Media Mix definitively teaches us that anime can no longer be thought outside the networks of its transmediation." —Marilyn Ivy, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Convergence in JapanPart I. Anime Transformations: Tetsuwan Atomu1. Limiting Movement, Inventing Anime2. Candies, Premiums, and Character Merchandizing: The Meiji-Atomu Marketing Campaign3. Material Communication and the Mass Media ToyPart II. Media Mixes and Character Consumption: Kadokawa Books4. Media Mixes, Media Transformations5. Character, World, ConsumptionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The New Asian City ThreeDimensional Fictions of
Book SynopsisCultural productions reveal a darker side to development in emblematic Asian Tiger citiesTrade Review"The New Asian City is capacious, probing, and exciting as it cuts across Asian global fields: Jini Kim Watson makes the Pacific Rim urban space boom, transform, and resonate with life force, social knowledge, and urban creativity." —Rob Wilson, author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘South Pacific’ to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond"This is an unusually interesting book. It is remarkable not because the New Asian City is analyzed in terms of the latest urban theory available, but because it demonstrates how much farther urban theory has to go to catch up with the Asian city." —Ackbar Abbas, author of Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance Table of ContentsContentsNote on RomanizationIntroduction: The Production of Space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei Part I. Colonial Cities1. Imagining the Colonial City2. Orphans of Asia: Modernity and Colonial LiteratureExport Production and the Blank SlatePart II. Postwar Urbanism3. Narratives of Human Growth versus Urban Renewal 4. The Disappearing Woman, Interiority, and Private Space Roads, Railways, and Bridges: Arteries of the NationPart III. Industrializing Landscapes5. The Way Ahead: The Politics and Poetics of Singapore’s Developmental Landscape 6. Mobility and Migration in Taiwanese New Cinema7. The Redemptive Realism of Korean Minjung Literature Conclusion. Too Late, Too Soon: Globalization and New Asian Cities AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Dance That Makes You Vanish Cultural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Women’s bodies, dancing bodies: in this haunting book, they lead us to political terror and its erasure in safely contained cultural performance. The ghosts of dancers killed in state-sponsored anti-communist frenzy shimmer before us, their movements precisely replicated by their state-cleansed replacements. Memoir here winds in and out of cultural critique; we are led up to that vanishing point where power and violence tear their way into the heart." —Anna Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global ConnectionTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dancing on the Mass Grave1. To Remember Differently: Paradoxical Statehood and Preserved Value2. What Is Left: The Fabricated and the Illicit3. Historicizing Violence: Memory and the Transmission of the Aesthetic4. Staging Alliances: Cambodia as Cultural Mirror5.Violence and Mobility: Autoethnography of Coming and GoingNotesIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Mechademia 8 Tezukas Manga Life
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . .Thomas LamarreNonhuman Life“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist SpeciesMary A. KnightonDiary of an Insect Shôjo’s Vagabond LifeTezuka OsamuTranslated by Mary A. KnightonTezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and BuddhismG. Clinton GodartAtom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s Essays in Insect IdlenessLinda H. ChanceOn the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of ThoughtVerina GfaderThe Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic NovelsChristine L. MarranMedia LifeWhere Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga ExpressionNatsume FusanosukeTranslated by Matthew YoungPhoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and AnimeRenato Rivera RuscaCopying AtomuMarc SteinbergTokiwasou StoryAkatsuka FujioTranslated by Matthew YoungA Life in MangaToward a Theory of “Artist-Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the ArtistYorimitsu HashimotoTranslated by Baryon Tensor PosadasManga Shônen: Katô Ken’ichi and the Manga BoysRyan HolmbergImplicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen MangaHideaki FujikiTezuka’s Anime Revolution in ContextJonathan ClementsDesigning a WorldFrederik L. SchodtUnicoAnno MoyokoTranslated by Matthew YoungEveryday LifeAn Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku CultureÔtsuka EijiTranslated by Thomas LamarreOsamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in AkihabaraPatrick W. GalbraithTezuka, Shôjo Manga, and Hagio MotoHikari HoriOut of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long ShadowAlicia GibsonWolf Head in PhoenixToshiya Ueno ContributorsCall for Papers
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University of Minnesota Press Split Screen Korea
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lucidly and sensitively written, Steven Chung’s book is not only a historical study of a single director and national culture caught in an eventful time period. It is also an excellent thesis on cinema as a locus of multidiscursivity whose evolving fissures—temporal, spatial, technical, and experiential—defy any facile attempt to stabilize meanings by way of aesthetics or geopolitics."—Rey Chow, Duke University"Split Screen Korea is a pathbreaking work that offers a theoretically sophisticated study of the complex and shifting relations between Korean cinema and mass culture. Through its careful, meticulous tracing of Sin Sang-ok’s work as a director, producer, and studio head, this book allows us to rethink the multilayered cultural and visual politics of divided Korea and, more broadly, the global Cold War itself."—Theodore Hughes, Columbia University"Split Screen Korea exemplifies a kind of necessary scholarly monograph that will never go out of style. Instead of seeking to construct yet another fashionable revisionist history, Steven Chung writes fluidly and directly, establishing ‘film and nation’ as the basic binary from which his research emanates."—Slant Magazine"Written in clear, jargon-free prose and gently persuasive and accommodating in its engagement with the existing scholarship, Steven Chung’s Split Screen Korea mounts a compelling case for re-examination and re-evaluation of the commercial Korean films produced between 1953 and 1979."—Pacific Affairs"Chung presents his arguments beautifully in jargon-free, concise language and offers a pleasurable sense of discovery at every turn. . . Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-Ok and Postwar Cinema is a formidable work and a crucial contribution to the field of Korean studies, film studies, and mass media studies."—SituationsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Visible Ruptures, Invisible Borders1. The Century’s Illuminations: The Enlightenment Mode in Korean Cinema2. Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion in the Korean 1950s3. Authorship and the Location of Cinema: In the Region of Shin Films4. Melodrama and the Scene of Development5. “It’s All Fake”: Shin Sang-ok’s North Korean RevisionsConclusion: Post-Development PicturesAcknowledgmentsNotesShin Sang-ok FilmographyBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Ambient Media Japanese Atmospheres of Self
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through a series of probing interventions, Paul Roquet generates a new environment for Japan studies—one that takes into account the faint, ambient, receding, and ubiquitous immaterialities that fill Japan's ether. This is a work worth noticing."—Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California "Ambient Media is an ambitious work that introduces the reader to a captivating cross-section of ambient media in the current Japanese mediascape, with a particular focus on sound and image-based arts. Paul Roquet smartly cuts through multiple strata from music to experimental performance to design, offering a fresh and novel perspective on the atmospheres of ambient media."—Marc Steinberg, Concordia University"A gateway into a world of arresting and inspiring electronic media."—New Books in Music"Roquet offers a concrete cultural and technological context for anyone curious about the dominance in contemporary Japan of “ambient” creators."—The Japan Times"Roquet’s approach to ambient mediation provides a fresh and inspiring theoretical approach for media studies and offers a fruitful discussion of the spati-temporal aspects of atmospheric immersion or ambient (non)mediation, describing it as something experienced as the synchronization of rhythm or the contingency of space."—Journal of Japanese Studies"Beyond the clear grounding in Japan studies, this book opens ways of thinking with a much broader relevance beyond the specific context of postindustrial Japan. Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative, with a tone of presentation that cleverly draws us into the reflective meditation being discussed."—Cultural Politics"Ambient Media’s strength lies in its hybrid nature, seamlessly blending together Japanese and Western Critical traditions and historical trajectories. Roquet’s close readings of individual texts are vivid and convincing, and the analyses are grounded in specific historical and cultural contexts."—Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema"What Ambient Media achieves is the construction of a clear, contemporary history of the topic while addressing the inherently double-edged possibilities such as history creates for interpretation."—Japanese Studies"Beyond the more theoretical passages, Roquet also offers intriguing case studies of individual practitioners working in their respective ambient media that inspire one to check out their work, from musicians and sound artists such as Tetsu Inoue and Chihei Hatakeyama to experimental filmmakers like Masakatsu Takagi, while displaying a remarkable talent for poetically evoking Tokyo’s various landscapes and accompanying soundscapes through lively descriptions of often highly abstract aural and visual material."—All the Anime"Ambient Media opens ways for thinking with a much broader relevance beyond the specific context of postindustrial Japan. Roquet’s writing is thorough yet evocative, with a tone of presentation that cleverly draws us into the reflective meditation being discussed."—Cultural PoliticsTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Reading the Air1. Background Music of the Avant-Garde: The Quiet Boom of Erik Satie2. The Sound of Embodied Security: Imaginary Landscapes of Ambient Music3. Moving with the Rhythms of the City: Ambient Video Attunements4. Soft Fascinations inShallow Depth: Compositing Ambient Space5. Subtractivism: Low-Affect Living with Ambient Cinema6. Healing Style: Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of CalmConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyFilm and VideographyDiscographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Cinema Approaching Reality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An eye-opening exploration of the possibilities of approaching cinema anew, in its photographic materiality, after the digital turn."—Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University"Erudite, thought-provoking and lucidly composed. Cinema Approaching Reality fills a giant gap in Chinese film studies as the first comprehensive and imaginative study of key theoretical debates on cinema in China and Hong Kong before 1950. More importantly, Victor Fan bridges or reestablishes the historical and philosophical connections between the Chinese discourses and Western film theory within the global context of modernity, capitalism, and imperialism, while offering refreshing insights into the life or temporality of the moving image in the wake of the digital turn."—Zhang Zhen, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction1. Approaching Reality: Chinese Ontology and the Potentiality of Time2. Cinema of Thought: Directed Consciousness in Chinese Marxist Film Theory3. Soft Film Theory: Lifein All Its Presence and Concreteness4. Fey Mou: The Presence of an Absence5. Cinema of Ideation, Cinema of Play: The Early Cantonese Sound FilmConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press Tattered Kimonos in Japan
Book SynopsisExamines the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict.Trade Review“The writing in Tattered Kimonos is graceful, never precious, forced, or labored. In presenting these stories, observations, insights, and acts, Robert Rand brings about the remembering of a war that, in turn, makes that war real."—Donald Anderson, author of Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq
£26.96
LUP - University of Georgia Press Famine in Cambodia
Book SynopsisExamines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. The book documents how state-induced famine constituted a form of sovereign violence and operated against the backdrop of sweeping historical transformations of Cambodian society.
£35.72
Ohio University Press Pearls People and Power
Book SynopsisPearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls in the Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. Encompassing the geographical, cultural, and thematic diversity of Indian Ocean pearling, it deepens our appreciation of the historical dynamics of Indian Ocean worlds.Trade Review“Pearls, People, and Power will become a benchmark edited collection in world commodity history. It covers a large chronological and geographical swath of the pearl trade from the moment the pearls are first extracted by human hands, to when they are used, worn, or worked in a variety of forms. It’s an ambitious attempt to take the entirety of the production and consumption of pearls into view in very different but often connected or comparable case studies.”“This significant contribution to Indian Ocean history offers a unique intersection of environmental history and marine commodity extraction, bringing together a wealth of research about how this precious marine commodity was produced and traded across multiple sites across the vast Indian Ocean. A great addition to world history scholarship.”
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Duke University Press Cherishing Men from Afar
Book SynopsisLooks at the initial confrontation of the Manchu or Qing dynasty of China and the maritime empire of Great Britain from a historical perspective informed by the insights of contemporary postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.Trade Review"Cherishing Men From Afar, extremely impressive in its marshalling of basic Qing material, accomplishes something quite remarkable: the product of a postmodern critical sensibility, it will also satisfy the most traditional of scholars on sinological grounds."—William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University"James Hevia persuasively suggests a whole new way of viewing not just the Macartney embassy but the entire subject of Sino-Western interaction from the eighteenth century to the present. Cherishing Men from Afar deserves to be read by the widest spectrum of historians."—Paul A. Cohen, John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University
£80.10
MD - Duke University Press Chinese Modern
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the Chinese experience of modernity through the literary works, films and other cultural artefacts that represent it. Examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent 20th-century, this book will be useful to students of China, Asian studies, literary criticism, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Containing a series of penetrating analyses of landmark cultural works from the entire course of the twentieth century, Chinese Modern represents the most comprehensive account of modern Chinese literature that has ever been published in English. Tang also illuminates—like no one has before—the various ways in which the looming imperative of modernity has left its image on the imagination of modern China.”—Theodore Huters, University of California at Los Angeles“Read Chinese Modern for a journey through China's ‘long twentieth century.’ Xiaobing Tang as guide shows how imaginative sympathy for one's subject nourishes critical acuity.”—Norma Field, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I 11 Part II 163 Afterword 341 Glossary 349 Selected Bibliography 357 Index 369
£85.50
Duke University Press Kurosawa
Book SynopsisThe films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, Yoshimoto shifts the ground upon which the scholarship on Japanese cinema has been built and questions its dominant interpretive frameworks and critical assumptions. Arguing that Kurosawa’s films arouse anxiety in Japanese and Western critics because the films problematize Japan’s self-image and the West’s image of Japan, Yoshimoto challenges widely circulating clichés about the films and shows how these works constitute narrative answers to sociocultural contradictions and institutional dilemmas. While fully acknowledgingTrade Review“A tour-de-force reading of Kurosawa’s films. Yoshimoto adds greatly to current Kurasawa scholarship and to situating the construct ‘Japanese Cinema’ in a way that it has not been situated before.”—E. Ann Kaplan, author of Looking for the Other: Feminism, Film, and the Imperial Gaze“Yoshimoto’s Kurosawa is destined to take its place along with the most important achievements of cinema studies, which is to say that it is a book about something more than cinema itself. Yet it offers a stimulating, running commentary on the films that makes one want to see them all over again, while also offering a new theory of auteurship as collective negotiation. This is a grand performance sustained by a voice of rare authority.”—Fredric JamesonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction 1 I Japanese Cinema in Search of a Discipline 7 II The Films of Kurosawa Akira 51 Kurosawa Criticism and the Name of the Author 53 Sanshiro Sugata 69 The Most Beautiful 81 Sanshiro Sagata, Part 2 89 The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail 93 No Regrets for Our Youth 114 One Wonderful Sunday 135 Drunken Angel 138 The Quiet Duel 140 Stray Dog 147 Scandal 179 Rashomon 182 The Idiot 190 Ikiru 194 Seven Samurai 205 Record of a Living Being 246 Throne of Blood 250 The Lower Depths 270 The Hidden Fortress 272 The Bad Sleep Well 274 Yojimbo 289 Sanjuro 293 High and Low 303 Red Beard 332 Dodeskaden 334 Dersu Uzala 344 Kagemusha 348 Ran 355 Dreams 359 Rhapsody in August 364 Madadayo 372 Epilogue 375 Notes 379 Filmography 433 Bibliography 451 Index 471
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Duke University Press Organizing Empire Individualism Collective
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the forms and uses of individualism in colonial and anti-colonial India. This book presents an examination of how concepts of individualism functioned in support of and resistance to British imperialism in India. It highlights the complexity of the multiple narratives that constitute British colonial history.Trade Review“Organizing Empire is an excellent discussion of colonial subjectivities and, in particular, how concepts of individualism and collectivity form a binary that is used by both colonial power structures and anticolonial formations.”—Inderpal Grewal, author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel“Organizing Empire makes an important contribution to postcolonial theory. Through her theorization of individualism, Purnima Bose opens up in compelling ways the counterpossibilities of collective agency and helps move the discussion of anticolonial resistance from a generalized ‘subject’ to the analysis of specific conjunctures of resistant practice.”—David Lloyd, author, Ireland after History"Organizing Empire . . . serves to reveal the ideas of postcolonialism and to provide a bridge . . . over the immense divide that has developed between so much of contemporary literary studies and the discipline of history." -- Terry Crowley * Canadian Journal of History *"A dense, thoughtful book about individualism and group identity in the colonial era and in the formation of Indian nationalism." * Foreign Affairs *"Bose's multi-sited research lays rich new grounds for complicating issues of documentation and representation as she questions the means by which various agents of struggle can or cannot be recognized within elite-imperial narratives. Bose's Organizing Empire undoubtedly enriches potential sites for postcolonial work, while reconfiguring the geopolitical and historical scopes of subaltern studies." -- Lucienne Loh * Interventions *"One of the most noteworthy achievements . . . of the book . . . is the attention that it devotes to the traffic between the different colonies of the British empire, especially Ireland and India. . . . Bose's analysis . . . is assured and persuasive. . . . A sober and useful contribution to studies of empire." -- Parama Roy * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Rogue-Colonial Individualism: General Dyer, Colonial Masculinity, Intentionality, and the Amritsar Massacre 29 2. Feminist-Nationalist Individualism: Margaret Cousins, Activism, and Witnessing 74 3. Heroic-Nationalist Individualism: Kalpana Dutt, Gender, and the Bengali "Terrorist" Movement 128 4. Heroic-Colonial Individualism: Raj Nostalgia and the Recuperation of Colonial History 169 Notes 223 Bibliography 251 Index 265
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Duke University Press The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema
Book SynopsisArgues that although the last two decades of Korean history were a period of progress in political democratization, the country refused to part from a "masculine point of view" which is also mirrored in Korean cinemaTrade Review“Kyung Hyun Kim’s book is a roller coaster ride through modern South Korean masculinity in the cinema. At once unflinching and sympathetic, Kim’s groundbreaking study traces Korean permutations on the gendered imagery of castration and rape and the impossible condition of postcolonial masculinity, caught between incommensurable values and demands.”—Chris Berry, coeditor of Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia“This is an important book. There is a long tradition of scholarship investigating the representation of women in Asian cinema. This has included some consideration of Korean film, which more often than not finds the representations of Korean women wanting in one way or another. It took Kyung Hyun Kim’s writing to turn my attention to the rich complexity of the men. His focus on masculinity—coinciding with the turn to the issue by major feminist film theorists—simply makes perfect sense. His is a particularly compelling contribution to the study of Asian cinema, but is simultaneously in dialogue with all manner of gender studies.”—Abé Mark Nornes, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Hunting for the Whale 1 1: GENRES OF POST-TRAUMA At the Edge of Metropolis in A Fine, Windy Day and Green Fish 31 2 Nowhere to Run: Disenfranchised Men on the Road in The Man with Three Coffins, Sopyonje, and Out to the World 52 3 “Is This How the War Is Remembered?”: Violent Sex and the Korean War in Silver Stallion, Spring in My Hometown, and The Taebaek Mountains 77 4 Post-Trauma and Historical Remembrance in A Single Spark and A Petal 107 2: NEW KOREAN CINEMA AUTEURS 5 Male Crisis in the Early Films of Park Kwang-su 136 6 Jang Sun-woo’s Three “F” Words: Familism, Fetishism, and Fascism 162 7 Too Early/Too Late: Temporality and Repetition in Hong Sang-su’s Films 203 3: FIN-DE-SIECLE ANXIETIES 8 Lethal Work: Domestic Space and Gender Troubles in Happy End and The Housemaid 233 9 “Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves”: Transgressive Agents, National Security, and Blockbuster Aesthetics in Shiri and Joint Security Area 259 Notes 277 Select Filmography of Major Directors of the New Korean Cinema 313 Index 321
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Duke University Press Stigmas of the Tamil Stage An Ethnography of
Book SynopsisA feminist and performance studies-oriented ethnography of the on- and offstage lives of a group of traveling artists in southern India and their complex relation to their deviant status in the larger culture.Trade Review“Susan Seizer presents rich and intriguing material about a dramatic performance tradition at the same time that she provides smart, insightful, and sophisticated interpretations linking it to wider discussions. Stigmas of the Tamil Stage deserves to be read, discussed, and used to further debates in many fields of study.”—Paula Richman, editor of Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia“Susan Seizer’s moving and unique perspective on the fate of popular cultural practices in an age and society dominated by the norms and prescriptions of bourgeois modernity makes her work important and insightful not just for scholars of South Asia but for all those who are interested in the general problematic of popular culture, performance traditions, and modernity globally.”—Sumathi Ramaswamy, author of The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic HistoriesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Notes on Transliteration xxi Introduction Preface: A Conversation on Culture 1 Birth of This Project 9 Writing about Special Drama 12 Methods 14 Geographic Relations and the Historical Ethnographic Present 16 Why Comedy Is a Good Site for the Study of Culture 19 What Is Special Drama? 21 Making a Living 24 What Is Special about Special Drama? 26 Naming Matters 28 "Hey Drama People!": Stigma at Work 30 "Actors Have No Murai": A Proverbial Lack 32 Part One: The History and Organization of Special Drama 35 Part Two: Comedy 36 Part Three: Lives 38 Part One: The History and Organization of Special Drama 1. Legacies of Discourse: Special Drama and Its History 43 The Legend and Legacy of Sankaradas Swamigal 43 The History of Special Drama 47 Tamil Drama History, Stage One (of Undatable Roots) 49 Tamil Drama History, Stage Two 51 Tamil Drama History, Stage Three 52 Tamil Drama History, Stage Four 53 The Disciplined Life of the Drama Company 55 Life on the Margins of the Companies 60 Tamil Drama History, Stage Five: A New Historical Trajectory 62 The Legacy of the Company Model in Special Drama 64 Discourse of Vulgarity, Legacy of Shame 66 Context: The History of Modernity in Tamilnadu 70 Drama Actors Sangams 71 Why Actors Stand Still: Onstage Movement as the Embodiment of Vulgarity 77 The Stage Today 81 From Urban to Rurban 83 2. Prestige Hierarchies in Two and Three Dimensions: Drama Notices and the Organization of Special Drama 86 Early Drama Notices, 1891-1926 87 The Photograph Enters Notices, 1926-1936 92 English in the Vocabulary of Special Drama Artists: Jansirani and Sivakami 99 Midcentury Notices and Artists, 1942-1964 (M. K. Kamalam) 103 The Current Form of Notices: Roles and Ranks 111 The Photographic Style of Contemporary Notices 117 The Prestige Hierarchies of Artists as Pictured on Drama Notices 122 The Iconicity of the Contemporary Notice: Structured Spaces and Places 131 Drama Sponsorship and the Written Text of the Contemporary Drama Notice 132 The Working Network That Makes Special Drama Work 140 The Ritual Calendar of Drama Sponsorship 142 The Grounds of a Social Economy 144 3. Discipline in Practice: The Actors Sangam 146 Sivakami Winks… 146 …and Jansirani Disapproves 146 Competing Claims: A Matter of Bearing 149 Internalized Historiography: Artists' Discourses 152 Controlling Bodies and the Control of the Body 154 Discipline in Practice 157 Cross-Roles: Marked Men and Funny Women 165 Multiple Strategies 173 4. The Buffoon's Comedy: Jokes, Gender, and Discursive Distance 177 The Distances Appropriate to Humor 177 The Buffoon's Comedy Scene 180 Modernity and Its States of Desire 185 Layers of Meaning and the Meaning of Layers 198 The Ambivalence of Laughter: A Final Consideration 200 5. The Buffoon-Dance Duet: Social Space and Gendered Place 202 Mise-en-Scene 202 The Five Use-Areas and the Five Story Elements of the Duet 205 Architecture of the Stage: Inside, Outside, Behind, Above, and Beyond 205 Configuring the Stage: The Duet in Performance 207 The Dancer's Entrance 209 The Bumpy Meeting 212 The Meaning of a Bump between Men and Women 214 The Contest between Men and Women 216 Mutual Admiration and "Love Marriage" 223 Analogic Relations Onstage and Off 226 Conclusion 229 Coda 230 6. Atipiti Scene: Laughing at Domestic Violence 232 Atipiti 233 Anthropologists Viewing Laughter 234 The Ritual Frame of the Atipiti Scene 237 The Atipiti Scene 239 Act I: The Wife 239 Act II: The Husband 244 Act III: Their Meeting 250 A Discussion with the Artists 260 Four Theories of Spectatorship 264 Why Does the Audience Laugh? 267 An Audience Account 268 7. The Drama Tongue and the Local Eye 277 A Secret Language 279 Language Matters 281 Situating the Drama Tongue as an Argot 282 Researching the Drama Tongue 285 Terms of the Tongue 287 People of the Drama Tongue 293 What Do We Expect of a Secret Language? 296 Centered in Mobility, or, An Insider Language That Isn't 300 8. The Roadwork of Actresses 301 Offstage with Actresses 302 Narrative One: Regarding the Gender Dimensions of Booking a Drama 305 Work and the Internalization of Gendered Behavior 310 Narrative Two: Regarding Traveling to a Drama in a Private Conveyance 314 Roads and the Externalization of Gendered Behavior 316 Narrative Three: Regarding Traveling to a Drama in a Public Conveyance 319 Narrative Four: Regarding the Spatial Arrangements at a Drama Site 323 Theoretical Grounds 324 Narrative Five: Regarding Traveling Home in the Morning 327 Conclusion 329 9. Kinship Murai and the Stigma on Actors 334 An Excess Born of Lack 334 Kinship, Incest, and the Onstage Locus of Stigma 336 Known and Unknown People 349 Prestigious Patrilines and Activist Actresses 354 N. S. Varatarajan's Family 359 Karur Ambika's Family 354 Many Murai 363 Epilogue 365 Flower Garlands 365 Jansirani and Sivakami, 2001 368 Stigma and Its Sisters 371 Appendix I: Sangam Rules 375 Appendix 2: Tamil Transliteration of Buffoon Selvam's Monologue, 1 April 1992 381 Notes 385 Works Cited 417 Index 433
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