Asian history Books
Fordham University Press Who Is a Muslim Orientalism and Literary
Book SynopsisWho is a Muslim? destabilizes traditional constructions of postcolonial literary histories through the specific example of Urdu by suggesting that this North-India vernacular, far from secular or progressive, has been shaped as the authority designate around the intertwined questions of piety, national identity, and citizenship.Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration | ix Introduction: Who Is a Muslim? | 1 1 Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale | 21 2 Hindustani/Urdu: The Oriental Tale in the Colony | 53 3 Nation/Qaum: The “Musalmans” of India | 87 4 Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel | 126 5 Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel | 165 Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us: Fehmida Riaz and a Secular Subjectivity in Urdu | 209 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Index | 255
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Fordham University Press Living in Death
Book SynopsisLiving in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.Table of ContentsForeword by Veena Das | vii Introduction | 1 1. Those Who Kill | 13 The Confessions | 14 • The Killers’ Testimonies | 19 2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance | 29 Fictions and Figures of Evil | 32 • The Archaic Remnants of Evil | 39 3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies | 51 Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According to Arendt | 54 • When Ordinary Men Become Killers | 65 • Blind Obedience and Submission to Authority | 73 • The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man | 81 4. The Administration of Death | 92 To Make Die and Not to Let Live | 97 • The Khmer Rouge Administration of Death, 1975–79 | 102 • From Genocide to Genocidaires | 118 5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires | 130 The Executioner | 134 • Forms of Life and Ordinary Lives | 141 • The Neighborhood, or the Elementary Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life | 148 Conclusion | 173 Acknowledgments | 193 Notes | 195
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Fordham University Press Prescriptions for Virtuosity
Book SynopsisPrescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. Efficacies of the State | 29 2. Geographies of the Body | 69 3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis | 107 4. New Textbooks, New Medicine | 140 5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins | 180 6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity | 215 Epilogue | 231 Acknowledgments | 237 Notes | 243 References | 253 Index | 267
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Fordham University Press Prescriptions for Virtuosity The Postcolonial
Book SynopsisPrescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1. Efficacies of the State | 29 2. Geographies of the Body | 69 3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis | 107 4. New Textbooks, New Medicine | 140 5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins | 180 6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity | 215 Epilogue | 231 Acknowledgments | 237 Notes | 243 References | 253 Index | 267
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Fordham University Press Spirit Power Politics and Religion in Koreas
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Religion and the Cold War | 13 2 The American Spirit | 39 3 Voyage to Knoxville, 1982 | 69 4 Seeking Good Luck | 90 5 Original Political Society | 112 6 Parallelism | 136 Conclusion | 157 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Bibliography | 201 Index | 217
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Fordham University Press Spirit Power Politics and Religion in Koreas
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 Religion and the Cold War | 13 2 The American Spirit | 39 3 Voyage to Knoxville, 1982 | 69 4 Seeking Good Luck | 90 5 Original Political Society | 112 6 Parallelism | 136 Conclusion | 157 Acknowledgments | 171 Notes | 173 Bibliography | 201 Index | 217
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University of Hawai'i Press Japan Examined Perspectives on Modern Japanese
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University of Hawai'i Press The Dreams of Two YiMin Kolowalu Books Hardcover
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University of Hawai'i Press Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court
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University of Hawai'i Press Power by Design Constitutionmaking in Nationalist
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University of Hawai'i Press Japanese Culture 4th Pa Studies of the
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Japanese history and culture. This fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topics, among which are samurai values, Zen Buddhism, the tea ceremony, Confucianism in the Tokugawa period, the story of the 47 ronin, and mass culture in contemporary times.Trade ReviewThough many books on Japanese culture have appeared in recent years, none has yet matched Varley's for the combined breadth and depth of detail and for his skill at conjuring up the zeitgeist of each period of Japanese history.- New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies;""This is a masterpiece of much in little space. It neatly surveys over 2,000 years of the arts, religion, and cultural peculiarities (e.g., the tea ceremony) of one of the most cultivated of nations. It leaves virtually no major individual, religious sect, genre and style of visual art, form of literary expression, variety of theater, or influence of extra-Japanese origin unconsidered. It nonetheless admirably retains its focus, ignoring the temptation to relate history that doesn't impinge on cultural developments. What's more, Varley writes superbly lucid prose. . . . A superior one-volume introduction to Japanese culture.""- Booklist
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University of Hawai'i Press The Victim as Hero Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Blood and History in China The Donglin Faction and Its Repression 16201627
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University of Hawai'i Press Hawaii Under the Rising Sun Japans Plans for
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University of Hawai'i Press Superfluous Things Material Culture and Social
Book SynopsisCraig Clunas analyses ‘superfluous things’ - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisIndonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and East Timor were once small polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. From the end of the 19th century, to the end of WWII, the US and some European powers controlled the region. This work offers a perspective on this complex region.
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University of Hawai'i Press Burma at the Turn of the Twentyfirst Century
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University of Hawai'i Press Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese
Book SynopsisProviding readers a firsthand look at the effects of the Pacific War on eight ordinary Japanese - a navy kamikaze pilot, and others - the diaries in this collection chronicle the last years of the war and its aftermath as experienced by them. Samuel Yamashita's introduction provides a helpful overview of the historiography on wartime Japan.Trade ReviewThe diaries reveal a far richer variety of attitudes toward the war than previous works have shown us; they reveal a thoughtfulness and a down-to-earth approach to life that will surprise those reared on wartime stereotypes. They will be of interest to all students, both scholars and general readers of World War II and wartime Japan. - James Huffman, Wittenburg University
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University of Hawai'i Press Japan and the League of Nations Empire and World Order 19141938
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University of Hawai'i Press The Dog Shogun The Personality and Policies of
Book SynopsisTsunayoshi (1646-1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is viewed by many as a tyrant. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun. This work presents an analysis of Tsunayoshi's background, which sheds new light on his personality and his policies.
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University of Hawai'i Press Crisis in North Korea
Book SynopsisAndrei Lankov presents a detailed look at one of the turning points in North Korean history: the country's unsuccessful attempts to de-Stalinize in the mid-1950s. He demonstrates that North Korea was not a realm of undisturbed Stalinism; Kim Il Sung had to deal with a reformist opposition that was weak but present nevertheless.Trade ReviewIn this important new book, the Russian-trained scholar Andrei Lankov examines the critical historical period, the mid-1950s, when the shape of the North Korean political system was formed. This book is important for two reasons—because it is the first thorough discussion of the events leading up to the effective removal of any opposition to the Kim Il Sung group, and because it uses sources which until recently were not readily accessible. . . . These sources give us a far better historical and chronological understanding of the events and players during this crucial period than we could have had before. . . . This well-written book will be of value beyond the area of Korean Studies to anyone interested in the history of communism and political systems, as well as the history of current affairs." —Asian Affairs (June 2005)"What Lankov finds certainly adds a great deal to our knowledge of North Korean history, including some truly fascinating information." —American Historical Review (5:110, December 2005)
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University of Hawai'i Press Divided by a Common Language Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China
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University of Hawai'i Press Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes A Penal
Book SynopsisInvestigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. This book demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities.
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University of Hawaii Press The Aesthetics of Strangeness Eccentricity and
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University of Hawai'i Press Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium
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University of Hawai'i Press Imperatives of Culture Selected Essays on Korean
Book SynopsisThis volume contains translationsâmany appearing for the first time in the English languageâof major literary, critical, and historical essays from the colonial period (1910â1945) in Korea. Considered representative of the debates among and between Korean and Japanese thinkers of the colonial period, these texts shed light on relatively unexplored aspects of intellectual life and take part in current conversations around the nature of the colonial experience and its effects on post-liberation Korean society and culture. The essays, each preceded by a scholarly introduction giving necessary historical and biographical context, represent a diverse spectrum of ideological positions and showcase the complexity of intellectual life and scholarship in colonial Korea. They allow new perspectives on an important period in Korean history, a period that continues to inform political, social, and cultural life in crucial ways across East Asia. The translations also provide an important counterpoi
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University of Hawai'i Press The Lost Territories
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University of Hawai'i Press The Pearl Frontier Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australias Northern Trading Network
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University of Hawai'i Press Cent nigmes de la peinture
Book SynopsisScholars have long remarked on the frequency with which Japanese myths portrayed gods (kami) as old men or okina . Many of these sacred elders came to be featured in premodern theater, most prominently in Noh. In the closing decades of the twentieth-century, as the number of Japan's senior citizens climbed steadily, the sacred elder of premodern myth became a subject of renewed interest and was seen by some as evidence that the elderly in Japan had once been accorded a level of respect unknown in recent times. In Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan, Edward R. Drott charts the shifting sets of meanings ascribed to old age in medieval Japan, tracing the processes by which the aged body was transformed into a symbol of otherworldly power and the cultural, political, and religious circumstances that inspired its reimagination. Drott examines how the aged body was used to conceptualize forms of difference and to convey religious meanings in a variety of texts: off
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University of Hawai'i Press Network of Knowledge Western Science and the
Book SynopsisNagasaki during the Tokugawa (1603â1868) was truly Japan's window on the world with its Chinese residences and Deshima island, where Western foreigners, including representatives of the Dutch East India Company, were confined. In 1785 ?tsuki Gentaku (1757â1827) journeyed from the capital to Nagasaki to meet Dutch physicians and the Japanese who acted as their interpreters. Gentaku was himself a physician, but he was also a Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar who passionately believed that European science and medicine were critical to Japan's progress. Network of Knowledge examines the development of Dutch studies during the crucial years 1770â1830 as Gentaku, with the help of likeminded colleagues, worked to facilitate its growth, creating a school, participating in and hosting scholarly and social gatherings, and circulating books. In time the modest, informal gatherings of Dutch studies devotees (rangakusha), mostly in Edo and Nagasaki, would grow into a pan-national society. Applying
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University of Hawai'i Press The Ryukyu Kingdom Cornerstone of East Asia
Book SynopsisThis English translation of a key work by one of Okinawaâs most respected historians, Mamoru Akamine, provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in the history of East Asia. Akamine chronicles the rise of the Ryukyu Kingdom in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when it played a major part in East Asian trade and diplomacy.
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University of Hawai'i Press Siams New Detectives Visualizing Crime and
Book SynopsisVisual evidence is the sine qua non of the modern criminal process - from photographs and video to fingerprints and maps. Siam's New Detectives, covering the period between the late nineteenth century and the end of the Cold War, offers an analytical history of these visual tools as employed by the Thai police when investigating crime.
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University of Hawai'i Press Youth for Nation Culture and Protest in Cold War
Book SynopsisThis in-depth exploration of culture, media, and protest follows South Korea's transition from the Korean War to the political struggles and socioeconomic transformations of the Park Chung Hee era. Charles Kim explores how state ideologues and mainstream intellectuals expanded their efforts by elevating the nation's youth as the core protagonist of a newly independent Korea.
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University of Hawai'i Press Efficacious Underworld
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University of Hawai'i Press Traces of Trauma Cambodian Visual Culture and
Book SynopsisHow do the people of a morally shattered nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. Boreth Ly explores the traces of this haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians deal with trauma on such a vast scale.
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University of Hawai'i Press A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea
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University of Hawai'i Press Carnal Prayer Mat Revised
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University of Hawai'i Press An Anthology of Traditional Korean Literature
Book SynopsisThis revised, expanded anthology, compiled and edited by pioneering scholar and translator Peter H. Lee, offers a representative selection of traditional Korean literature. Its rich and diverse selections, covering all genres and forms written in classical (literary) Chinese and the vernacular Korean language, were chosen for both their literary merit and socio-historical engagement with their times. Divided into four partsâverse, prose, fiction, and oral literatureârepresenting the four major branches of traditional Korean literature, it includes previously undervalued or suppressed texts such as Koryo love lyrics, shamanist narrative songs, and pâansoriâcreations composed in the mind, retained in memory, sung to audiences, and heard, not read. Every effort has been made to render Koreaâs literary past credibly and meaningfully. With its fresh translations and new examples of oral literature and fiction, this comprehensive, one-volume anthology will provide students and general read
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University of Hawai'i Press Educating Monks Minority Buddhism on Chinas
Book SynopsisBuddhist monastics are part of local communities, are governed through national legal frameworks, and participate in both national and transnational Buddhist networks. Educating Monks makes visible the ways Buddhist communities are shaped by all of the above - collectively and often simultaneously.Trade ReviewFor some time now, Thomas Borchert’s sophisticated perspective on Buddhism has been working its way into the province of Buddhist studies through his papers. His long-awaited book—Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s South- west Border—brings to light the ethnographic background on which he has built this perspective. . . . With his agility in crossing through the various strata of Theravada social life, Borchert reminds us that Theravadin formations everywhere involve a much more complex set up than the local/universal binary. Educating Monks is an important book. Solidly grounded in empirical research, it presents us with a unique ethnography of the lives of ethnic minority monks and novices living in a less well-known corner of China and practicing a minority form of Buddhism. At the same time, it provides a convincing analysis of one way of being a Buddhist in the modern world by showing how such an existence is both anchored in the local as well as it is linked up in multiple different ways with translocal networks. . . . This book is highly recommended to students, researchers, and general readers with an interest in local minority cultures in China and Southeast Asia, in modern Theravāda Buddhism, as well as in Buddhism in general.
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University of Hawai'i Press Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Book SynopsisRethinking Japanese Feminisms offers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on methodologies and approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, media studies, and sociology, each chapter presents the results of research based on some combination of original archival research, careful textual analysis, ethnographic interviews, and participant observation. The volume is organized into sections focused on activism and activists, employment and education, literature and the arts, and boundary crossing. Some chapters shed light on ideas and practices that resonate with feminist thought but find expression through the work of writers, artists, activists, and laborers who have not typically been considered feminist; others revisit specific moments in the history of Japanese feminisms in order to complicate or challenge the dominant scholarly
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University of Hawai'i Press Rethinking Japanese Feminisms
Book SynopsisOffers a broad overview of the great diversity of feminist thought and practice in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present. Drawing on a range of methodologies, each chapter presents the results of research based on original archival research, careful textual analysis, ethnographic interviews, and participant observation.
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University of Hawai'i Press Liminality of the Japanese Empire Border
Book SynopsisThrough archival research and first-hand oral histories, Hiroko Matsuda uncovers the stories of common people's move from Okinawa to colonial Taiwan and describes experiences of Okinawans who had made their careers in colonial Taiwan.
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University of Hawai'i Press Homing
Book SynopsisInvestigates the experiences of legacy migrants - later-generation diaspora Koreans who return' to South Korea - from China, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United States. Homing addresses some of the most vexing and pressing issues of contemporary transnational migration and highlights their affective dimensions.
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University of Hawai'i Press Theravada Traditions
Book SynopsisIllustrates how popular, public ritual performance, far from being static, clearly indexes patterns of social and political change. This rich, innovative volume provides a provocative introduction to the practice of Theravada Buddhism and the nature of social change in contemporary Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.Trade ReviewA masterful and original approach to the study of Theravada Buddhism. By focusing on five distinct Buddhist rituals in five different countries, John Holt succeeds in presenting the “performance” of Theravada traditions in both their unity and diversity. In featuring present day practices set against their historical and sociocultural backdrops, the author effectively combines his insights as a historian of religion and buddhologist with his expertise as a seasoned interviewer and observer of Buddhism-on-the-ground. Fluidly written, and solidly researched, this book will both interest scholars and serve students as a substantive introduction to the field." — John S. Strong, author of Buddhisms: An Introduction"It is rare to have a book that is not only clear, accessible, and broad, but also rigorous, detailed, and highly respectful of context. It is an impressive achievement that not only provides the most up-to-date research on major questions about the very nature of the term Theravada and various approaches to ritual, but also gives five close studies of rituals in five different national contexts. The writer’s skill as a teacher and the benefit of a keen eye, long-term experience, and sound disciplinary training make this book a resounding success." — Justin Thomas McDaniel, author of Architects of Buddhist Leisure: Socially Disengaged Buddhism in Asia’s Museums, Monuments, and Amusement Parks"This rich and informative book on the ritual cultures of Theravada Buddhism shows how rituals, far from being static, evolve subtly in ways that reflect social, economic, and political changes. By drawing together examples from across the Theravada world and providing a full exploration and interpretation of each, we have in a single volume both a major study of Theravada and the elucidation of the many functions of ritual through dynamic, living examples." — Kate Crosby, author of Theravada Buddhism: Continuity, Diversity,and Identity
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University of Hawai'i Press Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China
Book SynopsisPresents a rogues' gallery of treacherous regicides, impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, and disloyal officials. This book plumbs the dark matter of the human condition, placing front and center transgressive individuals and groups traditionally demonized by Confucian annalists and largely shunned by modern scholars.
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University of Hawai'i Press Engaging Japanese Philosophy
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University of Hawai'i Press Elusive Belonging
Book SynopsisExamines the post-migration experiences of Filipina marriage immigrants in rural South Korea. Turning away from the common stereotype of Filipinas as victims of domestic violence at the mercy of husbands and in-laws, Minjeong Kim provides a nuanced understanding of both the conflicts and emotional attachments of their relationships with marital families and communities.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Politics of Painting
Book SynopsisExamines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly attention. Asato Ikeda views the work of four prominent artists of the time - Yokoyama Taikan, Yasuda Yukihiko, Uemura Shoen, and Fujita Tsuguharu - through the lens of fascism, showing how their seemingly straightforward paintings supported the war by reinforcing state ideology.
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