Asian history Books
University of Hawai'i Press Ship of Fate
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University of Hawai'i Press Transfiguring Women in Late TwentiethCentury
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University of Hawai'i Press Luminous Bliss
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University of Hawai'i Press Tang China in MultiPolar Asia A History of Diplomacy and War The World of East Asia
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University of Hawai'i Press Saving Buddhism The Impermanence of Religion in
Book SynopsisExplores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. Saving Buddhism contributes to ongoing studies of colonialism, nation, and identity in Southeast Asian studies by working to denaturalize nationalist histories.Trade ReviewThe power of this book comes from how it explicates the work of Burmese Buddhists in redefining religion in the colonial period. Turner shows us how to look behind the curtain of scholarship proclaiming the all-powerful colonial Oz to find that it was not only British authorities and European scholars who were grappling to control religion, but also Burmese Buddhists."" - Marginalia
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University of Hawai'i Press Yasukuni Shrine History Memory and Japans
Book SynopsisThe first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine's role in waging war, promoting peace, honouring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan's modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni's history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan's wars of imperialism to the present.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Uprooted Race Children and Imperialism in
Book SynopsisFor over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
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University of Hawai'i Press Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan
Book SynopsisTurns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience.
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University of Hawai'i Press Akuto and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Yellow Perils
Book SynopsisBased on archival material and interviews, the collection supplements and often challenges superficial journalistic accounts and top-down studies by economists and political scientists. Yellow Peril narratives, contributors find, constitute cultural vectors of multiple kinds of anxieties, spanning the cultural, racial, political, and economic.
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University of Hawai'i Press More than Rural
Book SynopsisThe persistence of the smallholder in a time of extraordinary change in Thailand lies at the heart of this book. In More than Rural, Jonathan Rigg explores how people in the countryside have adapted to their changing world, the new opportunities available, and the consequences for rural life and living.
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University of Hawai'i Press Asian Traditions of Meditation
Book SynopsisMeditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume brings together for the first time studies of the major traditions of Asian meditation as well as material on scientific approaches to meditation. It delves deeply into the individual traditions while viewing each of them from a global perspective, examining both historical and generic connections between meditative practices from numerous historical periods and different parts of the Eurasian continent. It seeks to identify the cultural and historical peculiarities of Asian schools of meditation while recognizing basic features of meditative practice across cultures, thereby taking the first step toward a framework for the comparative study of meditation. The book, accessibly written by scholars from several fields, opens with chapt
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University of Hawai'i Press Minority Stages SinoIndonesian Performance and
Book SynopsisOffers intriguing new perspectives on historical and contemporary Sino-Indonesian performance. For the first time in a major study, this community's diverse performance practices are brought together as a family of genres.Trade ReviewMinority Stages contributes much to the understudied area of Chinese performance in Indonesia and general areas of Chinese self-presentation and perception, which for political reasons was in the past a tabu topic. Beyond the important historical data, the book also delivers an on-the-ground sense of how the multicultural project of post-Suharto freedom is progressing at present and where fault lines remain.|Rich in content and context, this is a groundbreaking study of Sino-Indonesian cultural performances and a cultural history of Chinese in Indonesia. The strength of the study lies in the author’s deep knowledge of both Chinese and Indonesian sociocultural history.|From traditional human and puppet theatres, through spoken drama and Chinese contribution to commercial theatre, to community and ritual performance, Josh Stenberg has leveraged his formidable mastery of Chinese, Indonesian, and European languages to fill a challenging gap in our knowledge of the historical transformation and current practices of Sino-Indonesian theatre and performance.
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University of Hawai'i Press Architects of Buddhist Leisure
Book SynopsisBuddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia's culture of Buddhist leisure - what he calls socially disengaged Buddhism - through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites.
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University of Hawai'i Press Koreas Premier Collection of Classical Literature
Book SynopsisThis is the first book in English to offer an extensive introduction to the Tongmunsn (Selections of Refined Literature of Korea) - the largest and most important Korean literary collection created prior to the twentieth century - as well as translations of essays from key chapters.
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University of Hawai'i Press Inscribing Death
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University of Hawai'i Press Animated Encounters
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University of Hawai'i Press A Korean Scholars Rude Awakening in Qing China
Book SynopsisTwo years after Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, Pak Chega's (1750-1805) Discourse on Northern Learning appeared on the opposite corner of the globe. In a series of short essays, Pak gives us rare insights into life on the ground in late eighteenth-century Korea, and provides a window onto everyday life in Qing China.
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University of Hawai'i Press Fukushima Fiction The Literary Landscape of
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the literary works that have emerged out of Japan's triple disaster, now known as 3/11. The book provides a nuanced picture of the varied literary responses to this ongoing tragedy, focusing on serious fiction, the one area of Japanese cultural production that has consistently addressed the disaster and its aftermath.
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University of Hawai'i Press Transcending Patterns Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textile Images Perspectives on the Global Past
Book SynopsisInvestigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Gasparini's history offers critical perspectives that extend far beyond an outmoded notion of Silk Road studies.Trade ReviewIn deploying a transcultural framework, Mariachiara Gasparini demonstrates the ways in which the material can become more open to multiple meanings and mirror its multifaceted uses with a more flexible, interpretive framework. In her analysis of the material forms of silk in China, the Himalayan Kingdoms including Ladakh, and its constitution in Italy, it may be too soon to say whether Gasparini has single-handedly engineered a field-changing, barrier-breaking analysis of the stuff that brought the "Silk Road" trading routes into existence, but we can state with certainty that she has given researchers tools to fabricate concrete arguments for further study.
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University of Hawai'i Press Pop Empires Transnational and Diasporic Flows of
Book SynopsisBollywood and Hallyu are increasingly competing with Hollywood - either replacing it or filling a void in places where it never held sway. This critical multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of India, South Korea, and the US in comparative dialogue to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital, and labour.
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University of Hawai'i Press Kingdom of the Sick A History of Leprosy and
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, Susan L. Burns examines the history of leprosy in Japan from medieval times until the present. At the centre of Kingdom of the Sick is the rise of Japan's system of national leprosy sanitaria, which today continue to house more than 1,500 former patients, many of whom have spent five or more decades within them.
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University of Hawai'i Press Catholics and AntiCatholicism in Choson Korea
Book SynopsisProvides an invaluable analysis of late-Choson (1392-1897) thought, politics, and society to help readers understand the response of Confucians to Catholicism and of Korean Catholics to years of violent harassment. His analysis is informed by two remarkable documents expertly translated with the assistance of Franklin Rausch.
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University of Hawai'i Press Genshins Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Tracing the Itinerant Path
Book SynopsisWomen have long been active supporters and promoters of Buddhist rituals and functions, but their importance in the operations of Buddhist schools has often been minimized. Chin'ichibo, a nun who taught male and female disciples is considered an anomaly. However this book argues that Chin'ichibo is in fact an example of her time.
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University of Hawai'i Press Women and Buddhist Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhy and how do women engage with Buddhism and philosophy? This book answers this by examining the life and philosophy of a Korean Zen Buddhist nun, Kim Iryop (1896-1971). This volume will be of primary interest to scholars and students of Buddhism, Buddhist and comparative philosophy, and gender and Korean studies.
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University of Hawai'i Press Youth for Nation
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University of Hawai'i Press Chinese Pure Land Buddhism Understanding a
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive overview of Chinese Pure Land Buddhism. Chinese Pure Land Buddhism has previously received very little attention from western scholars. Charles B. Jones examines the reasons for the lack of scholarly attention and why the few past treatments of the topic missed many of its distinctive features.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Park Chung Hee Era
Book SynopsisPresents a collection of authoritative summaries and analyses of the most significant economic policies of the Park Chung Hee years (1961-1979). This volume is the product of a major project by Korean academics and officials to critically review and analyse policies aimed at the economic development and modernization of Korea.
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University of Hawai'i Press Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan
Book SynopsisIn this diverse and compelling collection, an international group of scholars analyzes the historical connections between Buddhism and healing in medieval China and Japan. They focus on the transnationally conveyed aspects of Buddhist healing traditions as they moved across geographic, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.
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University of Hawai'i Press Confucianism Its Roots and Global Significance
Book SynopsisThis work is divided into three sections: Classical Confucianism and Its Modern Reinterpretations, Neo-Confucianism in China and Korea, and Ethics and Politics. These sections evince just some of the range of Ming-huei Lee's thinking as well as his inclusive reach of Confucian philosophy to the whole of East Asia, especially to Korea.
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University of Hawai'i Press Going Forth Visions of Buddhist Vinaya Kuroda
Book SynopsisIn its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory ways. Going Forth focuses on these issues over a wide sweep of history, from early fifth-century China to modern Japan.
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University of Hawai'i Press Chinese Buddhism
Book SynopsisWhat are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? These are some of the basic questions addressed in this introduction to Chinese Buddhism written for students and those interested in an accessible yet authoritative overview of the subject.
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University of Hawai'i Press Myanmars BuddhistMuslim Crisis Rohingya Arakanese
Book SynopsisExamines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially the oppressive military campaigns waged against Rohingya Muslims by the army in 2016 and 2017. Over more than three years John Holt traveled around Myanmar engaging in sustained conversations with prominent and articulate participants and observers.
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University of Hawai'i Press Moments of Silence
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University of Hawai'i Press Monastic Education in Korea Teaching Monks about Buddhism in the Modern Age Contemporary Buddhism
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University of Hawai'i Press Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China
Book SynopsisIn this deeply grounded work, Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life in Song-dynasty China. Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of government service.
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University of Hawai'i Press Land of Plants in Motion Japanese Botany and the World Perspectives on the Global Past
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University of Hawai'i Press Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam 19451960
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University of Hawai'i Press Yellow Perils China Narratives in the Contemporary World
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University of Hawai'i Press Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan
Book SynopsisA sweeping work of original scholarship, Down and Out in Late Meiji Japan examines the daily lives of Japan's hinmin (poor people), particularly urban slum-dwellers, in the late 1800s and early 1900s. James Huffman recreate for readers life as experienced by the poor themselves-something not attempted before in scholarship on this era.
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University of Hawai'i Press Ethnographies of Islam in China
Book SynopsisWith contributions from a wide variety of scholars - all sharing a commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach - this volume provides the first comprehensive account of China's Islamic revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Buddhist Self
Book SynopsisOffers a methodical examination of Indian teaching about the tathgatagarbha (otherwise the presence of one's ""Buddha-nature"") and the extent to which different Buddhist texts and authors articulated this in terms of the self.
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University of Hawai'i Press China in the World An Anthropology of Confucius
Book SynopsisTakes the study of soft power policy into the classroom, offering an anthropological intervention into a subject that has been dominated by the methods and analyses of international relations and political science.
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University of Hawai'i Press Citing China Politics Postmodernism and World
Book SynopsisExplores the role film plays in creating a common ground for the exchange of political and aesthetic ideas between China and the rest of the world. The book does so by examining the depiction of China in contemporary film, looking at how global filmmakers cite China on screen.
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University of Hawai'i Press Familial Properties Gender State and Society in Early Modern Vietnam 14631778 Southeast Asia Politics Meaning and Memory
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University of Hawai'i Press Chan Before Chan Meditation Repentance and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism 39 Kuroda Studies in East Asian Buddhism
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University of Hawai'i Press Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of
Book SynopsisExplores the way the exigencies of war, the dreams of Marxist-Leninist ideology, and the pressures of the Cold War environment combined with pride and patriotism to drive totalitarian state formation in northern Vietnam.Trade ReviewAlec Holcombe’s groundbreaking and superbly crafted manuscript—Mass Mobilization in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1945–1960—is even broader in scope than its capacious title implies. The book is the first serious English-language history of the policy orientation of the Vietnamese communist state during the critical fifteen-year period following World War II. The odd periodization here, conjoining segments of the pre- and post-1954 eras (when contending northern and southern Vietnamese states were first established), reveals insight into modern Vietnamese history that upsets conventional wisdom about continuity and change. Holcombe’s book advances a set of interesting and important arguments based on a deep reading of archival material. It suggests that communist policy toward "mass mobilization" was a key (perhaps the key) element of the movement’s remarkable success.
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