Asian history Books
University of Hawai'i Press Politics of Control
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University of Hawai'i Press Citizen Designs CityMaking and Democracy in
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designsaddresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters living in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.Trade ReviewCitizen Designs is a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of the citizenship struggles and political engagements of residents living alongside the main state railway running through the city of Kohn Kaen, in the Isan region of Northeast Thailand. While most scholarship on urban evictions and dispossession tends to portray land struggles as a kind of Manichean battle between good (the residents) and evil (the dispossessors), Elinoff shows how every group of people itself contains multiple sub-groups, all coming at the matter with different agendas, ideas, political sympathies." - Erik Harms, Yale University
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University of Hawai'i Press Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Japanese Buddhist World Map
Book SynopsisFrom the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first to explore the largely unknown archive of Japanese Buddhist world maps and analyze their production, reproduction, and reception.
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University of Hawai'i Press Becoming One
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University of Hawai'i Press Faith in Mount Fuji
Book SynopsisA pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. The book will open up new avenues of discussion among students of Japanese religions and intellectual history, and supply food for thought to readers interested in perspectives on issues of religion and society, ritual culture, new religions, and asceticism.
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University of Hawai'i Press Milk Craze
Book SynopsisThe rocketing milk consumption and production in China are of increasing global food safety, health, and environmental concerns. Milk Craze examines and compares developments in China's dairy industry and dietary dairy consumption, cross-nationally and globally, and more specifically in two localities: Shunde and Hong Kong.
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University of Hawai'i Press Buddhism and Modernity
Book SynopsisJapan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and thought were drawn into the dynamics of confronting the modern age. This volume makes accessible the voices of Japanese Buddhists during the early phase of high modernity.
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University of Hawai'i Press Citizen Designs
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen Designs addresses this question by exploring the ways that democratic urban planning projects intersect with emerging political aspirations among squatters in the Thai city of Khon Kaen.
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University of Hawai'i Press Sound of the Border
Book SynopsisUsing ethnographic data collected in China and South Korea between 2004 and 2011, Sound of the Border provides a comprehensive view of the music of Koreans in China (Chaoxianzu), from its time as manifestation of a displaced culture to its return home after more than a century of amalgamation and change in China.
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University of Hawai'i Press Broken Voices Postcolonial Entanglements and the
Book SynopsisThe first English-language book on Korea's rich folksong heritage, and the first major study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Sounds of Social Space Branding Built Environment and Leisure in Urban China
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University of Hawai'i Press Imperatives of Care Women and Medicine in
Book SynopsisPlaces women and gender at the center of modern medical transformations in Korea. This study outlines the professionalization of medicine, nursing, and midwifery, tracing their evolution from new legal and institutional infrastructures in public health and education, and investigates women's experiences as health practitioners and patients.
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University of Hawai'i Press Shinra Myjin and Buddhist Networks of the East
Book SynopsisOffers a transnational account of the deity Shinra Myjin, the god of Silla worshipped in medieval Japanese Buddhism. Sujung Kim challenges the long-held understanding of Shinra Myjin as a protective deity of the Tendai Jimon school, showing how its worship emerged and developed in the complex networks of the East Asian Mediterranean.
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University of Hawai'i Press Conflict in a Buddhist Society
Book SynopsisPresents a new way of looking at Tibet under the rule of the Dalai Lamas (1642-1959). Peter Schwieger attempts to make transparent the complexity and dynamics of the Dalai Lamas' domination using the work of sociologist Niklas Luhman (1927-1998) as his theoretical starting point.
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University of Hawai'i Press Balancing Communities
Book SynopsisStarting in 1884 with the arrival of the first resident Protestant missionary in Korea and ending with the expulsion of missionaries from the peninsula by the Japanese colonial government in 1942, this book examines how the competing demands of communal identities and memberships shaped the early history of Protestantism in Korea.
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University of Hawai'i Press Projectland
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first âœliberatedâ parts of upland country.Trade ReviewThis rich ethnographic study tells the story of how a Lao highland village community has successfully relocated to establish a new lowland village that is a ‘model’ in the eyes of the socialist state, but one that also expresses their own cultural values. The book breaks new methodological grounds in that it is not only a study of a village, but also a study from a village on important matters of general interest. Ten years in the making, the author’s vivid prose portrays the very human story of how people negotiate the conflicting demands of a socialist state, the market, kin, and the desires of different individuals to create a world that is meaningful to them. This book, a model of how ethnographic analysis should be done, will be of interest to scholars and students from all disciplines interested in understanding life in rural Southeast Asia today. In Projectland High destroys some simplistic assumptions concerning ethnic minorities and their relation to the (socialist) state. It takes individual subjectivities and desires seriously, and highlights the social fragmentation below the surface of village ""unity."" The author provides a lucid analysis of the functioning of the Lao socialist party state at the margins, discussing the dialectic of transformation and resilience. High’s analysis goes beyond many village studies that mainly focus on livelihood and economic transformation. Unlike most studies that rely on socioeconomic data, Projectland touches the individual subjectivities of the villagers and the affective dimensions of the socialist state. More than forty years after the communist revolution, the author examines the ideological, biopolitical, and affective outcomes of the socialist ""project"" in the Lao PDR."" - Oliver Tappe, University of Cologne
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University of Hawai'i Press Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how dynastic founders like Wu Zhao (Wu Zetian, r. 690-705), the only woman to rule China under her own name, and Yang Jian (Emperor Wen, r. 581-604), the first ruler of the Sui dynasty, closely identified with Buddhist worldly saviors and Wheel-Turning Kings to legitimate their rule.Trade ReviewThe importance of apocalyptic thought in medieval China has long been downplayed in Anglophone scholarship, so it is a great pleasure to have at last a book based firmly on the key surviving sources to redress this imbalance. April Hughes’ work is the first study to pull all of the materials together and put them and the political regimes and rebel movements that took cognizance of such beliefs in a helpful chronological sequence. It is original, sound, and important." —T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University of London
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University of Hawai'i Press Unpredictable Agents
Book SynopsisTwelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered ""America"" and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. Together, these essays illustrate the complex positionalities, fluid identities, ambivalent embrace, and unpredictable agency of Japan's Americanists.
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University of Hawai'i Press Simas
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University of Hawai'i Press Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
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University of Hawai'i Press Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds
Book SynopsisSoutheast China is a traditional stronghold of Buddhism, but little scholarly attention has been paid to this fact. Brian Nicholsâ pioneering book, centres on a large Buddhist monastery in Quanzhou and combines ethnographic detail with stimulating analysis to examine religion in post-Mao China.
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University of Hawai'i Press Future Yet to Come
Book SynopsisIlluminates the sociotechnical imaginaries that promoted, sustained, and contested Korea's scientific, medical, and technological projects in realizing desired futures. The book reminds us how deeply intertwined science, medicine, and technology are to not only our polities, corporations, and societies but also the very human condition.
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University of Hawai'i Press Middlemen of Modernity
Book SynopsisMeiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to use their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods. This book explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
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University of Hawai'i Press Future Yet to Come
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University of Hawai'i Press Divorce in South Korea
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University of Hawai'i Press Branding Japanese Food From Meibutsu to Washoku Food in Asia and the Pacific
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University of Hawai'i Press Performing Filial Piety in Northern Song China
Book SynopsisDrawing on more than two thousand funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Cong Ellen Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service.
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University of Hawai'i Press Arbiters of Patriotism
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s and 1940s Marxist academics and others interested in liberal political reform often faced virulent accusations of treason from nationalist critics. John Person explores the lives of two of the most notorious right-wing intellectuals responsible for leading such attacks in prewar and wartime Japan: Minoda Muneki and Mitsui.Trade ReviewArbiters of Patriotism is a fresh and deeply informed synthesis of Japanese- and English-language scholarship on the intellectual and institutional history of Japanese fascism from the 1890s through the 1940s. It takes seriously, and documents closely, the careers of two important ultranationalist ideologues who have remained obscure as scapegoats for Japan’s rightward turn. Mitsui and Minoda warrant this attention because they provide access into the world of so-called "fanatics," who, as it turns out, received a wide hearing at the time because their views were resonant, not exceptional. John Person’s book is an important and timely intervention into the literature on the Japanese imperial state, fascism and populism, and the role of the "fanatic" and "right-wing/left-wing" in historiography and political ideology. This is a meticulously researched and careful study of a crucial aspect of not only Japanese intellectual and political history, but also social theory and ideology.
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University of Hawai'i Press Monastic Education in Korea
Book SynopsisProvides what is essentially a biography of the Korean Buddhist monastic curriculum over the past five centuries. The book illustrates how a particular premodern syllabus was reimagined in the twentieth century to become the sole national Korean monastic pedagogical program - only to be criticized and completely restructured in recent years.
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University of Hawai'i Press A Bowl for a Coin
Book SynopsisThe first book in any language to describe and analyse the history of all Japanese teas from the plant's introduction to the archipelago around 750 to the present day. A Bowl for a Coin makes a convincing case for how tea can serve as a broad lens through which to view the development of Japanese society over many centuries.Trade ReviewOne of the strengths of this book is Farris’s ability to draw the reader’s attention to continuities across time while also highlighting the many changes that took place. As all good macro-histories do, Farris gives the reader some key moments of change to consider. . . . Another strength of the book is the new perspective it gives on some of the oft-repeated points in the story of tea in Japan. Indeed, this alone makes it a must-read for all those interested in Japanese tea history, including the many practitioners of chanoyu tea culture and the increasing number of people working in tea-related business, who all communicate general information about the origins and early development of tea in Japan to public audiences.
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University of Hawai'i Press Fukushima Fiction
Book SynopsisIntroduces readers to the powerful literary works that have emerged out of Japan's triple disaster, now known as 3/11. The book provides a nuanced picture of the 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 Zen Conquests
Book SynopsisPresents the first ethnography of Thien Vien Sung Phuc and its followers, and is also a compelling look at how the discourses of Buddhist Modernism were incorporated at a local level into this new space on the outskirts of Hanoi and how and why new constituencies of followers are drawn to Zen Buddhism in contemporary Vietnam.
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University of Hawai'i Press Unthinking Collaboration
Book SynopsisWeaving archival data with oral histories, personal narratives, material culture, and fiction, Unthinking Collaboration emphasizes the heterogeneity of Japanese immigrant experiences, and sheds light on broader issues of identity, race, and performance of individuals growing up in a bicultural or multicultural context.
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University of Hawai'i Press A Path into the Mountains
Book SynopsisJapanâs tradition of Shugendo has long been an object of fascination and intrigue among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. A Path into the Mountains offers a provocative reexamination of the complex social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose.
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University of Hawai'i Press Yasukuni Fundamentalism
Book SynopsisAlthough religious fundamentalism is often thought to be confined to monotheistic âreligions of the bookâ, this study examines the emergence of a fundamentalism rooted in the Shinto tradition and considers its role in shaping postwar Japanese nationalism and politics.
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University of Hawai'i Press Invented Traditions in North and South Korea
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which compressed modernity, Cold War conflict, and ideological opposition has impacted the revival of traditional forms in both Koreas. The volume is divided thematically into sections covering history, religions, language, music, food, crafts, and space.
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University of Hawai'i Press Faith in Mount Fuji
Book SynopsisArgues that the rise of the Fuji movement epitomizes a broad transformation in popular religion that took place in early modern Japan. Janine Sawada highlights the importance of independent thinking in these grassroots phenomena, making a compelling case that the new Fuji devotees carved out enclaves for subtle opposition to the status quo.
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University of Hawai'i Press Simas
Book SynopsisHuman-fashioned boundaries transform spaces by introducing dualisms, bifurcations, creative symbioses, contradictions, and notions of inclusion and exclusion. The Buddhist boundaries considered in this book come in various shapes and sizes and can be established on land or in bodies of water.
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University of Hawai'i Press Record of the Seasonal Customs of Korea
Book SynopsisOne of the most important primary sources for anyone interested in traditional Korean cultural and social practices. The manuscript was completed in 1849 by Toae Hong Sk-mo, a wealthy poet and scholar from an influential family.
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University of Hawai'i Press Disunion
Book SynopsisSince the 1950s, the politics of the Republic of Vietnam has puzzled outside observers. Their bewilderment, however, has obscured a complex history. In this book, Nu-Anh Tran shows how factional struggles in the Saigon-based republic reflected serious disagreements about political ideas at a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the Vietnam War.
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University of Hawai'i Press Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Book SynopsisOffers a spatially explicit study on the influence of the Protestant church in imperial Japan. Garrett Washington examines the physical and social spaces that Tokyo's largest Japanese-led congregations cultivated between 1879 and 1923 and their broader social ties.
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University of Hawai'i Press Taiwan Archaeology
Book SynopsisDdescribes the archaeology of Taiwan, outlining the major discoveries of the past fifty years. These date from roughly 200,000 years ago to the pivotal seventeenth century AD, the time of Dutch and Spanish contact and the entry of Taiwan into global trade markets. The book focuses on some forty sites and is based on roughly 450 published sources.
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University of Hawai'i Press Making Our Own Destiny
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research and interviews with more than a hundred single women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, this is the first study to compare the views and experiences of single women living in these three great cities - cities that stand at the forefront of the regionâs movement toward later marriage and rising singlehood.
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University of Hawai'i Press From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony
Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive study of the dynamic and often contentious relationship between migrations and border controls in US-occupied Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyus, examining the American interlude in Northeast Asia as a closely integrated, regional history.Trade ReviewWe historians already know that Japan was cosmopolitan during the imperial period but, with notable exceptions, has worked hard to exclude migrants and refugees in the postwar era. The author does an important intellectual and political public service by presenting an explanation of why this might be." —Lori Watt, Washington University in St. Louis"The occupation of Japan led by United States forces is generally recorded as a success as it guided the erstwhile enemy back into the family of nations. Matthew Augustine’s book examines this history’s dark side, that of the Japan-based Koreans and Okinawans who faced the decision of where they would restart their lives following Japan’s surrender." —Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University
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University of Hawai'i Press More than Rural
Book SynopsisBased on over three-and-a-half decades of fieldwork in seventeen villages, across three regions, and encompassing more than one thousand households, and a deep knowledge of primary and published sources, More than Rural is a significant work with implications for contemporary development across Asia and the global South.
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University of Hawai'i Press Kingdom of the Sick
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University of Hawai'i Press Personal Salvation and Filial Piety
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