Asian history Books
New York University Press From the Land of Shadows
Book SynopsisIn a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the country's population perished from hard labor, disease, starvation, and executions. Another half million Cambodians fled their ancestral homeland, with over one hundred thousand finding refuge in America. From the Land of Shadows surveys the Cambodian diaspora and the struggle to understand and make meaning of this historical trauma. Drawing on more than 250 interviews with survivors across the United States as well as in France and Cambodia, Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions, totalitarianism, transnationalism, and memory works to illuminate the pathology of power as well as the impact of auto-genocide on individual and collective healingTrade ReviewOffering an impressive archive of the legacy of the Khmer Rouge,From the Land of Shadowsprovides vivid first-hand accounts of starvation, hard labor, disappearances and executions, post-migration trauma, and intergenerational remembering and forgetting. With beautiful storytelling and compelling prose, Khatharya Um deftly situates rich narratives of the survivors struggles to make meaning out of lives that have been forever ruptured within the larger historical context of Cambodias colonial and post-colonial history. A deeply affecting and much-awaited book. -- Yen Le Espiritu,author of Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)With rich ethnographic details, From the Land of Shadows places survivor narratives in conversation with literature on revolution, diaspora, transnationalism, and memory. Khatharya Um makes visible the lived experiences of Cambodians as they try to make sense of their new identities in multiple contexts. A remarkable book. -- Chia Youyee Vang,author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in DiasporaThe book, which includes an incisive discussion of the paradoxes but necessity of return, will interest those considering the nature of diasporas. * Choice *Um writes with scholarly rigor. * Journal of American History *
£24.99
New York University Press Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Book SynopsisSet between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film,theatre, journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring empirebenevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming sexualized violencewhich together comprise what Schleitwiler calls imperialism's racial justice. This process could only be sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial violence that also proTrade ReviewStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific, filled with provocative insights and startling revelations on the color line at the intersecting histories of US imperialism, African American transpacific travels, the colonization of the Philippines, the Great Migration, and the Japanese Internment, is a significant contribution to the study of race and empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Schleitwiler’s book should be a useful addition for students and researchers who seek a deeper understanding of the ramifications of US imperialism’s racialized justifications. -- Journal of African American HistoryItinerant, flowing, and even stylistically improvisational, the text is creatively orchestrated by the author into an array of primary objects…. With his unique mining of the cultural archive, Schleitwiler provides insightful tools for scholars in a variety of fields -- Critical Ethnic StudiesStrange Fruit of the Black Pacificis an inventive study of African American and Asian American literature as a point of entry into the ways in which empire and race have been intertwined and how race-based movements for liberation have often unwittingly embraced imperial logics. Unearthing critically forgotten fiction and non-fiction texts, Schleitwiler makes an outstanding contribution, with virtuosic interpretations not only of the literary texts themselves, but of the broader social texts in which they circulate. Intelligent, moving, and extraordinarily generative,Strange Fruit of the Black Pacificmakes use the messy contradictions of the past as a way of understanding the enormous tasks that face us in the present. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceBrilliant in its dramatic sweep and analytic nuance, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific is a bold examination of the intersections between African American and Asian American cultural production as they emerge from competing imperialist discourses. Schleitwilers approach is groundbreaking, synthesizing a remarkable range of texts to provide unexpected and evocative conclusions. -- Helen Jun,author of Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoli
£66.60
New York University Press A War Born Family
Book SynopsisThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black childrenThe Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers' lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions. Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born FTrade Review"This is an important book [...] As Graves skillfully and convincingly shows in her book, the experiences and actions of African American couples who adopted Black Korean children form a significant part of the early phase of transnational and transracial adoption from Korea. A War Born Family is thus a rich contribution to the fields of Adoption and Family Studies but ought also to be included in the history of the transnational Civil Rights Movement and Cold War Cultures as well as in discussions on (Black) motherhood and family formations in the 1950s." * Adoption & Culture *
£33.25
New York University Press Framed by War
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways that defined, and at times defied, US empire in the Pacific. What unfolded in Korea set the stage for US postwar power in the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. American destruction and humanitarianism, violence and care played out upon the bodies of Korean children and women. Framed by War traces the arc of intimate relations that served as these foundations. To suture a fragmented past, Susie Woo looks to US and South Korean government documents and military correspoTrade ReviewThrough postcolonial and critical race theories, Susie Woo examines how the US used Korean women and children to put a benign and benevolent face on its military involvement in Korea and to bolster its image at home and abroad in the early decades of the Cold War. From her analysis of the Korean children’s choir to her discussion of war brides, Woo deftly details the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality were defined and challenged in the interactions between Korean civilians and US officials. This is a must-read addition to the growing literature on the cultural and social consequences of US militarism abroad. -- Ji-Yeon Yuh, author of Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in AmericaPresents a skilled and nuanced history of US involvement in the Korean War in which the experiences and representations of Korean women and children take center stage. Susie Woo’s critical analysis of figures such as the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride illuminates the far-reaching role of intimacy in war, migration, and empire. Framed by War is essential reading for understanding the ways that the Cold War has indelibly transformed Korean and American lives. -- Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
£22.49
Baylor University Press China Christianity and the Question of Culture
Book SynopsisIlluminates the unexplored links between Christianity and Chinese culture, from Christianity and higher education in China to the rural acculturation of Christian ideology by indigenous communities.Trade ReviewYang's essays cover a remarkable range of thinking and one can only hope that, at a time when much of the scramble to establish links between Chinese and Western universities is unseemly, hasty and unattractive, this serious and intellectual voice is clearly heard and engaged with in both universities and beyond. -- David Jasper, Glasgow University -- Literature and TheologyThis is a significant book for Chinese academia that boldly interprets the Christian phenomena in a new way. It reverses the traditional bias against Christianity, and may in fact inaugurate a more open discussion about religion in general among Chinese in the future. Such profound insights touch upon the very nature of the Christian faith, and bear significance for all Christians, as well as nonbelievers, to rethink their relationship with Christianity. Altogether the book provides a valuable window for understanding Chinese Christianity. -- Liang Chuanshan, Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies -- Journal of Asia Adventist SeminaryChina, Christianity, and the Question of Culture is a brilliant book by a leading scholar, and deserves wide readership. -- G. Wright Doyle -- Church History and Religious CultureA vigorous and sophisticated cross-cultural discourse against the background of history, philosophy, religion, theology and hermeneutics -- Xiaoli Yang -- International Journal for the Study of the Christian ChurchAn excellent collection of essays whose ideas should be the starting point for conversations in many disciplines. -- John R. Stanley -- Fides Et HistoriaYang's work offers a refreshing and insightful commentary on Christianity in China, with its changing and growing intellectual engagement. -- Thomas Harvey -- Scottish Journal of TheologyTable of ContentsForeword by David Lyle Jeffrey Part I: Christianity and Chinese Culture 1 Language and Missionary Universities in China 2 Three Questions in the Dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity 3 Inculturation or Contextualization: Interpretation of Christianity in the Context of Chinese Culture 4 "Ethicized" Chinese-Language Christianity and the Meaning of Christian Ethics 5 The Contemporary Significance of Theological Ethics: The True Problems Elicited by Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution Part II: Theology and Humanities 6 The Value of Theology in Humanities: Possible Approaches to Sino-Christian Theology 7 The Potential Value of Contemporary Theology for Literary Theories 8 Six Problem Domains in Western Marxists' Theory on Religion 9 To Reverse Our Premise with the Perverse Core: A Response to izek's "Theology" in Chinese Context 10 From "Difference" to "the Other": A Theological Reading of Heidegger and Derrida Part III: Scriptural Reasoning 11 James Legge: Between Literature and Religion 12 The Possibilities and Values of "Scriptural Reasoning" between China and the West 13 Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutical Circle 14 The Chinese Union Version of the Bible and Its Hermeneutical Analysis Notes Works Cited Details of Previous Publications
£47.60
Baylor University Press Christianity Remade
Book SynopsisIf there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is ‘What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?’ This matter of identity presents a unique challenge. This book offers a unique path forward by studying the rise and character of Indian-initiated churches, Christian movements founded by Indians to address Indian issues.Table of Contents Editor's Preface Introduction 1 The Origins of Indian-Initiated Churches 2 Revivals and the Reframing of Indian Christianity 3 The Indian Pentecostal Church of God and The Independence Movement 4 The Bakht Singh Assemblies and the Independence Movement 5 Bhakti Devotion and the Rise of the India Bible Mission 6 Yesu Darbar: Spiritual Power and Popular Hinduism 7 New Life Fellowship: Re-forming the Church in Urban India Conclusion: Christianity Made in India
£42.26
Baylor University Press The Kaleidoscopic City
Book SynopsisExplores the development of Pentecostalism in Hong Kong between 1907 to 1942. Focusing on Pentecostal missionaries and the Chinese leaders who worked alongside them, Alex Mayfield analyses how changes within the social structures and ideological frameworks of global Pentecostalism dramatically impacted the movement within the colony.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Place-Names Introduction The Cipher City: Mapping Hong Kong in Pentecostal Mission History 1. The Gateway City: Pentecostal Mission and the Struggle for Center 2. The Holy City: Denominational Identity and Pentecostal Missionary Structures 3. The Soul-Saving City: Inducement, Education, and Evangelistic Institutions 4. The Heathen City: Pentecostal Spirituality in Hong Kong's Religious Marketplace 5. The Women's City: Gender and the Pentecostal Missionary Enterprise Conclusion The Kaleidoscopic City: Hong Kong and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism
£44.20
University of Toronto Press Redemption and Regret
Book SynopsisThis work presents the unpublished and largely unknown writings of the missionary James Scarth Gale, one of the most important scholars and translators in modern Korean history.Table of ContentsSeries Preface Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Pen Pictures of Old Korea Korean Songs and Verses Eternal Life Tobacco in Korea Concerning the Occult A Note of Warning On and Off the Street Car A Sample of Korean Labour Song Marriage in Korea Pak’s Experiences The Mystery of It The Family Line Korea’s Electric Shocks “Broken Earthenware” Unconscious Korea Korean Literature A New Style of Courtship Korea’s Receding Pantheon Stone Fights Standing for One’s Rights That Old Dragon Happy Yi My Lord the Elephant The Displeasure of the Rain God Korean New Year’s The Korean Woman Korea’s Preparation for the Bible The Waning Eunuch A Freak of Language An Affair of State Private Minting A New Korean The Burning of the Temple A Royal Funeral Belong Small Boxer The Foreign Squeezer The Awful Kim Exit Kim The Opening of War Prospective All Good Things Are Three Japan’s Task in Korea Where Are We? As Regards the Fate Part II: Old Corea Corean Literature and History Corea’s Noted Women Yowa Ssi Ahwang and Yoyong T’aeim and T’aesa Wang Sogun Princess Yang The Corean’s View of God The Mirror of the Heart The Worship of Confucius Corea’s Filial Piety How She Moved to God Father and Son Social and Allied Subjects Prohibition in Corea Tea Tobacco in Corea Corean Paper Corean Clothes Corean Artists Corean Chess Teeth Ancient Remains The Tombs of Uhyolli Ancient Burial Remains When Kings Die Hollanders in Corea Superstitions Guardians of the Year One of the Immortals The Spirit Medium Short Stories The Spoiled Boy Yi Changgon A Question of Conscience Worthy Prince and Lucky Girls Powers of Imitation The Tartar Hunter Miscellaneous The Dancing Girl Music Corean Transportation Flies The Rainy Season A Trip to Sorae Beach Poems My Shadow by Yi Talch’ung Clouds and Mountains by Yi Talch’ung The Good and Bad of It by Yi Talch’ung The Falling Flowers by Won Kam The Joys of Nature by Yi Talch’ung A Spell against the Tiger by Hong Yangho Tribute to a Needle by Mrs. Yoo The Wild Goose by Hong Yangho A Far-Eastern Francis of Assisi by Song Hyon The Snow by Yi Chehyon The Cackling Priest by Yi Chesin The Story of Unyong Conclusion Bibliography Index
£49.50
MY - University of Toronto Press Forging a Unitary State Russias Management of
Book SynopsisWas Russia truly an empire respectful of the differences among its constituent parts or was it a unitary state seeking to create complete homogeneity?Trade Review"LeDonne’s method is strictly historical, based on the careful reading of vast literatures, with a good dose of old-fashioned physical and human geography. At times this reads almost like the imagery travels of Jules Verne or the real-life accounts of young Petr Kropotkin." -- Georgi Derluguian, NYU Abu Dhabi * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *"A short review cannot do justice to the wealth of detail provided in each section." -- Alfred J. Rieber, The Central European University * American Historical Review *"LeDonne is one of the most distinguished historians of eighteenth-century Russia working in English; this culminating magnum opus displays many of the trademark features of his earlier work, including close attention to changing institutional structures, a focus on the interplay between domestic and foreign-policy concerns, and an awareness of the peculiarities of each region." -- Gregory Afinogenov, Georgetown University * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction Part I. The Western Theatre: The Struggle for Northwestern Eurasia 1. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1775 The Geopolitical Setting Hesitant Integration Trade, Religion, and Law 2. Full Integration, 1775–1815 Territorial and Administrative Integration Religion and Economy The Baltic Provinces 3. Unitary State or Empire? 1815–1855 Civil Administration and the Army Society, Law, and Trade On the Road to Disintegration Conclusion to Part I: The Western Theatre Part II. The Southern Theatre Reaches the Sea 4. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1725 The Geopolitical Setting The Cossacks Society, Religion, and Trade 5. Toward Full Integration, 1725–1796 Civil and Military Administration Ecclesiastical and Legal Integration The Ethnographic Map 6. Unitary State or Empire? 1796–1855 Regional Integration Fiscal and Commercial Integration The First Cracks Conclusion to Part II: The Southern Theatre Part III. The Eastern Theatre: The Advance toward the Mountains Introduction to Part III: The Eastern Theatre 7. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1730 The Geopolitical Setting The Expanding Russian Core Agents of Integration 8. The Progress of Integration, 1731–1782 The Military Structure Land, Peoples, Religions Fiscal and Commercial Integration 9. Unitary State or Empire? 1782–1830 The Administrative Infrastructure Judicial Integration Economic Integration Conclusion to Part III: The Eastern Theatre Conclusion
£92.65
University of Toronto Press Painting Stories
Book SynopsisIn this collection of ethnographic short stories spanning thirty years of fieldwork, an anthropologist narrates events that have shaped the lives of artisans in a famous heritage crafts village in Odisha, India.Trade Review“A rare gem – the stories are accessible and appealing to a diverse readership, ranging from anthropologists and South Asia specialists to scholars of traditional art and everyday readers. Concerning the interests of folklorists, Painting Stories transcends mere ingenuity, as it delves deeply into the bedrock of our discipline, namely the exploration of material culture and the intricate customs, traditions, and beliefs that envelop it.” -- Ruzhica Baruh, Memorial University * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *Table of ContentsIllustrations Glossary Acknowledgements Introduction A Foreign Bird The Sketchbook A Ladies’ Bicycle A Craving for Idlis The Helmet The Wrath of a Deity A Long Journey A Brief Glimpse of Joy A Convenient Arrangement A Friend for Life Too Good to be True Still Standing Just Luck? Something to Celebrate Spectator Bird Voyages through Time Afterword: The Painting of Painting Stories Recommended Readings
£35.10
University of Toronto Press Painting Stories
Book SynopsisIn this collection of ethnographic short stories spanning thirty years of fieldwork, an anthropologist narrates events that have shaped the lives of artisans in a famous heritage crafts village in Odisha, India.Trade Review“A rare gem – the stories are accessible and appealing to a diverse readership, ranging from anthropologists and South Asia specialists to scholars of traditional art and everyday readers. Concerning the interests of folklorists, Painting Stories transcends mere ingenuity, as it delves deeply into the bedrock of our discipline, namely the exploration of material culture and the intricate customs, traditions, and beliefs that envelop it.” -- Ruzhica Baruh, Memorial University * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *Table of ContentsIllustrations Glossary Acknowledgements Introduction A Foreign Bird The Sketchbook A Ladies’ Bicycle A Craving for Idlis The Helmet The Wrath of a Deity A Long Journey A Brief Glimpse of Joy A Convenient Arrangement A Friend for Life Too Good to be True Still Standing Just Luck? Something to Celebrate Spectator Bird Voyages through Time Afterword: The Painting of Painting Stories Recommended Readings
£18.89
University of Toronto Press Forging a Unitary State
Book SynopsisWas Russia truly an empire respectful of the differences among its constituent parts or was it a unitary state seeking to create complete homogeneity?Trade Review"LeDonne’s method is strictly historical, based on the careful reading of vast literatures, with a good dose of old-fashioned physical and human geography. At times this reads almost like the imagery travels of Jules Verne or the real-life accounts of young Petr Kropotkin." -- Georgi Derluguian, NYU Abu Dhabi * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *"A short review cannot do justice to the wealth of detail provided in each section." -- Alfred J. Rieber, The Central European University * American Historical Review *"LeDonne is one of the most distinguished historians of eighteenth-century Russia working in English; this culminating magnum opus displays many of the trademark features of his earlier work, including close attention to changing institutional structures, a focus on the interplay between domestic and foreign-policy concerns, and an awareness of the peculiarities of each region." -- Gregory Afinogenov, Georgetown University * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Tables Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction Part I. The Western Theatre: The Struggle for Northwestern Eurasia 1. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1775 The Geopolitical Setting Hesitant Integration Trade, Religion, and Law 2. Full Integration, 1775–1815 Territorial and Administrative Integration Religion and Economy The Baltic Provinces 3. Unitary State or Empire? 1815–1855 Civil Administration and the Army Society, Law, and Trade On the Road to Disintegration Conclusion to Part I: The Western Theatre Part II. The Southern Theatre Reaches the Sea 4. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1725 The Geopolitical Setting The Cossacks Society, Religion, and Trade 5. Toward Full Integration, 1725–1796 Civil and Military Administration Ecclesiastical and Legal Integration The Ethnographic Map 6. Unitary State or Empire? 1796–1855 Regional Integration Fiscal and Commercial Integration The First Cracks Conclusion to Part II: The Southern Theatre Part III. The Eastern Theatre: The Advance toward the Mountains Introduction to Part III: The Eastern Theatre 7. Laying the Foundations, 1650–1730 The Geopolitical Setting The Expanding Russian Core Agents of Integration 8. The Progress of Integration, 1731–1782 The Military Structure Land, Peoples, Religions Fiscal and Commercial Integration 9. Unitary State or Empire? 1782–1830 The Administrative Infrastructure Judicial Integration Economic Integration Conclusion to Part III: The Eastern Theatre Conclusion
£49.30
University of Nebraska Press Scars of War
Book SynopsisBest First Book Award from the History Honor Society, Phi Alpha ThetaScars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers who denied American citizenship to the Amerasians of Vietnam—the biracial sons and daughters of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam War. Focusing on the implications of the 1982 Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act, Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had American fathers. Thomas argues that citizenship exclusion was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in the Cold War era, America’s defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian descent. Now more politicalTrade Review“A welcome addition to the growing body of research on the Amerasian issue and deserves a wide readership. It presents, for the first time, a thoroughly researched, comprehensive history of the Amerasian issues, thereby filling a significant research gap. For students and scholars alike, it will be an invaluable resource for exploring the politics of paternity and responsibility for the Amerasians of Vietnam. A better understanding of the Amerasian issue can contribute to the development of effective policies for children of foreign soldiers and local women in current and future conflicts and post-conflict regions.”—Lukas Schretter, Journal of Cold War Studies “Rigorously researched, captivatingly written, and compellingly argued, Scars of War details the legislative process surrounding migration programs for Vietnamese Amerasians. Thomas offers keen insight into the ways ideas about war, race, gender, and nation intersect in American thought and law.”—Amanda C. Demmer, author of After Saigon’s Fall: Refugees and U.S.-Vietnamese Relations, 1975–2000“Scars of War offers a new perspective that is important for understanding U.S. policy and also provides a window into the lives of marginalized people in Vietnam. It takes up complex issues of human rights and citizenship at a moment in world history when these problems are particularly visible and troubling.”—Karen Gottschang Turner, author of Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam“Scars of War makes the important, nuanced assertion that the denial of paternity and parental responsibility has shaped the exercise of American empire in Asia. Many scholars and journalists have explored the history of Amerasians, but not with the thoroughness and singularity of focus that this author deploys.”—Allison Varzally, author of Children of Reunion: Vietnamese Adoptions and the Politics of Family Migrations
£48.60
University of Nebraska Press Mashi
Book SynopsisThe biography of Masanori Murakami, the first Japanese player in the Major Leagues and a pioneering figure for future players from Asia.Trade Review“Fitts, coupled with Murakami’s voice and experiences, tells the proud tale of a young man who was whisked into the spotlight and became a shining example of the equality that could be reached between the Japanese and Americans on the baseball diamond. Reading Mashi brings us all a few steps closer to what it was like to be there on this landmark journey.”—San Francisco Examiner "This is a an excellent baseball story, a story of cultural adaptation and conflict, and above all the story of one man’s opportunity and the obstacles he overcame to make the most of that opportunity."—Duncan Jamieson, Journal of Sport Literature"Mashi is a nice look at a man and career that deserved to be more than footnotes in baseball history."—Bob D'Angelo, Tampa Tribune“Mashi Murakami’s impact can still be felt in baseball stadiums on both sides of the Pacific. He is a pioneer in every sense of the word—a true ambassador for the game of baseball.”—Allan H. “Bud” Selig, the ninth commissioner of baseball“Rob Fitts has fabulously transported us back to Mashi’s family roots, childhood passion for the grand game, and his trajectory to become the first Major Leaguer from Japan. It is a discovery and rediscovery of culture, baseball dynamics/politics, and the man who transcended the sport as a gigantic touchstone ‘pioneer’ for future players from Asia.”—Kerry Yo Nakagawa, author of Through a Diamond: 100 Years of Japanese American Baseball“Sometimes historical analysis can’t compete with a good personal story, as Robert K. Fitts—a baseball expert and former archaeologist—proves with his newest book, Mashi.”—Japan Times "Robert Fitts has written a book that needed writing."—Joel S. Franks, Journal of Sport History“Robert K. Fitts, an award-winning sportswriter with a good grasp of Japan’s baseball culture, clearly explicates the factors at play in this exotic baseball narrative—one that has become increasingly relevant as MLB extends its recruitment strategies internationally.”—Robert Birnbaum, Daily Beast "Mashi will take you along on his eventful ride from Yamanashi Prefecture to San Francisco."—Rashaad Jorden, JETwit.com"Robert Fitts has undertaken a great task with this book."—Gregg's Baseball BookcaseTable of Contents AcknowledgmentsChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18AfterwordAppendixNote on Sources Notes Bibliography Index
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press Taking the Field
Book SynopsisPublished in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the timTrade Review"In the best tradition of environmental history, Kohout's graceful prose brings these far-flung places to life and invites readers to share an encounter with landscapes, labs, and libraries where material traces of the imperial past persist. Chapters from Taking the Field would work well as readings for undergraduate classes on US environmental history and the nineteenth-century US. Kohout's emphasis on methodology and sources also make this engaging book an ideal assignment for graduate seminars."—John Mayer Crum, H-Environment“Amy Kohout’s fascinating book examines soldiers as naturalists, the U.S. empire at home and abroad, and nature at the heart of expansionism. Her writing is both deeply moving and persuasive. Taking the Field is a thoroughly original study of the West and the nation.”—David Igler, author of The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush“Deeply researched and beautifully written, Taking the Field helps readers think about environment, science, labor, and the U.S. military in new ways. With Amy Kohout as our guide, we see American soldiers at work on the frontiers of empire, both in the U.S. West and the Philippines, turning landscape and nation into a new form of American power. Taking the Field is a marvelous success.”—Christopher Capozzola, author of Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century“An eye-opening new narrative exploring how the American drive for empire was bound up with a quest to control and preserve nature. . . . Through innovative and affective writing, Kohout takes us vividly into the field—where the building and breaking of both empire and nature took place. In her hands, taxidermied birds collected by soldiers for American museums of natural history take flight again, allowing us to see the vast expanses of American empire with new insight and better appreciate its manifold impacts.”—Douglas Cazaux Sackman, author of Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern AmericaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Preparation 1. The Nature of Frontier Army Work 2. Collecting the West Interlude 1: Revising and Remembering 3. The Nature of the Philippine Frontier 4. Collecting the Philippines Interlude 2: Looking for Arrowhead Lake 5. The Frontier in Miniature Conclusion: Unnatural History Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press The Korean War Remembered
Book SynopsisMichael J. Devine provides a fresh, wide-ranging, and international perspective on the contested memory of the 1950–1953 conflict that left the Korean Peninsula divided along a heavily fortified demilitarized zone. His work examines “theaters of memory,” including literature, popular culture, public education efforts, monuments, and museums in the United States, China, and the two Koreas, to explain how contested memories have evolved over decades and how they continue to shape the domestic and foreign policies of the countries still involved in this unresolved struggle for dominance and legitimacy. The Korean War Remembered also engages with the revisionist school of historians who, influenced by America’s long nightmare in Vietnam, consider the Korean War an unwise U.S. interference in a civil war that should have been left to the Koreans to decide for themselves. As a former Peace Corps volunteer to Korea, a two-time senior Fulbright lecturTrade Review"Devine's book is an important piece of the history of the Korean War, East Asia and American involvement on the world stage. . . . A worthwhile consideration for reading in the coming year."—Steven L. Shields, Korea Times"Devine sheds new light on memorialization's unintended, often polarizing consequences."—J. Daley, Choice“Highly engaging. Perhaps most impressive about The Korean War Remembered is the extent of the coverage, not just over time but also geographically, with insightful sections on the People’s Republic of China and the two Koreas. Michael Devine shows an equally impressive grasp of how, say, Hollywood portrayed the war in the 1950s versus how various states, as well as the National Mall, have memorialized the conflict in recent decades.”—Steven Casey, author of Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1950–1953“The strength of this study is the author’s effort to take a broad chronological overview that underscores change over time. While focused on the American memory of the Korean War, Michael Devine also places it in an international context.”—G. Kurt Piehler, author of A Religious History of the American GI in World War IITable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The “Police Action” 2. Forging Memories 3. Lessons Learned 4. Memorializing across America 5. The Korean War Veterans Memorial 6. Conflicted Memories of Allies and Foes 7. Memory, Truth, and Reconciliation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£48.60
University Press of Mississippi Comics Art in China
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive and authoritative source on this subject. Comics Art in China covers almost all comics art forms in mainland China, providing the history from the nineteenth century to the present. This volume encompasses political, social, and gag cartoons, lianhuanhua, comic books, humorous drawings, cartoon and humor periodicals, and donghua.
£67.91
University Press of Mississippi Asian Comics
Book SynopsisGrand in its scope, Asian Comics dispels the myth that, outside of Japan, the continent is nearly devoid of comic strips and comic books. Relying on his fifty years of Asian mass communication and comic art research, during which he traveled to Asia at least seventy-eight times and visited many studios and workplaces, John A. Lent shows that nearly every country had a golden age of cartooning and has experienced a recent rejuvenation of the art form.As only Japanese comics output has received close and by now voluminous scrutiny, Asian Comics tells the story of the major comics creators outside of Japan. Lent covers the nations and regions of Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.Organized by regions of East, Southeast, and South Asia, Asian Comics provides 178 black-and-white illustrations and detailed information on comics of sixteen counTrade ReviewLent has brought comics studies into the mainstream and gone worldwide. This is an amazing feat, covering so many different cultural contexts on various continents. A particularly valuable contribution has been his journal, International Journal of Comic Art, a doughty annual which he founded in 1999, which has scoured the world, and which he puts together more or less solo. His knowledge of Asian comics, much of it gathered during tireless travel to China and elsewhere, is unparalleled."" - David Kunzle, author of numerous books on comics history, including Rodolphe Töpffer: The Complete Comic Strips, Father of the Comic Strip: Rodolphe Töpffer, and Gustave Doré: Twelve Comic Strips (all published by University Press of Mississippi)
£26.10
University Press of Mississippi Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam
Book SynopsisQuyn Vn Minh is one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognised as the ‘godfather of Vietnamese jazz’. This book tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh's own narrative.
£81.75
University Press of Mississippi Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam
Book SynopsisQuyn Vn Minh is one of the most preeminent jazz musicians in Vietnam. Considered a pioneer in the country, Minh is often publicly recognised as the ‘godfather of Vietnamese jazz’. This book tells the story of the music as it intertwined with Minh's own narrative.
£26.06
Cornell University Press The Diplomacy of Migration
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War, both Chinese and American officials employed a wide range of migration policies and practices to pursue legitimacy, security, and prestige. They focused on allowing or restricting immigration, assigning refugee status, facilitating student exchanges, and enforcing deportations. The Diplomacy of Migration focuses on the role these practices played in the relationship between the United States and the Republic of China both before and after the move to Taiwan. Meredith Oyen identifies three patterns of migration diplomacy: migration legislation as a tool to achieve foreign policy goals, migrants as subjects of diplomacy and propaganda, and migration controls that shaped the Chinese American community.Using sources from diplomatic and governmental archives in the United States, the Republic of China on Taiwan, the People''s Republic of China, and the United Kingdom, Oyen applies a truly transnational perspective. The Diplomacy of Migration combines imTrade ReviewOyen makes a brilliant effort to bridge diplomatic history and Chinese migration history by bringing into sharp focus the diplomacy of migration and its impact on the triangular relationship between the United States, Nationalist China, and Communist China. -- Mao Lin * H-Net Reviews *Offers a new conceptual bridge between two related subfields: foreign relations history and transnational migration history.... The book is deeply researched, beautifully written, and makes a number of important contributions to our understanding of Sino-American relations and Asian American studies from WWII to the Cold War.... This book deserves the attention of scholars of American foreign relations, especially Chinese-American relations, Asian American history, and transnational migration history. * Pacific Historical review *Makes a valuable contribution to the study of international relations and the Chinese diaspora and rightfully places migration policy as a significant factor in determining the dynamics of power and politics between governments and nations. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Floating Population and Foreign PolicyPart I. Migration Diplomacy at War1. Unequal Allies: Renegotiating Exclusions2. The Diaspora Goes to War: Human Capital and China's Defense3. A Fight on All Fronts: The Chinese Civil War, Restored Migration, and Emigration as National PolicyPart II. Migrant Cold Warriors4. Chinese Migrants as Cold Warriors: Immigration and Deportation in the 1950s5. Remitting to the Enemy: Transnational Family Finances and Foreign Policy6. Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Using Refugee Policy to Support Free ChinaPart III. Shifting Exclusions7. Cold War Hostages: Repatriation Policy and the Sino-American Ambassadorial Talks8. Visa Diplomacy: The Taiwan Independence Movement and Changing U.S.-Chinese RelationsConclusion: Coming in from the ColdNote on Sources Notes Index
£38.70
Cornell University Press Asian Designs
Book SynopsisAsian nations are no longer rising powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world ordersecurity, trade, environment, and public health.ContributorsVinod K. Aggarwal, University of California at BerkeleyTrade ReviewI am impressed by Asian Designs and would highly recommend it to scholars and students of Asian regionalism. Well written, the entire collection moves along smoothly and comes to an articulate and satisfying conclusion, with informed suggestions for future research. Instead of offering a reiteration of existing knowledge, it offers new insights and evidence into explaining current forms of Asian governance and makes valuable steps toward understanding and predicting future governing forms. -- Erin Zimmerman * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *
£97.20
Cornell University Press Asian Designs
Book SynopsisAsian nations are no longer rising powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims that, lacking in institutions that accumulate and coordinate the massive economic and growing military strength of Asian nations, the Asian region will continue to punch below its weight in world politics; thin and patchy institutionalization results in political weakness. In Asian Designs, Saadia M. Pekkanen and her collaborators question and provide evidence on these core assumptions of Western scholarship. The book advances a new framework for debate and sophisticated examinations of institutional arrangements for several major issue areas in the world ordersecurity, trade, environment, and public health.ContributorsVinod K. Aggarwal, University of California at BerkeleyTrade ReviewI am impressed by Asian Designs and would highly recommend it to scholars and students of Asian regionalism. Well written, the entire collection moves along smoothly and comes to an articulate and satisfying conclusion, with informed suggestions for future research. Instead of offering a reiteration of existing knowledge, it offers new insights and evidence into explaining current forms of Asian governance and makes valuable steps toward understanding and predicting future governing forms. -- Erin Zimmerman * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *
£23.19
Cornell University Press Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Book SynopsisIn Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratiTrade ReviewCampbell makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of Russian imperial rule of the Kazakh Steppe.... This fascinating study weaves through the complexities of gathering, disseminating, and leveraging the empire's growing bureaucratic and scholarly knowledge base of the steppe to more effectively develop and exploit the territory. Joining a group of excellent works from the last decade focused on late-imperial Russian colonial rule in Central Asia, such as Alexander Morrison's Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868–1910: A Comparison with British India (2005) and Jeff Sahadeo's Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (CH, Mar'08, 45-3949), Campbell's meticulously researched work highlights how this era of at-times cooperative acquisition of knowledge devolved into a one-sided colonial enterprise that led to chaos for the Kazakh Steppe at the end of Romanov rule. * Choice *Knowledge and the Ends of Empire does succeed in adding to the picture. Any fresh engagement with the Qazaq colonial period is valuable, but perhaps more thought-provoking is the book's joust with the hoary question of the empire's col- lapse. * Slavic Review *Makes a strong intervention into work on the Russian Empire.... On the whole, Knowledge and the Ends of Empire is a well-written study.... Campbell skillfully brings insights from the literature on empire to bear on the Kazak steppe. His decision to address the relationships of knowledge and power as expressed in assessments of nomadic pastoralism, land norms, and economic practices yields an important and original view. * The Russian Review *The book contributes unquestionably to the academic literature on Russian colonialism. It is a must-read for specialists and graduate students focusing on Russian eastward colonial expansion in general, and Central Eurasia in particular. Most certainly, the book yields an exceptionally compelling account on the role of the Kazak intermediaries in shaping imperial policies. * Acta Via Serica *Campbell assembles wonderfully rich biographies of many leading Kazakh figures.... the fascinating details that Campbell offers on many of these figures, such as their noble origins or claims to belong to sacred lineages, raise questions as to how the composition of this group of intermediaries, as Campbell defines it, changed over the course of the... period that Campbell covers in his study and how, in turn, Russian imperial rule altered Kazakh political culture. Like all good books, Campbell's study uncovers new questions for other researchers to take up. * Canadian American Slavic Studies *This is an impressively researched and argued study of the construction of knowledge by an imperial power with the ultimate aim of subjugating and transforming an outlying region with an environment, population, way of life, economy and culture that was quite different to the empire's heartland. His book merits wide readership and will facilitate the growing assimilation of such studies of Russian Empire and Soviet Union into global environmental histories. * Environment and History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Seeing Like a Half-Blind State: Getting to Know the Central Eurasian Steppe, 1731–1840s2. Information Revolution and Administrative Reform, ca. 1845–18683. An Imperial Biography: Ibrai Altynsarin as Ethnographer and Educator, 1841–18894. The Key to the World's Treasures: "Russian Science," Local Knowledge, and the Civilizing Mission on the Siberian Steppe5. Norming the Steppe: Statistical Knowledge and Tsarist Resettlement, 1896–19176. A Double Failure: Epistemology and the Crisis of a Settler Colonial EmpireConclusion
£999.99
Cornell University Press Developmental Mindset
Book SynopsisThe Asian financial crisis of 19971998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial liberalization was meant to spell the end of strategic industry policy and the state-directed policy lending it involved. Yet, largely unremarked by analysts, South Korea has since seen a striking revival of financial activism. Policy lending by state-owned development banks has returned the state to the core of the financial system. Korean development banks now account for one quarter of all loans and take the lead in providing low-cost finance to local manufacturing firms in strategic industries.Elizabeth Thurbon argues that an ideational analysis can help explain this renewed financial activism. She demonstrates the presence of a developmental mindset on the part of political leaders Trade ReviewThurbon’s new book is a welcome revitalization of the important discussion on the developmental state and improves our understanding of a distinct and path-dependent model of state-led capitalism that is emerging in East Asia. Her focus on the developmental mindset of the political elite is an important contribution to this understanding while at the same time raising many new questions for future debates... [I] strongly recommend this book for all scholars and students of development as well as those curious about Asian capitalism and its spirit. -- Thomas Kalinowski, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea * Pacific Affairs Book Reviews *Table of Contents1. Rebirth of the Developmental State 2. Developmental States: Bringing Ideas Back In 3. Makings of a Developmental Mindset and Emergence of Strategy Mark I 4. Rise of Financial Activism 5. Fracturing Consensus and the Abandonment of Financial Activism 6. Return of the State 7. Emergence of Strategy Mark II 8. Return of Development Bankers 9. Full Flowering of Financial Activism 10. What Future for Financial Activism in Korea and Beyond?
£97.20
Cornell University Press Strategic Coupling
Book SynopsisIn Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial transformation in the region. State-assisted startups and incubator firms in East Asia have become major players in the manufacture of products with a global reach: Taiwan''s Hon Hai Precision has assembled more than 500 million iPhones, for instance, and South Korea's Samsung provides the iPhone's semiconductor chips and retina displays.Drawing on extensive interviews with top executives and senior government officials, Yeung argues that since the late 1980s, many East Asian firms have outgrown their home states, and are no longer dependent on state support; as a result the developmental state has lost much of its capacity to steer and direct industrialization. We canTrade ReviewHenry Wai-chung Yeung's Strategic Coupling is timely to fill up the vacuum on East Asian develomentalism literature in the wake of globalization challenges since the 1990s. This much-needed exploration on the trajectory of post-developmentalism in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, offers an empirically rich and theoretical cohesive account of three successful cases in coping with industrial transformation in the age of globalization. * International Relations of the Asia-Pacific *Examines East Asian industrial transformation and strategic coupling in national global articulations, how East Asian firms have survived and competed since the 1900s without direct financial support from their domestic states, and the nature of state presence in the changing reconfiguration of state-firm relations. * Journal of Economic Literature *An excellent overview of the developmental state literature and more recent empirical analyses that raise questions about this model both historically and in the last couple of decades.... Yeung's analysis brings together incisive and carefully documented explanations at the firm and industry level using these organizational concepts with a broader understanding of national economic policy, a combination not typically found in research on East Asian economic development.... Very suitable for courses in international business, organizational sociology, and economics that focus on firm strategies, organizational and industry change, the evolution of the world economy, and technology industries. * H-Diplo *One of the many great merits of this book is that it brings together a rich amalgam of theory and empirical evidence to bear on the concept of the developmental state.... Through a rich empirical analysis the author illustrates the three distinct strategic coupling processes engaged by East Asian firms in the global electronics, semiconductor, shipbuilding, automobile and service industries since the early 1990s—namely, strategic partnerships, industrial marketspecialization and (re)positioning as global lead firms.... Yeung is a worthy heir to the likes of [Robert] Wade because he can legitimately claim to have made some original contributions of his own by addressing the debilitating state-centricity of the original thesis.... Magnificent. * Regional Studies *An interesting study that augments the state-centric perspective of the developmental state model with a more nuanced view that highlights firm-level agency and the strategic potential of embedding into global value chains. * Pacific Affairs *Table of Contents1. East Asian Development in the New Global Economy 2. Transformation of State- Firm Relations in the 1980s and the 1990s 3. Strategic Coupling: East Asian Firms in Global Production Networks 4. Strategic Partnership in Global Electronics 5. Industrial Specialization and Market Leadership in Marine Engineering and Semiconductors 6. Emergence of East Asian Lead Firms 7. Beyond the Developmental State: A New Global Political Economy of Industrial Transformation
£97.20
Cornell University Press Strategic Coupling
Book SynopsisIn Strategic Coupling, Henry Wai-chung Yeung examines economic development and state-firm relations in East Asia, focusing in particular on South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. As a result of the massive changes of the last twenty-five years, new explanations must be found for the economic success and industrial transformation in the region. State-assisted startups and incubator firms in East Asia have become major players in the manufacture of products with a global reach: Taiwan''s Hon Hai Precision has assembled more than 500 million iPhones, for instance, and South Korea's Samsung provides the iPhone's semiconductor chips and retina displays.Drawing on extensive interviews with top executives and senior government officials, Yeung argues that since the late 1980s, many East Asian firms have outgrown their home states, and are no longer dependent on state support; as a result the developmental state has lost much of its capacity to steer and direct industrialization. We canTrade ReviewHenry Wai-chung Yeung's Strategic Coupling is timely to fill up the vacuum on East Asian develomentalism literature in the wake of globalization challenges since the 1990s. This much-needed exploration on the trajectory of post-developmentalism in South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, offers an empirically rich and theoretical cohesive account of three successful cases in coping with industrial transformation in the age of globalization. * International Relations of the Asia-Pacific *Examines East Asian industrial transformation and strategic coupling in national global articulations, how East Asian firms have survived and competed since the 1900s without direct financial support from their domestic states, and the nature of state presence in the changing reconfiguration of state-firm relations. * Journal of Economic Literature *An excellent overview of the developmental state literature and more recent empirical analyses that raise questions about this model both historically and in the last couple of decades.... Yeung's analysis brings together incisive and carefully documented explanations at the firm and industry level using these organizational concepts with a broader understanding of national economic policy, a combination not typically found in research on East Asian economic development.... Very suitable for courses in international business, organizational sociology, and economics that focus on firm strategies, organizational and industry change, the evolution of the world economy, and technology industries. * H-Diplo *One of the many great merits of this book is that it brings together a rich amalgam of theory and empirical evidence to bear on the concept of the developmental state.... Through a rich empirical analysis the author illustrates the three distinct strategic coupling processes engaged by East Asian firms in the global electronics, semiconductor, shipbuilding, automobile and service industries since the early 1990s—namely, strategic partnerships, industrial marketspecialization and (re)positioning as global lead firms.... Yeung is a worthy heir to the likes of [Robert] Wade because he can legitimately claim to have made some original contributions of his own by addressing the debilitating state-centricity of the original thesis.... Magnificent. * Regional Studies *An interesting study that augments the state-centric perspective of the developmental state model with a more nuanced view that highlights firm-level agency and the strategic potential of embedding into global value chains. * Pacific Affairs *Table of Contents1. East Asian Development in the New Global Economy 2. Transformation of State- Firm Relations in the 1980s and the 1990s 3. Strategic Coupling: East Asian Firms in Global Production Networks 4. Strategic Partnership in Global Electronics 5. Industrial Specialization and Market Leadership in Marine Engineering and Semiconductors 6. Emergence of East Asian Lead Firms 7. Beyond the Developmental State: A New Global Political Economy of Industrial Transformation
£28.49
Cornell University Press Salvage
Book SynopsisIn Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia. The Jorai inhabit a remote region largely beyond the reach of the nation-state but have suffered the devastating effects of battles between and within states. Uk focuses on the experience of a Jorai community that experienced violent and protracted international and domestic conflictsthe Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge regime. These conflicts had enduring effects on the community''s moral fabric, the villagers' activities, and the physical and spiritual environments with which they engage daily.Uk's ethnography is an exploration of a resilient communal life that refuses to surrender its integrity to the blind, destructive forces of modern aerial warfare and that struggles to come to terms with the unintelligible violence unleashed by CamboTrade ReviewI envied her smooth transitions through discussions of dense theory, reviews of related literature, and traditional anthropological fieldwork. Clearly written and well organized, the book is also a testament to the care that many people, in this case those at Cornell University Press, put into creating such a fine work. -- Kurt Borchard, University of Nebraska Kearney * Historical Geography *Uk's book [is] a pioneering anthropological study of an ethnicity that has been at the fulcrum of major historical events for many decades. The author has set a high mark for those who will, we can only hope, enjoy further opportunities to undertake ethnographic research with the minority communities of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. * Pacific Affairs *
£27.54
Cornell University Press Our Unions Our Selves
Book SynopsisIn Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice, and a firsthand account of the ambitious, occasionally contentious, and ultimately successful international solidarity project that helped to spark a new feminist labor movement. In the early 1990s, as part of a larger wave of union reform efforts in Japan, women began creating their own women-only labor unions to confront long-standing gender inequality in the workplace and in traditional enterprise unions. These new unions soon discovered that the demand for individual assistance and help at the bargaining table dramatically exceeded the rate at which the unions could recruit and train members to meet that demand. Within just a few years, women-only unions were proving to be both the most effective option women had for addressing problems on the job and in serious danger ofTrade ReviewA very useful introduction to understanding the gender relations, working culture, and condition of women in Japan.... It also serves as a handbook for activists to work with Japanese activists in the future in order to understand their styles of working and meeting. Meanwhile, the accessible language and engaging narrative do help readers from various fields to enjoy this book. * Global Labour Journal *Teasing out implicit assumptions behind labour organizing models, logics, and strategies of a wide variety of US and Japanese activism groups, the book would make a stimulating addition to graduate and advanced undergraduate discussions of transnational activism and social movements in social sciences, labour studies, and gender studies classrooms. * Pacific Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1 JAPANESE WOMEN'S UNIONS 1. A Union of One’s Own 2. A Tale of Two Activists 3. Women’s Union Tokyo in Practice Part 2 US- JAPAN CROSSBORDER COLLABORATION 4. First, We Drink Tea 5. Under the Microscope 6. Crisis of Difference 7. Made in Japan 8. A Movement Transformed Conclusion: Lessons for Building Crossborder Collaborations Appendix A: Characteristics of Common Nonregular Forms of Employment Appendix B: Curriculum Wish Lists Appendix C: Why Japanese Women "Can’t" Organize
£97.20
Cornell University Press Our Unions Our Selves
Book SynopsisIn Our Unions, Our Selves, Anne Zacharias-Walsh provides an in-depth look at the rise of women-only unions in Japan, an organizational analysis of the challenges these new unions face in practice, and a firsthand account of the ambitious, occasionally contentious, and ultimately successful international solidarity project that helped to spark a new feminist labor movement. In the early 1990s, as part of a larger wave of union reform efforts in Japan, women began creating their own women-only labor unions to confront long-standing gender inequality in the workplace and in traditional enterprise unions. These new unions soon discovered that the demand for individual assistance and help at the bargaining table dramatically exceeded the rate at which the unions could recruit and train members to meet that demand. Within just a few years, women-only unions were proving to be both the most effective option women had for addressing problems on the job and in serious danger ofTrade ReviewA very useful introduction to understanding the gender relations, working culture, and condition of women in Japan.... It also serves as a handbook for activists to work with Japanese activists in the future in order to understand their styles of working and meeting. Meanwhile, the accessible language and engaging narrative do help readers from various fields to enjoy this book. * Global Labour Journal *Teasing out implicit assumptions behind labour organizing models, logics, and strategies of a wide variety of US and Japanese activism groups, the book would make a stimulating addition to graduate and advanced undergraduate discussions of transnational activism and social movements in social sciences, labour studies, and gender studies classrooms. * Pacific Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1 JAPANESE WOMEN'S UNIONS 1. A Union of One’s Own 2. A Tale of Two Activists 3. Women’s Union Tokyo in Practice Part 2 US- JAPAN CROSSBORDER COLLABORATION 4. First, We Drink Tea 5. Under the Microscope 6. Crisis of Difference 7. Made in Japan 8. A Movement Transformed Conclusion: Lessons for Building Crossborder Collaborations Appendix A: Characteristics of Common Nonregular Forms of Employment Appendix B: Curriculum Wish Lists Appendix C: Why Japanese Women "Can’t" Organize
£27.54
Cornell University Press Architects of Occupation
Book SynopsisThe Allied occupation of Japan is remembered as the good occupation. An American-led coalition successfully turned a militaristic enemy into a stable and democratic ally. Of course, the story was more complicated, but the occupation did forge one of the most enduring relationships in the postwar world. Recent events, from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan to protests over American bases in Japan to increasingly aggressive territorial disputes between Asian nations over islands in the Pacific, have brought attention back to the subject of the occupation of Japan.In Architects of Occupation, Dayna L. Barnes exposes the wartime origins of occupation policy and broader plans for postwar Japan. She considers the role of presidents, bureaucrats, think tanks, the media, and Congress in policymaking. Members of these elite groups came together in an informal policy network that shaped planning. Rather than relying solely on government reports and records to understand policymakTrade ReviewBarnes's excellent study examines the vast network that constructed policies for the US-led occupation of postwar Japan—from FDR's White House and bureaucratic agencies handling US foreign policy to State Department specialists, the War, Navy, and Treasury Departments, and the US Congress. * Choice *Offers a fascinating glimpse into the policy-making process.... Barnes's book examines wartime planning in the years leading up to Japan's surrender. As Barnes explains in the conclusion, her book serves as a 'prologue to occupation histories.' But the book is much more than a prologue; it is a captivating testament to the power of ideas in foreign-policy making. * American Historical Review *This is a nicely executed study of American planning for the postwar world, with a particular focus on Asia and Japan. It is especially valuable for its wide scope.... It considers a wide range of actors beyond those explicitly tasked with planning or sitting in the highest decision-making positions. * Pacific Historical review *Barnes' engaging intellectual and social history of the planners provides a fresh window into the origins of today's liberal international order. * Foreign Affairs *Architects of Occupation skillfully weaves diverse voices into a complex narrative that instructs on the wartime planning for Japan's postwar occupation. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Barnes offers novel and valuable insights.... She compellingly contextualizes the occupation in longer-term developments and in broader shifts in the worldviews of government planners and beyond.... a valuable supplement to the existing field of occupation histories. * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *This is a fascinating book that is rigorously researched and intricately crafted... Architects of Occupation will be invaluable to scholars and students interested in postwar Japan and US foreign policy, and those eager to understand the contingent roots of postwar planning and Washington's postwar liberal internationalism. * Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Behind the Curtain 1. Flip-Flopper with the Final Say: Roosevelt and Japan 2. Elbow Patches and Orientalists: Bureaucratic Wrangling3. Unofficial Officials: Think Tanks and Policy4. Information and Ignorance: Media Coverage5. Sucker Nation and Santa Claus: Concerns of Congress6. Ready or Not: Harry Truman and the End of the WarConclusion: The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Men
£38.70
Cornell University Press Developmental Mindset
Book SynopsisThe Asian financial crisis of 19971998 was supposed to be the death knell for the developmental state. The International Monetary Fund supplied emergency funds for shattered economies but demanded that states liberalize financial markets and withdraw from direct involvement in the economy. Financial liberalization was meant to spell the end of strategic industry policy and the state-directed policy lending it involved. Yet, largely unremarked by analysts, South Korea has since seen a striking revival of financial activism. Policy lending by state-owned development banks has returned the state to the core of the financial system. Korean development banks now account for one quarter of all loans and take the lead in providing low-cost finance to local manufacturing firms in strategic industries.Elizabeth Thurbon argues that an ideational analysis can help explain this renewed financial activism. She demonstrates the presence of a developmental mindset on the part of political leaders Trade ReviewThurbon’s new book is a welcome revitalization of the important discussion on the developmental state and improves our understanding of a distinct and path-dependent model of state-led capitalism that is emerging in East Asia. Her focus on the developmental mindset of the political elite is an important contribution to this understanding while at the same time raising many new questions for future debates... [I] strongly recommend this book for all scholars and students of development as well as those curious about Asian capitalism and its spirit. -- Thomas Kalinowski, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea * Pacific Affairs Book Reviews *Table of Contents1. Rebirth of the Developmental State 2. Developmental States: Bringing Ideas Back In 3. Makings of a Developmental Mindset and Emergence of Strategy Mark I 4. Rise of Financial Activism 5. Fracturing Consensus and the Abandonment of Financial Activism 6. Return of the State 7. Emergence of Strategy Mark II 8. Return of Development Bankers 9. Full Flowering of Financial Activism 10. What Future for Financial Activism in Korea and Beyond?
£24.69
Cornell University Press Fragile Conviction
Book SynopsisHow do specific secular and religious ideologiessuch as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanismgain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Residents became enchanted by the truths of Muslim and Christian missionaries, embraced the teachings of neoliberal and nationalist ideologues, and were riveted by the visions of shamanic healers. But no matter how much enthusiasm and hope these ideas first engendered, the commitment to any of them rarely lasted very long.Pelkmans finds that there is an inverse relationship between the tenacity andTrade ReviewRooted in the author's deep understanding of Kyrgyz society, this is a complex, well-structured and nuanced text.... Readers will come away from the book with a very clear understanding of modern small-town Kyrgyzstan and the nuances governing its society. * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ideational Power in Times of TurmoilPart I: Uncertain Times and Places1. Shattered Transition: The Reordering of Kyrgyz Society2. Condition of Uncertainty: Life in an Industrial WastelandPart II: Dynamics of Conviction3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism?4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing Conclusion: Pulsation and the Dynamics of Conviction
£22.79
Cornell University Press My Nuclear Nightmare
Book SynopsisNaoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only due to luck.' Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. Kan knew that abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi site would cause radiation levels in the surrounding environment to soar. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps oTrade ReviewNaoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to 'a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only ‘due to luck.’ Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. Kan knew that abandoning the Fukushima Daiichi site would cause radiation levels in the surrounding environment to soar. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps one of the most unsung moments of heroism in the whole sorry saga. * The Ecologist *This worthwhile account of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was written by former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who served during that time.... This excellent work provides thorough detail about the Fukushima disaster from the eyes of a political leader. To any individual who thinks governing is easy or that lack of governance is possible in the modern world, this book is a necessary revelation. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. -- A. M. Saperstein, Wayne State University * CHOICE *Voluminous literature on the Fukushima nuclear disaster has been published, but My Nuclear Nightmare might be one of the most important primary sources to be translated into English.... The book is interesting in many research contexts. Scholars who are interested in crisis management, risk communication, the prime minister's political leadership, media coverage of the prime minister, nuclear regulatory authority, renewable energy policy, and ethical issues such as the lives of nuclear power plant workers, will find the book engaging. * Pacific Affairs *
£18.99
Cornell University Press A Moral Technology
Book SynopsisIn India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country''s participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process, or a gridding of social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people's sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and ethnographic case studiesTrade Review"Developing nuanced and valuable readings of critical moments in the story of electrification in Delhi/New Delhi, Leo Coleman suggests that electricity far exceeds its formal role as infrastructure. He persuasively argues that the ideological burden and meaning of electricity informs its physical distribution (from where it is introduced and who gets it first to how the grid is controlled or the ownership of electric meters understood), while demonstrating how political associations, relationships, and networks are imagined, cast, and reconfigured through the distribution of electricity." -- Ritika Prasad, University of North Carolina–Charlotte, author of Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Electricity ActsPart I. Imperial Installations1. The Machinery of Government2. Ritual Center and Divided CityPart II. National Grids3. The Lifeblood of the Nation4. Broadcast MantrasPart III. Urban Transformations5. The Life of Property6. A Model Colony Conclusion: The Art of a Free Society
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Cornell University Press A Moral Technology
Book SynopsisIn India over the past century, electrification has meant many things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of national integration and political communication, and a means of gauging the country''s participation in globalization. Electric lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more than just an economic or industrial process, or a gridding of social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people's sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and ethnographic case studiesTrade Review"Developing nuanced and valuable readings of critical moments in the story of electrification in Delhi/New Delhi, Leo Coleman suggests that electricity far exceeds its formal role as infrastructure. He persuasively argues that the ideological burden and meaning of electricity informs its physical distribution (from where it is introduced and who gets it first to how the grid is controlled or the ownership of electric meters understood), while demonstrating how political associations, relationships, and networks are imagined, cast, and reconfigured through the distribution of electricity." -- Ritika Prasad, University of North Carolina–Charlotte, author of Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Electricity ActsPart I. Imperial Installations1. The Machinery of Government2. Ritual Center and Divided CityPart II. National Grids3. The Lifeblood of the Nation4. Broadcast MantrasPart III. Urban Transformations5. The Life of Property6. A Model Colony Conclusion: The Art of a Free Society
£23.74
Cornell University Press Shaken Authority
Book SynopsisIn Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulates policies, defines legitimacy, and exerts its power. Sorace argues that the Communist Party has never abandoned its conviction that discourse can shape the world and the people who inhabit it. Sorace also demonstrates how the Communist Party's planning apparatus continues to play a crucial role in engineering China's economy and market construction, especially in the countryside. Sorace takes a distinctive and original interpretive approach to understanding Chinese politics, and Shaken Authority demonstrates how Communist Party discourse and ideology influenced the official decisions and responses to the Sichuan earthquake. Sorace provides a clear view of the lived outcomes of Communist Trade ReviewAn excellent and detailed account of how the meaning of concepts and even of the single words of which they consist becomes tools of the [Chinese Communist Party] to advance its agenda and shape people’s habits of speech and disposition.... Reading Sorace’s account is truly interesting and worthwhile.... An incredibly rich account of how discourse and culture play an essential role in Chinese politics in general. The use of Chinese phrases—both in pinyin and Chinese characters for comparison in the glossary—is flawless, which also makes the book a great read and rich source of information for sinologists, native speakers, and anyone with interest in Chinese political language. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *This book would interest China scholars across the board, students of disaster politics, humanitarian NGO workers, and the informed public interested in China's West. Sorace's provoking research questions and detailed discourse analysis, along with the ethnographic case studies, contribute to the field of Chinese studies and political science by raising questions as to the shallowness of the dominant 'it's the economy, stupid' credo that had allegedly killed the ideology and political discourse, despite its indispensability to any complete analysis of contemporary Chinese politics. * The China Quarterly *Sorace's work provides important empirical correctives to several prevalent hypotheses of sociopolitical change in China after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.... Offers profound insights into how power works in China by grounding abstract Party discourse in concrete state practices. The author demonstrates how to conduct a good discourse analysis study by analyzing texts in their contexts, which requires extensive knowledge of the sociohistorical background of the data and a deep understanding of the theories revolving around the theme under study. * Pacific Affairs *Christian Sorace's book on the reconstruction after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake is an excellent study on Chinese communist ideology, governance and politics.... Sorace's book is robustly empirical, and its understanding of contemporary Chinese politics and the role of ideology is theoretically significant. It is easy to agree with Sorace's main argument that ideology is very much present in the way the party makes its decisions even today, and scholars would do well not to neglect the influence of ideology on the way policies are formulated, implemented, and propagated in China. * china information *With his detailed knowledge of the politics of Sichuan, and his ability to integrate specific policies into broader ideological formations, [Sorace] has demonstrated the vital insights that can be gained through analysing the Communist Party on its own terms. * The PRC History Group *Sorace's work is not only impressive in its skill; it is also powerful in its implications. He lays bare how much central government rhetoric shapes reality in such a way to mask, suppress, or warp others' lived experience. * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Communist Party's Miracle2. Party Spirit Made Flesh3. Blood Transfusion, Generation, and Anemia4. The Utopia of Urban Planning5. The Mirage of Development6. The Ideological Pursuit of EcologyConclusion
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Cornell University Press Remembering the Present
Book SynopsisThe book is ambitious and easy to read, has many rich descriptions, that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism, and the anthropology of Buddhism. ? Religious Studies ReviewWhat is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to remember the present in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memTrade ReviewThe book is ambitious and easy to read, has many "rich descriptions," that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism, and the anthropology of Buddhism * Religious Studies Review *The book is very clearly laid out, written in an engaging and accessible style, and it is appropriate for undergraduate classes and up. * MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Terms Introduction Part I. Thailand 1. Monks' Mindfulness 2. The Feeling of Mindfulness in Meditation 3. The Ghosts of Insanity in Lay Thai Life Part II. Burma and Sri Lanka 4. Burma 5. Sri Lanka Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index
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Cornell University Press Remembering the Present
Book SynopsisThe book is ambitious and easy to read, has many rich descriptions, that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism, and the anthropology of Buddhism. ? Religious Studies ReviewWhat is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more through an engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to remember the present in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memTrade ReviewThe book is ambitious and easy to read, has many "rich descriptions," that would be good for undergraduates and graduate students interested in mindfulness, Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhism, and the anthropology of Buddhism * Religious Studies Review *The book is very clearly laid out, written in an engaging and accessible style, and it is appropriate for undergraduate classes and up. * MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Terms Introduction Part I. Thailand 1. Monks' Mindfulness 2. The Feeling of Mindfulness in Meditation 3. The Ghosts of Insanity in Lay Thai Life Part II. Burma and Sri Lanka 4. Burma 5. Sri Lanka Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index
£22.39
Cornell University Press Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Book SynopsisStrategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional balance of power has fueled escalating tensions in East Asia and suggest that adjustment challenges are exacerbated by the politics of policymaking. International and domestic pressures on policymaking are reflected in maritime territorial disputes and in the broader range of regional security issues created by the rise of China.Adjusting to power shifts and managing a new regional order in the face of inevitable domestic pressure, including nationalism, is a challenging process. Both the United States and China have had to adjust to China''s expanded capabilities. China has sought an expanded influence in maritime East Asia; the United States has responded by consolidating itTrade ReviewEnhances our understanding of power and politics in East Asia, and will help policymakers, researchers, and students of international relations to follow the power transition caused by the rise of China. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Fills some major gaps in strategy studies, and can serve either as a reference for policy makers and Asian specialists, or as a supplementary text for teachers and college students. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Domestic Politics and Nationalism in East Asian Security, Randall L. Schweller2. U.S.–China Relations From Unipolar Hedging toward Bipolar Balancing, Oystein Tunsjo3. Perception, Misperception, and Sensitivity: Chinese Economic Power and Preferences afte rhte 2008 Financial Crisis, Daniel W. Drezner4. Two Asias? China's Rise, Dual Structure, and the Alliance System in East Asia, Wang DongPart II Japan, South Korea, and the Rise of China: National Security and Nationalism5. Protecting the Status Quo: Japan's Response to the Rise of China, Ian bowers and Bjorn Elias Mikasen Gronning6. Popular Nationalism and Economic Interests in China's Japan Policy, James Reilly7. China's Rise and Security Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, Chung-in MoonPart III Great Power Relations and Regional Conflict8. Threading the Needle: The South China Sea Disputes and U.S. China Relations9. The United States and China in Northeast Asia: Third-Party Coercion and Alliance Relations, Robert S. RossConclusion: East Asia at the Center: Power Shifts and Theory, Oystein Tunsjo
£23.19
Cornell University Press A Colonial Affair
Book SynopsisDanna Agmon''s gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the Nayiniyappa Affair in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family.Agmon''s compelling account draws readers into the social, economic, religious, and political interactions that defined the European colonial experience in India and elsewhere. Her portrayal of imperial sovereignty in France''s colonies as it played out in the life of one beleaguered family allows readers to witness interactions between colonial officials and locals.Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.Trade ReviewRevisiting an often forgotten scandal in an obscure corner of France's eighteenth-century empire—the Nayiniyappa Affair and Pondichéry, respectively—Agmon draws our attention to the shifting dynamic of conflict and collaboration that underlay the French imperial project in India. The result is a valuable reminder of the contested nature of early modern colonial power, all set against a compelling backdrop of personal tragedy and posthumous redemption.... [C]ompellingly argued and beautifully written. * H-France Reviews *Because Agmon has carefully, cogently, and insightfully analyzed the events and significance of Nayiniyappa's trial, readers might find themselves impelled to read A Colonial Affair from cover to cover at one sitting! * International Bulletin of Mission Research *Agmon's prose is sophisticated, clear and flowing, and she successfully guides the reader through all of the affair's complexities. * French Review *Danna Agmon peels back the layers of this fascinating series of events with consummate skill; she has the sure touch of a historian whose confidence is well earned.... As with any microhistory, the ultimate test is whether the story told opens new perspectives on broader themes. By this criterion, Agmon has passed with flying colors. * Journal of Modern History *This book is strong on the internal tensions of early French rule in India.... Agmon ably conveys the sense of a transitional period between a relationship of commercial equals [between the French and indigenous intermediaries] to one of colonial master and servant.... [A] welcome addition to the history of French India [and]... a fascinating glimpse into an early French colonial period when Catholic conversion was the stamp of trust. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments The Actors Introduction Part One 1. The Elusive Origins of a Colonial Scandal 2. Kinship as Politics Part Two 3. The Denial of Language 4. Conflict at Court Part Three 5. Between Paris and Pondichéry 6. Archiving the Affair Epilgoue Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Why Terrorists Quit
Book SynopsisWhy do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit.Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang conducted more than one hundred interviews with current and former leaders and followers of radical Islamist groups in Indonesia. Using what she learned from these radicals she examines the reasons they rejected physical force and extremist ideology, slowly moving away from, or in some cases completely leaving, groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah, Mujahidin KOMPAK, Ring Banten, Laskar Jihad, and Tanah Runtuh. Why Terrorists Quit considers the impact of various public initiatives designed to encourage radicals to disengage, and follows the lives of five radicals from the various groups, seeking to establish trends, ideas, and reasons for why radicals might eschew violence or quit terrorism.Chernov Hwang has, with this book,Trade ReviewIn contrast with studies of terrorism based on group-level inferences, Hwang’s study derives from interviews with 55 Indonesians who quit. Their stories offer telling insights into the motivations that foster and sustain terrorism. * Choice *An important contribution to the theoretical literature as well as to country case studies on the factors involved in de-radicalization and disengagement from terrorism. * Perspectives on Terrorism *The book itself is one of the better expositions on terrorism, being expressed in clear, non-judgmental terms.... Chernov Hwang's book should be required reading for all who have a professional interest in combating violent extremism... * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *[French language review] * Études internationales *Why Terrorists Quit provides the field with unique insights into the disengagement process based on primary source information on groups that fall outside the focus of mainstream terrorism studies. The insights provided in the book not only inform our understanding of the disengagement process but also provide a solid foundation for future research on the links between radicalization, disengagement, and reintegration. * Terrorism and Political Violence *Table of ContentsPreface Timeline Introduction 1. The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of Jemaah Islamiyah 2. Patterns of Disengagement 3. Anas 4. B.R. 5. Ali Imron 6. Ali Fauzi 7. Yuda 8. The Role of the State and Civil Society in Disengagement Initiatives Conclusion Notes Glossary Index
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Cornell University Press Harvests Feasts and Graves
Book SynopsisRyan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self.Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology.If, as Marx writes, the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living, Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? ATrade ReviewHarvests, Feasts, and Graves offers a lively account of a people dealing with a seductive modernity that they nevertheless, as Schram puts it, hold at bay, offering a compelling alternative to accounts that emphasise a decisive rupture with the past or that misrecognise change as stasis. * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *Harvests, Feasts, and Graves is a rich, rewarding ethnography and stimulating contribution to current debates concerning the ways rural Papua New Guineans experience and make sense of their ongoing participation in wider institutional and discursive frameworks, particularly Christianity and capitalism. * Pacific Affairs *
£26.59
Cornell University Press Liberalism Disavowed
Book SynopsisIn Liberalism Disavowed, Beng Huat Chua examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore since the nation's expulsion from Malaysia and formal independence as a republic in 1965.Trade ReviewThis penetrating account of the Singapore model by a senior Singaporean sociologist explains both why the model works and why it is not transferable to other countries.... Contrary to conventional wisdom, he argues that neither repression nor a cultural preference for authoritarianism explains the regime's success; rather, the state's successful policies - rooted in social democratic ideology and meritocratic leadership - and the island nation's strategic vulnerability explain why the population has accepted an elitist, repressive system for over 50 years and why it will probably continue to do so. * Foreign Affairs *An informative and nuanced publication on this question of liberalism's place in contemporary Singapore. The publication serves as a useful text on both the city-state's peculiar politics and the nature of liberalism itself as it is actualised—or rejected—in the modern world. * Mekong Review *This well-written and insightful volume is the culmination of Chua Beng Huat's academic work on state and society in Singapore and brings together many of his path-breaking arguments that have significantly shaped our understanding of the country. * contemporary southeast asia *The contribution of Chua's Liberalism Disavowed is very large in that it shows how the hegemony of the PAP is working and resisting liberalism, especially in the everyday world of Singaporeans. It re-interprets the origin of public support for the PAP by focusing on its embedded social democratic origin. * inter-asia cultural studies *Liberalism Disavowed is... an excellent one-volume treatment of Singapore society, and scholars interested in Asia, political economy, and alternative governance ideologies can approach the text with confidence. * Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society *The book is easy to read, full of statistical facts (except income distribution data), and suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and professional audiences. * Choice *
£97.20
Cornell University Press India and the Patent Wars
Book SynopsisIndia and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization within the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by drawing on interviews and ethnographic work with pharmaceutical producers in India and the United States.India has been at the center of emerging controversies around patent rights related to pharmaceutical production and local medical knowledge. Halliburton shows that Big Pharma is not all-powerful, and that local activists and practitioners of ayurveda, India's largest indigenous medical system, have been able to undermine the aspirations of multinational companies and the WTO. Halliburton traces how key drug prices have gone down, not up, in low-income countries under the neTrade ReviewHalliburton ably describes the arcana of patent law while at the same time keeping his sights on the daunting, critical stakes of the issue: the continued accessibility of therapeutic know ledge for global public health. For this achievement, India and the Patent Wars is a crucial read for anyone interested in the global politics of health. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
£21.84
Cornell University Press Screening Enlightenment
Book SynopsisDuring the six-and-a-half-year occupation of Japan (19451952), U.S. film studiosin close coordination with Douglas MacArthur''s Supreme Command for the Allied Powerslaunched an ambitious campaign to extend their power and influence in a historically rich but challenging film market. In this far-reaching enlightenment campaign, Hollywood studios disseminated more than six hundred films to theaters, earned significant profits, and showcased the American way of life as a political, social, and cultural model for the war-shattered Japanese population. In Screening Enlightenment, Hiroshi Kitamura shows how this expansive attempt at cultural globalization helped transform Japan into one of Hollywood''s key markets. He also demonstrates the prominent role American cinema played in the reeducation and reorientation of the Japanese on behalf of the U.S. government.According to Kitamura, Hollywood achieved widespread results by turning to the support of U.S. government and militTrade ReviewAmerican moviemakers had to tread carefully with the American military and governmental occupation authorities if they were to expect to be able to penetrate the newly opened market for their films in postwar Japan. In sum, filmmakers were secondary players in a game of very serious hardball. Kitamura provides vivid glimpses into what qualities in specific American movies appealed to Japanese critics and audiences. He describes how, as the Japanese spirit revived, lively movie discussion groups sprang up in Japan. Recommended. * Choice *Hiroshi Kitamura has written an excellent overview of the role played by Hollywood films in shaping the cultural reconstruction of Japan during the American occupation. His book reflects wide reading in Japanese sources, the research of film scholars, and current scholarship of American occupation policy.... This fine book will be of value not only to diplomatic and military historians but also to persons interested in the American occupation of Germany, as so many parallels are implicit in it. -- David Culbert * Journal of American History *In addition to his significant contribution to diplomatic history and U.S. relations with Japan, Kitamura adds to our understanding of Japanese history in the critical period after the war.... What he details so carefully through his examination of the Central Motion Picture Exchange (CMPE) and the Eiga no tomo, among other organizations and entities, is how Japanese came to embrace the carefully scripted and edited manner in which American films were reintroduced to Japan during the occupation. -- T. Christopher Jespersen * H-Diplo Roundtable Review *Kitamura shows that Hollywood and SCAP [the occupying authorities led by General Douglas MacArthur] were at loggerheads almost as often as they were in harmony.... SCAP censorship caused problems for American films as various as Frank Capra's political fable, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, unseen in Japan during the Occupation due to its portrayal of corruption in US politics, to the Tyrone Power swashbuckler, The Mark of Zorro, which in an era when samurai films were practically banned, was criticized for its portrayal of swordplay as a 'fine and fashionable art of killing.'... His book sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Occupation history. -- Alexander Jacoby * Times Literary Supplement *Kitamura's book is a new contribution to the field of cinema in occupied Japan in covering such diverse groups as the American film distributor, the Central Motion Picture Exchange (CMPE); Japanese exhibitors and movie theaters; 'cultural elites’ including critics, journalists, and scholars; and moviegoers. Attention to all these groups allows readers to see the complicated dynamics in which Hollywood films become the icon of democracy and modernity in occupied Japan.... It can be highly recommended to all scholars and students of the US occupation of Japan, film history, and Japanese cultural and intellectual history. -- Yuka Tsuchiya * Social Science Japan Journal *Kitamura's thoroughly researched and immensely readable book mainly combines approaches of historical research and film studies. It is based on an admirable range of both US and Japanese source materials and consists of a concise methodological preface and eight thematically arranged chapters.... The fact that Screening Enlightenment undoubtedly will inspire such future studies that further examine the fascinating issues it raises, may very well be one of its most important merits. -- Harald Salomon * Pacific Affairs *Table of Contents1. Thwarted Ambitions: Hollywood and Japan before the Second World War 2. Renewed Intimacies: Hollywood, War, and Occupation 3. Contested Terrains: Occupation Censorship and Japanese Cinema 4. Corporatist Tensions: Hollywood versus the Occupation 5. Fountains of Culture: Hollywood's Marketing in Defeated Japan 6. Presenting Culture: The Exhibition of American Movies 7. Seeking Enlightenment: The Culture Elites and American Movies 8. Choosing America: Eiga no tomo and the Making of a New Fan Culture ConclusionAppendix: First Forty-Five Films Selected for Distribution in Japan after the War Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index Index of Films
£22.39
Cornell University Press Promiscuous Media
Book SynopsisIn Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost wholly built on a foundation of Russian and British film theory as well as American film genres and techniques. Hori provides a range of examples that illustrate how maternal melodrama and animated features, akin to those popularized by Disney, were adopted wholesale by Japanese filmmakers.Emperor Hirohito''s image, Hori argues, was inseparable from the development of mass media; he was the first emperor whose public appearances were covered by media ranging from postcards to radio broadcasts. Worship of the emperor through viewing his image, Hori shows, taught the Japanese people how to look at images and primed their enjoyment of early animation and documentary films alike. Promiscuous Media lTrade ReviewA fresh perspective to understanding the popular culture of prewar Japan.... Hori's analyses and interpretations of the key visual/filmis texts are absolutely riveting and powerfully stimulating, compelling us to seek out the media works in question and reevaluate their meanings with our own eyes. * CROSS CURRENTS *Promiscuous Media... is a work of impressive breadth and erudition. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Table of ContentsLilst of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Photography's Aura 2. Contested Motherhood and Entertainment Film 3. The Politics of Japanese Documentary Film 4. The Dream of Japanese National Animation Epilogue Notes Bibliography
£45.90
Cornell University Press Resurrecting Nagasaki
Book SynopsisIn Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the individuals and groups who contributed to the shaping of Nagasaki City''s postwar identity. Municipal officials, survivor-activist groups, the Catholic community, and American occupation officials all interpreted the destruction and reconstruction of the city from different, sometimes disparate perspectives. Diehl''s analysis reveals how these atomic narratives shaped both the way Nagasaki rebuilt and the ways in which popular discourse on the atomic bombings framed the city''s experience for decades.Trade ReviewResurrecting Nagasaki deserves to be read as a foundational work on the post-atomic history of Nagasaki. * Pacific Historical Review *The book makes a significant contribution to the understudied history of Nagasaki. Resurrecting Nagasaki is an important book for anyone who is interested in nuclear history, US Japan relations, US public diplomacy, and urban studies. * Japanese Studies *A nicely written monograph—also the first in English, as it turns out—on Nagasaki the bombed, Nagasaki the resurrected, and Nagasaki the mirror image of its ghastly twinned counterpart, Hiroshima. * Kirk Center *Resurrecting Nagasaki is the first scholarly work in English on the history of Nagasaki after the atomic bombing on 9 August 1945. Chad Diehl's book is therefore a welcome first work on the topic, one that can extend the frontiers of our understanding about how people have struggled to deal with the aftermath of unprecedented devastation. It should serve as a valuable springboard for further explorations into the history of postatomic Nagasaki. * Monumenta Nipponica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Envisioning Nagasaki 2. Coexisting in the Valley of Death 3. The "Saint" of Urakami 4. Writing Nagasaki 5. Walls of Silence 6. Ruins of Memory Conclusion Notes Index
£35.15
