Asian history Books
Cornell University Press A Medicated Empire
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business HistoryFinalist of the 2023 International Convention for Asian Scholars Book Prize in the Social SciencesIn A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan''s pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia''s most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi''s connections to Japan''s emerging nation-state and empire, and on the ways in which it embraced an ideology of modern medicine as a humanitarian endeavor for greater social good, Yang shows how the industry promoted a hygienic, middle-class culture that was part of Japan''s national development and imperial expansion. Yang makes clear that the company''s fortunes had less to do with scientific breakthroughs and medical innovations than with Japan''s web of social, political, and economic relations. HeTrade ReviewDrawing from the archives of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, Yang has written a thought-provoking history of the pharmaceutical industry in Japan. This important and readable book provides insights into the history of not only Japan but the modern world. * Choice *A Medicated Empire provides an important addition to our knowledge of the so-called self-made men of the Meiji period. * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: THE DRUG INDUSTRY, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND THE STATE 1. A Strategic Industry 2. The Supposed Self-Made Man and His Company Part II: MARKETING MEDICINES AND MEDICINAL INFRASTRUCTURES 3. Marketing a Culture of Self-Medication 4. Medicinal Infrastructures and Medical Missionaries Part III: THE OPIUM EMPIRE 5. The Scandal of Opium (and the Colonial Exception) 6. Things Fall Apart Part 1V: SCIENCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND WARTIME MOBILIZATION 7. Selling the Science of Quinine Self-Sufficiency 8. War and Drugs Epilogue
£88.33
Cornell University Press Mobilizing Japanese Youth
Book SynopsisIn Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japanleft-wing radicals and right-wing activistsattempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation''s first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed aspects of class and gender preconfigured the forms of political rhetoric and social organization that both the far-right and far-left deployed to mobilize postwar, further exacerbating the levels of social and political alienation expressed by young blue- and pink- collar working men and women well into the 1970s, illustrated by high-profile acts of political violence committed by young Japanese in this era.As Gerteis shows, Japanese youth were profoundly influenced by a transnational flow of ideas and people that constituted a unique historical convergence of pan-Asianism, Mao-ism, black nationalism, anTrade Review[Mobilizing Japanese Youth] is innovative by focusing on the propaganda produced by these groups with attention to gender, generation, and class. Using the tools of social and cultural historians, Gerteis draws from a fascinating set of materials ranging from Japan Broadcasting Corporation surveys through seemingly benign children's cartoons to pink exploitation films and everything in between. * Pacific Affairs *In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis makes use of various approaches to capture the character of the cultural moment before and after the Asama sanso siege. Gerteis is a seasoned researcher in the history of organized labour in Japan, and in this work he focuses his attention not on what Schieder calls 'the campus-based New Left' but on the decisions and practices of blue and pink-collar workers. * History Workshop Journal *[T]he discussion is far-ranging and Gerteis includes diverse sources as well: from activist magazines to punk music lyrics and manga, which give a sense of the wide array of media in which generational identity and mission was defined and expressed. * Japan Forum *Christopher Gerteis's Mobilizing Japanese Youth is a timely and informative contribution to the scholarship on youth political mobilization that sheds new light on the topic through its atten- tion to the nexus of gender, class, and generation. Overall, [the book] is a valuable contribution to our understanding of youth mobilization in Cold War-period Japan. * Journal of Family History *Mobilizing Japanese Youth carefully unpacks their formative experiences and the social, cultural, and political challenges to both the hegemonic culture and the authority of the Japanese state that engulfed them. * UTokyo Biblio Plaza *[A]n undeniably important and perceptive book on Japanese society since the 1970s. Gerteis's attention to the movements and political motivations of figures outside of the usual centers of power does much to invigorate our understanding of contemporary Japan. * Monumenta Nipponica *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Nexus of Gender, Class, and Generation 1. Unions, Youth, and the Cold War 2. The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Red Army 3. Political Alienation and the Sixties Generation 4. Cold War Warriors 5. Motorboat Gambling and Morals Education Epilogue: Life and Democracy in Postwar Japan
£32.30
Cornell University Press Substantial Relations
Book SynopsisSubstantial Relations examines global reproductive medicine in India, focusing on in vitro fertilization. Since the 1970s, India has played a central but shifting role in shaping global reproductive medicinefrom a provider of raw material, to a producer of knowledge and technology, to a creator of a thriving medical market that attracts patients from all over the world. Relying on archival material and oral history, Substantial Relations traces the path of this transnational historical trajectory. This book also examines the contemporary making of IVF in Delhi. Drawing on ethnographic research in homes, hospitals, and laboratories, Sandra Bärnreuther provides deep insights into the intricacies of clinical life and everyday experience by depicting IVF users'' quest for offspring and their fears of establishing unwanted ties, as well as the minute engagements of clinicians and laboratory staff with reproductive substances.Thinking through substancesmTrade ReviewBärnreuther (Univ. of Lucerne, Switzerland) skillfully uses anthropological fieldwork (conducted from 2010 to 2017) and archival research to describe and analyze this growing IVF medical system. * Choice *The book is a recommended read for all scholars working in the area of infertility/fertility and kinship studies. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. From Urine to Ampoule: The Commodity Chain of a Hormone 2. From Dismissal to Recognition: A Contested Claim 3. From Hobby to Industry: How IVF Diversified 4. The Clinic and Beyond: Reproductive Temporalities 5. When Cells Circulate: Unwanted Ties 6. Inside the Laboratory: Embryo Ethics Epilogue
£17.99
Cornell University Press Language Ungoverned
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly depicting the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs, Tom G. Hoogervorst paints a rich portrait of the social life of this community as well as the articulation of their aspirations, anxieties and concerns that were expressed in creative use of multiple languages. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Prism into the Past 1. Connected Language Histories 2. On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay 3. Printing, Pulp, and Popularity 4. Competing Expressions of Modernity 5. The Humoristic and the Invective Epilogue: An Important Historical Monument
£97.20
Cornell University Press Language Ungoverned
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly depicting the linguistic choices made by these print entrepreneurs, Tom G. Hoogervorst paints a rich portrait of the social life of this community as well as the articulation of their aspirations, anxieties and concerns that were expressed in creative use of multiple languages. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Prism into the Past 1. Connected Language Histories 2. On Good, Bad, and Ugly Malay 3. Printing, Pulp, and Popularity 4. Competing Expressions of Modernity 5. The Humoristic and the Invective Epilogue: An Important Historical Monument
£25.19
Cornell University Press Recharging China in War and Revolution 18821955
Book SynopsisIn Recharging China in War and Revolution, 18821955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare.Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China''s electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japanese invasion that robbed China of 97 percent of its generative capacity. Along the way, he demonstrates that power industries became an integral part of the nation''s military-industrial complex, showing how competing regimes asserted economic sovereignty through the nationalization of electricity.Based on a wide range of published records, engineering reports, and archival collections in China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 18821955 argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as thoTrade ReviewTan's book [is] both timely and an essential new entry in the historiography on modern China. * Asian Studies *In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan offers a timely account of China's energy history, detailing its electrical development from the late Qing to the early Mao periods.This book makes an important contribution to the larger scholarship on energy history by explicating how electricity and state power were entwined and evolved in the Chinese experience. * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Forging Resilience 1. Spinning the Threads of Discontent 2. Defending the Public Good 3. Unleashing Fire and Fury 4. Dawning of the Copper Age 5. Turning the Tide 6. Waging Electrical Warfare 7. Manufacturing Technocracy Conclusion: Hauntings from Past Energy Transitions
£17.99
Cornell University Press Threatening Dystopias
Book SynopsisBangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. In Threatening Dystopias, Kasia Paprocki investigates the politics of climate change adaptation throughout the South Asian nation. Drawing on ethnographic and archival fieldwork, she engages with developers, policy makers, scientists, farmers, and rural migrants to show how Bangladeshi and global elites ignore the history of landscape transformation and its attendant political conflicts. Paprocki looks at how groups craft economic narratives and strategies that redistribute power and resources away from peasant communities. Although these groups claim that increased production of export commodities will reframe the threat of climate change into an opportunity for economic development and growth, the reality is not so simple. For the country''s rural poor, these promises ring hollow. As development dispossesses the poor from agrarian livelihoods, outmigration Trade ReviewThreatening Dystopias offers a revealing political ecological analysis of climate change adaption in the southwestern Khulna region of Bangladesh, a place extremely vulnerable to threats posed by the climate crisis. Paprocki writes with great eloquence[.] Threatening Dystopias is a masterful study of the global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. * London School of Economics and Political Science Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Sluttish, Careless, Rotting Abundance": Prehistories of a Climate Dystopia 2. Threatening Dystopias: Development and Adaptation Regimes 3. Opportunity/Crisis: Knowledge Production and the Politics of Uncertainty 4. The Social Life of Climate Science: Circulations of Knowledge and Uncertainty in Development Practice 5. Autopsy of a Village: Agrarian Change after the Shrimp Boom 6. We Have Come This Far—We Cannot Retreat": Adaptation, Resistance, and Competing Visions of Transformed Futures Conclusion: Climate Justice and the Politics of Possibility
£22.79
Cornell University Press From Family to Police Force
Book SynopsisFrom Family to Police Force illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air wing of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies that depute officers to the region. These groups are the major actors in the field of security and policing. Farhana Ibrahim offers a bird''s-eye view of these groups, drawing on long-standing anthropological engagement with the region. She observes policing on multiple levels, showing in detail that the nation-state is only one of the scales at which policing is enacted at a borderland. Ibrahim draws on multiple sources and forms of policing structure to illuminate everyday interaction on the personal scale, bringing families and individuals Trade ReviewTo explore, illustrate, and advance theories about such "policing," Ibrahim draws on her fieldwork in western India's Rann of Kutch desert region, a contested borderland with Pakistan. She analyzes how patriarchs and senior wives deploy domestic secrecy against surveillance by the public, the Indian state, NGOs, and anthropologists. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: LANDSCAPES OF POLICING 1. Policing Everyday Life on a Border 2. Militarism and Everyday Peace: Gender, Labor, and Policing across "Civil-Military" Terrains PART II: POLICING AND THE FAMILY 3. Policing Muslim Marriage: The Specter of the "Bengali" Wife 4. Blood and Water: The "Bengali" Wife and Close-Kin Marriage among Muslims 5. The Work of Belonging: Citizenship and Social Capital across the Thar Desert Conclusion
£97.20
Cornell University Press Babaylan Sing Back
Book SynopsisBabaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times, or to survive on the margins in the present-day. They are either persecuted as witches and purveyors of superstition, or valorized as symbols of gender equality and anticolonial resistance. Drawing on fieldwork in the Philippines and in the Philippine diaspora, Grace Nono''s deep engagement with the song and speech of a number of living ritual specialists demonstrates Native historical agency in the 500th year anniversary of the contact between the people of the Philippine Islands and the European colonizers.Trade ReviewGrace Nono offers rich theoretical and empirical material to all those interested in Philippine babaylan, ritual healing, and Southeast Asian shamanism in general. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Babaylan Sing Back synthesizes Nono's work over the past several decades and the result is a fascinating in-depth analysis of ritual oral traditions of "invisible" shamans. Her familiarity with many of the ritual specialists who appear in the book and meticulous research she has conducted over the decades provides a rich level of detail that adds to the reader's experience and understanding. * Bangkok Post *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Who Sings? A Baylan's Embodied Voice and its Relations 2. Shifting Voices and Malleable Bodies 3. Song Travels: Mumbaki Mobility and the Relationality of Place
£97.20
Cornell University Press The Performative State
Book SynopsisWhat does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good governanceperformative governance.Iza Ding unpacks the black box of street-level bureaucracy in China through ethnographic participation, in-depth interviews, and public opinion surveys. She demonstrates in vivid detail how China''s environmental bureaucrats deal with intense public scrutiny over pollution when they lack the authority to actually improve the physical environment. They assuage public outrage by appearing responsive, benevolent, and humble. But performative governance is hard work. Environmental bureaucrats paradoxically work themselves to exhaustion even when they cannot effectively implement environmental policies. Instead of achieving performance legitimacy by delivering material improvements, the stateTrade Review[T]his is a brilliantly written book, which combines perceptively observed vignettes of the routine lives of street-level bureaucrats and citizens with thought-provoking theoretical assertions and debates in order to expose the gap between what China's bureaucrats say they do and what they actually do. It will be of great interest to a wide range of students and researchers. * The China Quarterly *This book sets out to answer this fundamental question. Ding examinesenvironmental governance and applies the metaphor of "performative governance' to characterise the practices of China's environmental bureaucrats. She observes apparently hard-working officials who are held accountable for resolving environmental problems yet have 'little control over either making environmental policies or fixing environmental damage', in a setting wherein 'economic growth still relies on many polluting industries and energy-intensive consumption' * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Statecraft as Stagecraft 1. Anatomy of the State 2. Old Woes and New Pains 3. Beleaguered Bureaucrats 4. Audience Appraisal 5. Performative Breakdown Conclusion: Performance and Performance
£39.60
Cornell University Press Religious Pluralism in Indonesia
Book SynopsisIn 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse religious practice. The essays in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia explore how the state, civil society groups, and individual Indonesians have experienced the attempted integration of minority and majority religious practices and faiths across the archipelagic state over the more than half century since Pancasila. The chapters in Religious Pluralism in Indonesia offer analyses of contemporary phenomena and events; the changing legal and social status of certain minority groups; inter-faith relations; and the role of Islam in Indonesia''s foreign policy. Amidst infringements of human rights, officially recognized minoritiesProtestants, Catholics, Hindus, Buddhists and Confucianshave had occasional success advocating for their rights through the Pancasila framework. Others, from Ahmadi and Shi''i groups Trade ReviewAs this lively, informative multi-author volume shows, Islamists from the beginning argued that Indonesia should be an Islamic state, and they pressed this demand with renewed force after the country's transition to democracy in 1998. * Foreign Affairs *Readers interested in Indonesia from a more comparative perspective might have benefitted from more comparisons from farther afield, but they will gain very useful overviews especially from the first two chapters by Chiara Formichi and Robert Hefner, who skillfully disentangle the complicated landscape of religious and political actors. * The University of British Columbia *Finally, Duncan provides an mportant account of the very real tensions that continue to exist between Christians and Muslims in Maluku and North Maluku. * Sojourn *Table of Contents1. The Limits of Pancasilaasa Framework for Pluralism, by Chiara Formichi 2. Islamism and the Struggle for Inclusive Citizenship in Democratic Indonesia, by Robert Hefner 3. The Rise of Islamist Majoritarianism in Indonesia, by Sidney Jones 4. Making the Majority in the Name of Islam: Democratization, Moderate-Radical Coalition, and Religious Intolerance in Indonesia, by Kikue Hamayotsu 5. Deity Statue Disputed: The Politicization of Religion, Intolerance, and Local Resistance in Tuban, East Java, by Evi Sutrisno 6. The Tragedy of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, by Mona Lohanda 7. Regulating Religion and Recognizing Animist "Beliefs" in Indonesian Law and Life, by Lorraine Aragon 8. From Imposed Order to Conflicting Superdiversity: The Tamil Hindu and Their Neighborsin Medan, by Silvia Vignato 9. Saints, Scholars, and Diplomats: Religious Statecraft and the Problem of "Moderate Islam" in Indonesia, by James Hoesterey 10. Agama Hindu under Pressure from Muslim and Christian Proselytizing, by Michele Picard 11. Dispelling Myths of Religious Pluralism: A Critical Look at Maluku and North Maluku, by Christopher R. Duncan
£97.20
Cornell University Press Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India
Book SynopsisMaking Place for Muslims in Contemporary India looks at how religion provides an arena to make place and challenge the majoritarian, exclusionary, and introverted tendencies of contemporary India.Places do not simply exist. They are made and remade by the acts of individuals and communities at particular historical moments. In India today, the place for Muslims is shrinking as the revanchist Hindu Right increasingly realizes its vision of a Hindu nation. Religion enables Muslims to re-envision India as a different kind of place, one to which they unquestionably belong. Analyzing the religious narratives, practices, and constructions of religious subjectivity of diverse groups of Muslims in Old Delhi, Kalyani Devaki Menon reveals the ways in which Muslims variously contest the insular and singular understandings of nation that dominate the sociopolitical landscape of the country and make place for themselves. Menon shows how religion is concerned not just Trade ReviewThis volume by Menon is a timely exploration of the dynamics of place-creation in modern India. * Choice *Making Place for Muslims in Contemporary India is a valuable document that seriously takes issue with the lives of the people in question. * International Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Landscapes of Inequality 1. A Place for Muslims 2. Gender and Precarity Part 2: Making Place 3. Perfecting the Self 4. Living with Difference 5. Life after Death Conclusion
£22.79
Cornell University Press Useful Bullshit
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDiamant's vivid and trenchant study offers a vital contribution to our understanding of the Chinese constitution as a political tool, both during the Mao era and today. It should be required reading for social scientists, legal scholars, and historians seeking to understand the interplay between state and society in the People's Republic, and the ways in which the Party-state is able to refashion key political instruments like state constitutions to better suit its needs. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Diamant's provocative arguments, sharp prose style, and thoughtful close reading of previously unused historical documentation amply delivers on the promise of his book's arresting cover and transgressive title. * The University of British Columbia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constitutions, Legitimacy, and Interpreting Popular Commentary 1. Officials Read the Draft Constitution 2. The Draft Constitution in China's Business Community 3. Popular Constitutionalism 4. Reading about Rights and Obligations 5. Christians, Buddhists, and Ethnic Minorities 6. Constitutional Afterlives Conclusion: The Meanings of the Constitution and Comparative Perspectives
£97.20
Cornell University Press Unsettled Frontiers
Book SynopsisUnsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market integration, migration, and disruption. The region has been reinvented and depleted as new commodities are exploited and transplanted: from vast French rubber plantations to the enforced collectivization of the Khmer Rouge; from intensive timber extraction to contemporary crop booms. The volatility that follows these changes has often proved challenging to govern. Sango Mahanty explores the role of migration, land claiming, and expansive social and material networks in these transitions, which result in an unsettled frontier, always in flux, where communities continually strive for security within ruptured landscapes.Trade Review[W]hat readers expect is not only a well-rounded ethnography of a market rhizome, but also whether, and to what extent, the state of being in the borderland renders market formation rhizomic. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *The landscapes of Cambodia are unsettled indeed, and Sango Mahanty capyures the frenetic and precarious effects of market formation n the state-created borderlines delineating (or connecting) Cambodia and Vietnam. * Sojourn *Mahanty deftly weaves the story of a particular place within a broader tapestry of shifting market relations and integration, showing how markets are produced through the actions of individuals and families, the policies implemented by governments and other institutions, and the agency of nonhuman nature and the physical environment. Mahanty's accessible prose is complemented by excellent visuals, including clear and detailed maps of her study sites and her own photographs. The result is a text that is clear and compelling in its theoretical arguments but also an excellent resource for those interested in the Vietnam–Cambodia borderlands or the broader question of how markets take hold, how they change over time, and why efforts to govern them often fall short. * Annals of the AAG *Sango Mahanty's Unsettled Frontiers is an excellent addition to literature on Southeast Asian agrarian studies. * Sojourn *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Frontiers in Flux 1. Rubber in French Indochina 2. Market Formation in Tbong Khmum Province 3. Mobilizing Cassava Networks in Mondulkiri 4. Frontier Rupture 5. Intervening in Market Formation Conclusion: Reexamining Frontier Markets
£86.40
Cornell University Press Unsettled Frontiers
Book SynopsisUnsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market integration, migration, and disruption. The region has been reinvented and depleted as new commodities are exploited and transplanted: from vast French rubber plantations to the enforced collectivization of the Khmer Rouge; from intensive timber extraction to contemporary crop booms. The volatility that follows these changes has often proved challenging to govern. Sango Mahanty explores the role of migration, land claiming, and expansive social and material networks in these transitions, which result in an unsettled frontier, always in flux, where communities continually strive for security within ruptured landscapes.Trade Review[W]hat readers expect is not only a well-rounded ethnography of a market rhizome, but also whether, and to what extent, the state of being in the borderland renders market formation rhizomic. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *The landscapes of Cambodia are unsettled indeed, and Sango Mahanty capyures the frenetic and precarious effects of market formation n the state-created borderlines delineating (or connecting) Cambodia and Vietnam. * Sojourn *Mahanty deftly weaves the story of a particular place within a broader tapestry of shifting market relations and integration, showing how markets are produced through the actions of individuals and families, the policies implemented by governments and other institutions, and the agency of nonhuman nature and the physical environment. Mahanty's accessible prose is complemented by excellent visuals, including clear and detailed maps of her study sites and her own photographs. The result is a text that is clear and compelling in its theoretical arguments but also an excellent resource for those interested in the Vietnam–Cambodia borderlands or the broader question of how markets take hold, how they change over time, and why efforts to govern them often fall short. * Annals of the AAG *Sango Mahanty's Unsettled Frontiers is an excellent addition to literature on Southeast Asian agrarian studies. * Sojourn *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Frontiers in Flux 1. Rubber in French Indochina 2. Market Formation in Tbong Khmum Province 3. Mobilizing Cassava Networks in Mondulkiri 4. Frontier Rupture 5. Intervening in Market Formation Conclusion: Reexamining Frontier Markets
£22.49
Cornell University Press The Emergence of Global Maoism
Book SynopsisThe Emergence of Global Maoism examines the spread of Mao Zedong''s writings, ideology, and institutions when they traveled outside of China. Matthew Galway links Chinese Communist Party efforts to globalize Maoism to the dialectical engagement of exported Maoism by Cambodian Maoist intellectuals.How do ideas manifest outside of their place of origin? Galway analyzes how universal ideological systems became localized, both in Mao''s indigenization of Marxism-Leninism and in the Communist Party of Kampuchea''s indigenization of Maoism into its own revolutionary ideology. By examining the intellectual journeys of CPK leaders who, during their studies in Paris in the 1950s, became progressive activist-intellectuals and full-fledged Communists, he shows that they responded to political and socioeconomic crises by speaking back to Maoismadapting it through practice, without abandoning its universality. Among Mao''s greatest achievements, the Sinification of MaTrade Review[The Emergence of Global Maoism] overcomes some of those challenges to shed new empirical and theoretical light on how revolutionary thought "travelled." * China Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Discovering Truth through Practice: Mao Zedong Thought Conceived and Implemented, 1927–1965 2. Transmitting Maoism: Mao's Global Revolution, 1965–1975 3. The Origins of Cambodia's Maoist Vision: Revolutionary Intellectuals and Maoism, 1949–1955 4. Integrating Truth with Concrete Practice: Intellectual Adaptations of Maoism, 1955–1965 5. Like Desiccated Straw in the Ricefields: Practical and Normative Adaptations of Maoism, 1966–1975 6. "We Must Combine Theory and Practice": The Implementation of Cambodia's Maoist Vision, 1975–1979 Conclusion
£43.20
Cornell University Press Diasporic Cold Warriors
Book SynopsisIn Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia''s most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region was more vigilant in identifying and rooting out suspected communists from within its midst; none was as committed to mobilizing against the People''s Republic of China as the one in the former US colony. Ironically, for all the fears of overseas Chinese communities'' ties to the PRC at the time, the example of the Philippines shows that the China that intervened the most extensively in any Southeast Asian Chinese society during the Cold War was the Republic of China on Taiwan. For the first time, Kung tells the story of the Philippine Chinese as pro-TaTrade ReviewDiasporic Cold Warriors is a well-researched, well-written and absorbing historical work. * London School of Economics and Political Science *
£43.20
Cornell University Press Banking on Growth Models
Book SynopsisBanking on Growth Models contends that China''s rapid economic rise from the late 1970s to today has been built on and shaped by a highly politicized and inefficient bank-centric financial system. Stephen Bell and Hui Feng argue that if the Chinese growth model drives how key economic sectors interact, no amount of incremental reform can have much impact on the financial systemmeaningful reform can stem only from a revised growth model.For a time after the global financial crisis, it appeared that the expansion of a more market-oriented shadow banking system might help sustain China''s economic growth. Since around 2015, however, Xi Jinping''s regime has reversed this trajectory and placed China''s financial system under heavy state control, resulting in slowed economic development and skyrocketing national debt. China''s market transition and economic rebalancing are now in doubt, as is the fate of the nation''s economy. By pinpointing finance as a vitalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Interactions Between China's Growth Model and the Financial System 2. Interests, Ideas, Institutions and the Politics of Banking and Economic Reform in China 3. Growth Model Reform and the Banks as the State's Cashier, 1979-96 4. Quick Fix Banking Reforms after the Asian Crisis, 1997-2002 5. Further Banking Reforms, 2003-8 6. The GFC and State Capitalism on Steroids 7. The GFC Critical Juncture and the Rise of Shadow Banking 8. Shadow Banking After the GFC 9. The Politics of Banking Regulation and Reform 10. Mounting Debt and Lurking Risks 11. China's Troubled Road to Economic Rebalancing Conclusion
£37.40
Cornell University Press Why Would I Be Married Here
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReena Kukreja's exceptional book reviews the multiple markers of oppression and victimhood that women face in rural north India. * Indian Express *Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives. * New Books Network *Kukreja has written a theoretically rich book that combines Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks. * Choice *
£86.40
Cornell University Press The Candidates Dilemma
Book SynopsisIn The Candidate''s Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their electioneering strategies over the course of their campaigns.As they campaign, candidates encounter pressure from the institutional rules that guide elections, political parties, and voters, and must also negotiate complex social relationships to remain competitive. For anticorruption candidates, this context presents additional challenges for building and maintaining their identities. Some of these candidates establish their campaign parameters early and are able to stay their course. For others, the campaign trail results in an avalanche of compromises, each one eating away at their sense of what constitutes moral and acceptable behavior. The Candidate''s Dilemma delves into the lived experiences of candidates to offer a nuanced study of how the Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Competitive Elections and Campaign Behavior 2. Corruption and Leveraging Anticorruptionism 3. Standing His Ground 4. Bowing to Pressure 5. Experienced and Pragmatic 6. Campaigns, Context, and Consequences Conclusion
£23.39
Cornell University Press Why Would I Be Married Here
Book SynopsisWhy Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves. Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India. Why Would I Be Married Here? reveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India''s marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, tTrade ReviewReena Kukreja's exceptional book reviews the multiple markers of oppression and victimhood that women face in rural north India. * Indian Express *Why Would I Be Married Here? offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives. * New Books Network *Kukreja has written a theoretically rich book that combines Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks. * Choice *
£26.99
Cornell University Press Inglorious Illegal Bastards
Book SynopsisIn Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)the postWorld War II Japanese militaryand specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence.From the early iterations of the GSDF as the Police Reserve Force and the National Safety Force, through its establishment as the largest and most visible branch of the armed forces, the GSDF deployed an array of public outreach and public service initiatives, including off-base and on-base events, civil engineering projects, and natural disaster relief operations. Internally, the GSDF focused on indoctrination of its personnel to fashion a reconfigured patriotism and esprit de corps. These efforts to gain legitimacy achieved some success and influenced the public over time, but they did not just change society. They also transformed the force itself, as iTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Pursuit of Legitimacy and Military-Society Integration 1. The Police Reserve Force and the US Army 2. Establishing the National Defense Academy and Overcoming the Past 3. Becoming a "Beloved Self-Defense Force" in Hokkaido and Beyond 4. Public Service/Public Relations during Anpo, the Olympics, and the Mishima Incident 5. The Return of the "Japanese Army" to Okinawa Epilogue: Whither the SDF and the Cold War Defense Identity?
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Cornell University Press Celebrating Sorrow
Book SynopsisCelebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises to the imperial throne. Charo B. D''Etcheverry translates a selection of Sagoromo-themed works, highlighting the diversity of medieval Japanese creative practice and the persistent and varied influence of a beloved court tale. Medieval Japanese readers, fascinated by Sagoromo''s sorrows and success, were inspired to retell his tale in stories, songs, poetry, and drama. By recontextualizing the tale''s poems and writing new libretti, stories, and commentaries about the tale, these medieval aristocrats, warriors, and commoners expressed their competing concerns and ambitions during a chaotic period in Japanese history, as well as their shifting understandings of the tale itself. By traTrade ReviewCelebrating Sorrow shows the richness and enduring relevance of Japanese classical and medieval literature. * New Books Network *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Sagoromo Middle Captain 2. Sagoromo: The Wisconsin Collection 3. "Sagoromo's Sleeves" and "Sagoromo's Skirts" 4. Sagoromo: Narrow Robes 5. Excerpt from Sagoromo's Undersash
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Cornell University Press Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music
Book SynopsisSounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on Indonesian media, editors Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller expand the scope of Indonesian music studies. Essays analyzing the perception of decline among gamelan musicians in Central Java; changes in performing arts patronage in Bali; how gamelan communities form between Bali and North America; and reflecting on the refusion of American mathcore and Balinese gamelan offer new perspectives on more familiar topics.Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music calls for a new paradigm in popular music studies, grapples with the imperative to decolonTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Andrew McGraw and Christopher J. Miller Part I: Musical Communities 1. Harmonic Egalitarianism in Toba Palm Wine Stands and Studios, by Julia Byl 2. The Evolution of Performing Arts Patronage in Bali, Indonesia, by I Nyoman Catra 3. Beyond the Banjar: Community, Education, and Gamelan in North America, by Elizabeth A. Clendinning 4. Decline and Promise: Observations from a Present-Day Pangrawit, by Darsono Hadiraharjo and Maho A. Ishiguro Part II: Music, Religion, and Civil Society 5. Singing "Naked" Verses: Interactive Intimacies and Islamic Moralities in Saluang Performances in West Sumatra, by Jennifer Fraser 6. From Texts to Invocation: Wayang Puppet Play from the North Coast of Java, by Sumarsam 7. The Politicization of Religious Melody in the Indonesian Culture Wars of 2017, by Anne K. Rasmussen Part III: Popular Musics and Media 8. The Vernacular Cosmopolitanism of an Indonesian Rock Band: Navicula's Creative and Activist Pathways, by Rebekah E. Moore 9. Keroncong in the United States, by Danis Sugiyanto 10. Reformasi-Era Popular Music Studies: Reflections of an Anti-Anti-Essentialist, by Jeremy Wallach 11. Indonesian Regional Music on VCD: Inclusion, Exclusion, Fusion, by Philip Yampolsky Part IV: Sound Beyond and As Music 12. A Radical Story of Noise Music from Indonesia, by Dimitri della Faille and Cedrik Fermont 13. Audible Knowledge: Exploring Sound in Indonesian Musik Kontemporer, by Christopher J. Miller Part V: Music, Gender, and Sexuality 14. "Even Stronger Yet!": Gender and Embodiment in Balinese Youth Arja, by Bethany J. Collier 15. A Prolegomenon to Female Rampak Kendang (Choreographed Group Drumming) in West Java, by Henry Spiller 16. Approaching the Magnetic Power of Femaleness through Cross-Gender Dance Performance in Malang, East Java, by Christina Sunardi Part VI: Perspectives from Practice 17. Nines on Teaching Beginning Gamelan, by Jody Diamond 18. "Fix Your Face": Performing Attitudes Between Mathcore and Beleganjur, by I Putu Tangkas Hiranmayena 19. Wanbayaning: Voicing a Transcultural Islamic Feminist Exegesis, by Jessica Kenney Contributors Index
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Cornell University Press Narratives of Civic Duty
Book SynopsisIn Narratives of Civic Duty, Aram Hur investigates the impulse behind a sense of civic duty in democracies. Why do some citizens feel a responsibility to vote, pay taxes, or take up arms in defense of one''s country? Through comparing democratic societies in East Asia and elsewhere, Hur shows that the sense of obligation to be a good citizenupon which the resilience of a democracy dependsemerges from a force long thought to be detrimental to democracy itself: national attachments.Nationalism''s illiberal and exclusive tendencies are typically viewed as disruptive to democratic processes, but Hur argues that there is nothing inherently antidemocratic about nationalism. Rather, whether nationalism helps or hinders democracy is shaped by the historicized relationship between a national people and their democratic state. When national stories portray that relationship as one of mutual commitment, nationalism strengthens democracies by motivating widespTable of ContentsPart I 1. Duty, against the Odds 2. A National Theory of Civic Duty Part II 3. National Stories in South Korea and Taiwan 4. Strong Civic Duty in the Name of Nation in South Korea 5. Weak Civic Duty and Fragmented Nation in Taiwan Part III 6. Stunted Civic Duty in Reunified Germany 7. Nationalism and Civic Duty across the World 8. Civic Challenges to Democracy in East Asia
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Cornell University Press The MadeUp State
Book SynopsisIn The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia''s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty. The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of male and female. As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. The Made-Up State illuminates warias as part of the social and technological format of state rule, which has given rise to new possibilities fTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Public Gender 1. Banci, before Waria 2. Jakarta, 1968 3. The Perfect Woman 4. Beauty Experts 5. National Glamour Conclusion: Making Up the State
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Cornell University Press The MadeUp State
Book SynopsisIn The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia''s trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public sphere. Combining historical and ethnographic research, Hegarty traces the participation of warias in visual and bodily technologies, ranging from psychiatry and medical transsexuality to photography and feminine beauty. The concept of development deployed by the modern Indonesian state relies on naturalizing the binary of male and female. As historical brokers between gender as a technological system of classifying human difference and state citizenship, warias shaped the contours of modern selfhood even while being positioned as nonconforming within it. The Made-Up State illuminates warias as part of the social and technological format of state rule, which has given rise to new possibilities fTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Public Gender 1. Banci, before Waria 2. Jakarta, 1968 3. The Perfect Woman 4. Beauty Experts 5. National Glamour Conclusion: Making Up the State
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Cornell University Press Places in Knots
Book SynopsisTracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work and trouble of keeping their communities tied together. Martin Saxer describes global Himalayan ventures as a form of expansion of community rather than out-migration. Moving out does not sever the bonds of community. Instead, it is the pull that tightens the knot.Coffee-table books and trekking agencies continue to advertise the Himalayas as remote hidden valleys, and NGOs see them as fragile mountain ecosystems to be protected from global forces of destruction. Places in Knots shows how these tropes of remoteness inform development and conservation policies and thus shape the contexts in which Himalayan connections with the wider world are forged and maintained. Following Himalayan journeys between valleys in Nepal and beyond, Saxer draws a picture of globalizatiTable of ContentsPrologue: Juggling Worlds Introduction Part 1: Locality and Community 1. Tying Places into Knots 2. Moving In, Moving Up, Moving Out Interlude: A Son's Uncertain Ambitions 3. Binding Rules Part 2: Pathways 4. The Business of Wayfaring 5. A Quest for Roads Interlude: A Mound of Rice 6. The Labor of Distribution Part 3: Interventions Interlude: Kailash - Truly Sacred 7. Curation at Large 8. Landscapes, Dreamscapes 9. Mapping Mountains 10. Translating Ambitions Epilogue: Navidad Bibliography
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Cornell University Press Governing Death Making Persons
Book SynopsisGoverning Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into modern citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned.Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of indTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Funeral Industry and the Making of Market Subjects 1. Civil Governance 2. Market Governance 3. The Fragile Middle Part 2: Death Ritual and Pluralist Subjectivity 4. Individualism, Interrupted 5. Dying Socialist in "Capitalist" Shanghai 6. Dying Religious in a Socialist Ritual 7. Pluralism, Interrupted Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Diaspora SpaceTime
Book SynopsisDiaspora Space-Time explores the transformations of Pine Mansiona Shenzhen former emigrant communityand its members'' changing relationship with their diaspora around the world. For more than a century, inhabitants of Shenzhen''s villages have migrated to Southeast Asia, the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. With China''s economic global ascendancy, these villages no longer consist of peasants dependent on their rich overseas relatives. As the villages have become part of the special economic zone of Shenzhen, the megacity that embodies China''s rise, emigration has waned.Lineage ties have long been central in choosing migration destinations and channeling donations to village projects. After China''s reopening, Shenzhen''s villagers used diaspora as a resource to participate in the city''s booming economy and to reestablish and protect their ritual sites against government plans. As overseas financial contributions diminish and diasporic relaTrade ReviewOverall, this book presents a compelling case study of Overseas Chinese and contributes to the field of diaspora studies in two signi!cant ways. * China Perspectives *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Shenzhen and the Diasporic Relationship 1. A Globalized Lineage 2. The Shifting Landscape of Donations 3. Collective Funds and the Moral Economy of Surplus 4. Saving the Ancestral Sites, Mobilizing for the Public Good 5. Reversed Feng Shui and Sociodicies of (Im)mobility 6. Ritual Renewal and Spatiotemporal Fusion 7. Returning to One's Roots through Journeys and Quests 8. Global Brotherhood without Close Kin Conclusion: Chinese Globalization and the Changing Value of Scales
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Cornell University Press Governing Neighborhoods in Urban China
Book SynopsisGoverning Neighborhoods in Urban China examines the key mechanisms operating at the grassroots level in China that contribute to urban development and increased public support for the legitimacy and authority of the Chinese state. Beibei Tang uncovers new trends and dynamics of urban neighborhood governance since the 2000s to reveal the significant factors that contribute to regime survival. Tang introduces the concept of hybrid authoritarianism, a governance mechanism an authoritarian state employs to produce governance legitimacy, public support, and regime sustainability. Hybrid authoritarianism is situated in an intermediary governance space between state and society. It accommodates both state and non-state actors, deals with a wide range of governance issues, employs flexible governance strategies, and in this context, ultimately strengthens CCP leadership. Tang documents processes of hybrid authoritarianism through her focus on various types
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Cornell University Press Khmer Nationalist
Book SynopsisKhmer Nationalist is a political history of Cambodia from World War II until 1975, examining the central role of Sõn Ng?c Thành. It is a story of nationalistic independence movements, political intrigue, coup attempts, war, and American intelligence. The rise of Cambodian nationalism, the brief period of Japanese dominance, the fight for independence from France, and the establishment of ties with the United States that kept Sihanouk on edge until his downfallin all of these, as Matthew Jagel shows, Thành was fundamental.Khmer Nationalist reveals how Cambodian nationalism grew during the twilight of French colonialism and faced new geopolitical challenges during the Cold War. Thành''s story brings greater understanding to the end of French colonialism in Cambodia, nationalism in post-colonial societies, Cold War realities for countries caught between competing powers, and how the United States responded while the Vietnam War intensified.
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Cornell University Press Remaking the Chinese Empire
Book SynopsisRemaking the Chinese Empire examines China''s development from an empire into a modern state through the lens of Sino-Korean political relations during the Qing period. Incorporating Korea into the historical narrative of the Chinese empire, it demonstrates that the Manchu regime used its relations with Choson Korea to establish, legitimize, and consolidate its identity as the civilized center of the world, as a cosmopolitan empire, and as a modern sovereign state.For the Manchu regime and for the Choson Dynasty, the relationship was one of mutual dependence, central to building and maintaining political legitimacy. Yuanchong Wang illuminates how this relationship served as the very model for China''s foreign relations. Ultimately, this precipitated contests, conflicts, and compromises among empires and states in East Asia, Inner Asia, and Southeast Asia in particular, in the nineteenth century when international law reached the Chinese world. By adoptinTrade ReviewDeftly drawing his evidences from Manchu, Korean, and Chinese sources, the author successfully presents a complicated picture of the "age-honored China and Korea relations." This is a must-read for historians of China and Korea as well as for anyone interested in international relations. * Choice *Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire is an innovative exploration of Sino-Korean relations during the Chosŏn period. * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture *This inspiring book takes us a step forward toward a more interactive, and less national-history-oriented, understanding of Qing-Chosŏn relations. Full of intriguing observations and thought-provoking syntheses, it joins Kenneth M. Swope and Seonmin Kim in revising the Sino-Korean relations in late imperial China, a perennial subject that attracts both specialists and general readers. * Asian Affairs *This book's ambition goes beyond an account of Sino-Korean relations in the early modern period. Remaking the Chinese Empire is arguably the most comprehensive and sophisticated study on the Qing-Chosŏn relationship by far. * The Journal of Chinese Studies *The first full-length English-language exploration of the entirety of Qing-Choson relations, Remaking the Chinese Empire will be required reading for anyone interested in Qing or Choson history or in East Asian foreign relations or international relations more broadly. Drawing on a rich and varied base of Chinese, Manchu, Korean, English, Japanese, and other sources and boldly sketching new ways of conceptualizing East Asian foreign relations. The book will be an indispensable part of any conversation about these issues. * The Journal of Asian Studies *A major contribution to Sino-Korean history. Wang's writing is clear and engaging, much appreciated when dealing with a topic that is so easily bogged down with fusty and confusing reference to vassals, enfeoffment, tribute missions, and the like. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Qing history and East Asian diplomacy. * American Historical Review *Yuanchong Wang's Remaking the Chinese Empire offers a helpful analytical framework. Wang shows us in great detail how the geopolitical developments of the late nineteenth century severely tested the foundation of the Zongfan infrastructure. * Saksaha *
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Cornell University Press Useful Bullshit
Book SynopsisIn Useful Bullshit Neil J. Diamant pulls back the curtain on early constitutional conversations between citizens and officials in the PRC. Scholars have argued that China, like the former USSR, promulgated constitutions to enhance its domestic and international legitimacy by opening up the constitution-making process to ordinary people, and by granting its citizens political and socioeconomic rights. But what did ordinary officials and people say about their constitutions and rights? Did constitutions contribute to state legitimacy? Over the course of four decades, the PRC government encouraged millions of citizens to pose questions about, and suggest revisions to, the draft of a new constitution. Seizing this opportunity, people asked both straightforward questions like what is a state?, but also others that, through implication, harshly criticized the document and the government that sponsored it. They pressed officials to clarify the meaning of Trade ReviewDiamant's vivid and trenchant study offers a vital contribution to our understanding of the Chinese constitution as a political tool, both during the Mao era and today. It should be required reading for social scientists, legal scholars, and historians seeking to understand the interplay between state and society in the People's Republic, and the ways in which the Party-state is able to refashion key political instruments like state constitutions to better suit its needs. * Journal of Chinese Political Science *Diamant's provocative arguments, sharp prose style, and thoughtful close reading of previously unused historical documentation amply delivers on the promise of his book's arresting cover and transgressive title. * The University of British Columbia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Constitutions, Legitimacy, and Interpreting Popular Commentary 1. Officials Read the Draft Constitution 2. The Draft Constitution in China's Business Community 3. Popular Constitutionalism 4. Reading about Rights and Obligations 5. Christians, Buddhists, and Ethnic Minorities 6. Constitutional Afterlives Conclusion: The Meanings of the Constitution and Comparative Perspectives
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Cornell University Press Mr. X and the Pacific
Book SynopsisGeorge F. Kennan is well known as the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the author of the doctrine of containment. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer chronicles and assesses Kennan''s work in affecting US policy toward East Asia. Heer traces the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan''s strategic perspective on the Far East during his time as director of the State Department''s Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 1950. The author follows Kennan''s career and evolution of his thinking as he subsequently became a prominent critic of American participation in the Vietnam War. Mr. X and the Pacific offers readers a new view of Kennan, revealing his importance and the totality of his role in East Asia policy, his struggle with American foreign policy in the region, and the ways in which Kennan''s legacy still has implications for how the United States approaches the region in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched and well-crafted.... Paul Heer’s insightful look into George Kennan’s views of the region during the early years of the Cold War can help us better understand and cope with the geopolitical challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. * Asian Review of Books *Heer's work is clearly written, widely researched, fair and balanced in its assessments, and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the influence of, and contradictory ideas sometimes held by, one of the most important foreign policymakers in the twentieth century. The organization by theme or nation works well due both to the nature of the material and to Heer's brief yet clear reminders of how one topic fits into another when appropriate. Also, although begun in the 1990s, as Heer explains in his opening, the work is quite timely. In the current international environment, a study that examines warnings against miscalculating America's interests, if not also capabilities, in East Asia is a welcome reminder that such miscalculations can often have serious and lasting ramifications for both the United States and the people in the region. * H-Diplo *There are insightful references to Kennan's hopes for reconciliation with Japan and China and much detail on Kennan's frustrations with US strategy changes in the Pacific and with Dean Acheson's replacing George Marshall as secretary of state. * Choice *[W]hat Heer has done in Mr. X and the Pacific is a success. His sober narrative proves worthy of his subject's powerful intellect in its careful analysis of the nuances of the historical record. * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *There has been no monograph focusing solely on Kennan's role in formulating U.S. Cold War policy in Asia, until Paul Heer's Mr. X and the Pacific. Heer's study meticulously traces Kennan's views of Asian countries and evaluates positive and negative legacies of Kennan's policy recommendations on the region. * Pacific Historical Review *Although known primarily as a Sovietologist, Kennan played a vital role in early Cold War US policy in East Asia, primarily with respect to the Chinese civil war and US policy in occupied Japan. Those several years are the primary focus of intelligence analyst-cum-scholar Paul Heer's meticulous and well-balanced critical study of Kennan's involvement in US East Asia policy. * PACIFIC AFFAIRS *Mr. X and the Pacific sheds light on how containment applied to East Asia... For those who are interested in US grand strategy in East Asia, especially in the era of the Cold War, this book is a must read. * H-War *
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Cornell University Press Between War and the State
Book SynopsisIn Between War and the State, Van Nguyen-Marshall examines an array of voluntary activities, including mutual-help, professional, charitable, community development, student, women''s, and rights organizations active in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975. By bringing focus to the public lives of South Vietnamese people, Between War and the State challenges persistent stereotypes of South Vietnam as a place without society or agency. Such robust associational life underscores how an active civil society survived despite difficulties imposed by the war, government restrictions, economic hardship, and external political forces. These competing political forces, which included the United States, Western aid agencies, and Vietnamese communist agents, created a highly competitive arena wherein the South Vietnamese state did not have a monopoly on persuasive or coercive power. To maintain its influence, the state sometimes needed to accommodate groups and limTable of ContentsIntroduction: Theory and Scope 1. The Historical and Political Landscape 2. Sociability and Associational Life in South Vietnam 3. Performing Social Service in South Vietnam 4. Voluntary Efforts in Social and Community Development 5. Social and Political Activism of Students in South Vietnam 6. S.ng Thn Newspaper and the "Highway of Horror" Project 7. The Fight for Rights and Freedoms in the 1970s Conclusion: Challenges and Possibilities in Comparative Context
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Cornell University Press The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier
Book SynopsisIn The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner provides the first in-depth study of an ethnic minority region during the first decade of the People''s Republic of China: the Amdo region in the Sino-Tibetan borderland. Employing previously inaccessible local archives as well as other rare primary sources, he demonstrates that the Communist Party''s goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community.As Weiner shows, however, early efforts to gradually and organically transform a vast multiethnic empire into a singular nation-state lost out to a revolutionary impatience, demanding more immediate paths to national integration and socialist transformation. This led in 1958 to communization, then to large-scale rebellion and its brutal pacification. Rather than joinTrade ReviewAccidental Holy Land is validation that in the right hands these types of state-published collections, despite having undergone unclear processes of editorial curation, can be used to fashion empirically rich and highly original reassessments of the past that undermine both grand narratives and unduly deterministic conclusions. * The University of British Columbia *The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier provides valuable detail on how the party tackled the problem of establishing control in an area culturally, linguistically, economically and politically so different from the interior. Seldom is the veil lifted from Tibet, which makes Weiner's chronicles all the more worth reading. * The Economist *Utilizing never before available documents, Weiner has given us a fascinating, detailed insider's look at the discussions, disagreements, problems, orders, and more during this critical period of consolidation of power and nation-building this important, distinctly written and meticulously documented study provides critical insight into an area and period that we have known far too little about. * Critical Asian Studies *Benno Weiner is undeniably a serious thinker, and The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier is a fascinating and important book. It's going to be a while until the next one of these comes along. * LA Review of Books *A landmark study. Accessibly written, this book will be of value to all students of PRC history and indeed Communist regimes. An impressive and timely achievement. * Twentieth-Century China *Pathbreaking. [A] superb contribution to the literature on the early years of Chinese Communist rule over Tibet. * The Journal of American-East Asian Relations *In The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier, Benno Weiner masterfully reconstructs the CCP's colonial encroachment on the Tibetan-speaking population of Amdo during the 1950s. * Journal of Asian Studies *The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier offers precious insights into a hidden history. * Foreign Affairs *This book will become a must-read overseas in the field of ethnic history of China's periphery. * The China Review *This book is a remarkable contribution to our understanding of this era as state archival material from this period is rarely accessible to researchers. [The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier is] a landmark publication in modern Tibetan history, early PRC history and the history of Chinese nation-building in its frontier regions. This book should be required reading for anybody interested in the history of Sino-Tibetan relations or modern Chinese nation-building. * The London School of Economics and Political Science *Benno Weiner's excellent book makes two main contributions to what we know about the history of the Amdo / Qinghai region in western China. His careful empirical narrativization of the political history of the southern Qinghai highlands from the 1940s to the 1960s is pathbreaking, detailed, and nuanced. Second, his focus on the United Front as a set of ideas and policies similarly establishes a compelling baseline framework for regional and national historical analyses that connect the imperial past, Chinese socialism, and the Xi Jinping present. But Weiner also makes an important contribution to how we ought to think about the region. * Journal of Chinese History *Benno Weiner's The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier is a detailed and powerful account of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempted to incorporate Tibetans living in Amdo into the newly created Chinese socialist nation-state in the 1950s; Scholars of empire, nationalism and socialism in East Asia and Inner Asia will significantly benefit from reading it. * The China Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Amdo, Empire, and the United Front 1. Amdo at the Edge of Empire 2. If You Kill the County Head, How Will I Explain Itto the Communist Party? 3. Becoming Masters of Their Own Home(under the Leadership of the Party) 4. Establishing a Foundation among the Masses 5. High Tide on the High Plateau 6. Tibetans Do the Housework, but Han Are the Masters 7. Reaching the Sky in a Single Step—The Amdo Rebellion 8. Empty Stomachs and Unforgivable Crimes Conclusion: Amdo and the End of Empire?
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Cornell University Press Strangers in the Family
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Cornell University Press The Minjian AvantGarde
Book SynopsisThe Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the volatile and diverse public of the post-Mao era. Departing from the usual emphasis on art institutions, global markets, or artists'' communities, Chang Tan proposes a new analytical framework in the theories of socially engaged art that stresses the critical agency of participants, the affective functions of objects, and the versatility of the artists in diverse sociopolitical spheres.Drawing from hitherto untapped archival materials and interviews with the artists, Tan challenges the views of Chinese artists as either dissidents or conformists to the regime and sees them as navigators and negotiators among diverse political discourses and interests. She questions the fetishization of marginalized communities among practitioners of progressive art and politics, arguing that the members of minjian are often mor
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Cornell University Press Selling the Future
Book SynopsisIn Selling the Future, Ryan Moran explains how the life insurance industry in Japan exploited its association with mutuality and community to commodify and govern lives. Covering the years from the start of the industry in 1881 through the end of World War II, Moran describes insurance companies and government officials working together to create a picture of the future as precarious and dangerous. Since it was impossible for individual consumers to deal with every contingency on their own, insurance industry administrators argued that their usage of statistical data enabled them to chart the predictable future for the aggregate. Through insurance, companies and the state thus offered consumers a means to a perfectible future in an era filled with repeated crises. Life insurance functioned as an important modernist technology within Japan and its colonies to instantiate expectations for responsibility, to reconfigure meanings of mutuality, and to n
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Cornell University Press When Food Became Scarce
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Cornell University Press InterAsian Intimacies across Race Religion and
Book SynopsisIn InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective violence. Over the course of the twentieth century relations between Burmese Muslims, Sino-Burmese, Indo-Burmese, and other mixed families and communities became flashpoints for far-reaching legal reforms and Buddhist revivalist, feminist, and nationalist campaigns aimed at consigning minority Asians to subordinate status and regulating women's conjugal and reproductive choices. Out of these efforts emerged understandings of religion, race, and nation that continue to vex Burma and its neighbors today. Combining multilingual archival research with family history and intergenerational storytelling, Ikeya highlights how the people targeted by such movements made and remade their lives under the shifting circumstances of colonialism, capi
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Stanford University Press Beyond the Pass: Economy, Ethnicity, and Empire
Book SynopsisAs analysis of the revenue available to Qing garrisons in Xinjiang reveals, imperial control over the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries depended upon sizeable yearly subsidies from China. In an effort to satisfy criticism of their expansion into Xinjiang and make the territory pay for itself, the Qing court permitted local authorities great latitude in fiscal matters and encouraged the presence of Han and Chinese Muslim merchants. At the same time, the court recognized the potential for unrest posed by Chinese mercantile penetration of this Muslim, Turkic-speaking area. They consequently attempted, through administrative and legal means, to defend the native Uyghur population against economic depredation. This ethnic policy reflected a conception of the realm that was not Sinocentric, but rather placed the Uyghur on a par with Han Chinese. Both this ethnic policy and Xinjiang’s place in the realm shifted following a series of invasions from western Turkestan starting in the 1820’s. Because of the economic importance of Chinese merchants and the efficacy of merchant militia in Xinjiang, the Qing court revised its policies in their favor, for the first time allowing permanent Han settlement in the area. At the same time, the court began to advocate provincehood and the Sinicization of Xinjiang as a resolution to the perennial security problem. These shifts, the author argues, marked the beginning of a reconception of China to include Inner Asian lands and peoples—a notion that would, by the twentieth century, become a deeply held tenet of Chinese nationalism.Trade Review-Peter C. Perdue, -Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Stanford University Press Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family
Book SynopsisHistorical novels can be windows into other cultures and eras, but it's not always clear what's fact and what's fiction. Thousands have read Ba Jin's influential novel Family, but few realize how much he shaped his depiction of 1920s China to suit his story and his politics. In Fact in Fiction, Kristin Stapleton puts Ba Jin's bestseller into full historical context, both to illustrate how it successfully portrays human experiences during the 1920s and to reveal its historical distortions. Stapleton's attention to historical evidence and clear prose that directly addresses themes and characters from Family create a book that scholars, students, and general readers will enjoy. She focuses on Chengdu, China, Ba Jin's birthplace and the setting for Family, which was also a cultural and political center of western China. The city's richly preserved archives allow Stapleton to create an intimate portrait of a city that seemed far from the center of national politics of the day but clearly felt the forces of—and contributed to—the turbulent stream of Chinese history.Trade Review"What a marvelous resource for literature and world history courses! Stapleton provides invaluable insights on one of the most widely read modern Chinese novels, Ba Jin's Family. Beautifully written, Fact in Fiction invites students to research Chinese society and literature, and to explore how fiction shapes historical understanding. An excellent contribution!"—Roberta Martin, Columbia University"This book is beautifully written and a real pleasure to read. It offers a useful complement to Family that will enable readers to understand the social context and political implications of Ba Jin's work. It is also an instructive example of how to read literary sources with attention to their motivation and historical context."—Henrietta Harrison, University of Oxford"With insightful readings and incisive research Kristin Stapleton illustrates how Ba Jin captured the emotional truth about idealistic students in the May Fourth era while over-simplifying the history. The book is a beautiful demonstration of the ways historical research can enhance our understanding of fiction, and fiction can enrich our understanding of history."—Paul S. Ropp, Clark University"By placing Ba Jin's popular novels in the tangible urban environment in early twentieth-century Chengdu, Stapleton provides a wonderful window through which we see a cross-section of Chengdu society"—Zhao Ma, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ba Jin's Fiction and Twentieth-Century Chinese History 1. Mingfeng: The Life of a Chinese Slave Girl 2. The Patriarch: Chengdu's Gentry 3. Juexin's City: The Chengdu Economy 4. Sedan-Chair Bearers, Beggars, Actors, and Prostitutes: The Worlds of the Urban Poor 5. Students, Soldiers, and Warlords: Protest and Warfare in the City 6. Qin: Chengdu and the "New Woman" 7. Juehui: Revolution, Reform, and Development in Chengdu Epilogue: Family and City in China's Twentieth-Century Revolutions
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Stanford University Press The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in
Book SynopsisChina's 1911 Revolution was a momentous political transformation. Its leaders, however, were not rebellious troublemakers on the periphery of imperial order. On the contrary, they were a powerful political and economic elite deeply entrenched in local society and well-respected both for their imperially sanctioned cultural credentials and for their mastery of new ideas. The revolution they spearheaded produced a new, democratic political culture that enshrined national sovereignty, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people as indisputable principles. Based upon previously untapped Qing and Republican sources, The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is a nuanced and colorful chronicle of the revolution as it occurred in local and regional areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the ideas that motivated the revolution, the popularization of those ideas, and their animating impact on the Chinese people at large. The focus of the book is not on the success or failure of the revolution, but rather on the transformative effect that revolution has on people and what they learn from it.Trade Review"While encompassing institutional and social history of the Republican Revolution in China, Zheng successfully breaks new ground by conceptualizing the era's political activism—its struggles and passions—around rights, law, and most of all, constitutionalism. This is the story of the birth of modern politics in China, whose historical messages remain valuable to the present day." -- Prasenjit Duara * Duke University *"A major contribution to the historiography of the 1911 Revolution, this book illuminates the events leading to the birth of the Chinese republic in a context wherein the propagation of new ideas prepared both elites and commoners to turn against the Qing government. Zheng depicts, in vivid and compelling detail, the constitutional movement and the 1911 Revolution in Sichuan, without losing sight of nationwide developments." -- Li Huaiyin * University of Texas at Austin *"In this powerful, original analysis, Xiaowei Zheng traces the genealogy of 'constitutionalism' and the transformation of elite consciousness in the last decades of the Qing dynasty. She analyzes both political culture and electoral politics and skillfully tacks between local and national levels. This is the best book on the 1911 Revolution to appear in many years, and it will be the point of departure for all future research on the subject." -- Matthew Sommer * Stanford University *"This study offers an important new framework for understanding China's 1911 Revolution by bringing intellectual change to the fore as the most decisive factor in creating the conditions for revolution." -- Edward McCord * China Review International *"The Chinese Revolution of 1911 toppled the Qing dynasty and established a republic. In this thoughtful, well-written work, Zheng argues that the revolution ushered in a new political culture of respect for the equality and rights of citizens, formed in response to the imperialist threat to the nation." -- K.E. Stapleton * Choice *"The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China should be mandatory reading for all scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century China." -- Peter J. Carroll * Twentieth-Century China *"[A] considerable accomplishment in this impressive book....The repeated failures to establish the requisite political and institutional structures to successfully translate the emergence of this potent force into genuine, orderly, and meaningful political participation of the Chinese people in the management of their own country is, indeed, the tragedy of the Chinese revolution." -- Michael Tsin * American Historical Review *"The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is worth the attention of every student of modern China." -- Peter Zarrow * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Political Transformation of 1911 chapter abstractThe rereads the events of 1911 and introduces my key research question. In addition, it asserts the innovativeness of the methodology, the sources, and the lens used in this book. 1Sichuan and the Old Regime chapter abstractChapter One articulates the old regime and its collaborative model between the elite and the state in Sichuan. A rich and self-sufficient region, Sichuan was only fully incorporated into the Qing Empire in the 1850s. Soon after, the collaborative model between the elite and the state was called into question as population growth, foreign invasions, and various new tasks a strained Qing central government had to fulfill generated enormous tension in local society, eroding the established power configurations and destabilizing the old regime. 2The Ideas of Revolution: Equality, the People's Rights , and Popular Sovereignty chapter abstractChapter Two examines the most formative intellectual influences on the Sichuan constitutionalists. Like their cohorts from other provinces, the Sichuan constitutionalists took Liang Qichao as their spiritual leader. Most of them had studied at Hosei University in Japan, where they were also heavily influenced by the French legal tradition, especially its key concepts of rights, equality, and popular sovereignty. Their exposure to radical political thought while studying in Japan, in addition to reinforcing a tradition of elite activism, created a Chinese constitutionalism that was full of contradictions: while claiming to represent the people, these constitutionalists were at the same time the most aggressive agents in imposing state-building projects on local communities. Missing from their thinking was an understanding of the virtues of "limited government." 3The Project: The Chuan-Han Railway Company and the New Policies Reform chapter abstractChapters Three identifies and examines the economic background of the Sichuan constitutionalists and the implication of "rights" in the economic sphere. Acting on the rhetoric of rights, the constitutionalists of Sichuan took over the Chuan-Han Railway Company, but ended up exacting more taxation from Sichuan's people . 4Can Two Sides Walk Together Without Agreeing to Meet? Constitutionalists and Officials in the Late Qing Constitutional Reform chapter abstractChapters Four identifies and examines the political orientation of the Sichuan constitutionalists. Legitimized by the late-Qing constitutional reform and using the same rhetoric of rights, these constitutionalists strove to be the true power holders of the newly enhanced state. Via the Sichuan Provincial Assembly, they obtained both a political reputation that was unmatched by any other group and a solid organizational foundation.. 5The Rhetoric of Revolution: the Rights of the Nation, Constitutionalism, and the Rights of the People chapter abstractChapter Five scrutinizes the rhetoric created by the Sichuan constitutionalists as they took their struggle to the streets. By deploying political concepts like the rights of the nation, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people, and by creating a common purpose "to protect the railway and break the treaty," the movement leaders drew ordinary people into collective action. Combining a new political repertoire with old cultural symbols, they effectively mobilized people from different walks of life against powerful opponents. 6The Practice of Revolution: Organization, Mobilization, and Radicalization chapter abstractChapter Six analyzes the mechanisms by which the Railway Protection movement spread beyond the provincial capital and throughout the entire province. Unlike in most other provinces, in which the 1911 Revolution took place in the cities and happened in a matter of days, the movement in Sichuan involved tens of thousands of people throughout the province and spanned more than six months. How was solidarity created within the movement? What were the social networks and cultural symbols of the movement? 7The Expansion and Division of Revolution: Democratic Political Culture in Action chapter abstractChapter Seven chronicles the expansion and division of the revolution. During the revolution, the newly crafted political culture with rights at its core was practiced by a large group of activists; this lent the revolution strength and legitimacy. 8The End of Revolution: the Rise of Republicanism the Failure of Constitutionalism chapter abstractChapter Eight explores the end of the revolution. In Sichuan, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a new source of power created opportunities for nonactivists to join the revolution and control its politics. This chapter suggests that it was precisely the valorization of the people and the public opinion that prevented the creation of a stable constitutional order. Conclusion: The Legacy of the 1911 Revolution chapter abstractThe Conclusion evaluates the long-term impact of the revolution. Marking the rise of a new political consciousness, thousands of men and women gained firsthand experience in the public arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways; they voted, protested, and joined political parties. After 1911, the old, imperial political culture was abandoned in favor of a popular republicanism in which elected assemblymen, students, intellectuals, and other members of society collaborated and competed in creating a new Chinese nation.
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Stanford University Press Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most
Book SynopsisThe Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir is one of the most hated men in Indian history. Widely reviled as a religious fanatic who sought to violently oppress Hindus, he is even blamed by some for setting into motion conflicts that would result in the creation of a separate Muslim state in South Asia. In her lively overview of his life and influence, Audrey Truschke offers a clear-eyed perspective on the public debate over Aurangzeb and makes the case for why his often-maligned legacy deserves to be reassessed. Aurangzeb was arguably the most powerful and wealthiest ruler of his day. His nearly 50-year reign (1658–1707) had a profound influence on the political landscape of early modern India, and his legacy—real and imagined—continues to loom large in India and Pakistan today. Truschke evaluates Aurangzeb not by modern standards but according to the traditions and values of his own time, painting a picture of Aurangzeb as a complex figure whose relationship to Islam was dynamic, strategic, and sometimes contradictory. This book invites students of South Asian history and religion into the world of the Mughal Empire, framing the contemporary debate on Aurangzeb's impact and legacy in accessible and engaging terms.Trade Review"Basing her judgments on a careful reading of contemporary Persian chronicles and European traveler accounts, Audrey Truschke presents a fresh, balanced, and much-needed survey of one of the most controversial figures in Indian history. Crucially, the author insists on evaluating the man in terms of the norms and traditions of his own day, and not those of later, more polarized times."—Richard M. Eaton, University of ArizonaFollowing British historians of the colonial era, Indian nationalists used the last and most controversial of the great Mughals in ways that simultaneously distorted Mughal history and served as a goad to Hindu cultural renewal. Audrey Truschke's project of looking at Emperor Aurangzeb afresh is thus a welcome and timely one and will interest readers in academia and beyond."—Barbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis"Truschke's laudable objective is to criticize Hindu nationalism, which makes the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658-1707) into a metonym for the Muslim community, and vilifies the emperor in order to vilify the community almost in its entirety....Truschke demonstrates with superb precision that the political-theological fault lines in Aurangzeb's reign did not run along simple Muslim versus Hindu / Sikh binaries."—Milinda Banerjee, Sehepunkte"Truschke is to be applauded on a number of counts: her courage for writing a biography of Aurangzeb (), her willingness to write a book that is easily accessible to nonspecialists, her skill in integrating large amounts of information within a coherent narrative, her thoughtfulness when balancing conflicting evidence, and her ability to give Aurangzeb his due without coming across as an apologist."––Munis D. Faruqui, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"[An] important contribution to Mughal history....[and] an important effort for discussions around Muslim-Hindu encounters and the pre-modern/early modern India."—Shaharyar Zia, Reading Religion"Audry Truscke, a professor of history at the Rutgers State University, New Jersey, mentions how she had to endure unprecedented pushback for daring to write a rather balanced and objective account of 'the life of India's most important emperor, Aurangzeb Alamgir.'... Yet, she dared to embark on the project 'to introduce the historical Aurangzeb - in all his complexity.'"—Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, The Muslim World Book ReviewTable of Contents1. Introducing Aurangzeb 2. Early Years 3. The Grand Arc of Aurangzeb's Reign 4. Administrator of Hindustan 5. Moral Man and Leader 6. Overseer of Hindu Religious Communities 7. Later Years 8. Aurangzeb's Legacy Postscript: A Note on Reading Medieval Persian Texts Bibliographical Essay: Bibliographical Essay
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