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Book SynopsisChina is poised to become the world's largest economy and market by early next century. Since contemporary China is rooted in its past, the key to understanding the modern Chinese economy is in understanding its historical development.The Economic Development of Modern China traces the development of the Chinese economy from the mid-19th century to the present day. To accomplish this task, this collection brings together the most influential writings in this field during the twentieth century which were originally published in numerous specialized international journals and monographs. This authoritative three volume set, together with a new introduction by the editor, covers a wide range of topics including pre-war Chinese economic growth and development, socialist modernization during 1949-78, and the market orientated reforms since 1979. It will be an essential reference for students, researchers and professionals who are interested in the Chinese economy.Trade Review'As a source of writings, the three volumes provide a good grounding in the subject and a balance between older and more recent developments in the economy is well maintained. . . this is a very impressive and accessible sourcebook on Chinese economic growth and development, with an excellent editorial introduction.' -- David Pollard, China Information'It is an outstanding compilation, judiciously chosen and representative of varying, though never merely trendy, views of the nature of economic change in modern China. University libraries - above all, that increasing number of institutions offering courses on China, but which do not possess a specialized literature on it - should ensure that several copies of the three-volume set are prominently displayed for use by both their undergraduate and postgraduate students.' -- Robert Ash, The China Quarterly'It is a valuable addition to any university or faculty library; and indeed a few scholars may want to have this set on their own bookshelves.' -- Malcolm Warner, Asia Pacific Business Review'This is an outstanding collection of papers. It is very wide in coverage and the historical depth is exceptional. This will be essential reading for all China scholars.' -- Christopher Howe, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UKTable of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements • Introduction Joseph C.H. Chai Part I The Legacy of the Past 1. Joseph Needham (1981), ‘Introduction’ 2. Dwight H. Perkins (1969), ‘Improved Seeds, Changing Cropping Patterns, and New Crops’ and ‘Farm Implements, Water Control, and Fertilizer’ 3. Mark Elvin (1973), ‘Quantitative Growth, Qualitative Standstill’ 4. Carl Riskin (1975), ‘Surplus and Stagnation in Modern China’ 5. Hung-chao Tai (1989), ‘An Oriental Alternative: An Hypothesis on Culture and Economy’ 6. Dwight H. Perkins (1975), ‘Introduction: The Persistence of the Past’ 7. Justin Yifu Lin (1995), ‘The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China’ 8. Kang Chao (1986), ‘Urban Population’ 9. G. William Skinner (1964), ‘Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China’ 10. Frank H.H. King (1965), ‘Banking and the Monetary System’ Part II Responses to Western Challenge in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century 11. Chi-ming Hou (1965), ‘A General Picture of Foreign Investment in China’ 12. Robert F. Dernberger (1975), ‘The Role of the Foreigner in China’s Economic Development, 1840–1949’ 13. Victor D. Lippit (1978), ‘Class Structure and the Development of Underdevelopment in China’ 14. Marion J. Levy, Jr. (1955), ‘Contrasting Factors in the Modernization of China and Japan’ 15. Dwight H. Perkins (1967), ‘Government as an Obstacle to Industrialization: The Case of Nineteenth-Century China’ 16. Albert Feuerwerker (1958), ‘The Kuan-tu Shang-pan System: “Official Supervision and Merchant Management”’ 17. Loren Brandt (1989), ‘The Accelerated of Commercialization of Agriculture’ 18. Thomas G. Rawski (1989), Excerpt from ‘Manufacturing’ 19. Wu Chengming (1992), ‘A Brief Account of the Development of Capitalism in China’ 20. Thomas G. Rawski (1989), ‘Economic Growth in China Before World War II’ 21. Philip C.C. Huang (1985), ‘Conclusion’ 22. Ramon H. Myers (1970), ‘Landlord and Peasant’ Name Index Volume II: Acknowledgements • An Introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I Part I The Soviet Approach 1. Benjamin Ward (1980), ‘The Chinese Approach to Economic Development’ 2. Robert Ash (1976), ‘Economic Aspects of Land Reform in Kiangsu, 1949–52’ 3. Kenneth R. Walker (1966), ‘Collectivisation in Retrospect: The “Socialist High Tide” of Autumn 1955–Spring 1956’ 4. A.R. Khan (1978), ‘Taxation, Procurement and Collective Incentives in Chinese Agriculture’ 5. Thomas G. Rawski (1975), ‘China’s Industrial System’ 6. C.H. Chai (1981), ‘Domestic Money and Banking Reforms in China’ 7. Nicholas R. Lardy (1975), ‘Centralization and Decentralization in China’s Fiscal Management’ 8. Alexander Eckstein (1966), Excerpts from ‘Economic Relations with other Communist Countries’ Part II The Maoist Strategy 9. Mao Tsetung (1977), ‘On the Ten Major Relationships’ 10. Peter Van Ness and Satish Raichur (1983), ‘Dilemmas of Socialist Development: An Analysis of Strategic Lines in China, 1949–1981’ 11. Frederick W. Crook (1975), ‘The Commune System in the People’s Republic of China 1963–74’ 12. Dwight Perkins (1978), ‘Meeting Basic Needs in the People’s Republic of China’ 13. Dennis L. Chinn (1979) ‘Team Cohesion and Collective-Labor Supply in Chinese Agriculture’ 14. Shigeru Ishikawa (1972), ‘A Note on the Choice of Technology in China’ 15. Carl Riskin (1978), ‘Intermediate Technology in China’s Rural Industries’ 16. Barry Naughton (1988), ‘The Third Front: Defence Industrialization in the Chinese Interior’ 17. Franz Schurmann (1968), ‘Decentralization’ 18. Charles Bettelheim (1974), ‘Transformations in the Social Division of Labor’ 19. Carl Riskin (1975), ‘Maoism and Motivation: Work Incentives in China’ 20. Richard E. Batsavage and John L. Davie (1978), ‘China’s International Trade and Finance’ 21. Audrey Donnithorne (1972), ‘China’s Cellular Economy: Some Economic Trends Since The Cultural Revolution’ Part III Outcome of the Mixed Strategy 22. Gregory C. Chow (1993), ‘Capital Formation and Economic Growth in China’ 23. World Bank (1985), Extract from China: Economic Structure in International Perspective 24. Thomas G. Rawski (1979), ‘Economic Growth and Employment in China’ 25. Isabelle Tsakok (1979), ‘Inflation Control in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1974’ 26. Irma Adelman and David Sunding (1987), ‘Economic Policy and Income Distribution in China’ 27. World Bank (1983), Extract from ‘Health and Nutrition’ 28. Carl Riskin (1998), ‘Seven Questions about the Chinese Famine of 1959–61’ 29. Nicholas R. Lardy (1984), ‘Consumption and Living Standards in China, 1978–83’ Name Index Volume III: Acknowledgements • An Introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in Volume I Part I The Reforms and Opening Up 1. Harry Harding (1987), ‘The Rise of the Reformers’ 2. Dwight Perkins (1994), ‘Completing China’s Move to the Market’ 3. Robert F. Ash (1988), ‘The Evolution of Agricultural Policy’ 4. Justin Yifu Lin (1988), ‘The Household Responsibility System in China’s Agricultural Reform: A Theoretical and Empirical Study’ 5. Justin Yifu Lin (1992), ‘Rural Reforms and Agricultural Growth in China’ 6. William Byrd and Alan Gelb (1991), ‘Township, Village, and Private Industry in China’s Economic Reform’ 7. Christine P.W. Wong (1992), ‘Fiscal Reforms and Local Industrialization: The Problematic Sequencing of Reform in Post-Mao China’ 8. Anthony Y.C. Koo and K.C. Yeh (1997), ‘The Impact of Township, Village and Private Enterprises’ Growth on State Enterprises Reform: Three Regional Case Studies’ 9. Gary H. Jefferson and Thomas G. Rawski (1994), ‘Enterprise Reform in Chinese Industry’ 10. Theodore Groves, Yongmiao Hong, John McMillan and Barry Naughton (1994), ‘Autonomy and Incentives in Chinese State Enterprises’ 11. Joseph C.H. Chai (1997), ‘Reforms of the Price System’ 12. Nicholas R. Lardy (1998), ‘The Evolving Banking System’ 13. Leong Liew (1997), ‘Monetary Policy’ 14. On Kit Tam (1991), ‘Capital Market Development in China’ 15. John Knight and Lina Song (1995), ‘Towards a Labour Market in China’ 16. Y.Y. Kueh (1992), ‘Foreign Investment and Economic Change in China’ 17. Nicholas R. Lardy (1995), ‘The Role of Foreign Trade and Investment in China’s Economic Transformation’ Part II Performance and Lessons for Other Countries 18. World Bank (1997), ‘Understanding the Present’ and ‘Annex One: Accounting for China’s Growth’ 19. Joseph C.H. Chai (1992), ‘Consumption and Living Standards in China’ 20. World Bank (1997), ‘Overview’ 21. Ronald I. McKinnon (1994), ‘Financial Growth and Macroeconomic Stability in China, 1978–1992: Implications for Russia and Other Transitional Economies’ 22. Clem Tisdell (1997), ‘China’s Environmental Problems and Its Economic Growth’ 23. John McMillan and Barry Naughton (1992), ‘How to Reform a Planned Economy: Lessons from China’ 24. Jeffrey Sachs and Wing Thye Woo (1994), ‘Structural Factors in the Economic Reforms of China, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisExamines how and why the East India Company was transformed from a commercial trading company to an institution of government, and then abolished. This book examines the development of British commercial, financial and political relations with India and the Far East during the final period of the East India Company's reign as the sovereign power in India. This was a most turbulent period for British commerce with India. The period began with the renewal of the East India Company's Charter and its component monopolies of trade with India and China, but this was quickly followed by the outbreak of theNapoleonic Wars, which spread to the east and saw the completion of Britain's assertion of power over India and much of Southeast Asia. However, the war also strengthened those political forces in Britain campaigning against the Company's monopolies of trade with India and China, which were consequently abolished under the Charter Acts of 1813 and 1833. The spectacular growth of the British economy following industrialisation brought new forces to bear upon India, with the rise of manufactured exports to the east. But the course of commercial relations did not run smoothly, and economic crises in Britain and India in 1833 and 1848 swept away commercial firms in both countries, andcaused severe economic retrenchments. This instability severely hampered efforts to facilitate the export of capital to India during the first half of the century. Finally the rebellion of 1857 spelt the death knell for the Company, and ushered in a new phase of Anglo-Indian economic relations, in which British foreign investment grew substantially. Anthony Webster is Head of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University.Trade Review[An] excellent new book. [...] Many historians will find valuable new insights in these pages. * ASIAN AFFAIRS *Makes an important contribution to our understanding, not only of British imperialism in general, but also of the way in which the transition between mercantilism and liberalism actually took place and the nature of the challenges that the free market economy created. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *Mines new territory by delving into the sparsely explored role played by British commercial and industrial pressure groups in Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool in challenging the East India Company's monopoly in Asian trade. [...] This well researched and written book adds an important bookend to the history of the East India Company's demise. Highly Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The End of the East India Company, the Historians and the Evolution of Anglo-Indian Commerce and Politics, 1790-1860 The Origins of the East India Company and the Rise of non-Company Commercial Interests in Britain, India and Asia, 1600-1793 War, Politics and India: The Battle for the East India Company Trade Monopoly, 1793-1813 Accommodating Free Trade: India, the East India Company and the Commercial Revolution of 1814-1830 Crisis and Trade Liberalisation 1830-34: Financial Chaos and the End of the East India Company's Commercial Role and Privileges Re-ordering Anglo-Asian Commerce and Politics, 1833-47 Crisis, the Resurgence of London and the End of the East India Company, 184 7-60 The Decline of the East India Company and the Evolution of British Commercial and Political Interests in Asia, 1793-1860: A Conclusion. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisShows how Rainier skillfully coped with the immense difficulties of maintaining British naval power in a huge area fraught with difficult circumstances. When war broke out with France in 1793, there immediately arose the threat of a renewed French challenge to British supremacy in India. This security problem was compounded in 1795 when the French overran the Netherlands and the extremely valuable Dutch trade routes and Dutch colonies, including the Cape of Good Hope and what is now Indonesia, fell under French control. The task of securing British interests in the East was a formidable one: the distanceswere huge, communication with London could take years, there were problems marshalling resources, and fine diplomatic skills were needed to keep independent rulers on the British side and to ensure full co-operation from the EastIndia Company. The person charged with overseeing this formidable task was Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808), commander of the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean and the East from 1794 to 1805. This book discusses the enormous difficulties Rainier faced. It outlines his career, explaining how he carried out his role with exceptional skill; how he succeeded in securing British interests in the East - whilst avoiding the need to fight a major battle; how he enhanced Britain's commanding position at sea; and how, additionally, in co-operation with the Governor-General, Richard Wellesley, he further advanced Britain's position in India itself. Peter Ward completed a PhD in naval history at the University of Exeter after a career in international personnel management, working for Californian high technology companies in the United States, Hong Kong and Europe.Trade ReviewRescues Rainier from obscurity and makes an important contribution to our understanding of this period. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Early Years Rainier and The Royal Navy Rainier, the East India Company, and the King's Civil Servants in India Communication and Intelligence - its Sources and Uses The Geography and Protection of Maritime Trade The Defence and Expansion of Britain's Eastern Empire Maintaining the Squadron at Sea Conclusion: 'Removing the Cloud' Epilogue Appendices Bibliography

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Book SynopsisOutlines the East India's Company's infiltration of India from its inception to the late eighteenth century. Empires have usually been founded by charismatic, egoistic warriors or power-hungry states and peoples, sometimes spurred on by a sense of religious mission. So how was it that the nineteenth-century British Indian Raj was so different? Arising, initially, from the militant policies and actions of a bunch of London merchants chartered as the English East India Company by Queen Elizabeth in 1600, for one hundred and fifty years they had generally pursued apeaceful and thereby profitable trade in the India, recognized by local Indian princes as mutually beneficial. Yet from the 1740s, Company men began to leave the counting house for the parade ground, fighting against the French and the Indian princes over the next forty years until they stood upon the threshold of succeeding the declining Mughul Empire as the next hegamon of India. This book roots its explanation of this phenomenon in the evidence ofthe words and thoughts of the major, and not-so major, players, as revealed in the rich archives of the early Raj. Public dispatches from the Company's servants in India to their masters in London contain elaborate justificationsand records of debates in its councils for the policies (grand strategies) adopted to deal with the challenges created by the unstable political developments of the time. Thousands of surviving private letters between Britons in India and the homeland reveal powerful underlying currents of ambition, cupidity and jealousy and how they impacted on political manoeuvring and the development of policy at both ends. This book shows why the Company became involved in the military and political penetration of India and provides a political and military narrative of the Company's involvement in the wars with France and with several Indian powers. G. J. Bryant, who has a Ph.D. fromKing's College London, has written extensively on the British military experience in eighteenth-century India.Trade ReviewWill be essential reading for historians of eighteenth-century India and the British empire, acting as a crucial source book on the twists and turns of British military ambitions and tactics. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Bryant reveals a dense wealth of knowledge about the Company's military operations in the 18th century, and asks important questions about the creation of the early colonial state. [His book] is a refreshing addition to the historiography. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *A very impressive piece of work, combining a good narrative account of events in India during this period with a detailed analysis of the political and personal background to events and the motives that guided the key players. * HISTORYOFWAR.ORG *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Early Years and the Evolving Grand Strategic Reality, 1600-1784 The Indian Dimension in the War of the Austrian Succession, 1744-8 Anglo-French Mercenaries in the 'service' of the Carnatic princes, 1749-1755 The Struggle for Supremacy in the Carnatic during the Seven Years War, 1756-1761 Noises Off: The Seven Years War in Bengal: Unseating a Nawab, 1756-7 Bengal, 1757-1767: Crossing the Threshold and Becoming a 'Country' Power Thwarted Imperialism: Madras, 1761-1778 Bengal, 1767-1784: The Borders of Power and the Power of Borders Three Wars - Five Fronts: An Exercise in an All-India Grand Strategy. Part I: Bombay Enters the Imperial Game, 1774-1782 Three Wars - Five Fronts: An Exercise in an All-India Grand Strategy. Part II: Madras versus Haidar Ali, Round 2 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent proliferation. Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two decades, the number of Chinese museums has increased at an unprecedented rate, with China set to become the country with the highest number of museums in the world. But why have museums become so important? This book, based on extensive research in a number of the museums themselves, examines recent changes in their display methods, narratives, actors and architectural style. It also considers their representations of Chinese national identity, millenarian history and extraordinary cultural diversity. Through an analysis of the changes affecting not only what we observe through museums, but also the very medium of observation (i.e. museums themselves), this book provides a unique, original and timely exploration of the ongoing changes affecting Chinese society, and an evaluation of their consequences. Dr Marzia Varutti is apost-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Museum Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.Trade ReviewVarutti has done a great service by tackling the enormous topic of museums in China and bringing together a considerable Western secondary literature with her own observations of museums. * JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *The book provides a valuable theoretical introduction for scholars and students of museology and heritage studies. * THE CHINA JOURNAL *There's much to learn from Varutti's detailed and readable study. * MUSEUMS JOURNAL *As the subtitle of Varutti's work indicates, Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao, offers an analysis of how Chinese museums today are involved in purposeful representation, above all of the new national identity 'organically' founded on heritage, history, and glorious art. * MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Cultural Heritage in China Museums in China: Origins and Development New Actors in the Chinese Museum World Museum Objects and the Chinese Nation The Nation in the Museum The Politics of the Past The Representation of the Past in China's Museums The Politics of Identity The Museum Representation of Ethnic Minorities Techniques and Sites of Display of Ethnic Minorities Conclusions: the New Museums of China Appendix: List of museums in China visited by the author Bibliography and References

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Book SynopsisIndonesia is home to the largest Muslim community in the world. Much of the media attention given to manifestations of radical Islam in Indonesia after 9/11 and the Bali bombings of October 2002 have been limited to current affairs. This book provides a broader perspective about contemporary Islam in Indonesia through discussing two outstanding streams of thought and movements -- Islamic modernism and radical Islamic fundamentalism. These two multifaceted phenomena clearly illustrate the significant contemporary influence of the Middle East on the Indonesia archipelago, in an Islamic context. Thus the focus is twofold: the local context, and the impact of the Middle East on Islam in Indonesia. These two perspectives allow a comparative and cross-regional view which, combined with the broader historical narrative, provides insights into possible future trends. The author explains the importance of the reformist motivation; religious and social & political dimensions; ideology, perceptions, and interaction in the context of the transmission and dissemination of Islamic ideas; and the current and potential appeal of the war cry of Jihad in opposition to the unique bulwarks against it as suggested by the local Indonesian context. These topics make this book essential reading to understanding the current and future comprehensive challenges posed by radical Islam in the Indonesian archipelago.Trade Review"Carefully researched and engagingly written, this fine book deserves to be read by everyone interested in Indonesian Islam, as well as by the general reader curious about the varieties and future of Muslim politics." -- Robert W. Hefner, Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), Boston University."Giora Eliraz's book represents a valuable addition to the all too sparse collection of scholarly writing on Islam in the world's largest Muslim nation. With very few exceptions, most such studies are the work of area specialists with a deep understanding of their country of study but comparatively little knowledge of the Middle East. Eliraz's book is very different; it is the fruit of a sharp academic mind honed through decades of study of modernist Islamic thought and related movements in the Arab world now turned upon parallel developments in Indonesia. The result is a very well informed study uniquely enriched by the ability to read developments in Southeast Asia from a Middle Eastern perspective. Consequently anyone seeking to understand Indonesian Islam and its global context will benefit from this work - regardless of whether they are seasoned observers or are coming to this increasingly important subject for the first time." - Greg Barton.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Acknowledgments; The Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay- Indonesian World: A Comparative Look at Egypt; Muhammad Abduh's Heritage; The Challenge of the Islamic Modernist Movement in the Malay-Indonesian World -- The Reformist Motivation; The Religious Dimension; The Educational Dimension; The Social and Political Dimension; Challenging the Traditional World; A Comparative Look at Egypt; Historical Role and Impacts; Islamic Modernism in the Malay-Indonesian World: Suggested Explanations; Islamic Radicalism in Indonesia: Global and Local Contexts; Radical Islamic Fundamentalism -- Ideology and Perception; Transmission of Ideas and Ideological Interaction; The Social and Political Dimension; The Historical Perspective -- Dissemination of Islamic Ideas to Indonesia; The War Cry of Jihad in Indonesia; Summary and Reflections; Radical Islamic Fundamentalism in Indonesia: The Distinctiveness of the Indonesian Context: Marginal or Significant?; The Indonesian Context through the Fundamentalist Prism; The Indonesian Islamic Context: Summary and Reflections; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Six Day War was the climax in the deterioration of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The downturn began in 1957 when Nasir began preaching the idea of Arab nationalism, while placing the Palestinian problem at its centre. The decade between the Sinai War and Six Day War was marked by preparations by both sides for an all-out military confrontation which both sides viewed as inevitable. As the Arab states formulated their positions on the conflict's goals and the ways of attaining them, differences of opinion erupted between Egypt and Syria. Nasir wanted to decide the time and place for the war that would 'liberate Filastin'. He was determined to meet Israel on the battlefield only when he was certain that the outcome would mean a decisive Arab victory. He consciously and strategically led Egypt to war, carefully weighing the implications of each political/military step. This study, based almost exclusively on hitherto unavailable Arab primary sources, sets out the crystallisation of Arab strategy to reveal conclusions substantively different from previous scholarly and political-military assessments. Issues dealt with include: the relevance of the Filastin problem as key to understanding the descent to war; the pivotal Syrian water struggle as a key motivating factor; Nasir's military blunders with respect to advice received from the Egyptian High Command; Nasir's acceptance of the principle that Egypt had to absorb the first Israeli strike, to be followed by Egypt's delivery of a second, decisive strike; the "political process" approach to solving the conflict as evidenced by the Khartoum protocols notwithstanding the "1948 refugee problem"; and the Hashemite regime's response to Palestinians' heightened national awakening. The enlistment of all the Arab states to Nasir's moves in May 1967 testifies not only to the president's charismatic leadership, but also to the depths of the 1948 trauma (al-nakba), which lies at the heart of any future compromise or agreement.Table of ContentsThe Arab-Israeli Conflict Escalates, 1957-1963: A Turning Point in the Arab States' Attitudes Towards the Palestinian Problem; Formulation of Arab Strategy in the Isaeli-Arab Conflict, 1964-1965: Prelude to the Six Day War; Failure of the Arab Plan for Diverting the River Jordan's Tributaries; The Rise of the Palestinians as a factor in the Arab-Israeli Conflict; The Fida'iyyun Organisations' Contribution to the Descent to the Six Day War; The Arab Military Build-Up; Nasir's Steps Toward the Six Day War: 13 May to 5 June 5 1967; In the Wake of the Six Day War; Conclusion: The Arab-Israeli Conflict between the Nakba and the Naksa --The Emergence of the New Palestinian National Movement.

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Book SynopsisLieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military expedition to Lhasa (Lhasa and its Mysteries). Waddell was also in the limelight due to his acquisition of Tibetan manuscripts which he donated to the British Museum. His overriding interest was in 'Aryan origins'. After learning Sanskrit and Tibetan, and in between military expeditions and gathering intelligence from the borders of Tibet in the Great Game, Waddell researched Lamaïsm. He extended his activities to Archaeology, Philology and Ethnology, and was credited with discoveries in relation to Buddha. His personal ambition was to locate records of ancient civilisation in Tibetan lamaseries. Waddell is little known as an archaeologist and scholar, in contrast with his fame in the Oriental field, due to the controversial nature of his published works dealing with 'Aryan themes'. Waddell studied Sumerian and presented evidence that an Aryan migration fleeing Sargon II carried Sumerian records to India. He interrupted his comparative studies of Sumerian and Indian king-lists to publish a work on Phoenician origins and decipherment of Indus Valley seals, the inscriptions of which he claimed were similar to Sumerian pictogram signs cited from G. A. Barton's plates, which are reproduced in this volume. Waddell's life is reconstructed from primary sources, such as letters from Marc Aurel Stein at the British Museum and Theophilus G Pinches, held in the Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. Special attention is paid to the contemporary reception of his theories, with the objective of re-evaluating his contribution; they are contrasted to past and present academic views, in addition to an overview of relevant discoveries in Archaeology.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: The Controversial Scholar; Quest and Career - A Tour of the Himalayas; Excavations in Pataliputra, 1895-1903; Quest for Manuscripts in Lhasa, 1903-1904; Sumerian, Decipherment, and 'Shinar'; Decoding the Dragon and Rise of Man (The British Edda); The Phoenician Origin of the Britons; Identification of the first Sumerian Dynasty; Ur-Nina, Ruler of the Gardens of Sumeria; Menes was Sumerian; Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilisation; Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered; Findings about the 'Second Edin'; Decipherment of the Seals; Epilogue: The Forgotten Scholar; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the struggle for independence after East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The occupation, which lasted 24 years, was immediately resisted through guerrilla warfare and clandestine resistance. A continuum of effort between the armed freedom fighters in the mountains, the resilience of urban supporters, and international activism and support eventually brought about liberation in September 1999. Given that the Timor rebels did not have a land border with a friendly state, had no external supplier of weapons and no liberated area in which to recover between guerrilla operations, their successful resistance is unique in the history of guerrilla warfare and independence struggles. Equally uncommon was an unexpected weapon in the struggle -- a remarkable display of strategic non-violent action. This is the first study to integrate all the major factors in East Timor's independence struggle. The multi-dimensional perspectives addressed in this volume include Indonesian, US and Australian diplomacy; Indonesian military operations and activities against the populace; East Timorese resistance at all social levels; human rights abuses; the issue of oil; and international diplomacy resulting from global solidarity activism.Table of ContentsPreface; East Timor & Indonesia; Destabilisation & War; The Politics of Starvation; Regeneration in the 1980s; Santa Cruz & the Aftermath; Chaos & Order; The Juventude; The Tide Turns; Fracturing the Bi-partisan Consensus; Military Body Language; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a history of the struggle for independence after East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The occupation, which lasted 24 years, was immediately resisted through guerrilla warfare and clandestine resistance. A continuum of effort between the armed freedom fighters in the mountains, the resilience of urban supporters, and international activism and support eventually brought about liberation in September 1999. Given that the Timor rebels did not have a land border with a friendly state, had no external supplier of weapons and no liberated area in which to recover between guerrilla operations, their successful resistance is unique in the history of guerrilla warfare and independence struggles. Equally uncommon was an unexpected weapon in the struggle -- a remarkable display of strategic non-violent action. This is the first study to integrate all the major factors in East Timor's independence struggle. The multi-dimensional perspectives addressed in this volume include Indonesian, US and Australian diplomacy; Indonesian military operations and activities against the populace; East Timorese resistance at all social levels; human rights abuses; the issue of oil; and international diplomacy resulting from global solidarity activism.Table of ContentsPreface; East Timor & Indonesia; Destabilisation & War; The Politics of Starvation; Regeneration in the 1980s; Santa Cruz & the Aftermath; Chaos & Order; The Juventude; The Tide Turns; Fracturing the Bi-partisan Consensus; Military Body Language; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world's best-known finance and industry hubs. As China's largest city, Shanghai today plays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concise diachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city's urban infrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture and industry have shaped, and have been shaped by, this economic power house. The work is aimed at a broad readership of all who are interested in Asian history, and tackles a range of themes including: the city's millionaires, then and now; racial tensions and quotidian liaisons between Europeans and Asians before World War II; and the gambling and prostitution industry. The post-war era is portrayed in comparative discussions on Shanghai under Mao Zedong, and during the reform era. These discussions bring the narrative up to date to cover important events such as the designation of the Pudong precinct as the city's new engine of growth in 1991. The city's illustrious pre-war past is compared with its present ambitions to become Asia's leading financial centre. The book employs insights from studies frameworks of new institutional economics as well as from the development trajectory of other world cities by way of better understanding Shanghai's historic distinctness, its relative weaknesses and contemporary strengths.

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Book SynopsisThis book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to become one of the world's best-known finance and industry hubs. As China's largest city, Shanghai today plays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concise diachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city's urban infrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture and industry have shaped, and have been shaped by, this economic power house. The work is aimed at a broad readership of all who are interested in Asian history, and tackles a range of themes including: the city's millionaires, then and now; racial tensions and quotidian liaisons between Europeans and Asians before World War II; and the gambling and prostitution industry. The post-war era is portrayed in comparative discussions on Shanghai under Mao Zedong, and during the reform era. These discussions bring the narrative up to date to cover important events such as the designation of the Pudong precinct as the city's new engine of growth in 1991. The city's illustrious pre-war past is compared with its present ambitions to become Asia's leading financial centre. The book employs insights from studies frameworks of new institutional economics as well as from the development trajectory of other world cities by way of better understanding Shanghai's historic distinctness, its relative weaknesses and contemporary strengths.

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Book SynopsisThe Shi Jing is the oldest anthology of Chinese songs. It contains 305 songs of ancient China, composed in the 12th to 7th century BCE. The collection is divided into four parts. The present work is a translation of its first part, namely Guo Feng, which translates as "songs of states" within the Zhou kingdom (1122-255 BCE). The Guo Feng songs were mostly sung by the common people of the kingdom. In this respect, they are unlike the songs in the other three parts, which are generally dynastic songs of the Zhou court. The songs included in this translation predate Confucius, many by several centuries. Accordingly, through them one may hear the spontaneous voices of pre-Confucian China. The text of the Shi Jing has come down to us at the present time in familiar Chinese characters. But their usage is so ancient that for centuries even Chinese readers have had to rely on a few standard commentaries, which all gave Confucian, moralistic readings of the songs, even of those that are unmistakably simple love songs. Ha Poong Kim's translation has incorporated the results of some recent Japanese studies which question the traditional, Confucian approach to the text, thereby recovering the original meaning of many songs in the Guo Feng. It is hoped that this Chinese-English Bilingual Edition makes the voices of joys and sorrows of this ancient land audible to a modern readership, not only in the West but also in China as well.

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Book SynopsisDrawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centred history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics within the social and cultural everyday of life in occupied East Timor. The violence experienced by East Timorese women ranged from torture, rape, and interrogation, to various forms of surveillance and social control, and the structural imposition of particular feminine ideals upon their lives and bodies. Through women, East Timorese familial culture was also targeted via programmes to develop and modernise the territory by transforming the feminine and the domestic sphere. Women experienced the occupation differently to men, not just because they were vulnerable to sexual violence, but also because they endured proxy violence as the militarys means of targeting male relatives and the resistance at large. In Womens Words tells a story of survival and perseverance by highlighting the strength, initiative, and negotiating skills of East Timorese women. Many women lived in circumstances of constant negotiation and attempts to maintain order and normality, as well as to provide for themselves and their families, in a society where everyday life was characterised by violence and uncertainty. This study demonstrates the capacity of people to survive, to endure, and to resist, even amid the most difficult of circumstances. It provides insights into the social and cultural elements of territorial control, as well as the locally-grounded strategies that are often used for negotiating and resisting an occupying power.

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Book SynopsisDating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Painted in multiple colours on three pieces of Mitsumata paper, this beautifully decorative map of China was discovered to be a seafaring chart showing Ming Dynasty trade routes. It is the earliest surviving example of Chinese merchant cartography and is evidence that Ming China was outward-looking, capitalistic and vibrant. Exploring the commercial aims of the Ming Dynasty, the port city of Quanzhou and its connections with the voyages of the early traveller Zheng He, this book describes the historical background of the era in which the map was used. It also includes an analysis of the skills and techniques involved in Chinese map-making and the significance of the compass bearings, scale and ratios found on the map, all of which combine to represent a breakthrough in cartographic techniques. The enthralling story revealed by this extraordinary artefact is central to an understanding of the long history of China’s relationship with the sea and with the wider world.Trade Review'…Nie's discussion of the Selden Map [is] a fascinating reminder of the inherently political nature of maps - both ancient and modern - and the importance of maintaining a critical reading of geopolitcs in approaching any cartographic treasures.' * The Globe *'Not only is the text both informative and easy to read, but the numerous images and elegant graphics make this attractive volume the perfect introduction to a highly-important map...a worthy and desirable addition to the library of any serious sinologist or enthusiastic cartophile.' * IMCOS (International Map Collectors' Society) Journal *'A friendly and approachable insight to the Ming Dynasty. … Nie has opened the door to a plethora of conversations regarding the preservation and conservation of artefacts and documents, so that today's society can also reflect on centuries of development and contribute towards more accurate understandings of history.' * The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers *'This book uncovers the history behind the map, from its groundbreaking cartographic techniques to the wider context of Chinese map-making.' * The Arts Society.org *'If the sign of a good book is its ability to draw in the reader … then 'The Selden Map of China' is indeed a winner. When he opened it, your reviewer had given little thought to ancient Chinese cartography. By the time he had finished it, he was gripped.' * Sheetlines *

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Book SynopsisThirteen of Reaksa Himm's immediate family, including both his parents, were executed by the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot. The young killers marched them from the remote northern village to which they had been exiled, out into the jungle. One by one the machetes fell. Severely wounded, Reaksa was covered by the bodies of his family. His remarkable story of survival is told in 'The Tears of My Soul'. In this second book he describes how he tracked down his family's killers, one by one, embraced them, gave them a scarf of friendship and presented each with a Bible. He has also funded and had built a clinic, school and five churches in the area. This is an astonishing tale of the consequences of spiritual rebirth.Table of ContentsCONTENTSDedication 4Glossary 5A Word of Appreciation 6Foreword 8Preface 12Introduction 171. Searching for My Family’s Killers 402. Marched to a Grave 573. Living with Anger and Denial 774. The Shadow of Darkness 925. Forgiveness 1076. Reconciliation 1267. Blessings 170Contact the Author 192

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Book SynopsisJapan's emergence as a modern state in the middle of the nineteenth century was a unique socio-political event. The accompanying economic development - achieved without tariff autonomy and with practically no injection of foreign capital - was certainly no less remarkable. A major portion of this important volume discusses how this transformation was accomplished.This important book presents a unique insight into the institutional development of capitalism in Japan through a series of Shigeto Tsuru's papers, some of which are published here for the first time. The volume also includes a critical appraisal of Japan's economy during her invasion of China, discussion of general historical trends in capitalism and an assessment of the present, and future, economic problems of Japan. The Economic Development of Modern Japan will be welcomed by scholars and students with an interest in Japan's economic development and her present and future role in the world. Economic Theory and Capitalist Society, the first volume of Shigeto Tsuru's essays, is also available.Trade Review'Shigeto Tsuru has been the bridge between mainstream economics and Japanese Marxist thought. Ten years at Harvard and a key player in the post-war MacArthur Administration, he was Schumpeter's personal assistant and a recognized expert on Keynes and Marx. Tsuru's collected papers are a testament no one interested in Japanese intellectuals should miss.' -- Paul A. Samuelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USTable of ContentsPart 1 Japan's take-off as a capitalist society: human resources; public finance; money and banking; industrial development; the role of agriculture; economic fluctuations in Japan, 1868-1893. Part 2 Economy under the strain of the "China incident": Japan's economy under the strain of the "China incident". Part 3 Broader issues on capitalism: has capitalism changed?; technological progress and employment. Part 4 The Dyason lectures: the economic problems of Japan - present and future; the future of Japan in the modern world - including relations with the United States and China.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative collection presents the key contributions on the economic history of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War. It covers broad patterns of economic development and also focuses specifically on the zaibatsu and Japanese management techniques; technology transfer; banking and financial systems; labour, education and human capital; the economic role of Japanese women; and the economic dimensions of imperialism and war. This two-volume set brings together important texts around these themes, including less well-known work first published in Japan. It will be a valuable reference work for scholars and students of history, economics, political science and Asian studies.Trade Review’It is consequently important to conclude by praising Tolliday for his achievement, given the undoubted quality of what has been included. Moreover, he has also edited a two-volume set covering the period 1945-95, allowing those who teach this subject to provide reading lists that ought to be much more focused.’Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Tolliday PART I THE PATTERN OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1. Kozo Yamamura (1973), ‘Towards a Reexamination of the Economic History of Tokugawa Japan, 1600–1867’ 2. Susan B. Hanley (1983), ‘A High Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Fact or Fantasy?’ 3. Yasukichi Yasuba (1986), ‘Standard of Living in Japan Before Industrialization: From What Level Did Japan Begin? A Comment’ 4. Susan B. Hanley (1986), ‘Standard of Living in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Reply to Yasuba’ 5. Thomas C. Smith (1973), ‘Pre-Modern Economic Growth: Japan and the West’ 6. Kozo Yamamura (1974), ‘The Japanese Economy, 1911–1930: Concentration, Conflicts, and Crises’ 7. Kaoru Sugihara (1989), ‘Japan’s Industrial Recovery, 1931–6’ 8. Sugihara Kaoru (1990), ‘Japan as an Engine of the Asian International Economy, c. 1880–1936’ PART II LAND AND AGRICULTURE 9. Penelope Francks (1990), ‘Peasantry, Proletariat or Private Enterprise? – The Japanese Farmer in the Industrialisation Process’ 10. Osamu Saito (1986), ‘The Rural Economy: Commercial Agriculture, By-Employment, and Wage Work’ 11. Loren Brandt (1993), ‘Interwar Japanese Agriculture: Revisionist Views on the Impact of the Colonial Rice Policy and the Labor-Surplus Hypothesis’ 12. Ann Waswo (1974), ‘The Origins of Tenant Unrest’ PART III MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SYSTEM A General 13. Keiichiro Nakagawa (1993), ‘Business Management in Japan – A Comparative Historical Study’ 14. Hisashi Masaki (1986), ‘The Formation and Evolution of the Corporate Business System in Japan’ 15. Tsunehiko Yui (1988), ‘Development, Organization, and Business Strategy of Industrial Enterprises in Japan (1915–1935)’ B Zaibatsu 16. Kozo Yamamura (1967), ‘The Founding of Mitsubishi: A Case Study in Japanese Business History’ 17. Seiichiro Yonekura (1985), ‘The Emergence of the Prototype of Enterprise Group Capitalism: The Case of Mitsui’ 18. Hisashi Masaki (1978), ‘The Financial Characteristics of the Zaibatsu in Japan: The Old Zaibatsu and Their Closed Finance’ 19. Kozo Yamamura (1976), ‘General Trading Companies in Japan: Their Origins and Growth’ C Non-Zaibatsu Business Development 20. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (1992), ‘Sericulture and the Origins of Japanese Industrialization’ 21. Steven J. Ericson (1989), ‘Private Railways in the Meiji Era: Forerunners of Modern Japanese Management?’ 22. Tetsuji Okazaki (1987), ‘The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1929–33, and the Establishment of the Nippon Steel Co.’ 23. W. Miles Fletcher III (1996), ‘The Japan Spinners Association: Creating Industrial Policy in Meiji Japan’ 24. William Mass and Hideaki Miyajima (1993), ‘The Organization of the Developmental State: Fostering Private Capabilities and the Roots of the Japanese "Miracle"’ PART IV MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 25. Tetsuro Nakaoka (1991), ‘The Transfer of Cotton Manufacturing Technology from Britain to Japan’ 26. Kozo Yamamura (1986), ‘Japan’s Deus ex Machina: Western Technology in the 1920s’ 27. Mark Mason (1990), ‘With Reservations: Prewar Japan as Host to Western Electric and ITT’ Name Index Volume II: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Tolliday PART I BANKING AND FINANCE 1. Hugh T. Patrick (1967), ‘Japan, 1868–1914’ 2. Kozo Yamamura (1972), ‘Japan 1868–1930: A Revised View’ 3. Kanji Ishii (1991), ‘Japan’ 4. W. Miles Fletcher III (1991), ‘Japanese Banks and National Economic Policy, 1920–1936’ PART II EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL 5. R.P. Dore (1964), ‘Education: Japan’ 6. Koji Taira (1971), ‘Education and Literacy in Meiji Japan: An Interpretation’ 7. James R. Bartholomew (1978), ‘Japanese Modernization and the Imperial Universities, 1876–1920’ PART III LABOUR 8. Akiko Chimoto (1986), ‘Employment in the Meiji Period: From "Tradition" to "Modernity"’ 9. Thomas C. Smith (1984), ‘The Right to Benevolence: Dignity and Japanese Workers, 1890–1920’ 10. E. Patricia Tsurumi (1984), ‘Female Textile Workers and the Failure of Early Trade Unionism in Japan’ 11. Andrew Gordon (1989), ‘Business and the Corporate State: The Business Lobby and Bureaucrats on Labor, 1911–41’ 12. Ron Napier (1982), ‘The Transformation of the Japanese Labor Market, 1894–1937’ 13. Yasukichi Yasuba (1976), ‘The Evolution of Dualistic Wage Structure’ 14. Andrew Gordon (1990), ‘Japanese Labor Relations During the Twentieth Century’ PART IV WOMEN 15. Sharon H. Nolte and Sally Ann Hastings (1991), ‘The Meiji State’s Policy Towards Women, 1890–1910’ 16. Janet Hunter (1990), ‘Women’s Labour Force Participation in Interwar Japan’ 17. Kathleen Uno (1993), ‘One Day at a Time: Work and Domestic Activities of Urban Lower-Class Women in Early Twentieth-Century Japan’ 18. Robert J. Smith (1983), ‘Making Village Women into "Good Wives and Wise Mothers" in Prewar Japan’ PART V IMPERIALISM AND WAR 19. K. Yamamura (1977), ‘Success Illgotten? The Role of Meiji Militarism in Japan’s Technological Progress’ 20. Kaoru Sugihara (1997), ‘The Economic Motivations Behind Japanese Aggression in the Late 1930s: Perspectives of Freda Utley and Nawa Toichi’ 21. Peter Duus (1989), ‘Zaikabo: Japanese Cotton Mills in China, 1895–1937’ 22. Masaru Udagawa (1990), ‘The Move into Manchuria of the Nissan Combine’ 23. Richard Rice (1979), ‘Economic Mobilization in Wartime Japan: Business, Bureaucracy, and the Military in Conflict’ 24. Takao Shiba (1994), ‘Business Activities of Japanese Manufacturing Industries During World War II’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisThe Topographics series works in the reverse way to ordinary travel books. Each volume mingles analysis with anecdote to explore the creative collision between physical space or location and the human mind.

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Book SynopsisCambodia has a long and rich history, first becoming an artistic and religious power in Southeast Asia in the Angkor period (802 - 1432). This title examines the country's troubled situation in the light of its political and cultural history, looking at many aspects of modern Cambodia.

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Book SynopsisMining a wealth of archival sources in France and Vietnam, Pierre Brocheux constructs a fascinating picture of how French capital and technology transformed the Mekong Delta. By draining the swamps and encouraging a particular pattern of Vietnamese settlement, the French cultivated a volatile society, bound together by lines of credit and poised at the brink of social revolution. From the cutting of the first canals in the 1880s to the eruption of the Viet Cong's insurgency in the 1950s, this book illuminates the subtle interactions between ecology and social change in a tropical delta. ""The Mekong Delta"" is valuable for students of the Vietnamese Revolution and for scholars of peasant movements around the globe. It fills a major gap in our knowledge of the social change that swept the great deltas of Southeast Asia.Trade Review"A major contribution to Vietnamese studies and to the socioeconomic history of Southeast Asia." - Hy V. Luong, Pacific Affairs"

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Book SynopsisThe Artist's Touch, the Craftsman's Hand presents a selection of the most historically important and visually compelling Japanese prints from a collection of more than 2,500 works spanning the late 17th century to the present day. Many are extremely rare and almost all appear here in an English-language publication for the first time. Noteworthy areas of interest include early actor prints, dating back to the first decade of the 18th century; works by Suzuki Harunobu, the master associated with the origins of full-color printing in 1765; the deluxe, privately printed surimono of the early 19th century; painterly landscapes of the early 20th century, including a series that documents the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923; and contemporary prints, ranging from Op Art and Abstract Expressionism to lyrical evocations of an imagined past. Essays include an overview of the illustrated works and articles on Harunobu, prints of kabuki actors and their fans, and the cultural meanings in still-life surimono.Trade Review"Three centuries of prints in 300 pages makes for an exquisite compilation." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness *"This catalog offers a significant amount of new material. The catalog proper has full curatorial data plus intriguing comments on individual prints from the late 17th century to the early 21st. . . . Illustrations are excellent. Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe Kathmandu Valley is the most populated region of Nepal, and the Newar, probable descendants of the Kirati who settled in the Valley in the first millennium BCE, have for centuries created the art featured in Celestial Realms. In additin to Hindu and Buddhist sculpture and paintings, tribal works from the middle hill region are also included, providing a contrast with Newar production.Trade Review". . . unusually well-written catalog by guest curator Nancy Tingley and Nutandar Sharma figures as an indispensable component of the project and the experience it offers." -- Kenneth Baker * San Francisco Chronicle *

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Book SynopsisThe Yugyō-ha achieved success by basing its religious authority on a combination of Pure Land mysticism and the practices of fundraising hijiri. Between 1300 and 1700, the Pure Land Buddhist religious order known as the Ippen school Yugyō-ha (later the Jishu) established itself as the leading representative of nembutsu propagation in Japan. The theme of the order's history is the development of religious authority as a result of the struggle to normalize relations among the official head, sometimes obstreperous religious, and often interfering (usually warrior) lay patrons. This study demonstrates the value of the articulation in organizational studies of Weber's concept of charisma as a successful social relationship as well as that of a chosen career determined by culture and tradition. Indeed, the success of the Yugyō-ha was due to its ability to seize on the advantages of combining the principles and practices of two existing traditions, Pure Land mysticism and the fundraising hijiri movement.Trade ReviewBy identifying key events and turning points in the development of the Yugyō-ha, Thornton describes a historical process. Rich in detail, nuanced in argument, and original in its approach... a welcome addition to the study of premodern Japanese Buddhism. * History of Religions *

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Book SynopsisIn Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing that the warriors of medieval Japan were capable of fighting the Mongols to a standstill without the aid of any "divine winds" or kamikaze. Conlan's interpretation of the invasions is supplemented with translations of the picture scrolls commissioned by Takezaki Suenaga, a warrior who fought against the Mongols. In addition, translations of nearly seventy administrative documents are provided, thereby enabling students of Japanese history reconstruct the invasions using contemporary sources. A rare copy of Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls, reproduced in full, reveals hitherto unknown missing scenes. Furthermore, the scrolls' images can be now read in tandem with its narrative passages, translated in English for the first time. Please note that the entire book was intentionally printed from back to front, so that the reproduced scrolls unfold in Japanese order, from right to left. Thus the book's spine is on the right. This monograph will prove to be of great interest for students and scholars of medieval Japanese history, warrior culture, and the nature of Japan in an East Asian context.Trade ReviewWill undoubtedly become the standard work on this topic. * Journal of Japanese Studies *Conlan's book is a most welcome and outstanding contribution to our knowledge of medieval Japan, written in a highly readable style, and providing us with well-organized evidence and thoughtful interpretation of an event abounding in relevant domestic and international implications. * Monumenta Nipponica *The Mongol Invasions Scroll by Takezaki Suenaga is a well-known and invaluable historical source on the two Mongol invasions in the late thirteenth century. Thomas Conlan's book... offers the first full translation of the text in English [with a] good overall summary of the present state of studies on the scrolls, both in history and in art history. The essay provides firm background knowledge and hence prepares the reader to better understand the historical context. In the final, interpretive essay, Conlan addresses some long-debated issues concerning the Mongol Invasions. [He] presents a vivid and detailed picture of the number of Japanese and Mongol troops and their tactics... [His] reconstruction of the battles poses an important argument which calls for further examination by scholars not only of Japanese history, but of Chinese, Korean and Mongol histories. [This is] undoubtedly an important work that should prove to be of great interest to scholars of political, military, cultural and religious history. Provides the groundwork to begin the study of an extremely important event in medieval Japanese history and will inspire scholars of various disciplines to engage in further debate over this event. * Japanese Journal of Religious Studies *

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Book SynopsisHow can a post-national Japanese Studies be defined? How might the postwar myth of a monoethnic Japan be historicized? Can new forms of nationalism be effectively criticized by evoking a spirit of nationalist democracy? This book contains a series of groundbreaking essays by major Japanese and American scholars seeking to locate "Japan" beyond the geographical and ideological boundaries established post-1945 and under the Cold War. Included are essays on such iconic cultural figures as Maruyama Masao and Takamura Kōtarō; on the impact of colonialism on prewar theories of race, language, and multi-culturalism; on gender and nationalism; on the critique of culturalist notions of the "native speaker" and "mother tongue," and on Asian nationalisms in the era of globalization.

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Book SynopsisThis volume introduces, for the first time in English, the work of one of the major schools of historiography in South Korea. Centered at Yonsei University, the school focuses on intellectual and socioeconomic history. A selection of studies illuminates the internal dynamics and historical roots of Korea's transition to modernity and the division of the country and is a powerful refutation of the so-called "stagnation theory." The volume is in three parts: the first covers the period before the Japanese occupation; the second focuses on the socioeconomic history during the occupation; and the last examines the work of three major intellectuals of the occupation period: Paek Nam'un, An Chaehong, and Yi Sunt'ak.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, edited by Joan Piggott (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), includes fourteen essays, originally written in Japanese and here interpreted in English. It introduces readers to a broader array of historical and archaeological research on center-periphery relations than has ever before been available to English readers. Each essay has been translated, annotated, and introduced by a specialist who selected it for its invaluable contribution to his or her own work, and who here renders it into English for a non-specialist audience. The book features thirteen newly created maps, and also includes an exhaustive list of sources (including Chinese characters). Together with its readable and well-annotated text, extensive glossary, rich bibliography, and comprehensive index, these combined tools make for a valuable resource to scholars and students interested in premodern Japan. Researchers whose work has been interpreted include Tsude Hiroshi, Kobayashi Yukio, Hara Hidesaburō, Inoue Tatsuo, Takahashi Tomio, Takeda Sachiko, Hotate Michihisa, Morita Tei, Sasaki Muneo, Toda Yoshimi, Miyazaki Yasumitsu, Motoki Yasuo, Ishimoda Shō, and Koyama Yasunori. Scholar-interpreters include Mikael Adolphson, Michiko Aoki, Bruce Batten, Walter Edwards, Karl Friday, Jan Goodwin, Gustav Heldt, and Joan Piggott.Trade ReviewParticularly for those interested in the complex and often inaccessible world of Japanese historiography for what the translators label "the classical age." This volume will prove a handy guide.... [It] will allow Anglophone historians a look at the assumptions, methods, and interpretations of our Japanese colleagues in all their intricacy. * Monumenta Nipponica *

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Book SynopsisFirst published as a Monumenta Nipponica monograph in 1971, this impressive study chronicles the Hōgen Incident of 1156, the abortive coup d'état that marked the emergence of the military class as a political power in Japan. After being unavailable for years, this photo-reprint of the original edition contains not only the complete English translation of the work, but also virtually all that is needed for fully understanding it: footnotes, essays on the subject matter, appendices with references to other chronicles and histories, and a table of episodes from the various texts.

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Book SynopsisNo contemporary artist has succeeded so thoroughly in blending classical Chinese art and modern abstract art as Cao Jun, who has exhibited widely in China, as well as at the Louvre. Accompanying an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, this volume presents the art of Cao Jun for the first time in the United States. Featuring the artist’s early wild animal paintings, to his landscapes, to recent explorations of space depicted abstractly, the book also showcases Cao Jun’s calligraphy and ceramics. Essays by Chinese and American scholars examine Cao Jun’s art, showing how it is deeply rooted in the experience of nature and how it portrays our place within nature. The essays demonstrate also the way in which Cao Jun’s art brings together classical Chinese painting with modern abstract forms akin to those of Western art. Yet Cao Jun’s art foregoes simply fusing these traditions; it employs the techniques of Chinese ink and brush painting and uses ink- and color-splashing to produce abstract forms.

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Book SynopsisEaglemania celebrates Boston College’s mascot, a monumental Japanese bronze eagle, following its recent conservation and return to view. Donated in the 1950s by the estate of diplomat and collector Larz Anderson (1866–1937) and his wife, Isabel (1876–1948), the eagle recently received in-depth restoration that has revealed its fine detail, carefully modeled form, and excellent material construction.Eaglemania brings the history of this stunning object to life. It features new research on topics that contextualize the Boston College eagle, assembling articles that discuss various aspects of its Edo- and Meiji-period origins. These include the Andersons’ acquisition of the eagle; the Boston College eagle seen in comparison with other exceptional Meiji eagle figures; the meanings of eagle depictions in the Edo and Meiji periods; and Japan’s rise as a destination for American collectors, particularly of sculpture, in the Meiji period. Through its focus on eagle imagery, this study illuminates cross-cultural dynamics resulting from American collectors’ fascination with traditional and contemporary Japanese arts and Japanese artists’ adaptation to this market.

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Book SynopsisThe rich history of the Indian Ocean has been much explored, though its present-day manifestations remain less studied. This catalog for an exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, curated by Prasannan Parthasarathi and Salim Currimjee, brings together essays that contextualize the work of six contemporary artists from the region. Through a variety of mediums and forms—including watercolors, videos, collages, sculptures, and photographs—Shiraz Bayjoo, Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis, and Hajra Waheed grapple with the past, present, and future of the Indian Ocean.Indian Ocean Current provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the work of these six artists, with essays drawn from environmental studies, postcolonial studies, literature, and history. Contributors trace the connections that spanned the Indian Ocean, the movement of peoples, and the evolution of plural societies. From the mid-twentieth century, decolonization led to the creation of new nation-states, and hastily erected borders divided many. Today, the rising waters of the Indian Ocean, a consequence of climate change, strip these borders of their power. Indian Ocean Current opens up an artistic, historical, cultural, and political conversation about an area of the world famed for its cosmopolitanism but threatened by nationalism and global warming.

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Book SynopsisAsia Minor under Rome was one of the wealthiest and most developed parts of the Empire, but there have been few modern studies of its economics. The twelve papers in this book, by an international team of scholars, work from literary texts, inscriptions, coinage and archaeology. They study the direct impact of Roman rule; the organisation of large agricultural estates; changing patterns of olive production; threats to rural prosperity from pests and the animal world; inter-regional trade in the Black Sea; the significance of civic market buildings; the economic role of temples and sanctuaries; the contribution of private benefactors to civic finances; and, monetization in the third century AD, and the effect of transitory populations on local economic activity.Table of ContentsStephen Mitchell and Constantina Katsari, 'Introduction: the economy of Roman Asia Minor'; Thomas Corsten (Heidelberg), 'Estates in Roman Asia Minor: the case of Kibyratis'; Johannes Nolle (Munich), `Boars, bears and bugs: farming in Asia Minor and the protection of men, animals and crops'; Stephen Mitchell (Exeter), 'Olive cultivation in the economy of Roman Asia Minor'; David Braund (Exeter), 'Across the Black Sea: patterns of maritime exchange on the periphery of Roman Asia Minor'; Veli Kose (Cologne), 'The origin and development of market buildings in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor'; Arjan Zuiderhoek (Amsterdam), 'The icing on the cake: benefactors, economics and public buildings in Roman Asia Minor'; Giovanni Salmeri (Pisa), 'Central power intervention and the economy of the provinces in the Roman Empire: the case of Pontus and Bithynia'; Beate Dignas (Michigan), 'Sacred revenues in Roman hands: the economic dimension of sanctuaries in western Asia Minor'; Margherita Facella (Pisa), 'Coinage and the economy of Commagene'; Stanley Ireland (Warwick), 'Coinage in Roman Pontus and Paphlagonia: problems of evidence and interpretation'; Constantina Katsari (Galway), 'The monetization of Roman Asia Minor from Septimius Severus to Gallienus'; Hugh Elton (Ankara), 'Military supply and the south coast of Anatolia in the third century AD'; Turhan Kacar (Balikesir), 'Church councils and their impact on the economy of the cities in Roman Asia Minor'.

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Book SynopsisThe rich variety of languages, religious traditions and schools of art of the Indian subcontinent are brought together in this exceptional library of Indian manuscripts. Religious and philosophical texts from Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jain, Sikh and Zoroastrian schools of thought are all represented in illustrated manuscripts. This library shows how these various faiths borrowed, interacted and influenced one another in the subcontinent. From palm leaf manuscripts of the South to pothi format manuals from the Himalayas in Nepal, to the sophisticated and highly illustrated manuscripts of the Imperial Moghul court, this catalogue takes the reader on a visual journey through great epics, charged romances and colourful cautionary tales. Highlights include an important and lavishly illustrated palm-leaf manuscript by ‘The Emperor of Poets’, Upendra Bhanja (c. 1640–1740 ce), and a rare Bihar-I Danesh (The Springtime of Knowledge) by Shaikh ‘Inayatallah Kamboh of Delhi, from late 17th/early 18th century – the finest known copy of the manuscript. An exceptional album of 18th-century Indian paintings from the Liechtenstein Princely Collections offers insight into the fascination for Indian courtly life among the nobility of Europe. A number of exceptional painted scrolls are also presented here. Scroll painting has a long history in India. Story tellers would travel from village to village giving performances of well-known epics and regional stories often accompanied by musicians and with the visual aid of a painted scroll. One particularly vibrant scroll, over 15 metres in length, of the Madel Puranamu, was probably commissioned by a wealthy member of the dhobi caste to celebrate his community’s origins and favour with Shiva. Among the many intruiging maps and manuals – on art, astrology, omens, divination and auspicious symbols – is an 18th-century Nepalese sorcer’s manual, which contains instructions for protective and exorcistic Shaiva rituals, mantras and sacrificial blood-offerings. Its binding includes feathers and traces of blood and skin, which by tradition are fragments of the ‘five beasts’ – buffalo, chicken, dog, goat and cow.

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Book SynopsisEva and Konrad Seitz have put together over many years an outstanding collection of some of the most famous and important of all 18th century Pahari paintings, including miniatures commissioned by the Rajput rulers of the Punjab Hill states (1650-1850). This profusely illustrated book with meticulous research by J.P. Losty (curator emeritus British Library), designed by Misha Anikst and published by Francesca Galloway, London, gives the reader the opportunity to see the collection in its entirety. Pahari paintings have been the focus of Eva and Konrad Seitz’s collection since the couple first went to India in the late 1960s for Konrad to take up his position as a young diplomat at the German embassy in Delhi. They were drawn to Rajput paintings (Indian miniatures from the Hindu schools of North India and Rajasthan) which were then available in Delhi and Mumbai, and later in New York, as several princely collections were being dispersed. Eva and Konrad were part of a small group of pioneer collectors who recognised the importance of Rajput painting at a time when Mughal and Persian painting was far more sought after in the West. The Seitz collection lures you into the enchanted domain of the Hindu gods, their epics and the never-ending trials and tribulations of divine and erotic love. What attracted and intrigued Seitz to Rajput paintings in particular was their ability to induce in the viewer a kind of poetic trance – which he saw as distinct from a more Western tradition of descriptive realism. A Mystical Realm of Love is not only an opportunity to explore Pahari painting through one couple’s lifelong passion and dedication to the subject, but represents a major addition to the scholarship through Losty’s pioneering research. He attempts a new approach in documenting their role as parts of illustrated manuscripts of religious and poetic texts, and also puts forward a revised view of the development and chronology of Pahari painting.

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Book SynopsisMultiple Impressions examines works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China, highlighting the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. It includes works by such artists as Xu Bing, Kang Ning, Song Yuanwen, Chen Qi, He Kun, and Fang Limin, as well as many other accomplished printmakers. Essays by noted scholars place contemporary printmaking in its complex art historical and cultural contexts, discuss the relationship between printmaking and contemporary art, and interpret new work by the internationally prominent artist Xu Bing. The book explores three key themes in printmaking today: "Landscapes Old and New" illustrates the variety of techniques and visual idioms contemporary printmakers draw on to create expressive and fantastic landscapes; "Fellow Citizens" turns to the human figure; and "Layered Abstractions" focuses on works that showcase the distinct visual effects and pictorial language that underscore the process of making a print.Trade Review"Recent publications on contemporary art in China have given short shrift to woodblock prints, which have a long and important history; this exhibition catalogue fills the gap. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisBreath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections encompasses the geographic regions of Mesopotamia, Syria and the Levant, and Anatolia and Iran, and explores several broad themes found in the art of the ancient Near East: gods and goddesses, men and women, and both real and supernatural animals. These art objects reveal a wealth of information about the people and cultures that produced them: their mythology, religious beliefs, concept of kingship, social structure, and daily life.Trade Review"[Breath of heaven] begins with a general discussion of the emerging archaeologists and collectors of the ancient Near East. . .Part 2 of this book documents, through individual catalogue entries, each of the 64 objects illustrated in color plates. A bibliography, chronology, and map supplement the text in this beautiful volume." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Dedication Civilizations in the Sand: Archaeologists, Collectors, and the American Discovery of the Ancient Near East Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections -The Divine Realm -The Human Realm -The Animal Realm Selected Bibliography Chronology Map Photo Credits

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Book SynopsisWill the nations of Southeast Asia maintain their strategic autonomy, or are they destined to become a subservient periphery of China?This book’s expert authors address this pressing question in multiple contexts. What clues to the future lie in the modern history of Sino-Southeast Asian relations? How economically dependent on China has the region already become? What do Southeast Asians think of China? Does Beijing view the region in proprietary terms as its own backyard? How has the relative absence, distance, and indifference of the United States affected the balance of influence between the US and China in Southeast Asia?The book also explores China’s moves and Southeast Asia’s responses to them. Does China’s Maritime Silk Road through Southeast Asia herald a Pax Sinica across the region? How should China’s expansionary acts in the South China Sea be understood? How have Southeast Asian states such as Vietnam and the Philippines responded? How does Singapore’s China strategy compare with Indonesia’s? How relevant is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations? To what extent has China tried to persuade the “overseas Chinese” in Southeast Asia to identify with “the motherland” and support its aims? How are China’s deep involvements in Cambodia and Laos affecting the economies and policies of those countries? “This rich collection,” writes renowned author-journalist Nayan Chanda, answers these and other questions while offering “fresh insights” and “new information and analyses” to explain Southeast Asia’s relations with China.Trade ReviewThe book is certainly useful for understanding the various dimensions of China–Southeast Asia relations." - Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

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Book SynopsisThe golden age of Daoists, rather than being imaginary, closely matches life in the Mesolithic, ca. 9000-5000 BCE, a sedentary form of hunting and collecting before the full development of agriculture and the rise of stratified societies and discriminating consciousness. The book examines fundamental Daoist values, modes of thinking, dietetics, communities, leadership ideals, nonviolence, gender equality as well as methods of self-cultivation in relation to prehistoric patterns. An enlightening account of Daoism in the context of human development since the Paleolithic, Pristine Affluence offers a new vision of the Daoist tradition, Chinese history, and essential human choices.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published as Le commerce extérieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siécle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of continental luxury items, raw materials, and techniques to an exporter of high-quality merchandise over nearly a millennium. The vicissitudes of foreign trade policy, as well as the volume and balance of trade, are examined within the context of regional political and economic developments. All aspects of state-sanctioned and unofficial external commerce are considered. Indeed, this volume reveals that proliferation of private foreign trade constituted a vital link between Japan and its neighbors throughout the suspension of diplomatic relations from the ninth to the fourteenth century. Evidence culled from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean annals and administrative compendia, archaeological excavations, classic literature, artifact collections, and monk and courtier diaries attests to the spectacular diversity of foreign trade goods and their significance in pre-Tokugawa Japanese society. Methodically revised, and featuring an updated, expanded bibliography and redesigned maps, as well as a précis on the state of the field since the original publication, the 2006 English edition is an indispensable resource for scholars and the teaching of premodern East Asian regional history.Trade ReviewMethodically revised, and featuring an updated, expanded bibliography and redesigned maps, as well as a précis on the state of the field since the original publication, the 2006 English edition is an indispensable resource for scholars and the teaching of premodern East Asian regional history. PRAISE for the FRENCH EDITION "A valuable addition to the limited documentation in Western languages on Japan's external trade and exchange before the Edo period. Its treatment of exchange with China and Korea is particularly detailed." * Journal of Asian Studies *This is the first effort to present a coherent overview of an extended period the range of material brought to our attention is impressive a well-researched overview and a timely contribution of real value. Not only does it provide a good guide to foreign contacts, but it suggests many new areas of research. We should be gratified by its publication. * Monumenta Nipponica *

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