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Book SynopsisShortly before releasing deadly sarin gas on the Tokyo subway in March 1995, the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult published a vicious 95-page antisemitic tract that declared war on its Jewish archenemy. The gassing of the Tokyo subway was the culmination of a century of Japanese theorizing about Jews, an important part of which has been antisemitic. In recent years, books blaming Jews for everything from the designs on Japanese currency to the 1995 Kobe earthquake have appeared, and some have sold millions of copies. What explains this virtual obsession with Jews in Japana country that has no Jews? In this highly original cultural and intellectual history, David G. Goodman and Masanori Miyazawa show that present-day Japanese attitudes toward Jews are the result of a process of accretion that began nearly 200 years ago. Skillfully tracing the historical development of Japanese images of Jews against the background of the development of modern Japanese culture, they describe how these images reflect the great themes of modern Japanese intellectual life. Spanning fields ranging from politics to poetry, the authors demonstrate how Japanese attitudes toward Jews have had real political and cultural consequences, culminating in the 1995 subway gassing and resonating into the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewAn enlightening and thorough examination of Japanese notions of the Jews. . . . Jews in the Japanese Mind is not a book about Jews. It is a book about being different, about not being Japanese, about the vast array of people with whom Japan still struggles to come to terms. * The New York Times *This is a riveting study of one of the most surprising phenomena in the history of the Jews. Based on extensive and scrupulous scholarship, Goodman and Miyazawa have revealed how the mythological Jew can play a central role in a culture that has no Jews. This strange obsession reveals fascinating and often frightening dimensions of modern Japan. -- David Biale, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological UnionBy studying antisemitism and its reverse, philosemitism, Goodman and Miyazawa show that Japanese ideas about Jews stem directly from Japan's modern cultural experience. This unique study is an absorbing essay on relativism and universalism in the contemporary life of the mind in Japan. -- Tom Havens, University of California, BerkeleyA serious, thoroughly researched scholarly work that not just explains the superficial side of Japan's bizarre fascination with "Jewish" themes, but presents a balanced historical survey of Japan's encounter with Judaism from the end of the Tokugawa period to the establishment of a Jewish Cultural Center in Tokyo [in 1994]. * The Instrumentalist *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction to the Expanded Edition Chapter 2 What the Japanese Think of Jews and Why Anyone Should Care Chapter 3 Momotaro as Antisemite: The Cultural Roots of Japanese Images of Jews Chapter 4 God's Chosen People: Jews in Japanese Christian Theology Chapter 5 The Protocols of Ultranationalism: The Rise of Antisemitism Between the Wars Chapter 6 Jews as the Enemy: The Function of Antisemitism in Wartime Japan Chapter 7 Identification and Denial: The Uses of the Jews in the Postwar Period Chapter 8 The Socialism of Fools: Left-Wing Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Chapter 9 A Signal Failure: Recrudescent Antisemitism and Japan's "Spiritual Condition" Chapter 10 Japan's Jewish Problem: Implications in a Multicultural World Chapter 11 Afterword: Culmination and Continuity: Developments, 1995-2000

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Book SynopsisAgony of Choice, the life of Japanese statesman and diplomat Matsuoka Yosuke, offers a vivid narrative of twentieth-century Japanese diplomatic history. Matsuoka was an American-educated Japanese foreign minister who became a vocal advocate of Japanese expansionism in echo of the America he so admired. His promotion of alliances and relationships with countries such as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, however, not only led Japan to war with the United States but also led to Matsuoka''s involvement with and eventual indictment for atrocities committed during the war. Through extensive archival research and fascinating personal interviews, David Lu explores Matsuoka''s pivotal role in the drama of Japan''s withdrawal from the League of Nations, empire-building in Asia, and the development of interwar Japanese politics.Trade ReviewAs a richly textured study of a pivotal figure . . . it belongs in the library of all serious students of modern Japanese history and diplomacy. As a product of the best of 'old school' sensibilities and training, it is a real gem and should be required reading for graduate and undergraduate seminars on modern Japanese history, historiography, and diplomacy. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *. . . a standard work on the colorful Japanese leader . . . a rounded and engaging narrative. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Early Life in Yamaguchi Chapter 2 The First American Experience Chapter 3 Diplomat in China, Russia, and America Chapter 4 From Tokyo to Versailles Chapter 5 Railway Politics in Manchuria Chapter 6 Revolutionary China, SMR, and Japanese Politics Chapter 7 Seiyukai Politics and Shanghai Assignment Chapter 8 Withdrawal from the League of Nations Chapter 9 Political Party Dissolution Movement Chapter 10 Manchukuo, Guandong Army, and the SMR Chapter 11 Becoming Master of Kasumigaseki Chapter 12 Alliance with Germany Chapter 13 China and Southeast Asia Chapter 14 European Tour and Neutrality Pact with USSR Chapter 15 Approaches to the United States Chapter 16 The Later Years Chapter 17 Reflections and Assessment

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Book SynopsisIn this book an international group of scholars examines China's acceptance and ultimate rejection of Soviet models and practices in economic, cultural, social, and other realms.Trade ReviewThis excellent and important volume will come as a revelation to many readers. Nearly every conceivable facet of the Sino-Soviet relationship is covered. The book's breadth reveals just how pervasive the Soviet model was in Chinese society, economics, politics, and culture. -- Robert Ross, Boston CollegeThe Sino-Soviet relationship has played a critical role in the development of the People's Republic of China. Basing their analysis on recent documentation from Russia as well as China, the authors in this collection contribute fresh and important insights into the nature of that relationship. It should be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the evolution of Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy. -- Steven M. Goldstein, Smith CollegeAt the recent 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China (PRC), an old slogan was repeated: 'Without the Chinese Communist Party there would be no New China.' We might also say: 'Without the Soviet Union, there would be no Communist Party of China,' and 'Without the Soviet Union, there would be no People's Republic of China.' The Chinese Communist Party grew up in the Stalinist era. Today, after three decades of market reform, there is still a Soviet DNA in its political culture. The essays in this volume, compiled by an outstanding group of international scholars, trace the story of China's most important foreign relationship in its periods of tutelage, partnership, and tension. They remind us that, whether as mentor or rival, revolutionary or revisionist, no foreign state has had greater weight in modern China than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. -- William C. Kirby, Harvard UniversityThis book is a fantastic resource for professors and students alike. It is a major work that will help scholars around the world to better understand the Soviet model's enduring legacy and how it affected and will continue to affect modern China. * China Quarterly *The book contains a wealth of interesting and cogently presented perspectives on the Sino-Soviet relationship. It is highly recommended for both the specialist and the general reader. * The China Journal *Although this tale of less than brotherly love is a familiar one, this volume provides a wealth of detail based on extensive field research and archival work, explaining exactly how, what, and why China borrowed from Soviet experience. Resulting from a 2007 international conference involving established scholars and younger researchers, the volume also goes well beyond conventional wisdom in the study of Sino-Soviet alliance relations to address the complex set of circumstances that set limits to Chinese emulation and to the Sino-Soviet relationship itself. * Slavic Review *A sample of the soul-searching going on in Chinese academic circles about the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, a subject that deserves greater attention for what it tells us about Chinese thinking regarding China’s own current political and economic challenges. * Slavic Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Complexities of Learning from the Soviet Union Part 3 I. The Ups and Downs of Sino-Soviet Relations Chapter 4 1. Sino-Soviet Relations during the Mao Years, 1949-1969 Chapter 5 2. The Main Causes for the Return of the Chinese Changchun Railway to China and its Impact on Sino-Soviet Relations Chapter 6 3. "Only a Handshake but no Embrace:" Sino-Soviet Normalization in the 1980s Part 7 II. Ideological and Military Influences Chapter 8 4. Instilling Stalinism in Chinese Party Members: Absorbing Stalin's Short Course in the 1950s Chapter 9 5. The Soviet Model and the Breakdown of the Military Alliance Part 10 III. Soviet Economic Assistance and Socialist Transformation Chapter 11 6. How to Build a Modern Economy: China Learns from the Soviet Union Chapter 12 7. "Get Organized:" The Impact of the Soviet Model on the CCP's Rural Economic Strategy, 1949-l953 Chapter 13 8. Implementing the Soviet Model of State Farms in China Part 14 IV. Society Chapter 15 9. "Labor is Glorious:" Model Laborers in the PRC Chapter 16 10. The Influence of Soviet Union on Gender Equality in China in the l950s Part 17 V. Soviet Influence on Science and Education Chapter 18 11. The Political Dimensions of Soviet-Chinese Academic Interactions in the l950s: Questioning the Impact -Response Approach Chapter 19 12. "Three Blows of the Shoulder Pole:" Soviet Experts at Chinese People's University, 1950-1957 Chapter 20 13. Lysenkoism and the Suppression of Genetics in the PRC, 1949-1956 Chapter 21 14. Between Revolutions: Chinese Students in Soviet Institutes, 1948-l966 Part 22 VI. Literature and Film Chapter 23 15. Coming of Age in the Brave New World: The Changing Reception of the Soviet Novel, How the Steel was Tempered, in the PRC Chapter 24 16. Film and Gender in Sino-Soviet Cultural Exchange, 1949-69 Part 25 VII. The Era of Reform and the Impact of the Soviet Collapse Chapter 26 17. China's Concurrent Debate about the Gorbachev Era Chapter 27 18. Fate of the Soviet Model of Multinational State-Building in the PRC Chapter 28 19. The Impact of the Collapse of the Soviet Union on China's Political Choices Chapter 29 Concluding Assessment

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previously available or accessible in China. These motion pictures present a new breed of charactersnamely, lesbiansas well as a new sexual subject on the screen for the first time in the history of Chinese cinema. Blending historicist and comparative approaches, this book begins with a critical genealogy of Chinese homosexual traditions in the first two chapters. This strategy allows the author to examine a number of films individually through contextualizing their historical and cultural articulations and interpretations through the remainder of the book.Trade ReviewThe term ‘groundbreaking’ is not strong enough to adequately characterize the insightful contents of Chinese Lesbian Cinema. Utilizing a variety of critical approaches, Liang Shi identifies and explores an important subgenre of underground films that have to date been virtually ignored by media scholars. This book offers incisive analyses of little-seen lesbian-themed films from mainland China, informed by interview responses from their (perhaps unexpectedly) heterosexual, non-activist makers who have little hope of ever reaping profits from their creations. The end result is a must-read text that effectively challenges typical conceptions of lesbian filmmaking as it is characterized in contemporary global discourse. -- Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Mirror Rubbing: A Critical Genealogy of Pre-Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 2: From Mirror Rubbing to Lesbianism: A Critical Genealogy of Modern Chinese Female Same-Sex Eroticism Chapter 3: Prototypes of Lesbian Relations Chapter 4: Discovering and Normalizing Lesbians: Fish and Elephant Chapter 5: Sacrifice of Innocence: Redefining Sexuality in Zhu Yiye’s Film Lost in You Chapter 6: Lost and Found: Fluidity of Sexuality in Love Mime Chapter 7: Love in a Forgotten Corner: Female Same-Sex Desire in Rural China

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Book SynopsisThe May 1980 Kwangju Uprising still exerts a profound influence in Korean society. Combining personal reflections and academic analysis, this text offers an examination of the multiple meanings of this event, explaining how the memory of Kwangju has affected Korean life from politics to culture.Trade ReviewShin and Hwang splendidly interlace the complexity of the 5-18 Kwangju democratization movement, a defining moment in Korean history. * Journal of Asian Studies *This book deserves the attention of those with general interests in social movements and historical memory. More specifically, the volume should be carefully studied by students of democratic transitions, and by all observers of South Korea's recent history and contemporary social and political life. * American Historical Review *Combining vivid eyewitness reflections (part 1) with insightful scholarly analyses of the uprising's outcomes (part 2), the editors of this volume, Gi-Wook Shin and Kyung Moon Hwang, endeavor to provide a balanced and comprehensive reassessment of the Kwangju uprising. Together, these essays constitute a comprehensive study of the multiple and shifting meanings of this seminal event. This book is by far the most balanced and comprehensive English-language reassessment of the events. Contentious Kwangju offers a superb and multifaceted lecture on the politics of memory surrounding the Kwangju uprising and is required reading for anyone interested in the history of Korean democratization. * American Journal of Sociology *This is a fascinating book and I applaud the editors' efforts to examine the Kwangju massacre with some historical perspective. The passage of time has led to a more accurate view of those tragic events both with respect to the individual assesments of the impact on individual lives as well as the critical role it played in the democratization of Korea. * Korean Quarterly *Contentious Kwangju is a must-read for scholars of contemporary Korean history and those interested in issues of civil society, democratization, and contested visions of the past more generally. Gi-Wook Shin presents a masterful overview of the events of May 1980, impressive for both its breadth and brevity. * Journal of Asian Studies *An excellent and indispensable work, a first of its kind, weaving vivid eyewitness accounts with a range of insightful scholarly perspectives that probe the multiple meanings of one of the great, defining moments in the history of Korean democratization. -- Carter J. Eckert, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Contentious Kwangju Part I 2 Origins and Development Chapter 1 3 The Formation of an Absolute Community Chapter 2 4 Simin'gun: Citizens' Army during Kwangju Uprising Chapter 3 5 An American Missionary's View Chapter 4 6 Has Kwangju Been Realized? Part II 7 Legacy and Representation Chapter 5 8 From Heroic Victims to Disabled Survivors: The 5.18 Injured after Twenty Years Chapter 6 9 The Kwangju Uprising as a Vehicle of Democratization: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 7 10 Victims and Heroes: Competing Visions of May 18 Chapter 8 11 Re-inventing the Region: The Cultural Politics of Place in Kwangju City and South Cholla Province Afterword 12 The Historical Watershed

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Book SynopsisCombines ethnography in the gay and lesbian communities, and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents. This volume examines issues of gay life in the Japanese fifteen year/Pacific War, addresses lesbian and gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the US occupation, and the international community.Trade Review[This] book will serve as a welcome corrective to sparse earlier publications that have overly generalized, homogenized and singularized homosexuality and other queer experiences in Japan. The book will be appreciated by students of Japan's post–World War II era who have found it difficult so far to position Japan's queer culture in an international setting. * Asian Studies Review *This book provides an accessible and readable introduction to subcultures which have received little attention in English-language scholarship (or in mainstream Japanese scholarship), drawing on little-known archival sources and making good use of more recent Internet sources. There is no comparable study available. -- Vera Mackie, University of WollongongA detailed and interesting account. McLelland first discusses the emergence of the category of sexuality within Japanese discourse, then looks at the vast and neglected field of magazines and other periodicals that began to appear postwar. -- Donald Richie * The Japan Times *In this important new book on Japanese culture, McLelland argues against using Western concepts when studying Japan, especially the topics of this book, since Japan historically had no categories of "heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual" or anti-gay oppression from religion, medicine, or law. . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This is history of sexuality at its best, both insightful and finely detailed. Mark McLelland has identified cultural phenomena that might otherwise have been neglected, and has brought them together in a sustained and compelling analysis of queer Japan. -- Peter Cryle, author ofThe Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century FranceQueer Japan from the PacificWar to the Internet Age is an important accomplishment in the field of Japan studies. [It] will be indispensable for anyone embarking on research on gender and sexuality in Japan, and will also be valuable in undergraduate and graduate courses to increase the diversity of our representations and understandings of Japanese society. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *. . . a major conribution to Japan studies.Queer Japan will be indispensible for anyone embaking on reserach on gender and sexuality in Japan, and will also be valuable in undergraduate and graduate courses to increase the diversity of our representations and understandins of Japanese society. * The Journal of Japanese Studies *McLellands' Queer Japan is a serious contribution to queer scholarship, blending as it does primary and secondary source materials, well-covered territories, and new information for Anglophone audiences. Overall, the book is well researched, well written, and well edited and brings new information forward for inspection. * Journal of Asian Studies *Meticulously researched and engagingly told. . . .McLelland's accessibly style and knack for provocative translation ensure it will appeal equally to those with a passing interest in gender studies, Japan, or both. -- Justin Ellis, Japan Visitor WebsiteA richly detailed history of sexual subcultures in postwar Japan. Making use of an impressive array of materials culled from journalistic accounts as well as literary, sexological, and social science texts, McLelland provides Anglophone readers with a wide-ranging introduction to the ways in which various forms of nonnormative sexuality have been imagined and experience in Japan from the 1920s to the present. * Journal of the History of Sexuality, January 2010 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Illustrations Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Heteronormativity on the Road to War Chapter 5 Japan's Postwar Perverse Culture Chapter 6 Gay Boys, Blue Boys and Brother Girls Chapter 7 The Development of a Homo Subculture Chapter 8 Toward a Lesbian and Gay Consciousness Chapter 9 Transgender Lives Chapter 10 Afterword Chapter 11 Bibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnne-Marie Brady is an authority on Beijing's efforts to attract favorable attention to itself. . . . The central thesis of her path-breaking book is ultimately convincing. * Wall Street Journal Asia *Propaganda is one of the most important domains in the Chinese party-state. . . . As Anne-Marie Brady demonstrates in a superb study of this central and hidden part of the Chinese system, the surface diversity of the Chinese media hides the guiding hand of a high-level Party office in Beijing called the Central Propaganda Department, which works its will across the whole spectrum of activities in media, education, entertainment—and also in sports. . . . The Beijing Olympics have never been anything but a conscious part of this strategy—what Brady calls a campaign of mass distraction. * New Republic *A hugely interesting and important book. In a concise 230 pages it explains how since 1989 the Chinese Communist Party has renewed, extended and strengthened its propaganda apparatus. * China Economic Quarterly *This is a fine study of Chinese domestic and foreign propaganda. . . . The book is well organized. . . . Her research is extensive and up-to-date. The volume should be part of any collection with a focus on mass communications, China studies, or even political science in general. . . . Recommended. * CHOICE *The best and most current study on [the Chinese propaganda system], and is a welcome addition to our understanding of the evolving party-state in China. . . . A much-needed assessment of the often 'invisible hand' guiding what Chinese citizens are permitted to know and how they know it. -- David Shambaugh, The George Washington University and The Brookings Institution * China Quarterly *In a year of unprecedented media coverage of China, Anne-Marie Brady has written a timely book about the Chinese media. She has done much to demystify an understudied topic. . . . The book's most important contribution is to shed light on the institutions, laws and practices which trammel Chinese media. . . . Brady's work deserves much admiration. . . . Marketing Dictatorship is a useful source of information for students of Chinese politics, and an invaluable resource for scholars of the Chinese media. -- Ashley Esarey * The China Journal *Anne-Marie Brady . . . has produced an authoritative book on [China's] Central Propaganda Department. -- Evan Osnos * The New Yorker *This fascinating book reveals how China's propaganda machine has reinvented itself and today employs a range of sophisticated PR techniques to mold Chinese public opinion. Read this to understand how the Communist Party has strengthened its hold in China. -- Jonathan Unger, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Guiding Hand: The Role of the Propaganda System Chapter 2: From Thought Reform to Economic Reform: Comparing Propaganda and Thought Work in Different Eras Chapter 3: China's Unseen Engineers: Reform and Modernization in the Propaganda System Chapter 4: Regimenting the Public Mind: The Methods of Control in the Propaganda System Chapter 5: Sex Crime, Wheels of Law, and Song Zuying: Managing Information Communication Technology in China Chapter 6: Combating Hostile Forces: China's Foreign Propaganda Work since 1989 Chapter 7: Models and Anti-Models: Searching for a New, New China Chapter 8: The Rebirth of the Propaganda State Glossary

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnne-Marie Brady is an authority on Beijing's efforts to attract favorable attention to itself. . . . The central thesis of her path-breaking book is ultimately convincing. * Wall Street Journal Asia *Propaganda is one of the most important domains in the Chinese party-state. . . . As Anne-Marie Brady demonstrates in a superb study of this central and hidden part of the Chinese system, the surface diversity of the Chinese media hides the guiding hand of a high-level Party office in Beijing called the Central Propaganda Department, which works its will across the whole spectrum of activities in media, education, entertainment—and also in sports. . . . The Beijing Olympics have never been anything but a conscious part of this strategy—what Brady calls a campaign of mass distraction. * New Republic *A hugely interesting and important book. In a concise 230 pages it explains how since 1989 the Chinese Communist Party has renewed, extended and strengthened its propaganda apparatus. * China Economic Quarterly *This is a fine study of Chinese domestic and foreign propaganda. . . . The book is well organized. . . . Her research is extensive and up-to-date. The volume should be part of any collection with a focus on mass communications, China studies, or even political science in general. . . . Recommended. * CHOICE *The best and most current study on [the Chinese propaganda system], and is a welcome addition to our understanding of the evolving party-state in China. . . . A much-needed assessment of the often 'invisible hand' guiding what Chinese citizens are permitted to know and how they know it. -- David Shambaugh, The George Washington University and The Brookings Institution * China Quarterly *In a year of unprecedented media coverage of China, Anne-Marie Brady has written a timely book about the Chinese media. She has done much to demystify an understudied topic. . . . The book's most important contribution is to shed light on the institutions, laws and practices which trammel Chinese media. . . . Brady's work deserves much admiration. . . . Marketing Dictatorship is a useful source of information for students of Chinese politics, and an invaluable resource for scholars of the Chinese media. -- Ashley Esarey * The China Journal *Anne-Marie Brady . . . has produced an authoritative book on [China's] Central Propaganda Department. -- Evan Osnos * The New Yorker *This fascinating book reveals how China's propaganda machine has reinvented itself and today employs a range of sophisticated PR techniques to mold Chinese public opinion. Read this to understand how the Communist Party has strengthened its hold in China. -- Jonathan Unger, Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Guiding Hand: The Role of the Propaganda System Chapter 2: From Thought Reform to Economic Reform: Comparing Propaganda and Thought Work in Different Eras Chapter 3: China's Unseen Engineers: Reform and Modernization in the Propaganda System Chapter 4: Regimenting the Public Mind: The Methods of Control in the Propaganda System Chapter 5: Sex Crime, Wheels of Law, and Song Zuying: Managing Information Communication Technology in China Chapter 6: Combating Hostile Forces: China's Foreign Propaganda Work since 1989 Chapter 7: Models and Anti-Models: Searching for a New, New China Chapter 8: The Rebirth of the Propaganda State Glossary

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Book SynopsisVoices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng, beloved Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator, and high-ranking politician as vice minister of culture from 19861990. One of twentieth-century China''s most prominent citizens, Ying was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution and devised unique strategies for survival, including playing pranks on guards and keeping a clandestine notebook. Ying''s memoir opens with his prison years, and then flashes back to his boyhood growing up in a prince''s palace as a member of a progressive Manchu Catholic intellectual family. He also details his experiences as a university student during the heady days when the People''s Republic was being founded, followed by his subsequent experiences on stage, in film, and in politics. A founding member of the Beijing People''s Art Theatre, Ying Ruocheng helped open its doors to Sino-American exchange when he brought Arthur Miller to China to stage Death of a Salesman in 1983, playing the role of Willy Loman in his own translation of the play. Simultaneously a spy for his own government and a cultural ambassador for countless foreigners and fellow countrymen, Ying lived out his life as a bridge between China and the West, gaining a singular perspective on matters related to culture and politics.While suffering from cirrhosis of the liver during the final decade of his life, Ying Ruocheng reflected on his experiences, collaborating with coauthor Claire Conceison to tell his story. Together, they take the reader on an exhilarating journey from Manchu wrestling matches to missionary schools, from behind prison bars to behind the scenes at ground-breaking stage performances, and from public moments of international recognition to private moments of intimacy and despair.Trade ReviewThis 'collaborative autobiography' reveals Ying as a complex and contradictory figure: Catholic and communist, artist and informant, actor and politician. Although Ying's insights from within the Cultural Revolution are fascinating, of equal value are both his view of the US and the echoes of the history of modern China as filtered through his personal history—not to mention his wit and warmth. This book will prove of interest far beyond theater and Asian studies. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A gem, not to be missed by any student of Chinese culture or politics. . . . The passages on prison are among the most detailed and vivid we have in the literature. And throughout the volume there is a refreshing bluntness. . . . Voices Carry has been a major project for Conceison, a labor of love, persistence, and understanding. She has gone to great lengths to offer context in endnotes for readers who may need them. It is hard to think of any US-PRC literary collaboration more complex and valuable than this one, or to think of a personal cultural bridge between the PRC and the West as active and influential as Ying . . . it is quite clear Ying had his faults, but I found the book totally engaging. -- Ross Terrill, author of Mao, The New Chinese Empire, and Madame Mao * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Ying’s vitality, ingenuity, humor, and creativity as an artist and a larger-than-life character are in full display, making the book a great joy to read. . . . Conceison should also be commended for skillfully and fluidly weaving Ying’s life together in the chapters and for corroborating, supplementing, or occasionally correcting Ying’s memories with historical records and/or recounts from family members in her introduction, epilogue, and thirty-five pages of endnotes. . . . Her serious scholarship is augmented by skillful writing and organization. * Theatre Journal *A truly excellent book. It is full of information and insight into the life of a wonderfully generous and learned human being, a most unusual Chinese and man of the theatre, a man who understood the theatre both of his own country and of the West, and who had highly practical and valuable experience in both. As for the author whose job was to transmit this character to a readership, her knowledge and feeling for her subject is exemplary, as is her ability to write that kind of English that conveys his character and views sympathetically and truthfully. This is not only a lively read but also a convincing one. * Asian Theatre Journal *A must-read for anyone interested in the performing arts. Furthermore, [celebrated Chinese actor Ying Ruocheng's] life touched on fascinating aspects of Chinese history and society seldom discussed. What happened to the Manchus after the 1911 revolution? What was it like being a Catholic in those years? How did (and perhaps does) the government collect information on foreigners? How does it treat its political prisoners? How are personnel decisions made? This book is one man’s attempt to make sense of cataclysmic events. * China Review International *For readers unfamiliar with the history of the performing arts in China, Voices Carry provides a window into modern Chinese theatre through the life story of a man integral to its development. For specialists in Chinese drama, Ying’s behind-the-scenes perspective and Conceison’s detailed annotations shed new light on landmark plays like Lao She’s Teahouse (1957). Every reader will have the pleasure of discovering Ying through his own depiction of the key events in his remarkable life. Conceison writes fondly of her time spent with Ying: 'Each of these conversations over the course of a decade was indeed like having a fireside chat with a best friend' (xvii). While I never had the good fortune of meeting Ying Ruocheng in person, Voices Carry enables me to feel that I, too, have enjoyed such a chat. * TDR: The Drama Review *An autobiography of a key figure in post-1949 China is a welcome addition to enrich our understanding of how theatre came to be a vital institution in modern Chinese life. Readers looking for such insights will be intrigued by this idiosyncratic autobiographical account, not least because it sheds new light on Ying Ruocheng’s dual role as government informant and cultural ambassador in East-West relations. * China Quarterly *Ying Ruocheng was an extraordinary individual, a man of integrity and creativity whose story must be more widely known. Through this brilliant collaborative telling with Claire Conceison, we understand how he inspired so many and we learn how the arts can impact world events. -- Ralph Samuelson, Asian Cultural CouncilThis autobiography of Ying Ruocheng offers us a rare treat: a completely new vantage point from which to view twentieth-century China. Ying was a Manchu and a Catholic, an actor and a translator, a political prisoner and a vice minister of culture, as well as being a man of subtlety and wit. Claire Conceison has done us a real service in making this unusual life available to the general reader. -- Jonathan D. Spence, Yale University; author of The Search for Modern ChinaYing Ruocheng is, of course, a star in China. . . . [He] is not only a translator and actor but of necessity a kind of diplomat. . . . He has been my rock, a man of double consciousness, Eastern and Western, literary and show business. -- Arthur Miller, from "Salesman" in BeijingTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Adventures of Prison Life Chapter 1: My First Year Behind Bars Chapter 2: The Prison at Jixian Part II: Family History and Early Education Chapter 3: The Ying Legacy Chapter 4: A Princely Childhood Part III: Professional Life in Arts and Politics Chapter 5: My Stage Career Chapter 6: Cultural Diplomacy Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis innovative volume demonstrates that the body was central to the construction and maintenance of British authority in India. Imperial Bodies explores ways in which the transformation of the British presence in India between 1800 and 1947 involved and relied upon changes in the way the British in India managed, disciplined and displayed their bodies. The move from commerce to control, and then to imperialism and Empire corresponded to a shift in bodily norms. As the nineteenth century progressed, an openness and interest in India gave way to a ban on things Indian. The British rejected curries for tinned ham, cool white clothing for black broadcloth and Indian mistresses for English wives. By the twentieth century, the British official had been transformed into an upright, decent representative of British virtues whose task was to bring civilization to India. By the late nineteenth century, racial theory focused attention on the physique to such an extent that the bTrade Review'I am deeply impressed by the assurance, craftsmanship and historical judgement displayed by Imperial Bodies. It represents the new fusion of colonial history and body history at its very best.' Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 'Collingham's work on the physical experience of the British is a remarkable piece of research and analysis. Perhaps the most extraordinary part of the work is her section at the end of the book on the "Social Body" where she describes the new tasks (mostly not undertaken) that confronted the British understanding of their bodies as the moment of Independence of India and Pakistan loomed.' Gene Irschick, University of California at Berkeley "its ambition is to be applauded" Mark Harrison, University of Oxford 'Lively and insightful.' Times Literary Supplement 'A first-rate read ... What makes Imperial Bodies such fun to delve into is the mass of fascinating social detail that its author has uncovered and assembled; by turns medical, biological, culinary, sartorial, sexual, even scatological, drawn from sources as diverse as advertisements for soft flannels in The Englishman, Chota Sahib's Camp Recipes for Camp People (Madras, 1890) and the Whipping Bill of 1864. In sum, a fine body of work.' The Spectator 'Beautifully written, this history of the body during the Raj is a telling antidote to the traditional imperial histories of the British occupation of India. Weaving analytical and empirical knowledge E.M. Collingham produces a very readable and at times shocking history of British arrogance and ignorance of Indian cultures and histories ... It is a remarkable book, one that reaches well beyond an academic audience to all of us concerned with the trends behind the cultural and social inequalities and confusions with which we continue to struggle.' Development 'Using this evolving parade of the colonial presence, Cambridge academic E.M. Collingham provides a fascinating sweep of Anglo-Indian society and its attitudes to a variety of topics, among them the home, dress, food, cleanliness, sexuality, and servants.' The Natal Witness "I found this book more illuminating than any previous postcolonial history, both because it sees the world that children saw - which is not far from a world that an observant doctor sees - and because it goes further in accounting for it and explaining its unique mix of lovable and repellant features than anything else I have read." International Journal of Epidemiology "Readers will find much that is original and of interest in this book." Victorian Studies "This is a highly readable and lucid account of a relatively new topic in imperial history and historiography and should prove of value to historians as well as scholars in a number of other disciplines." Kleio "Well researched, clearly argued, and full of rich and interesting detail, this is a book that will be of interest to anthropologists, culture historians and scholars working in the field of colonial and post-colonial studies." Joseph S. Alter, Journal of The Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsList of Plates. Acknowledgements. Glossary. Introduction. Part I: The Nabob, c.1800-1857. 1. The Indianized Body. Rule as an 'Indian Idiom'. Survival of an 'Indian Idiom'. The Dangers of Indianization. The Limits of Indianization. The Depth of Indianization. 2. The Anglicization of the Body. Rule in a British Idiom. The Ban on the East. Survival in a British Idiom. 3. The Limits of Anglicization. The 'Baba Logue'. The Bungalow. The Household Servants. Part II. The Sahib 1857-1939. 4. The Sahib as an Instrument of Rule. The Competition-Wallah and the Ideal Official Body. Imperial Ceremony and the Symbolic Body. The Bureaucratic Body. Prestige and Physical Violence. 5. The Social Body. Social Life and Conformity. The Fragility of Domestic Space. Prestige in the Bathroom. Degeneration and the Regulation of Sexuality. Race and Sociability. Epilogue: The Dissolution of the Anglo-Indian Body, 1939-1947. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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