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Hideyoshi

by Mary Elizabeth Berry

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 Hideyoshiâ€"peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japanâ€"is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japanâ€™s 16th-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. But his lasting contribution is as governor whose policies shaped Japanese politics for almost 300 years.
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The Promised Republic - Developmental Society And The Making Of Modern Seoul, 1961â€“1979

by Russell Burge

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 The Promised Republic offers a bold new history of South Koreaâ€™s rapid national development. Drawing on a range of official sources and personal accounts, Russell Burge links the struggles of rural-to-urban migrants living in Seoulâ€™s shantytowns during the 1960s and 1970s and the conflicts over urban access and inequality that endure today.
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Painting Into Being - Underground Art During Chinaâ€™S Cultural Revolution

by Aihe Wang

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 Painting into Being is the first in-depth study of underground art during Chinaâ€™s Cultural Revolution, focusing on the Wuming (No Name) Painting Group from 1972 to 1981. Aihe Wang interweaves history, theory, and lived experience as an artist to expand our understanding of modern China and the power of creative expression within repressive regimes.
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Japan'S Imperial House In The Postwar Era, 1945-2019

by Kenneth J. Ruoff

182,85€ + 10% CARD

 With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff expands upon and updates The Peopleâ€™s Emperor, his study of the monarchyâ€™s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan.
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Red Silk - Class, Gender, And Revolution In China'S Yangzi Delta Silk Industry

by Robert Cliver

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 An extensively researched history of Chinaâ€™s Yangzi Delta silk industry, Red Silk compares two very different groups of silk workers and their experiences in the revolution, and how their actions compelled the party-state to adjust its policy that ultimately proved disastrous.
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Chinese Ways Of Seeing And Open-Air Painting

by Yi Gu

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 Chinese Ways of Seeing and Open-Air Painting chronicles the life of a modern art form. In the late 1910s Chinese painters began working outdoors. They also adopted linear perspective and Cartesian optics. Yi Gu reflects on the complex interaction of local and Western aesthetics within the new form and on the nature of visual modernity in China.
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Unreal Houses - Character, Gender, And Genealogy In The Tale Of Genji

by Edith Sarra

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 Edith Sarra radically rethinks the Tale of Genji by focusing on the figure of the houseâ€"both the narrativeâ€™s images of aristocratic mansions and its representation of their inhabitants. Unreal Houses opens new perspectives on the architectonics of the Genji and the feminine milieu that midwifed what has been called the worldâ€™s first novel.
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Flowering Tales - Women Exorcising History In Heian Japan

by Takeshi Watanabe

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 Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), a historical tale that covers 150 years of births, deaths, and happenings of late Heian society, a golden age of Japanese court literature.
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Manga From The Floating World - Comicbook Culture And The Kibyoshi Of Edo Japan

by Adam Kern

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 Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction from late-eighteenth-century Japan. Illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the student of Japanese cultural history.
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Regional Literature And The Transmission Of Culture - Chinese Drum Ballads, 1800-1937

by Margaret B. Wan

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 Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture provides a textured picture of cultural transmission in the Qing and early Republican eras. Study of drum ballads opens up new perspectives in Chinese literature and history and offers a new paradigm that will interest scholars of cultural history, literature, legal history, and popular culture.
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Wings For The Rising Sun - A Transnational History Of Japanese Aviation

by Jurgen P. Melzer

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 In Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot Jurgen Melzer tells the history of Japanese aviation as a story of international cooperation, competition, and conflict. He details how Japan absorbed technologies from abroad, fostered public enthusiasm for aviation at home, and eventually crafted boldly original flying machines.
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Orthodox Passions - Narrating Filial Love During The High Qing

by Maram Epstein

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 In this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China.
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Powers Of The Real - Cinema, Gender, And Emotion In Interwar Japan

by Diane Wei Lewis

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 Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the â€œage of the mass societyâ€ in Japan.
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Famine Relief In Warlord China

by Pierre Fuller

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 Famine Relief in Warlord China explores relief efforts during the greatest ecological crisis of the pre-Nationalist Chinese republic. Pierre Fuller details how indigenous action from the household to the national level, not international intervention, sustained the lives of millions of the destitute in Beijing.
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Imaginative Mapping - Landscape And Japanese Identity In The Tokugawa And Meiji Eras

by Nobuko Toyosawa

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 Imaginative Mapping analyzes how intellectuals of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras used specific features and aspects of the landscape to represent their idea of Japan and produce a narrative of Japan as a cultural community. Nobuko Toyosawa argues that the circulation spatial narratives allowed readers to imagine the broader conceptual space of Japan.
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Worship Of Confucius In Japan

by James Mcmullen

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 How has Confucius, quintessentially and symbolically Chinese, been received throughout Japanese history? The Worship of Confucius in Japan provides the first overview of the richly documented and colorful Japanese version of the East Asian ritual to venerate Confucius, known in Japan as the sekiten.
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Becoming Taiwanese - Ethnogenesis In A Colonial City, 1880s-1950s

by Evan N. Dawley

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 Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism, Becoming Taiwanese examines the important first era in the history of Taiwanese identity construction during the early twentieth century in the northern port city of Jilong (Keelung).
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Poetic Transformations - Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects On The Mekong Plains

by Claudine Ang

120,58€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on vernacular Vietnamese and classical Chinese sources, Ang identifies the different ways two leading statesmen of the time employed literature to transform the frontier region. This book captures a historical moment of overlapping visions, frustrated schemes, and contested desires on the Mekong plains.
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Lost Histories - Recovering The Lives Of Japan'S Colonial Peoples

by Kirsten L. Ziomek

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 Is it possible to write the history of Japanâ€™s colonial subjects? Ziomek contends that it is. By reconstructing individual life histories and following these people as they crossed colonial borders to the metropolis and beyond, Ziomek conveys the dynamic nature of an empire in motion.
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Korean Buddhist Empire - A Transnational History (1910-1945)

by Hwansoo Ilmee Kim

120,58€ + 10% CARD

 Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagationâ€"and even their own identitiesâ€"to modernize and elevate Korean Buddhism. By focusing on six case studies, this book highlights the centrality of transnational relationships in the transformation of colonial Korean Buddhism.
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Translatability Of Revolution - Guo Moruo And The Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture

by Pu Wang

120,58€ + 10% CARD

 In the first comprehensive study of Guo Moruo in English, Pu Wang explores the dynamics of translation, revolution, and historical imagination in twentieth-century Chinese culture. Guo was a romantic writer, Mao Zedongâ€™s last poetic interlocutor, a Marxist historian, president of Chinaâ€™s Academy of Sciences, and translator of Goetheâ€™s Faust.
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Body, Society, And Nation - The Creation Of Public Health And Urban Culture In Shanghai

by Chieko Nakajima

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 Chieko Nakajima tells the story of Chinaâ€™s unfolding modernity, exploring changing ideas, practices, and systems related to health and body in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Shanghai. She explains how local customs fashioned and constrained public health and, in turn, how hygienic modernity helped shape local cultures and behavior.
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Voting As A Rite - A History Of Elections In Modern China

by Joshua Hill

137,80€ + 10% CARD

 Voting as a Rite examines Chinaâ€™s experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, Hill instead asks: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves?
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Give And Take - Poverty And The Status Order In Early Modern Japan

by Maren A. Ehlers

120,58€ + 10% CARD

 Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600â€"1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.
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