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A History Of Timelessness - Constructing Authenticity At The Ise Shrines

by Jordan Sand

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 Every twenty years for over a millennium, the Ise shrines have been rebuilt from the ground up, and hundreds of shrine treasures replaced. At Ise, the aspiration to timelessness that is the essence of all monuments has been pursued through endless repetition rather than construction in durable materials. Spanning from Ise's prehistoric beginnings to the present, A History of Timelessness explores the manifold circulation of goods this massive enterprise has engendered, as well as the political and ideological purposes the ritual rebuilding has served. In the late nineteenth century, the state took control of the shrines and recast them as an embodiment of modern imperial power. Yet, rather than resolving their status, nationalization awakened new anxieties around Ise's permanence and ephemerality and new contests over shrine buildings and materials. Through an exploration of Ise's tumultuous history, Jordan Sand rethinks the temporality of monuments and the materiality of the state.
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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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 In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial port, the other a provincial city buoyed by imperial expansion. Wars, colonization, and capitalist industrialization forged intimate connections between the two, knitting together an imperial region that transcended its maritime boundaries. Drawing on both Japanese and Korean archives, and emphasizing the concept of imperial urbanization, Shepherd challenges traditional views of empire and urban growth and shows how local networks, migration, and capital flows shaped the region's exploitative and uneven geographies. The waters between Fukuoka and Pusan narrowed through intensified interactions that continued even after the end of empire, creating enduring legacies for the postwar and postcolonial eras.
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Imperial Genus - The Formation And Limits Of The Human In Modern Korea And Japan

by Travis Workman

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 How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.
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Outcasts Of Empire - Japan''S Rule On Taiwan''S "Savage Border," 1874-1945

by Paul D. Barclay

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 A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit <a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.41/" target="_blank">www.luminosoa.org</a> to learn more. Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to "batter down all Chinese walls" in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s "savage border" during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of "long nineteenth century" global transformations. Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant "allies" marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.
Tropics Of Savagery - The Culture Of Japanese Empire In Comparative Frame

by Robert Thomas Tierney

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 A study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, it demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized.
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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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North Koreaâ€™S Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living And The Rise Of Kim Il Sung, 1953â€“1965

by Andre Schmid

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Outcasts Of Empire - Japan'S Rule On Taiwan'S Savage Border, 1874-1945

by Paul D. Barclay

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A History Of Timelessness - Constructing Authenticity At The Ise Shrines

by Jordan Sand

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A History Of Timelessness - Constructing Authenticity At The Ise Shrines

by Jordan Sand

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Bibliotactics - Libraries And The Colonial Public In Vietnam

by Cindy Anh Nguyen

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Bibliotactics - Libraries And The Colonial Public In Vietnam

by Cindy Anh Nguyen

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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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In The Global Vanguard - Agrarian Development And The Making Of Modern Taiwan

by Prof. James Lin

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The State'S Sexuality - Prostitution And Postcolonial Nation Building In South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi

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The State'S Sexuality - Prostitution And Postcolonial Nation Building In South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi

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North Koreaâ€™S Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living And The Rise Of Kim Il Sung, 1953â€“1965

by Andre Schmid

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Provincializing Empire - Omi Merchants In The Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

by Jun Uchida

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In Search Of Our Frontier - Japanese America And Settler Colonialism In The Construction Of Japanâ€™S Borderless Empire

by Eiichiro Azuma

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Separating Sheep From Goats - Sherman E. Lee And Chinese Art Collecting In Postwar America

by Noelle Giuffrida

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Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo - Experimental Cinema In Latin America

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Sanitized Sex - Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, And Intimacy In Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

by Robert Kramm

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Who Will Lead Us? - The Story Of Five Hasidic Dynasties In America

by Samuel C. Heilman

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 Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, this book explores two families with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death.
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Assimilating Seoul - Japanese Rule And The Politics Of Public Space In Colonial Korea, 1910â€“1945

by Todd A. Henry

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 A book-length study about Seoul during the colonial period, that challenges conventional nationalist paradigms by revealing the intersection of Korean and Japanese history in this important capital.
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