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Catholics And Anti-Catholicism In Choson Korea

by Franklin Rausch

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 Includes a complete translation of an anti-Catholic essay and an annotated translation of the Silk letter of Hwang Sayong.
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Voices From The Straw Mat - Toward An Ethnography Of Korean Story Singing

by Chan E. Park

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 From its humble ""straw mat"" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, ""p'ansori"" has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. Chan Park celebrates ""p'ansori"" as a living tradition, adapting to an ever-shifting context.
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Kabuki Plays On Stage

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 The fourth and final volume in a series that traces kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. The 12 plays translated in this volume cover the remarkable Meiji period, which followed the restoration of the emperor as the leader of Japan.
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Death, Mourning, And Afterlife In Korea - Ancient To Contemporary Times

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 Death allows deep cognition of cultural practices and worldviews of a given community. Through death and the activities and beliefs surrounding this event we can learn much about the ideals and cultures of the living. While biologically death is an end to a physical life, this break is not quite so apparent in mental and spiritual aspects. Indeed, the influence of the dead over the living is sometimes much greater than before a death. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach and incorporates archaeology, history, literature, religion and anthropology in an effort to provide a fuller understanding of the historic and contemporary practices linked with a physical passing. By approaching this topic from various disciplines, the volume will be an important resource for scholars and students in a variety of fields. As the volume covers both premodern and modern Korea, the work will be of use for cross-cultural and comparative studies on death.
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Women'S Movements And The Filipina - 1986-2008

by Mina Roces

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 This book of womens organizations and activism in the Philippines highlights their significant impact on contemporary Philippine society. The author explores the ways in which womens activism has initiated change in cultural attitudes toward women by destroying stereotypes and offering alternatives models.
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Becoming American? - The Art And Identity Crisis Of Yasuo Kuniyoshi

by Shipu Wang

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Laying Claim To The Memory Of May - A Look Back At The 1980 Kwangju Uprising

by Linda S. Lewis

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 As one of the few Western eyewitnesses to the 1980 Kwangju Uprising, Linda Lewis is uniquely positioned to write about the event. In this work on commemoration politics, social representation and memory, she draws on her writings from the 1980s and ethnographic work she conducted in the 1990s.
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Making Modern Muslims - The Politics Of Islamic Education In Southeast Asia

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 Discusses Islamic education and politics in Southeast Asia. This book examines Islamic schooling in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, and the southern Philippines.
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The Role Of Contact In The Origins Of The Japanese And Korean Languages

by J. Marshall Unger

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 Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a different way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence.
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Koreo-Japonica - A Re-Evaluation Of A Common Genetic Origin

by Alexander Vovin

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 The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. This title reviews advances in the reconstruction of both language families.
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Unlikely Liberators - The Men Of The 100th And 442nd

by Masayo Umezawa Duus

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Sitings - Critical Approaches To Korean Geography

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 Includes essays that engage in the discussion from various critical perspectives on Korean geography. This volume focuses on Seoul during the Japanese colonial occupation from 1910-1945 and the lasting impact of that period on the construction of specific places in Seoul. It concentrates on places that exist at the margins of Korean society.
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Questioning Minds - Short Stories By Modern Korean Women

by Yung-Hee Kim

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 Collects ten short stories by modern Korean women that looks at issues related to gender and kinship politics. This title features an introduction that presents a historical overview of traditions of modern Korean women's fiction, situating the selected writers and their stories in the larger context of Korean literature.
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Transformative Journeys - Travel And Culture In Song China

by Cong Ellen Zhang

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 During the Song (960-1279), all educated Chinese men traveled frequently, journeying long distances to attend school and take civil service examinations. This analyzes the impact of travel on this group of elite men and the places they visited. In so doing it sheds new light on the nature of Chinese literati, their dominance of culture and society, and Chinaâ€™s social and cultural integration.
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Soldiers On The Cultural Front - Developments In The Early History Of North Korean Literature And Literary Policy

by Tatiana Gabroussenko

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 Presents research on the early history of North Korea's literature and literary policy in Western scholarship. This book traces the introduction and development of Soviet-organized conventions in North Korean literary propaganda and investigates why the 'romance with Moscow' was destined to be short lived.
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Justice In Japan - The Notorious Teijin Scandal

by Richard H. Mitchell

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 This study investigates controversial issues regarding the origins, results and significance of the Teijin incident, Japan's major interwar political bribery case. The author uses the incident to look into the amount of political criticism and public conflict that existed in Japan in the 1930s.
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Min Yong-Hwan - A Political Biography

by Michael Finch

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 The closing years of the Choson dynasty have received considerable attention from historians of Korea. This biography of Min Yong-hwan aims to provide a new perspective on this period in Korean history which still casts its shadow over the region today.
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Blues And Greens - A Produce Worker'S Journal

by Alan Chong Lau

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 Alan Chong Lau's poetic memoir of his days as a produce worker in Seattle's Chinatown reveals a microcosm of grassroots, working-class Asian America - a world where customers, workers, and fruits and vegetables intersect in exchanges that crackle with energy and humour.
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Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, And Evolution

by Alan C. Ziegler

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 This work traces the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Topics covered include: island formation by plate tectonics; plant and animal evolution; flightless birds and their fossil sites, Polynesian migrational history; and the effects of humans and exotic animals on the environment.
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The Father-Daughter Plot - Japanese Literary Women And The Law Of The Father

by Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

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 This collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father".
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Breeding Dendrobium Orchids In Hawaii

by Adelheid Kuehnle

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 This text summarizes research on cytogenetics and breeding of dendrobiums. The book examines species important to Hawaii's orchid industry and provides information on cross-breeding, seeding propagation, flower colour and form, controlling disease and tips on germination.
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The Money Demon - An Autobiographical Romance

by Chen Diexian

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 Chen Diexian was a writer, inventor and business tycoon whose life spanned the old China and the new. This is the story of his passage from innocent boy to young man, and in it he chooses to focus on his amorous and erotic development, a rare subject in Chinese literature.
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Education Fever - Society, Politics And The Pursuit Of Schooling In South Korea

by Michael J. Seth

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 This volume explains how Koreans' concern for achieving as much formal education as possible appeared immediately before 1945 and quickly embraced every sector of society. It explores the reasons for this social demand for education and how it has shaped many aspects of South Korean society.
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Grayson Mccouch

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