Coming to Terms with the Nation

Thomas Mullaney

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 18
• China is a vast nation comprised of hundreds of distinct ethnic communities, each with its own language, history, and culture. Today the government of... Lees meer

Recreating Japanese Men

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 20
• The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanes... Lees meer

Hygienic Modernity

Ruth Rogaski

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 9
• Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the... Lees meer

Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953

Susan L Glosser

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 5
• At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urba... Lees meer

Mapping Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 7
• This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, tra... Lees meer

The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 2
• The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjin... Lees meer

Moral Nation

Miriam Kingsberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 29
• This trailblazing study examines the history of narcotics in Japan to explain the development of global criteria for political legitimacy in nations a... Lees meer

Imaging Disaster

Gennifer Weisenfeld

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 22
• Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation--the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surround... Lees meer

The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan

Marcia Yonemoto

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 31
• Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had... Lees meer

A Malleable Map

Kären Wigen

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 17
• Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration ( ishin ) in modern Japanese history. As developed here,... Lees meer

Luxury and Rubble

Erik Harms

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 32
• A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit... Lees meer

Speaking to History

Paul A Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 16
• The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twent... Lees meer

Tears from Iron

Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 15
• This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive ... Lees meer

Selling Women

Amy Stanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 21
• This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the nine... Lees meer

Anyuan

Elizabeth Perry

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 24
• How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? A... Lees meer

After the Massacre

Heonik Kwon

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 14
• Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and t... Lees meer

Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 4
• The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the ... Lees meer

Mabiki

Fabian Drixler

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 25
• This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, coup... Lees meer

The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village

Henrietta Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 26
• The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between i... Lees meer

Bicycle Citizens

Robin M LeBlanc

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 1
• While the typical Japanese male politician glides through his district in air-conditioned taxis, the typical female voter trundles along the side stre... Lees meer

The Missionary's Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village

Henrietta Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 26
• The Missionary's Curse tells the story of a Chinese village that has been Catholic since the seventeenth century, drawing direct connections between i... Lees meer

Go Nation

Marc L Moskowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 28
• Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic g... Lees meer

Anyuan

Elizabeth Perry

• Paperback | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 24
• How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution? Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype? A... Lees meer

The Nature of the Beasts

Ian Jared Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes | nr. 27
• It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-stat... Lees meer