Japan at the Millennium
Joining Past and Future
A critical, multi-disciplinary study of economics, politics, society and culture, this collection of essays examines the concepts of “change” and “continuity” in contemporary Japan.
- Copyright year: 2003
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place
Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
Anthropologists, religious scholars, and art historians contemplate sacred place and sacred biography in Asia to show how secular politics, religious experience, and sectarian rivalry intersect.
- Copyright year: 2003
Gender and Change in Hong Kong
Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy
This sophisticated collection of essays provides an innovative analysis of gender relations at the nexus of globalization, Chinese patriarchy, and post-colonialism in Hong Kong.
- Copyright year: 2003
Obedient Autonomy
Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life
This anthropological study of Chinese archaeologists shows how the discipline works within a Chinese social structure, and uncovers the complex underpinnings of that context.
- Copyright year: 2004
The Cult of Happiness
Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
The Cult of Happiness is among the first studies in any field to treat folk art and folk print as historical text. As such, this richly illustrated volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars in Asian studies, history, art history, folklore and print, as well as anyone having a passion for the creativity and culture of rural society.
- Copyright year: 2004
Gutenberg in Shanghai
Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937
Gutenberg in Shanghai demonstrates how Western technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a unique form of print capitalism whose influence on Chinese culture was far-reaching and irreversible.
- Copyright year: 2004
International Environmental Law and Asian Values
Legal Norms and Cultural Influences
A comprehensive assessment of relevant Asian policies and their applications in key areas in light of international environmental norms and practices.
- Copyright year: 2004
Dominion and the Rising Sun
Canada Encounters Japan, 1929-1941
- Copyright year: 2004
Images in Asian Religions
Text and Contexts
A comprehensive and balanced look at the role of images in Asian religions, which examines aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied.
- Copyright year: 2004
Reclaiming Adat
Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature
Weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.
- Copyright year: 2005
Frontier People
Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China
Frontier People shows how the Han themselves have been directly involved in the process of transforming the areas where they have settled.
- Copyright year: 2005
Japan's Modern Prophet
Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930
Charts the introduction of Christianity to Japan through the life of Uchimura Kanzô, was one of Japan’s foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders.
- Copyright year: 2005
Zina, Transnational Feminism, and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women
- Copyright year: 2006
Tibet and Nationalist China's Frontier
Intrigues and Ethnopolitics, 1928-49
A counterpoint to erroneous historical assumptions, this book argues that Nationalist sovereignty over Tibet and China's other border regions was the result of rhetorical grandstanding by Chiang Kai-shek and his regime.
- Copyright year: 2006
Gandharan Buddhism
Archaeology, Art, and Texts
The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region.
- Copyright year: 2006
Teachers’ Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937
This innovative account examines the social and political impacts of Chinese teacher's schools in the early 20th century, their role in a society in transition, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.
- Copyright year: 2007
Resisting Manchukuo
Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
- Copyright year: 2007
The Chinese State at the Borders
The essays in this volume look at China's relationships with border peoples over a long span of time, questioning whether the process of expansion was a benevolent civilizing mission.
- Copyright year: 2007
Village China at War
The Impact of Resistance to Japan, 1937-1945
History accelerated.
- Copyright year: 2007
Japan's Emergence as a Modern State - 60th anniv. ed.
Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period
"As provocative a touchstone as we will ever have for understanding the early encounter of Western historians with Japan's emergence as a modern state." - Jown Dower
- Copyright year: 2000