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  • af Matthew Allen
    740,95 - 1.362,95 kr.

    This historical ethnography draws attention to the range of cultural and social practices that exist within contemporary Okinawa. The narrative problematizes both the location of identity and the processes involved in negotiating identities within Okinawa.

  • af Bret Hinsch
    453,95 - 1.316,95 kr.

  • af Bret Hinsch
    1.391,95 kr.

    This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

  • - The Underside of Modern Japan
    af Mikiso Hane
    592,95 kr.

    Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

  • - A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
    af Maria Rosa Henson
    424,95 - 1.098,95 kr.

    In 1943, 15-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." Now with a new introduction and foreword that assess the ongoing controversy over comfort women, her powerful memoir will be essential reading for all those concerned with violence against women.

  • af Bret Hinsch
    613,95 - 1.395,95 kr.

    This clear and accessible text provides a comprehensive survey of women's history in China from the Neolithic period through the Qing Dynasty (10,200 BC-1911 AD).

  • - Voices of Working-Class Japan
    af Tatsuichi Horikiri
    493,95 - 1.244,95 kr.

    This compelling social history tells the stories of ordinary people in modern Japan. Tatsuichi Horikiri spent a lifetime searching out old items of clothing and oral accounts to shed light on those who used these items. He illuminates not only the often desperate lives of these people but also their hopes, aspirations, and human values.

  • - Nineteen Years in South Korea's Gulag
    af Suh Sung
    556,95 kr.

    This is the memoir of a South Korean dissident who was unjustly accused of spying for the North Koreans and jailed for 19 years as a political prisoner. It traces Suh Sung's experiences as a Korean citizen of Japan before his incarceration, his time in prison, and his subsequent release.

  • - Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories
    af Patricia Sieber
    555,95 - 1.240,95 kr.

    These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms.

  • - The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
    af Judy Polumbaum
    536,95 kr.

    This lively book explores changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Judy Polumbaum puts a human face on vital issues of freedom of expression and information that will chart China's future.

  • - The Journeys of Two Chinese Sisters
    af Sasha Su-Ling Welland
    226,95 kr.

    A biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quest to be independent women. The journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle.

  • - Everyday Voices of Japanese Women
    af Masako Itoh
    537,95 - 1.410,95 kr.

  • - Living in Burma under Military Rule
    af Carolyn Wakeman
    536,95 kr.

  • - Nambara Shigeru and the Asia-Pacific War
    af Nambara Shigeru
    1.379,95 kr.

    One of Japan's most important intellectuals, Nambara Shigeru defended Tokyo Imperial University against its rightist critics and opposed Japan's war. His poetic diary (1936-1945), published only after the war, documents his profound disaffection. In 1945 Nambara became president of Tokyo University and was an eloquent and ardent spokesman for academic freedom. In this first English-language collection of his key work, historian and translator Richard H. Minear introduces Nambara's career and thinking before presenting translations of the most important of Nambara's essays, poems, and speeches. A courageous but lonely voice of conscience, Nambara is one of the few mid-century Japanese to whom we can turn for inspiration during that dark period in world history.

  • - Tokyo during World War II: Writings of Takeyama Michio
     
    1.423,95 kr.

    Contains essays offering a look at the history of Japan during the Asia-Pacific War. This book provides an intimate account of the scars of war. It also includes personal anecdotes.

  • - Shadows from Japan's Cold War
    af Tessa Morris-Suzuki
    637,95 - 1.576,95 kr.

    Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.

  • - Japanese War Crimes in World War II
    af Yuki Tanaka
    589,95 - 1.265,95 kr.

    Now in a significant new edition, this landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.

  • - Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989
    af Philip J. Cunningham
    589,95 - 601,95 kr.

  • - Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
    af Harriet Evans
    622,95 - 1.527,95 kr.

    Discusses mother-daughter relationships in urban China. This book reflects on how women make sense of the shifts in practices and representations of gender that frame their lives, and how their self-identification as mothers and daughters contributes to the redefinition of those practices.

  • af Bret Hinsch
    582,95 kr.

  • - Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform
    af Ying Ruocheng & Claire Conceison
    637,95 kr.

    Voices Carry is the riveting autobiography of one of China's most prominent citizens of the twentieth century. Beginning with his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution, Ying Ruocheng's narrative takes us through unexpectedly amusing adventures durin

  • - Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia
    af Benny Widyono
    633,95 kr.

    Recounts the tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

  • - Chinese Voices on Abortion
    af Jing-Bao Nie
    455,95 kr.

    An in-depth work in any language to explore the diverse perspectives of Mainland Chinese regarding induced abortion and fetal life in the context of the world's most ambitious and intrusive family planning program. China's internal plurality, the author argues, must be taken seriously if the West is to open a fruitful cross-cultural dialogue.

  • - Contemporary Chinese Critical Inquiry
    af Gloria Davies
    525,95 - 1.477,95 kr.

    This is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. The contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities and offer a range of conflicting perspectives.

  • - Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance
    af Hok Bun Ku
    738,95 - 1.213,95 kr.

    Exploring sensitive issues often hidden to outsiders, this engaging study traces the transformation of Ku Village during the first tumultuous decade of reform.

  • - A Dalit Autobiography
    af Gail Omvedt, Vasant Moon & Eleanor Zelliot
    555,95 kr.

    'In this English translation, Moon's story is usefully framed by apparatus necessary to bring its message to even those taking their first look at South Asian culture...The result is an easy to digest short-course on what it means to be a Dalit, in the words of one notable Dalit.'-Journal of Asian Studies

  • - Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
    af Scott Simon
    600,95 kr.

    An exploration of the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a free-wheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. The book focuses on the voices and perspectives of the women themselves.

  • af Mark McLelland
    780,95 kr.

    Combines ethnography in the gay and lesbian communities, and the use of historical sources such as journals and documents. This volume examines issues of gay life in the Japanese fifteen year/Pacific War, addresses lesbian and gay issues, examines the interface of queer society with the US occupation, and the international community.

  • - One Historian's Odyssey
    af Richard H. Minear & Ienaga Saburo
    342,95 kr.

    This autobiography of historian, Ienaga Saburo, traces his childhood, education, wartime experiences, academic career and two major battles that occupied his later years. One was the fight against the relocation of Tokyo University of Education; the other was the fight against certification.

  • - The Story of a Minamata Fisherman
    af Keibo Oiwa
    597,95 kr.

    In this oral history, Ogata Masato, fisherman and Minamata disease sufferer, tells of the devastation of methyl mercury poisoning and the impact of industrial pollution on his own life, on his extended family and on the fishing culture in Minamata Bay, Japan.

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