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  • - Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
    af Sabina Knight
    424,95 kr.

    Knight describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. By analyzing discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures, the author explores how representations of determinism and moral responsibility changed over the 20th century.

  • - The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo
    af Timothy J. Van Compernolle
    370,95 kr.

    The writer Higuchi Ichiyo (1872-1896) has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Timothy Van Compernolle investigates the social dimensions of Ichiyo's imagination and argues that she reworked the Japanese literary tradition in order to understand and critique the emerging modernity of the Meiji period.

  • - A Social History of Urban Clerics
    af Vincent Goossaert
    467,95 kr.

    The author focuses on ordinary religious professionals, most of whom remained obscure temple employees, showing that these Taoists were neither the socially despised illiterates dismissed in so many studies, nor otherworldly ascetics, but active participants in the religious economy of the city.

  • - Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China
    af Helen Dunstan
    509,95 kr.

    As a study of Confucian government in action, this intellectual history describes a mode of public policy discussion far less dominated by the Confucian scriptures than expected. It offers a detailed view of members of an ostensibly Confucian government pursuing divergent agendas around the question of "state or merchant?"

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    565,95 kr.

    The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals. The 12 chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years.

  • - Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s
    af William O. Gardner
    402,95 kr.

    This book examines responses of Japanese authors to the aesthetic transformation of Tokyo influenced by the activities of Japanese advertisers in the early 20th century. Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media."

  • - Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan
    af Jonathan E. Zwicker
    370,95 kr.

    By examining the obscured histories of publication, circulation, and reception of widely consumed literary works from late Edo to the early Meiji period, Zwicker traces a genealogy of the literary field across a long nineteenth century: one that stresses continuities between the generic conventions of early modern fiction and the modern novel.

  • - Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature
    af Stephen Dodd
    370,95 kr.

    Examining the development of literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized, this book focuses on four authors typing this trend: Kunikida Doppo, Shimazaki Toson, Sato Haruo, and Shiga Naoya.

  • - Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960-1279
    af Mark Halperin
    467,95 kr.

    This book demonstrates that representations of Buddhism by lay people underwent a major change during the T'ang-Sung transition. These changes built on basic transformations within the Buddhist and classicist traditions and sometimes resulted in the use of Buddhism and Buddhist temples as frames of reference to evaluate aspects of lay society.

  • af Tina Lu
    370,95 kr.

    This book traces how questions about the nature of the Chinese empire and of the human community were addressed in fiction through extreme situations: husbands and wives torn apart in periods of upheaval, families so disrupted that incestuous encounters become inevitable, times so desperate that people must sell themselves to be eaten.

  • - Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan
    af James Dorsey
    370,95 kr.

    This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s.

  • af Mary Elizabeth Berry
    197,95 kr.

    Hideyoshi-peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan-is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's 16th-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. But his lasting contribution is as governor whose policies shaped Japanese politics for almost 300 years.

  • - Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954
    af J. W. Dower
    454,95 kr.

    This detailed biography of Japan's postwar prime minister was favorably received in the United States and has sold widely in translation in Japan.

  • - A Comparative Study of Nguyen and Ch'ing Civil Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, With a New Preface
    af Alexander Woodside
    187,95 kr.

    Here is the first real comparison of the civil governments of two traditional East Asian societies on an institution-by-institution basis. Woodside examines in detail the surviving statutes of both societies in his political and cultural study, a pioneering venture in East Asian comparative history.

  • - The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan
    af George Elison
    338,95 kr.

  • - The New Theses of 1825
    af Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
    322,95 kr.

    This study analyzes New Theses (Shinron), by Aizawa Seishisai (1781-1863), and its contribution to Japanese political thought and policy during the early- modern era. New Theses is found to be indispensable to our understanding of Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern state.

  • - Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China
    af Shih-shan Susan Huang
    349,95 kr.

    In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang investigates the visual culture of Daoism, China's primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to earlier and later times. Huang shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the usual dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design.

  • - The Life and Thought of Kawai Eijiro (1891-1944)
    af Atsuko Hirai
    424,95 kr.

    Kawai Eijiro was a controversial figure in Japan during the interwar years. Atsuko Hirai examines the family and school influences that contributed to the development of Kawai's thought, and analyzes the manner in which the ideas of Western philosophers and British labor ideologues were absorbed into a receptive and creative East Asian mind.

  • - Its Organization and Functions
    af S. M. Meng
    117,95 kr.

    A careful, factual account of the institutional forms and foreign relations in the Ch'ing dynasty after 1860.

  • - A Bibliographical Guide to Historical and Social-Science Research on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
    af Noriko Kamachi
    287,95 kr.

  • - Ting Jih-ch'ang in Restoration Kiangsu
    af Jonathan K. Ocko
    317,95 kr.

  • - Expansion, Settlement, and the Civilizing of the Sichuan Frontier in Song Times
    af Richard von Glahn
    317,95 kr.

  • - The Transition from Bakumatsu to Meiji in the Kawasaki Region
    af Neil L. Waters
    212,95 kr.

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    285,95 kr.

    This volume seeks to shed new light on the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation that has dominated the study of Korea's colonial period (1910-1945). The authors adopt a more inclusive, pluralistic approach that stresses the complex relations among colonialism, modernity, and nationalism.

  • - Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction
    af Atsuko Sakaki
    392,95 kr.

    Offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's Kokoro and The Three-Cornered World; Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain; Mori Ogai's Wild Geese; and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's Quicksand.

  • - Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
    af Nam-lin Hur
    392,95 kr.

    The unique amalgam of prayer and play at the Sensoji temple in Edo is often cited as proof of the "degenerate Buddhism" of the Tokugawa period. This investigation of the economy and cultural politics of Sensoji, however, shows that its culture of prayer and play reflected changes taking place in Tokugawa Japan, particularly in the city of Edo.

  • - Japan and Tokyo Disneyland
    af Aviad E. Raz
    207,95 kr.

    By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaption, and domestication, and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign.

  • - National Power and Local Politics in Toyama, 1868-1945
    af Michael Lewis
    445,95 kr.

    Focusing on the marginal region of Toyama, on the Sea of Japan, the author explores the interplay of central and regional authorities, local and national perceptions of rights, and the emerging political practices in Toyama and Tokyo that became part of the new political culture that took shape in Japan following the Meiji Restoration.

  • - Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
    af Maram Epstein
    370,95 kr.

    In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives.

  • - The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan
    af Terry Kawashima
    370,95 kr.

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