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  • af Jerry Norman
    425,95 kr.

    A reference work from one of the world's preeminent linguists, A Comprehensive Manchu-English Dictionary substantially enlarges and revises Jerry Norman's 1978 Concise Manchu-English Lexicon. With hundreds of new entries and a new introduction on pronunciation and script, it will become the standard English-language resource on the Manchu language.

  • - The Subtle Art of Dissent
    af Alfreda Murck
    328,95 kr.

    During the Song dynasty (960-1278), some of China's elite found an elegant and subtle means of dissent: landscape painting. By examining literary archetypes, painting titles, contemporary inscriptions, and the historical context, Murck shows that certain paintings expressed strong political opinions-some transparent, others deliberately concealed.

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    328,95 kr.

    Includes chapters which treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations. This book examines how Japanese have (en) gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.

  • - Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930
    af Jordan Sand
    318,95 kr.

    A house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era.

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    284,95 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.

  • af Michael A. Fuller
    291,95 - 424,95 kr.

  • af Andrew Gordon
    193,95 kr.

  • af Robert Ford Campany
    307,95 - 564,95 kr.

  • af En Li
    328,95 - 534,95 kr.

  • af Dal Yong Jin
    213,95 - 425,95 kr.

  • af Lawrence Zhang
    298,95 - 564,95 kr.

  • - Poverty and the Status Order in Early Modern Japan
    af Maren A. Ehlers
    318,95 - 468,95 kr.

    Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants, artisans, villagers, and people at the margins of society. Maren Ehlers explores how high and low people negotiated and collaborated with each other as they addressed the problem of poverty in early modern Japan.

  • - History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities
    af Terry F. Kleeman
    352,95 - 446,95 kr.

    Celestial Masters is the first book in any Western language devoted solely to the founding of Daoism. It traces the movement from the mid-second century CE through the sixth century, and provides a detailed analysis of ritual life within the movement, covering the roles of common believer or Daoist citizen, novice, and priest or libationer.

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    234,95 kr.

    Ezra F. Vogel, one of Americäs foremost experts on China and Japan, had a dramatic global impact through his scholarship, mentoring, public policy advice, and institution building. Remembering Ezra Vogel contains fond reminiscences from 155 diverse contributors, conveying what was so extraordinary about his character and life.

  • af Stephen Owen
    373,95 kr.

    This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature as well as theorists and scholars of other languages.

  • af Juliane Noth
    373,95 - 642,95 kr.

    Juliane Noth shows how art and discussions about the future of ink painting were linked to the reshaping of the country, leading to the creation of a uniquely modern Chinese landscape imagery. Noth offers a new understanding of these experiments by studying them as transmedial practice, at once shaped by and integral to the modern global art world.

  • - A New Manual
    af Endymion Wilkinson
    403,95 - 775,95 kr.

    The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

  • - A New Manual
    af Endymion Wilkinson
    425,95 - 775,95 kr.

    The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.

  • - Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan
    af Susan Westhafer Furukawa
    222,95 - 406,95 kr.

    The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular culture in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan changes with the needs of the current era, and in the process expands our understanding of the powerful role that historical narratives play in Japan.

  • - Lessons for Global Creative Industries
    af Michal Daliot-Bul & Nissim Otmazgin
    232,95 - 371,95 kr.

    The Anime Boom in the United States is a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the expansion of anime marketing and sales into the United States. It explores the transnational networks of anime production and marketing while also investigating the cultural and artistic processes the art form inspired.

  • - Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
    af Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit
    425,95 kr.

    Aesthetic Life is a study of modern Japan, engaging the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912).

  • af Xiaoshan Yang
    581,95 kr.

    The first book of its kind in any Western language, Wang Anshi and Song Poetic Culture brings into focus a cluster of issues that are central to the understanding of both the poet and his cultural milieu. Together, the chapters form a varied mosaic of Wang Anshi's work and its critical reception in the larger context of Song poetic culture.

  • - Daqing and the Formation of the Chinese Socialist State
    af Li Hou
    181,95 - 371,95 kr.

    Building for Oil is a historical account of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People's Republic and describes Daqing's rise and fall as a national model city. Hou Li traces the roots of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies.

  • - Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China
    af Grace C. Huang
    253,95 - 510,95 kr.

    Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his response to imperialism to those of Mao, Yuan Shikai, and Mahatma Gandhi, Huang widens the implications of her findings to explore alternatives to Western expressions of nationalism and modernity.

  • - Westerners in Wartime Japan
    af W. Puck Brecher
    222,95 - 468,95 kr.

    W. Puck Brecher overturns standard narratives of wartime Japan's racial attitudes, focusing on the experiences of Western civilians rather than enemy POWs in Japan. His bold thesis is borne out by a broad mosaic of stories of police harassment, suspicion, relocation, starvation, internment, and torture, as well as extraordinary acts of charity.

  • - Sen'yomon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan
    af Sachiko Kawai
    540,95 kr.

    Uncertain Powers presents a nuanced study of female leadership in medieval Japan. Sachiko Kawai explores the important political and economic roles of 12th- and 13th-century Japanese royal women who, confronted with social factors and gender disparities, transformed authority into power by means of cooperation, persuasion, compromise and coercion.

  • - Prison Chaplaincy in Japan
    af Adam J. Lyons
    540,95 kr.

    A groundbreaking study of prison religion, Karma and Punishment introduces a form of chaplaincy rooted in the Buddhist concept of doctrinal admonition. Through research and fieldwork, Adam Lyons uncovers a dimension of Buddhist modernism that developed as Japan's religious organizations carved out a niche as defenders of society by fighting crime.

  • - Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse
    af Lucas Rambo Bender
    581,95 kr.

    Lucas Bender considers Du Fu's pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding over the last millennium. Du Fu anticipated important philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and perduring paradigm of poetry's relationship to ethics.

  • - Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan
    af Michael Wert
    214,95 - 371,95 kr.

    This book is about the losers of the Meiji Restoration and the supporters who promoted their legacy. Using sources ranging from essays by former Tokugawa supporters like Fukuzawa Yukichi to postwar film and "lost decade" manga, Michael Wert shows how shifting portrayals of Restoration losers have influenced the formation of national history.

  • - Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1989
    af Jennifer Altehenger
    329,95 kr.

    Legal Lessons examines how China's party-state attempted to motivate ordinary citizens to learn laws during the Mao period. Archival records, advice manuals, and colorful propaganda materials reveal how official attempts to promote "correct" understanding of laws intersected with the interpretations and practical experiences of the people.

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