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Joseph R. Dennis demonstrates the significance of imperial Chinese local gazetteers in both local societies and national... Læs mere
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Brian Steininger revisits Japan’s mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.
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Michael A. Fuller’s innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional... Læs mere
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Building for Oil is a historical account of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the... Læs mere
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Give and Take offers a new history of government in Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868), one that focuses on ordinary subjects: merchants,... Læs mere
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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).
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Korean Buddhists, despite living under colonial rule, reconfigured sacred objects, festivals, urban temples, propagation—and even their own... Læs mere
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Voting as a Rite examines China’s experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that... Læs mere
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Adam Kern offers a close reading of the vibrant popular imagination through kibyoshi, a... Læs mere
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In this in-depth study, Felix Boecking challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to Communist seizure of power in China... Læs mere
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Using an interdisciplinary approach drawing on the research of archaeologists, anthropologists, and religious, social, and art historians, this book seeks to recover the motivations behind the creation of religious art, including temple buildings, sculpture, and wall paintings.
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Chien-hsin Tsai examines the reinvention of loyalism in colonial Taiwan through the lens of literature. He analyzes the ways in which writers... Læs mere