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Counterheritage
Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs...
Power Transition and International Order in Asia
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This edited volume examines how the transition and diffusion of power in global politics is impacting on stability and order in Asia.
Both in the academic field of International Relations (IR) and among policymakers, the big question today concerns the rise of China, the relative decline of...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the dynamic networks that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines a single year or decade that redefined Asia.
War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia
A Case of Murder by Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked...
Indians in Victorian Children’s Narratives
Animalizing the Native, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The genesis of the history of British colonization in India is often traced to traders, merchants, and the formation of the British East India Company. While this is indisputable, what is ignored is the creation and perpetual fueling of the steady stream of British officers into the Indian economy...
by K.V. Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Join us on an epic journey to India!
K.V. Dominic, one of India's leading contemporary English poets, takes us on a trip to India in this constellation of short stories. His love for his native country is exposed through stories that cover a range of humanistic concerns, including women's empowerment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, barely features in most histories of the Second World War. However, the combination of distinctive war experiences, a vibrant set of local historian groups, and powerful media organizations disseminating local war history, has generated an identifiable set...
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India
Entertaining the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for...
by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993
Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher reliance on primary documents, a shift away from the history of elites to broader explorations of social structures, and a...
Samurai to Soldier
Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
In Samurai to Soldier, D. Colin Jaundrill rewrites the military history of nineteenth-century Japan. In fifty years spanning the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the Meiji nation-state, conscripts supplanted warriors as Japan’s principal arms-bearers. The most common version of...
The Gods Left First
The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
At the time of Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on August 15, 1945, some six million Japanese were left stranded across the vast expanse of a vanquished Asian empire. Half civilian and half military, they faced the prospect of returning somehow to a Japan that lay prostrate, its cities destroyed,...
Okinawan War Memory
Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction of Medoruma Shun
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
As one of Okinawa's most insightful writers and social critics, Medoruma Shun has highlighted the problems and limits of conventional representation of the Battle of Okinawa, raised new questions and concerns about the nature of Okinawan war memory, and expanded the possibilities of representing war...