Harry Harootunian: 29 books
Uneven Moments
Reflections on Japan's Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s...
Marx After Marx
History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold War afterlife helped...
Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader’s personal experiences, social visions and theory, military strategies, and developmental and foreign policies in a dynamic narrative of the Chinese revolution....
by Kyung Hyun Kim, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
In one of the first English-language studies of Korean cinema to date, Kyung Hyun Kim shows how the New Korean Cinema of the past quarter century has used the trope of masculinity to mirror the profound sociopolitical changes in the country. Since 1980, South Korea has transformed from an insular,...
Envisioning Taiwan
Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in...
National History and the World of Nations
Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, Christopher L. Hill reveals how the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries, occupying widely different positions...
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis
The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans...
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group...
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature
Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan’s publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, as cultural and economic power consolidated...
Borders of Chinese Civilization
Geography and History at Empire’s End
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 1996
D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented...
Kingdom of Beauty
Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Kingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim...
Dancing with the Dead
Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2008
Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and...
The New Japanese Woman
Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from...
Writing Taiwan
A New Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works...