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Imagining Harmony

Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism

by Peter Flueckiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

Many intellectuals in eighteenth-century Japan valued classical poetry in either Chinese or Japanese for its expression of unadulterated human sentiments. They also saw such poetry as a distillation of the language and aesthetic values of ancient China and Japan, which offered models of the good government...
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Watchwords

Romanticism and the Poetics of Attention

by Lily Gurton-Wachter
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016

This book revisits British Romanticism as a poetics of heightened attention. At the turn of the nineteenth century, as Britain was on the alert for a possible French invasion, attention became a phenomenon of widespread interest, one that aligned and distinguished an unusual range of fields (including...
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Rice, Rupees, and Ritual

Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra

by D. George Sherman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1990

In this ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra, the author pursues three main themes: the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry- and flooded-field rice-growing. Two important questions emerge:...
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Shorelines

Space and Rights in South India

by Ajantha Subramanian
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and reject the...
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Houses in Motion

The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

by Richard Baxstrom
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts...
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Remainders

American Poetry at Nature's End

by Margaret Ronda
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018

A literary history of the Great Acceleration, Remainders examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis. These poems portray various forms of remainders—from obsolescent goods and waste products to atmospheric pollution and melting glaciers—that...
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What Can You Say?

America's National Conversation on Race

by John Hartigan Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

We are in a transitional moment in our national conversation on race. "Despite optimistic predictions that Barack Obama's election would signal the end of race as an issue in America, the race-related news stories just keep coming. Race remains a political and polarizing issue, and the sprawling,...
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Inscrutable Belongings

Queer Asian North American Fiction

by Stephen Hong Sohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North American storytellers, looking to texts including...
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Making Tea, Making Japan

Cultural Nationalism in Practice

by Kristin Surak
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012

The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives....
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Occupying Power

Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

by Sarah Kovner
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility...
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The Way of the Heavenly Sword

The Japanese Army in the 1920's

by Leonard A. Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1995

This text examines the history of the Japanese army in the 1920s. In this decade, the 'Meija military system' disintegrated and was replaced by a new 'Imperial Army System'. The Japanese victory over Russia in 1905 had changed the direction of Japanese military thought from almost total dependence...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulting in economic, military,...
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Divergent Memories

Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War

by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past events—it is often contested, negotiated, and reshaped over time. Debate over the history of World War II in Asia remains surprisingly intense, and Divergent Memories examines...
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Without Fear or Favor

Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability in the States

by G. Alan Tarr
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012

The impartial administration of justice and the accountability of government officials are two of the most strongly held American values. Yet these values are often in direct conflict with one another. At the national level, the U.S. Constitution resolves this tension in favor of judicial independence,...
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