Stanford University Press: 1317 books
Houses in Motion
The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia
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...
Remainders
American Poetry at Nature's End
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...
What Can You Say?
America's National Conversation on Race
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,...
Inscrutable Belongings
Queer Asian North American Fiction
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...
Making Tea, Making Japan
Cultural Nationalism in Practice
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....
Occupying Power
Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
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...
The Way of the Heavenly Sword
The Japanese Army in the 1920's
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
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,...
Divergent Memories
Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War
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...
Without Fear or Favor
Judicial Independence and Judicial Accountability in the States
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,...
A Question of Tradition
Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
In A Question of Tradition, Kathryn Hellerstein explores the roles that women poets played in forming a modern Yiddish literary tradition. Women who wrote in Yiddish go largely unrecognized outside a rapidly diminishing Yiddish readership. Even in the heyday of Yiddish literature, they were regarded...
The Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they...
Aspiring to Home
South Asians in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Advancing a theory of locality to explain the means...
The World in Play
Portraits of a Victorian Concept
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Nineteenth-century Britain was a world in play. The Victorians invented the weekend and built hundreds of parks and playgrounds. In the wake of Darwin, they re-imagined nature as a contest for survival. The playful child became a symbol of the future.
A world in play means two things: a world...