The English-Language Press Networks of East Asia, 1918-45
by Peter O’Connor
March 2010
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This study is the first to assess the combined significance of the English-language newspapers of China, Japan, and Korea in the period 1918–1945. It not only frames the English-language press networks in the international media history of East Asia but also relates them to media developments in the “British world,” linking Fleet Street to the Empire and Dominions, and to the rise of the United States as a broker of international opinion on and in Asia-Pacific. |
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Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning across Asia and the Pacific
ed. by Terence Wesley-Smith; Jon Goss
March 2010
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This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. The crisis in area studies is widely acknowledged; various prescriptions for solutions have been forthcoming, but few have also pursued practical applications of critical ideas for both teachers and students. Remaking Area Studies not only makes the case for more culturally sensitive and empowering forms of area studies, but indicates how these ideas can be translated into effective student-centered learning practices through the establishment of interactive regional learning communities.
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Digital Atlas of Indonesian History
by Robert Cribb
March 2010
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The Digital Atlas of Indonesian History is an updated electronic version of the Historical Atlas plus a huge array of maps (more than three hundred output as high-resolution EPS files suitable for royalty-free reproduction) and text designed for teaching and individual use. |
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The Jehol Diary
by Pak Chiwon
trans. by Yang Hi
Choe-Wall
April 2010
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This is the first translation into English of the eighteenth-century Korean masterpiece Yorha ilgi (The Jehol Diary) by Pak Chiwon (1737–1805). The original text was written in classical Chinese and is a notoriously difficult work to translate.
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Trade and Finance in Late Imperial China: Maritime Customs and Open Port Market Zones
by Takeshi Hamashita
April 2010
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The term "national economy" lacks clarity in modern Chinese history. While China's modernization is often treated as a feature of the central government's economic policy, regional and local economic activities, and the involvement of foreign powers, were also central to the process. Four elements key in the formation and functioning of China's modern economy - internal customs collections, maritime customs, foreign banks, and Chinese banks.
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iChina: The Rise of the Individual in Modern Chinese Society
ed. by Mette Halskov Hansen; Rune Svarverud
April 2010
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In spite of the intense preoccupation with individual and self in modern Western thought, the social sciences have tended to focus on groups and collectives and downplay (even disregard) the individual. This implicit view has also colored the study of social life in China, where both Confucian ethics and Communist policies have shaped collective structures with little room for individual agency and choice.
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Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art
by Zilia Papp
April 2010
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Japanese anime plays a major role in modern visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study that sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji-period painters and the post-war animation and manga series Gegegeno Kitaro by Mizuki Shigeru.
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A Glossary of Reference on Subjects Connected with the Far East
by Herbert A. Giles
April 2010
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First published in 1878 (third edition, 1900), this glossary is designed primarily as a key to understanding the terms and terminology employed in Anglo-Chinese society at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Twentieth Century: The Writings of Peter N. Davies
by Peter N. Davies
April 2010
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Britain’s foremost scholar of the international shipping industry examines the growth and development of Japan’s modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics.
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Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward: Two Stories
ed. by Richard King
April 2010
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Heroes of China’s Great Leap Forward presents contrasting narratives of the most ambitious and disastrous mass movement in modern Chinese history. The objective of the Great Leap, when it was launched in the late 1950s, was to catapult China into the ranks of the great military and industrial powers with no assistance from the outside world; it resulted in a famine that killed tens of millions of the nation’s peasants.
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Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
by Lori Meeks
April 2010
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Hokkeji, an ancient Nara temple that once stood at the apex of a state convent network established by Queen-Consort Komyo (701–760), possesses a history that in some ways is bigger than itself. Its development is emblematic of larger patterns in the history of female monasticism in Japan. In Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan, Lori Meeks explores the revival of Japan’s most famous convent, an institution that had endured some four hundred years of decline following its establishment. With the help of the Ritsu (Vinaya)-revivalist priest Eison (1201–1290), privately professed women who had taken up residence at Hokkeji succeeded in reestablishing a nuns’ ordination lineage in Japan. Meeks considers a broad range of issues surrounding women’s engagement with Buddhism during a time when their status within the tradition was undergoing significant change. The thirteenth century brought women greater opportunities for ordination and institutional leadership, but it also saw the spread of increasingly androcentric Buddhist doctrine. Hokkeji explores these contradictions.
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The Tragedy of Korea
by F. A. McKenzie
April 2010
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First published in 1908, after some ten years’ occupation of Korea by Japan, F. A. McKenzie’s strident study opens with the words: “I have to tell the story of the awakening and the destruction of a nation. My narrative ... covers a period of less than thirty years, and the greater part of it has to do with events that have happened since King Edward came to the throne.” |
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The Man'yoshu: Volume 5
trans. by Alexander
Vovin
May 2010
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This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, 10 choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some may be classified as benka since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese.
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Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia
by Jan Ovesen; Ing-Britt Trankell
May 2010
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At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using “medicine” (in the sense of ideas, practices, and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia.
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The Interplay of the Oral and the Written in Chinese Popular Literature
ed. by Vibeke Bordahl; Margaret B. Wan
May 2010
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Although the interrelationship between oral (or performing) and written traditions in Chinese popular literature is an issue that concerns practically everybody who reads or teaches Chinese literature, surprisingly it has never been properly treated in a scholarly forum before. For that reason alone, this volume is especially important and deserves serious consideration from scholars and students in the field.
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