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| 41. |  | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese history Author: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | Japan Publisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: The state and the mass media in Japan, 1918-1945 Author: Kasza, Gregory James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan  Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan Author: Allison, Anne 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Japan Publisher's Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern Japan Author: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: The conquest of Ainu lands: ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 Author: Walker, Brett L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Japan | Ethnic Studies | Ecology Publisher's Description: This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu - the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago - at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. I . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Re-imaging Japanese women Author: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | Japan Publisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: What makes life worth living?: how Japanese and Americans make sense of their worlds Author: Mathews, Gordon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | American Studies | Japan Publisher's Description: Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: The abacus and the sword: the Japanese penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 Author: Duus, Peter 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | Japan | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: Tokugawa village practice: class, status, power, law Author: Ooms, Herman Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Law Publisher's Description: In contrast to modern Japanese citizens, during the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) villagers frequently resorted to lawsuits to settle conflicts. Herman Ooms uses colorful, skillfully analyzed case studies to trace the evolution of class and status conflicts through lawsuits and petitions in villages. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: The city as subject: Seki Hajime and the reinvention of modern Osaka Author: Hanes, Jeffrey E 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing in . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: Strategies for learning: small-group activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish industry Author: Cole, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: How do firms become motivated to adopt small-group activities such as quality circles and self-managing teams? How do they acquire expertise in these activities? Noted sociologist and management expert Robert E. Cole addresses these issues through an examination of small-group activities in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Japanese workers in protest: an ethnography of consciousness and experience Author: Turner, Christena L 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Japan | Sociology Publisher's Description: This first ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labor protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has been previously marginalized. These blue-collar workers, involved in prolonged labor disputes, tell their own story as they struggle to make sense of their . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: The lure of the modern: writing modernism in semicolonial China, 1917-1937 Author: Shi, Shumei 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | China | Asian Literature | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Japan | Comparative Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging cri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Everyday things in premodern Japan: the hidden legacy of material culture Author: Hanley, Susan B 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. H . . . [more] Similar Items |