UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	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
2.	Requires cookie*	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Yakuza: Japan's criminal underworld Author: Kaplan, David E 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Japan \| Politics \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American Mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow Japanese to a degree guaranteed to shock most . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Japan under construction: corruption, politics, and public works Author: Woodall, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics \| Japan Publisher's Description: In 1987, Japan excluded American firms from bidding on the multibillion-dollar New Kansai International Airport, sparking yet another trade dispute between the United States and Japan. The State Department, Congress, and the President himself were caught up in the dispute, which still smolders even . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: A major player in Japanese society is its government bureaucracy. Neither Japan's phenomenal track record in the world marketplace nor its remarkable success in managing its domestic affairs can be understood without insight into how its government bureaucracy works - how its elite administrators ar . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar Japan Author: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Japan \| Women's Studies \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays are presented here constitute a strong current . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Postwar Japan as history Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors des . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology \| Demography \| Japan \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar Japan Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Politics \| Asian History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can bes . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Getting married in Korea: of gender, morality, and modernity Author: Kendall, Laurel Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Importing diversity: inside Japan's JET Program Author: McConnell, David L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Politics \| Education Publisher's Description: In 1987, the Japanese government inaugurated the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) program in response to global pressure to "internationalize" its society. This ambitious program has grown to be a major government operation, with an annual budget of $400 million (greater than the United States NEA . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Cultural Anthropology \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| Theatre \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	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
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: the autobiographical writings of a Crown Princess of eighteenth-century Korea Author: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi 1735-1815 Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Autobiography \| Women's Studies \| East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean propor . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Japan \| Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dreams of difference: the Japan romantic school and the crisis of modernity Author: Doak, Kevin Michael Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of moderni . . . [more] Similar Items