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| 41. |  | Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolution Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | 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 |
| 43. |  | Title: Chinese historical microdemography Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian History | China | Demography Publisher's Description: Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility, mortality, fa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Chinese visions of family and state, 1915-1953 Author: Glosser, Susan L 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, China's sovereignty was fragile at best. In the face of international pressure and domestic upheaval, young urban radicals - desperate for reforms that would save their nation - clamored for change, championing Western-inspired family reform and promoting free m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Revolutionizing the family: politics, love, and divorce in urban and rural China, 1949-1968 Author: Diamant, Neil Jeffrey 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Politics | China | Sociology | Asian History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this compreh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Reconfiguring modernity: concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology Author: Thomas, Julia Adeney 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Japan | Intellectual History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Above the clouds: status culture of the modern Japanese nobility Author: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian History | Japan | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his family. Officially dissolved in 1947, this gro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: War and secession: Pakistan, India, and the creation of Bangladesh Author: Sisson, Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | South Asia | Asian History Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: The vanguard of the Islamic revolution: the Jamaʿat-i Islami of Pakistan Author: Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | South Asia | Islam Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement's idealized vision . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Asian History | Japan | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: A Chinese bestiary: strange creatures from the guideways through mountains and seas = [Shan hai jing] Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Asian Literature | China | Folklore and Mythology | Asian History Publisher's Description: A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mounta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: China among equals: the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th-14th centuries Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Asian Studies | China Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: The snow lion and the dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Tensions over the "Tibet Question" - the political status of Tibet - are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese secret service Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | China | Asian History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of "China's Himmler," based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan and Green Gang blood-brother to commander of the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan Author: Ko, Dorothy 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | East Asia Other | Japan | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canoni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Peasant protests and uprisings in Tokugawa Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian History Publisher's Description: The Japanese peasant has been thought of as an obedient and passive subject of the feudal ruling class. Yet Tokugawa villagers frequently engaged in unlawful and disruptive protests. Moreover, the frequency and intensity of the peasants' collective action increased markedly at the end of the Tokugaw . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest village Author: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | Social Science Publisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more] Similar Items |