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| 1. |  | 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. |  | Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture  Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Annihilating difference: the anthropology of genocide Author: Hinton, Alexander Laban Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Asian Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | History | Sociology | Media Studies | Religion | Religion Publisher's Description: Genocide is one of the most pressing issues that confronts us today. Its death toll is staggering: over one hundred million dead. Because of their intimate experience in the communities where genocide takes place, anthropologists are uniquely positioned to explain how and why this mass annihilation . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae Author: Ōsugi, Sakae 1885-1923 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Autobiography | Asian History Publisher's Description: In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Birth on the threshold: childbirth and modernity in South India Author: Van Hollen, Cecilia Coale Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Sociology | Gender Studies | Hinduism | South Asia | Asian Studies | South Asia | South Asia Publisher's Description: Even childbirth is affected by globalization - and in India, as elsewhere, the trend is away from home births, assisted by midwives, toward hospital births with increasing reliance on new technologies. And yet, as this work of critical feminist ethnography clearly demonstrates, the global spread of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The Bodhidharma anthology: the earliest records of Zen Author: Bodhidharma 6th cent Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attribute . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminism Author: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: China and the American dream: a moral inquiry Author: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Asian Studies | Politics | China | American Studies | Pacific Rim Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: From the "Red Menace" to Tiananmen Square, the United States and China have long had an emotionally tumultuous relationship. Richard Madsen's frank and innovative examination of the moral history of U.S.-China relations targets the forces that have shaped this surprisingly strong tie between two str . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil society Author: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | Christianity Publisher's Description: After suffering isolation and persecution during the Maoist era, the Catholic Church in China has reemerged with astonishing vitality in recent years. Richard Madsen focuses on this revival and relates it to the larger issue of the changing structure of Chinese society, particularly to its implicati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: China's continuous revolution: the post-liberation epoch, 1949-1981 Author: Dittmer, Lowell Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacy Author: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | China | International Relations Publisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Hinduism | Poetry | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia | Social Theory | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 Author: Klein, Christina 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | American Literature | Asian American Studies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Controlling corruption Author: Klitgaard, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Economics and Business | African Studies Publisher's Description: Corruption is increasingly recognized as a preeminent problem in the developing world. Bribery, extortion, fraud, kickbacks, and collusion have resulted in retarded economies, predator elites, and political instability. In this lively and absorbing book, Robert Klitgaard provides a framework for des . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Cultural curiosity: thirteen stories about the search for Chinese roots Author: Khu, Josephine M.T 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Asian Studies | Anthropology | Social Science | Asian American Studies | China Publisher's Description: This anthology of autobiographical essays reveals the human side of the Chinese diaspora. Written by ethnic Chinese who were born or raised outside of China, these moving pieces, full of the poignant details of everyday life, describe the experience of growing up as a visible minority and the subseq . . . [more] Similar Items |