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21. | | Title: To the storm: the odyssey of a revolutionary Chinese womanAuthor: Yue, Daiyun Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | Women's StudiesSimilar Items | 22. | | Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Reflections on the way to the gallows: rebel women in prewar JapanAuthor: Hane, Mikiso Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Women's Studies | Asian HistoryPublisher'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 | 24. | | Title: Doctors within borders: profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial TaiwanAuthor: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | Asian History | SociologyPublisher's Description: This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | | 26. | | Title: High culture fever: politics, aesthetics, and ideology in Deng's China Author: Wang, Jing 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian Literature | Asian History | Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacyAuthor: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | China | International RelationsPublisher'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 | 29. | | Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movementAuthor: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Politics | Sociology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Learning to be a sage: selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, arranged topicallyAuthor: Zhu, Xi 1130-1200 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Asian Studies | China | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) - a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirthAuthor: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Buddhism | Classics | Indigenous Religions | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: Japan's administrative elite Author: Koh, Byung Chol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Economics and BusinessPublisher'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 | 33. | | Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendentsAuthor: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | China | Taoism | BuddhismPublisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | | 35. | | Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar JapanAuthor: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Politics | Asian History | Labor StudiesPublisher'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 | 36. | | Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and BusinessSimilar Items | 37. | | Title: The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae Author: Ōsugi, Sakae 1885-1923 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Autobiography | Asian HistoryPublisher'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 | 38. | | Title: Minor heresies, major departures: a China mission boyhoodAuthor: Espey, John Jenkins 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | China | Literature | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. There he faced the alley brats' Lady Bandit, heard the shrill screa . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: China's Catholics: tragedy and hope in an emerging civil societyAuthor: Madsen, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | History | Sociology | ChristianityPublisher'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 | 40. | | Title: The state and labor in modern JapanAuthor: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more]Similar Items |
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