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41. | | Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Asian Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United StatesAuthor: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Asian Studies | South AsiaPublisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more]Similar Items | 43. | | Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest ChinaAuthor: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Ethnic StudiesPublisher'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 | 44. | | Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Philosophy | China | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. | | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | PoliticsPublisher'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 | 46. | | Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | Japan | PoliticsPublisher'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 | 47. | | Title: Other modernities: gendered yearnings in China after socialismAuthor: Rofel, Lisa 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | China | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, Lisa Rofel brilliantly interweaves the intimate details of her observations with a broad-ranging critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age.The author based her study at a silk factory in the city of Hangzhou in . . . [more]Similar Items | 48. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 | 49. | | Title: Early modern JapanAuthor: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Asian History | JapanPublisher'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 | 50. | | Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in JapanAuthor: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Women's Studies | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. | | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century IndiaAuthor: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | HistoryPublisher'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 | 52. | | | 53. | | | 54. | | Title: Hindu places of pilgrimage in India ; a study in cultural geographyAuthor: Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Asian Studies | Hinduism | South Asia | GeographySimilar Items | 55. | | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communismAuthor: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | HistoryPublisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. | | Title: Splendid monarchy: power and pageantry in modern JapanAuthor: Fujitani, Takashi Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | JapanPublisher'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 | 57. | | Title: The silk weavers of Kyoto: family and work in a changing traditional industryAuthor: Hareven, Tamara K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Asian Studies | Asian History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: Taming the wind of desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay shamanistic performanceAuthor: Laderman, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Psychology | Southeast Asia | MedicinePublisher's Description: Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthro . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. | | Title: Huang Di nei jing su wen: nature, knowledge, imagery in an ancient Chinese medical text, with an appendix, The doctrine of the five periods and six qi in the Huang Di nei jing su wenAuthor: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich) 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | China | History of MedicinePublisher's Description: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and contents. At last Paul U. Unschuld offers entry into this still-vital artifact of China's cultural and . . . [more]Similar Items | 60. | | Title: Controlling corruptionAuthor: Klitgaard, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Economics and Business | African StudiesPublisher'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 |
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