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The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

By Masamichi (Marro) Inoue
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, International Relations

Explores the conflict between Okinawans and the post-WWII US-Japan military alliance through the concept of nuchi du takara

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

The South Korean Film Industry

Edited by Sangjoon Lee, Dal Yong Jin, and Junhyung Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Art, Art History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A multifaceted exploration of the South Korean film industry

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Poetry, History, Memory

Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times

By Zhiyi Yang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, History, Chinese History

The first comprehensive biography of  Wang Jingwei, a poet, politician, and the most controversial figure in modern Chinese history

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

Righteous Revolutionaries

Morality, Mobilization, and Violence in the Making of the Chinese State

By Jeffrey A. Javed
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political History, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

A reexamination of one of the most violent and successful state-building efforts in history

Blind in Early Modern Japan

Disability, Medicine, and Identity

By Wei Yu Wayne Tan
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A history of the blind in Japan that challenges contemporary notions of disability

The Global White Snake

By Liang Luo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts

Writing Pirates

Vernacular Fiction and Oceans in Late Ming China

By Yuanfei Wang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Literary Studies

Examines writings on China’s oceanic piracy wars of the sixteenth century

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki, and Noriko SUGANO
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Women's Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Writing women back into Japan’s nineteenth-century history, enriching our understanding of the period

Power over Property

The Political Economy of Communist Land Reform in China

By Matthew Noellert
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Political Science, Political History
Series: China Understandings Today

Provides an alternative to both capitalist and communist conceptions of modern historical development based on relations to property

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Transport in Transition

The Evolution of Traditional Shipping in China

By Andrew Watson
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Abstracts of Chinese and Japanese Works on Chinese History

A collection of the best available Japanese articles on China’s water transport in the early twentieth century

Aryan and Non-Aryan in India

Edited by Madhav Deshpande, Peter Edwin Hook, and Peter Edwin Hook
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

A collection studies of ancient Aryan and non-Aryan Indian cultures from linguistic and historical perspectives

Nourish the People

The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650–1850

By Pierre-Etienne Will, R. Bin Wong, and R. Bin Wong
Subjects: History, American Religious History, Economics, International Economics, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exhaustive analysis of the Chinese state civilian granary system by a team of scholars

Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History

The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft

Edited by Kenneth Hall, John K. Whitmore, and John K. Whitmore
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Political Science, Human Rights, History, European History
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

The American and Japanese Auto Industries in Transition

Report of the Joint U.S.–Japan Automotive Study

Edited by Robert Cole & Taizo Yakushiji
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Mathematics and Engineering

A History of Japan’s Government-Business Relationship

The Passenger Car Industry

By Phyllis Genther
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Business, Economics, History of Economic Thought, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

Examines the interactions between Japan's government and passenger car industry as it traces the development of the industry from its origins in the early 1900s.

The Sian Incident

A Pivotal Point in Modern Chinese History

By Tien-wei Wu
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, American Religious History
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Detailed study of the extraordinary capture in 1936 of Chiang Kai-shek by his own subordinate, Chang Hsueh-liang, and of the negotiations that altered the fate of the Communist Party and the anti-Japanese alliance

Social Organization in South China, 1911–1949

The Case of Kuan Lineage in K’ai-p’ing County

By Yuen-fong Woon
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sociology, History, American Religious History, Anthropology, Social Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

An exploration of the effects on patrilineal kinship ties of the social and political changes in the period between the revolutions of 1912 and 1949

Christian Converts and Social Protests in Meiji Japan

By Irwin Scheiner
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Addresses the reasons for samurai warriors' turn to Christianity and the nature of conversion

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