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Cultural Studies

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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

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

The <em>Dianshizhai Pictorial</em>

Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898

By Xiaoqing Ye
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings to life the visual culture of the “nightless city,” late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions

Revisiting Minjung

New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

By Sunyoung Park
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Foremost scholars of 1980s South Korea bring new perspectives on this pivotal period, expanding the horizons of Korean cultural studies by reassessing old conventions and adding new narratives

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Cultures of Yusin

South Korea in the 1970s

By Youngju Ryu
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A broad range of scholars explores the many avenues of cultural production during the Yusin period, casting new light on how it challenged and conformed to the ambitions of the state power

Salt and State

An Annotated Translation of the <em>Songshi</em> Salt Monopoly Treatise

By Cecilia Chien
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

The role salt played in the politics of Song China, as told through a unique contemporary narrative, translated into English for the first time

Viet Nam Expose

French Scholarship on Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Society

Edited by Gisele L. Bousquet & Pierre Brocheux
Subjects: Asian Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Political Economy, Cultural Studies

A masterfully edited volume that explores the complexity of power relationships in Vietnamese society

Tokugawa Ideology

Early Constructs, 1570-1680

By Herman Ooms
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

The classic study of seventeenth-century Japan.

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